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San Marino, CA 91108
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Katharine Hooker : a memoir
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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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Visual Materials
A collection of photographs relating to the life of Katharine Putnam Hooker (1849-1935) and her husband, John Daggett Hooker (1838-1911), and their daughter Marian Osgood Hooker (1875-1968), an amateur photographer who made many of the photographs in the collection. The majority of the collection shows Hooker family, friends and associates at the large Hooker family residence and garden, 325 West Adams Street, Los Angeles. Some of the friends include George Ellery Hale, Margaret Collier Graham (copy photograph only), John Muir, and Jules Simoneau. There are group portraits of Marian Hooker with other students of the graduating class of 1894 of the Marlborough School, a private Los Angeles girl's school. The girls are identified as: Mary Hardy, Henriette Vischer, Marian Hooker, Alice Paul and Bessie Ellis. Other posed group photographs show young women in costumes of traditional Japanese and Turkish clothing (ca. 1893-1894) or posed and dressed as "Lphigenie" (1906). There are also family groups dining on the porch; a female group outing to Echo Mountain; Katharine Putnam Hooker working on bookbinding; and views of the house and grounds when it became "Miss (Maude) Thomas' School" (St. Catherine's), (ca. 1910). A portion of the collection features scenic views made by Marian on outings around Southern California: Death Valley; Red Rock Canyon; Balboa; Catalina Island; Bear Valley; El Molino Viejo in San Marino and an adobe out building; street views of West Adams Street in central Los Angeles; and residences and streets in Pasadena. There is one folder of miscellaneous card photographs, mostly unidentified. One view shows a group of African American children sitting on a wood fence in front of a shack. There are also two mounted prints of the house occupied by General George Washington in Morristown, New Jersey.
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Manuscripts
Farewell letter to Katherine Hooker from John Muir stating that he is leaving Philadelphia for the Amazon, "all alone as usual" on August 15, 1911 and is well but feeling tired as he has been working from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. for weeks finishing the Yosemite book. Muir hopes to get a rest on the trip to the "great hot river." He says she may write him goodbye at the above address and closes with: "Heaven's peace be yours dear Katherine, so devoutely prays, Your very friend, John Muir."
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Manuscripts
In this letter to his friend Katherine Hooker, John Muir describes a pleasant voyage to "The River." He describes approaching Para (Belém) and the sight of a "glorious view of fifty miles or so of forest on the right bank of the river." He explains that the experience of that alone is "noble compensation" for waiting all these years for the Amazon journey. He expects to start for Manaus in a day or two and spend at least a month on the river engaged in tough, but lovely work. He hopes Katherine is in the mountains with Marian and promises to tell her about the forest when he gets back.
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