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Lachrymæ musarum. (October 6th, 1892.)
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Verses on the death of Alfred Lord Tennyson.
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Verses on the death of Alfred Lord Tennyson.
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay (Henry E. Huntington's sister Caroline married Edmund Burke Holladay), and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. There is a series about Henry E. Huntington and his family that includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and physical objects. There is material related to the Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and the Pacific Electric Railway Company as well as other businesses in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley, California. This material includes business records, account books, annual reports, correspondence, maps, tracts, balance sheets, and others. There is also material related to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens including auction catalogs, invoices, receipts, and bills for art and rare books, and information regarding a lawsuit about Huntington's estate tax after his death, and the passing of Proposition 15, in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. There is also material related to Collis P. Huntington and his business interests and Arabella Huntington. The largest series contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning approximately 1790 to 1950. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.
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Visual Materials
An album of 54 card photographs (cabinet cards and cartes-de-visite) primarily of notable people of Victorian England, and a few portraits of Dalziel men. Portraits include those of: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Charles Darwin, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Fawcett M.P., W. E. Gladstone, F. H. O'Donnell M.P., Cardinal Newman, Gustave Dore, and a young Thomas Alva Edison. There are three women's portraits in the album: George Eliot, Kate Greenaway, and Florence Nightengale. Several are by British photographers Elliott and Fry, and Herbert Rose Barraud.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 30 items: various pieces of correspondence betw. Tennyson and Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist; several copies of Al Tennyson articles from The Pacific Printer and Publisher, early 1950s; 3-pp. of informal memoirs signed "Al. Tennyson"; 2-pp. report, "Reasons for a new composing room," on oversized, sturdy paper, and signed "al tennyson"; multi-page, text & photo essay from Amer. Newspaper Publishers Assn., Mechanical Bulletin, 2/28/1950, "Composing Room short-cuts." Tennyson was clearly a vital cog in the smooth operation of the composing room. He retired 1/1/1968, after a 47-year association with LAT, and consulted for some time after that.
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"Illustrated devotional book by African American artist, Allan Crite (1910-2007) of Boston, visually depicting the verses of the African American spiritual, 'Were You There When They Crucified My Lord.' Thirty-nine full-page illustrations show Biblical scenes of Christ's passion, death, resurrection, and ascension including several scenes from the Christian Liturgy of the Eucharist paralleling those events. A devout Episcopalian, Crite's pen and ink technique of black and white illustration in Were You There When They Crucified My Lord allows for each figure--Christ, the priest, and accompanying disciples and angels--to appear to have Black features." -- Bookseller's description.
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