Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
446909
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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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Rare Books
186375
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Manuscripts
Also: newspaper clipping regarding visit of Governor Pardee of California; copy of letter from Huntington to L.B. Seely, 1904 October 31; letter from Columbia River… to Huntington, 1904 September 7; copies of correspondence and reports regarding Cinnabar Coal Mining region, Lewes County, Washington, 1899-1904; copy of letter from Columbia River... to Andrew B. Hammond, 1904 November 19; copy of letter from L.B. Seely to A.H. Hammond, 1904 November 23; copies of letters from Seely to Hammond and C.M. Levy, 1904.
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