Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Là bas = (Down there)
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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 consists of correspondence and manuscripts of Edwin Bliss Hill. Manuscript material in the collection includes: 63 poems by Bertha Grant Avery and manuscripts by Joseph E. Babson, Edwin Bliss Hill, Frank Holme (including 22 volumes of diaries), and Vincent Starrett. Items of note include a typescript of a suppressed chapter from Life on the Mississippi by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and a letter from Edward Waldo Emerson about Ralph Waldo Emerson.
mssHill papers
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Manuscripts
A collection of material related to Henry William O'Melveny and his various law firms. The collection includes correspondence, business files, financial documents, business volumes and journals. Significant persons and businesses in the collection include, among others: Arcadia Bandini; the Dominguez family; Jackson A. Graves; American National Red Cross; Graves, O'Melveny and Shankland; Miller and Lux; O'Melveny and Myers, and Pacific Light and Power Corporation (Los Angeles, Calif.).
mssOM
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Manuscripts
There are 631 manuscripts, 525 of which are by Caroline Severance. These include speeches, poetry, essays, articles, notebooks, commonplace books, miscellaneous notes, and a 347-page unpublished autobiography by Caroline Severance entitled "Own Story." The majority of the 10,634 pieces of correspondence is made up of family letters; only 232 letters are written by Caroline Severance. The rest of the correspondence is made up of letters written to Caroline Severance by over 1,700 different authors. The collection contains 9,007 pieces of ephemera, which is made up of address books, appointment books, brochures, business papers, greeting cards, legal documents, newspaper clippings, postcards, fliers, brochures, programs, notebooks, photographs, and financial papers of the family. The manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera cover the following subjects: African American women suffrage and clubs, Susan B. Anthony, Jessie Benton Frémont, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Julia Ward Howe, child labor reform, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Fröbel and the Kindergarten movement, Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, Helen Modjeska, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, dress reform, suffrage, temperance, Unitarianism, women's rights, women's clubs, and the history, politics and social life of 19th and 20th century Los Angeles, California.
mssSeverance