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James Douglas : a memoir
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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
Professional and personal papers of Otis R. Marston and his collection of the materials on the history of Colorado River and Green River regions.
mssMarston papers
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Manuscripts
Autobiographical account of Allan H. James' fifty years in the mining industry, transcribed from audio recordings made shortly before his death in 1985. The memoir begins with his going to work in the mines at Grass Valley following his graduation from Stanford, and follows his experiences mining in California and Nevada, including humorous and tragic anecdotes about his fellow miners. The memoir largely focuses on his time at various mines in South America and on the friends and co-workers he had while there, as well as his marriage in Costa Rica. James also describes the atomic bomb explosion at Alamogordo, New Mexico, in 1945; his various mining jobs with M.I.T., at the Mt. Hope Mine, and with the Kennecott Copper Corporation; and his impressions of Canada and rural Alaska. Includes 29 pages of photographs of James, his family, and various mining enterprises.
mssHM 73672