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Pacific coast souvenir
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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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Souvenir photograph album with 56 photographs documenting a trip by the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to visit possible locations for a Pacific branch, beginning on November 10, 1887, in Dayton, Ohio. Major stops along the trip were Dayton, Ohio; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Omaha, Nebraska; Ogden, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; San Francisco, California; Los Angeles, California; San Diego, California; and Las Vegas, Nevada. The collection includes photographs taken in the San Francisco Bay area, Monterey, Pasadena, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Hesperia, and Joshua Tree. Some of the photographs feature veterans of the American Civil War, including Generals John C. Black, William B. Franklin, Thomas W. Hyde, Marsena R. Patrick, and California Governor George Stoneman, while others include views of the flora and natural landscapes, Native Americans selling wares near the railroad, and construction and construction camp of the Sweetwater Dam in San Diego County, California.
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Bound in black textured material. The title, "The Pacific Coast," is embossed on the center of the cover in gold lettering. The number "43" is affixed to the top of spine with glue. Mostly photo postcards and clippings of various sites on the California coast. A few images of Jack London with friends.
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This collection contains the personal and professional papers of architect Martin Eli Weil (1940-2009), relating to Weil's work as a restoration architect and consultant in Los Angeles and Southern California. The collection contains correspondence; project and business records; reports; contracts; notes and research files; appointment books; drawings, including approximately 2920 rolled drawings; approximately 5000 photographs, chiefly snapshots depicting work in progress; material samples, including approximately 2000 fragments of wood or other surfaces containing paint samples; and 46 media files documenting the career of Martin Eli Weil; the materials date from 1964 until 2009. Files document 428 individual projects, including Frank Lloyd Wright structures such as Barnsdall Park and Hollyhock House; the restoration of the El Capitan Theater; and jobs undertaken as a consultant for the cities of San Gabriel, La Verne, Porterville, and Monrovia, California. The collection also includes papers reflecting Weil's service as Restoration Services Director for the Restoration Services Division of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs in Canada from 1971-1978; his work as an instructor in historic preservation at the University of Southern California from 1981-2009; his writing, chiefly as an architecture columnist for the Larchmont Chronicle; his involvement with the Harvard Heights community in Los Angeles, where he lived; and his Master's thesis project.
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