Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Gloverson and his silent partners
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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
A collection of approximately 1,700 items from 1895 to 1944; it consists of personal, business, and literary papers, notebooks, a scrapbook, and ephemera. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Gertrude Franklin Atherton, Mary Hunter Austin, Francis F. Browne, Luther Burbank, John Burroughs, Gelett Burgess, Bliss Carman, John Vance Cheney, Ina Donna Coolbrith, Mary Mapes Dodge, Mary Hallock Foote, Richard Watson Gilder, Herbert Hoover, Julia Ward Howe, James H. Hyslop, George Wharton James, David Starr Jordan, Joseph LeConte, Jack London, Charles Fletcher Lummis, Edwin Markham, Bailey Millard, John Muir, Yoň Noguchi, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Horace Elisha Scudder, Lucy Poate Stebbins, George Sterling, Charles Warren Stoddard, Sun Yat-Sen, Bayard Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson.
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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.
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