Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Leonard Wood, June 29, 1899, at the Chamber of Commerce
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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
106742
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Manuscripts
In his short letter to C. F. Wood, Gale states: "Knowing that you feel interested in the correspondence about the telegraph, I send to you for perusal...the enclosed pamphlet which I received last week." The "pamphlet" is a reprint of an article entitled "History Getting Right on the Invention of the American Electro-Magnetic Telegraph." This article implies that the true inventor of the telegraph was Professor Joseph Henry and that Samuel Morse, Gale, and Alfred Vail are getting improper credit. Gale writes in his letter "Of course, I shall not reply to such a low attack."
mssHM 75972
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Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, manuscripts, photographs and ephemera related to the life and career of Los Angeles mayor and Superior Court judge Fletcher Bowron. It includes official correspondence kept during Bowron's term as mayor of Los Angeles, reports, and information on his election campaigns. There is also source material gathered for his Metropolitan Los Angeles History Project, particularly in the fields of public housing, city planning, and transportation. In the addenda there are 38 bound volumes containing addresses by Mayor Bowron from September 1938 to July 1953 as well as oversize awards, albums and maps.
mssBowron
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Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of Gloria Molina, who was a Los Angeles County Supervisor of the First Supervisorial District from 1991 to 2014. This collection is mainly comprised of records created and accumulated during her years on the Board of Supervisors. These materials -- including correspondence, agenda, motions, reports, press clippings, notes, ephemera, site plans, photographs, audiovisual and electronic resources -- document a wide range of activities performed by Molina and her staff, such as project planning, legislation, lawsuits, redistricting, campaigning, and budget planning.
mssMolina
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Visual Materials
The C.C. Pierce collection constitutes one of the most important collections of historical photographs of early California and Los Angeles extant. The collection of 10,100 prints was assembled by Charles C. Pierce, a photographer and long-time operator of a thriving Los Angeles photographic business. The collection is divided into nine topical headings devised by Pierce; these include Los Angeles Historical; Indians; Missions; California cities, counties, etc.; Industries and Agriculture; Transportation; Natural History; Art and Architecture; and Miscellaneous Scenery. Within these large sections are smaller categories that focus on the history, landscape, people, civic and cultural events, built environment, and development of Southern California and the Southwest from approximately 1845-1930. Of particular interest are the various Indian tribes depicted as well as all twenty-one of the California Missions.
photCL Pierce