Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Remarks on the beauties of poetry. : By Daniel Webb, Esq;
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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
254448
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Manuscripts
A collection of approximately 30,000 items from 1798 to 1995, it contains the personal, professional and business papers of educator Thompson Webb (1887-1975) and his wife, Vivian Louise Howell Webb. The letters, manuscripts and documents in the collection concern education, especially the Webb School in Claremont, California; agriculture in the Coachella Valley and Riverside; the town of Claremont, California; and religious organizations. There is also material about the other Webb Schools in Bell Buckle and Knoxville, Tennessee; Scripps College; The Claremont Colleges; and Pilgrim Place, Claremont, California. The collection also includes copies of 56 letters from 1859 to 1862 of Daniel L. Clary, a student who joined the Confederate Army not long after the beginning of the United States Civil War and who died from battle wounds. There is also a significant amount of Webb family correspondence in the collection, in addition to the papers of Thompson Webb's father-in-law, a Los Angeles area minister named Robert Paine Howell. Persons represented in the collection include: Marshall Stimson, Jerry Voorhis, William Robert "Swaney" Webb, Thompson Webb, Thompson Webb (1917-1998), Vivian Louise Howell Webb, William Robert Webb (1874-1960), William Robert Webb (active 1947-1962), and William Robert Webb (1921-). Included in the collection are 10 boxes of minimally processed addenda.
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Manuscripts
A collection of approximately 30,000 items from 1798 to 1995, it contains the personal, professional and business papers of educator Thompson Webb (1887-1975) and his wife, Vivian Louise Howell Webb. The letters, manuscripts and documents in the collection concern education, especially the Webb School in Claremont, California; agriculture in the Coachella Valley and Riverside; the town of Claremont, California; and religious organizations. There is also material about the other Webb Schools in Bell Buckle and Knoxville, Tennessee; Scripps College; The Claremont Colleges; and Pilgrim Place, Claremont, California. The collection also includes copies of 56 letters from 1859 to 1862 of Daniel L. Clary, a student who joined the Confederate Army not long after the beginning of the United States Civil War and who died from battle wounds. There is also a significant amount of Webb family correspondence in the collection, in addition to the papers of Thompson Webb's father-in-law, a Los Angeles area minister named Robert Paine Howell. Persons represented in the collection include: Marshall Stimson, Jerry Voorhis, William Robert "Swaney" Webb, Thompson Webb, Thompson Webb (1917-1998), Vivian Louise Howell Webb, William Robert Webb (1874-1960), William Robert Webb (active 1947-1962), and William Robert Webb (1921-). Included in the collection are 10 boxes of minimally processed addenda.
mssWebb
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Rare Books
254449