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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Pacific Syrian-American guide for Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Washington
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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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Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, including 190,000 reports, 1200 maps, 500 photographs, and 8200 pieces of printed material related to the life and career of Ralph Arnold. Subjects represented in the collection include: mining, petroleum, and seismology in the Western United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and South America; political papers from 1914 to 1956, mostly concerning the campaign of Herbert Hoover for president; family and personal papers from 1836 to 1961 of Arnold and his father, Delos Arnold, containing source material on Pasadena and Southern California local history. The collection also contains Arnold's field books, including those made at Stanford University with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1900 to 1909.
mssArnold
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Rare Books
The western United States before Nevada with Arizona Territory encompassing only the Gadsden Purchase ; other states extend much further eastward than today's boundaries. May have been extracted from the 1858 edition of Colton's General Atlas. Border: flowered Submap: Vicinity of San Francisco. MS note: 1859. Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: 252068.
252068
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Most of the rail routes shown are marked "proposed". Extracted from Johnson's New Illustrated... Family Atlas, 1864. Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Historical and Statistical View Mexico and Central America. Historical and Statistical view of the United States, 1860. 78 MS notes: 1864 Calif.
264894
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Extracted from Johnson's New Illustrated... Family Atlas, 1863? Earlier edition than 264894. MS note: 264895 . Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Historical and Statistical view of the United States, 1860. 68 69 MS notes: West pg 40 1863.
264895
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Visual Materials
photCL 400 volume 2 & volume 3