Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
House blessing ceremony and guest book
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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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Manuscripts
Includes scrapbook of correspondence and clippings, and personal account books.
mssJamesgw
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Rare Books
248103
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Manuscripts
The Friday Morning Club records consists of materials created by the Club and its members, dating from the year the club started in 1891 to is closure in 2012. These records document the activities of the club such as: philanthropy and charity work; finances; fundraising; the various work of the club's committees on science, art, and other topics; the construction of their clubhouses in Los Angeles; and the meeting minutes of both regular meetings and the board. The collection is comprised of subject files, financial and business records, membership applications and cards, manuscripts and essays, and clippings (1770-2012); publications printed by the Friday Morning Club, including their monthly newsletter, and publications printed by other clubs (1850-1993); photograph albums, scrapbooks, and meeting minutes (1891-2012); photographs, certificates, awards, and some objects that belonged to the club, including the bronze plaque that hung at the clubhouse (1890-2000). The collection contains material by and about several prominent members and suffragettes, including Susan B. Anthony, Sarah Bixby Smith, Jessie Benton Frémont, Margaret Collier Graham, Olive Percival, Idah Strobridge, Louise Watkins, Charlotte LeMoyne Wills, and the club's founder Caroline Severance. The collection also contains material about other clubs, including the California Federation of Women's Clubs and California Women of the Golden West.
mssFMC
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Manuscripts
Family papers of several generations of the extended Baldwin, Sedgwick, Gott and Hastings families dating from before the American Revolution to the 1980s. The two largest groups of material that constitute the collection are the papers of Daniel Gott and Ann Baldwin Sedgwick Gott and their daughter Amelia Gott Hastings, her husband Francis H. Hastings, and their children. The following subjects are covered: abolition; lawyers and physicians of New York; the American Revolutionary War; the Mexican War; World War I; Hamilton College (Clinton, New York); Litchfield Law School; Litchfield Female Academy; the United States 30th Congress, 1847-1849; and the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The collection also has material related to women in New York and Connecticut, and the history of Litchfield, Connecticut, Pompey and Rochester, New York, and Washington, DC. The collection covers many aspects of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries of American history. The collection also contains genealogical material for the Gott, Hastings, Sedgwick, and Baldwin families.
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