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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
An account of the principal officers civil and military of England. May 1684
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Rare Books
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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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Rare Books
283341
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Visual Materials
Consists of 167 photographs including copy prints, cabinet cards, and carte-de-visites. Sitters include both Confederate and Union supporters. Notable portrait sitters are Alexander Sandor Asboth, Henry Watkins Allen, Edward Dickinson Baker, Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard (P.G.T. Beauregard), John Cabell Breckenridge, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Ambrose Everett Burnside, Benjamin Franklin Butler, Jefferson Davis, Abram Duryée, David Glasgow Farragut, Jessie Benton Frémont, Ulysses S. Grant, Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Henry Wager Halleck, David Hunter, Philip Kearny, Henry Warner Slocum, Edmund Kirby-Smith, James Henry Lane, Robert Edward Lee, Berian Magoffin, James King Fenno Mansfield, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, George Brinton McClellan, Matthew Calbraith Perry, Gustavus Woodson Smith, Edwin McMasters Stanton, George Stoneman, William Lowndes Yancey. Photographers include Matthew Brady and Edward Anthony.
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Visual Materials
All carte-de-visite studio portraits, except larger print of Farragut. Three portraits of Abraham Lincoln (albumen copies of portraits by Mathew Brady). Two photographs of Mary Todd Lincoln, in white, 1862, and wearing all black. Portraits of Civil War U. S. Army officers WIlliam Starke Rosecrans, Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Charles Zagonyi, Ellersly Wallace, Winfield Scott, David G. Farragut. Other portraits: William Gannaway Brownlow, John Jordan Crittenden, Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, Thomas Alexander Scott, Stephen Arnold Douglas and his wife Martha Martin Douglas, Hannibal Hamlin, William Henry Seward; Joseph Holt, John Ericsson, Salmon Portland Chase.
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of personal letters among the Townshend family members, business correspondence, land papers and deeds, financial accounts, bonds, receipts, Government and political material, legal briefs and court opinions, literary material including epitaphs, poems, prayers and travel accounts, military material, wills, marriage settlements, family account books and diaries. Significant correspondents include George III, George IV, William IV and Victoria, as well as many members of the Royal family. Political correspondents include 1st Earl of Chatham, W.E. Gladstone, George Grenville, Lord Palmerston, Sir Robert Peel, Spencer Perceval, William Pitt, the Duke of Wellington, and John Wilkes. Important note: although this material includes the years 1769-1865 there is only one letter which refers slightly to the American Revolutionary War and no letters or other material deal with the American Civil War.
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