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Our architecture : Morgan & Walls, John Parkinson, Hunt & Eager. Los Angeles, California, 1904

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    Our Architecture: Morgan & Walls, John Parkinson, Hunt & Eager. Los Angeles, California

    Visual Materials

    Commercially published volume. Includes photographs of buildings, portraits, and many illustrated advertisements for buildings and products.

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    Hunt & Eager, Architects, Los Angeles, presentation album

    Visual Materials

    Presentation photograph album featuring the architectural work of Hunt & Eager (Sumner Hunt and A. W. Eager) in Southern California, with albumen photographs pasted onto album pages. Photographs document interiors, exteriors and gardens of prominent homes and commercial and public buildings in Los Angeles, Hollywood, Monrovia, Pasadena and Riverside. Most photographs taken by Graham Photo Co. & Walter Lewis Burn. Residential projects include Arthur S. Bent residence; H.C. Beville residence, Hollywood; F.W. Braun residence; Judge Caldwell residence; A.W. Chaffee residence; J.A. Crandall residence, Monrovia; J.W. Dabbs residence; Geo. W. Dickinson residence; Lee Foster residence, Custis Place, Los Angeles; T.S. Fuller residence; Jevne residence; T. Leighton residence; J.B. Lippincott residence, Los Angeles; R.H. Miner residence; Mrs. M.E. Moore residence, Los Angeles; Thomas W. Phillips residence; Pollack bungalow, Hollywood; Mrs. H.W. Vermillion residence; F.K. Wilson residence; and the Dr. Wing residence. Commercial and public building projects include The Cumnock School of Expression; Leven Oaks Hotel, Monrovia; and the Riverside County Courthouse.

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    Wilson & Packard. Letter to Nimmo & Morgan. Los Angeles, California

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.

    WN 2249.