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Browning as a contemporary : An address given to the Browning Society, Pasadena, California, January 18, 1940
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"The influence of Washington" : An address delivered before the Historical society of Perks county, Pa., January 9, 1900
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102487 v. 1, no. 12.
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Steele, Edith Shorb. Address on Family Given to the Historical Society of Southern California
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The collection, which contains 10,844 items, consists of correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, speeches, diaries, account books, published articles, legal papers, financial statements and business records. The 10,528 pieces of correspondence are chiefly addressed to James De Barth Shorb, James M. Tiernan and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb. The 17 letter books are related to the business and financial affairs of Shorb and Benjamin Davis Wilson. The 75 manuscripts consist of items chiefly written by Shorb and Wilson family members. The 224 items in the Business Papers include material related to Shorb's many companies including the San Gabriel Wine Company. The following subjects are covered in the Shorb collection: the Shorb, Wilson, and Patton families, David Jacks, Mariano Vallejo, Santa Catalina Island, the Mount Wilson Observatory, California government and politics, African Americans and the Chinese in California, agriculture, the citrus fruit industry, Indians of California, irrigation, lend tenure, mining, railroads, ranching, water rights, and the wine industry. The collection also documents the history and development of the following California cities: Alhambra, Elsinore, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ramona, San Gabriel, San Marino, and Wilmington.
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Annual address delivered before the Medical society of the state of California
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50732
Boy Scouts with signaling flags, Polytechnic Elementary School, 1030 East California, Pasadena. May 18, 1940
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Eleven Boy Scouts pose with semaphore flags in the school yard of Polytechnic Elementary School at 1030 East California.
photCL 402 (35984)
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An address delivered before the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture : at its anniversary meeting, January 18, 1820
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386513
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Camac, C. N. B. (Charles Nicoll Bancker), 1868-1940. 1 letter (1940, Mar. 18) to Los Angeles County Medical Association. Library. Addressed to Mary E. Irish
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The Manuscripts series, which contains roughly 700 items, chiefly contain the works of George Dock, some of which relate to his autobiography, but chiefly to his medical work. These include articles, speeches, essays, book reviews, translations, notes, as well as copies of his autobiographies "Apologia Pro Vita Mea" and "My Medical Education." There are also several items written by other medical professionals. There are also a large amount of material related to Dock's work with several hospitals and their administration. This material includes reports, salary information, and other documents related to Barnes Hospital, University of Michigan Medical School and St. Mary's Hospital in Philadelphia. There is also a good amount of material related to medical students including student schedules, grades and evaluations, guidelines for students, lectures and George Dock's ideas regarding teaching medicine. Also included are several records belonging to patients of Dock's.
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