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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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The Wardour Press series of armorial bookplates. : Baronets. From the collections of Joseph Jackson Howard
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Rare Books
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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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Rare Books
Shows available sections and those dedicated for turnpikes. MS note: 81835. Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of manuscripts gathered by Los Angeles collector Grant Jackson which chiefly relate to California and the history of California. Of note in the collection are materials by John A. Sutter, Pío Pico, José Maria Covarrubias, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, and William Wallace Brier. There is a group of letters and the logbook of the schooner "D.B. Keeler" by William S. Emery. It includes the business papers of the Lompoc Valley Land Co., three documents related to enslaved people in Kentucky and Missouri, and a Seminole Indian blood roll dated 1896. The collection also contains twelve maps for the period 1870 to 1880.
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Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of Los Angeles author and gay activist Joseph Hansen and includes drafts of published and unpublished work; correspondence; manuscripts of works by some of Hansen's friends, family, and students; professional papers primarily related to publishing; and personal and family papers. The bulk of the material dates from the 1940s through the early 2000s. The collection includes works by Joseph Hansen, which consists of chiefly typescript drafts for most of Hansen's novels (including those published under the pseudonyms Rose Brock and James Colton), poetry, essays and articles, and television and play scripts. While there are some handwritten edits and corrections among the drafts and proofs, the majority do not have annotations. There are also two boxes with copies of various publications, primarily literary magazines and newspapers, containing Hansen's published work. There are two boxes with various manuscripts of work by friends and family of Hansen including poems by FrancEyE, and drafts of novels: In Search of Truth by Chris Gugas and People Talking to Themselves by Armine D. Mackenzie. There is also a ledger and manuscript by Belle Race from the early 1900s, who presumably was a relative of Hansen's wife Jane Bancroft Hansen. The correspondence in the collection includes both personal and professional letters sent and received by Hansen. There is a sizable amount of correspondence between Hansen and his publishers and agents including Collier Associates, Countryman Press; Holt, Rinehart & Winston; Harper & Row; the John Johnson Agency; Joan Kahn; and Penguin Books. In addition, there are also five folders of rejection letters sent to Hansen. Within Hansen's personal correspondence, notable correspondents include: British author Beryl Bainbridge, who befriended Hansen in the 1970s while Hansen was living in London; English composer and musician Richard Rodney Bennett; the publisher Brandon House, who put out Hansen's Colton books; gay filmmaker Arch Brown, who collaborated with Hansen on a playscript of Hansen's novel Backtrack, which was not produced; American crime fiction writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis, with whom Hansen corresponded regularly; poet, and girlfriend of Charles Bukowski, FrancEyE (aka Frances Dean Smith); American author Philip Gambone who published a profile of Hansen in Something Inside: Conversations with Gay Fiction Writers; poet and literary critic Diana Gioia; gay activist William "Billy" Glover, who worked at One magazine and after helped form the Homosexual Information Center in 1968; poet and literary critic William Harry Harding; gay activist Ross Ingersoll; poet Bill Mohr; critic Terry Teachout, who reviewed some of Hansen's novels; and crime writer Charles Ray Willeford. There are also insignificant pieces of correspondence from well-known individuals: James Blish, James Broughton, Sue Grafton, Tony Hillerman, George Plimpton, Julian Symons, and Andrew Vachss. Professional and personal materials include a variety of materials related to many different parts of Hansen's life, including business, publishing, and financial documents; miscellaneous ephemera, research materials; family papers, with writings and papers by Jane Bancroft Hansen as well as the Hansen's only child Daniel Hansen; press features on Hansen and reviews of his publications; materials related to Hansen's KFI radio program "Stranger from the Sea"; documents related to Hansen's teaching, chiefly at the UCLA extension school; miscellaneous materials related to Hansen's involvement with the gay community such as the Gay Community Services Center and the homosexual Information Center; and some materials related to his work on a 1970 issue of the literary magazine Beyond Baroque. The collection contains one box of photographs with images of Hansen throughout his life, as well as family members including Jane Bancroft Hansen and Daniel Hansen, and some friends and residences. The collection also contains approximately 70 drawings on paper presumably by Jane Hansen from the 1960s, of which many may have been created as part of art class.
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Visual Materials
The B.D. Jackson Collection of Negatives and Photographs consists of 804 4 x 5 in. and 8 x 10 in. glass plate negatives, 1782 film negatives (including stereo negatives), 2302 black and white photographs (including stereos, postcards, and photograph albums), and related manuscript and ephemeral materials, 1903-1950s (bulk 1920s-1930s). The collection provides a visual history of the growth of the San Gabriel Valley and Southern California's suburban communities, a survey of notable landscapes of California and the American West, and an overview of Jackson's career as a landscape and scenic view photographer. The collection is complemented and supplemented by the Glendora Historical Society Collection of B.D. Jackson Photographs and Negatives (photCL 448), also in the Huntington's Photo Archives. Many of the negatives in the Jackson Collection exist in print form in the Glendora Collection, and many of the images in the Glendora Collection round out series in the Jackson Collection. The first part of the collection concentrates on many of the San Gabriel Valley's growing communities and scenic landscapes. The photographs of Glendale, Burbank, La Crescenta, La Canada Flintridge, Eagle Rock, Pasadena, South Pasadena, Altadena, Monrovia, Glendora, and San Dimas include views of public buildings, businesses, churches, residences, and schools. The Glendale images include many photographs of Glendale's business district and the Rossmoyne development. The La Canada images include photographs of the Jacob Lanterman House (Homewood), the Roy and Emily Lanterman House (El Retiro), El Nido (the residence of Lieutenant Governor A.J. Wallace), and Dryborough Hall. The Pasadena images include numerous photographs of Busch Gardens, the Colorado Street Bridge, and Tournament of Roses parades from the mid-1920s and 1935. The photographs of Glendora include numerous views of streets in downtown Glendora as well as photographs of Judge Charles Silent's home. Images of Mount Wilson and Mount Lowe include the Observatory, the incline railway, and the Mount Lowe Railway. Images of the San Gabriel Mountains depict Orchard Camp, Camp Oak Wilde, Camp Coldbrook, Angeles Crest Highway, Switzer's Camp, Ice House and Wolfskill Canyons, and Mint Canyon. Other Southern California landscapes and scenic views include San Juan Capistrano and other missions; Avalon Harbor and the Hotel St. Catherine on Catalina Island; Hollywoodland, Bernheimer Gardens, Lake Hollywood, Mulholland Drive and Mulholland Dam, and Easter Services at the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood; Sunset Canyon, Sylvan Crest Trail, oil wells, Echo Park, Griffith Park, and the Greek Theater in Los Angeles; Point Fermin in San Pedro; beaches and surf at Santa Monica, Venice, Ocean Park, Redondo Beach and Laguna Beach; Pacoima Canyon, Big Tujunga Canyon, Encino Country Club grounds, and the Santa Susanna Pass in the San Fernando Valley area; Palm Canyon in Riverside County; Ramona's Marriage Place, Mission Cliff Gardens, La Jolla, and Torrey Pines in San Diego County; Agua Dulce Canyon and Vasquez Rocks in Los Angeles County; and sunsets and sunrises taken from southern California beaches and mountains. Jackson also ventured beyond the San Gabriel Valley and Los Angeles County for landscape views, and these make up the bulk of the latter part of the collection. The collection contains numerous images of the San Bernardino Mountains including Big Bear Lake, Seven Oaks Camp, and Lake Arrowhead; Mount Baldy and the surrounding area, including Kelly's Camp, Camp Baldy, Mirror Lake, San Antonio Canyon, and San Antonio Falls; Yosemite National Park; scenic canyons, including Red Rock Canyon in Kern County and Painted Canyon in Riverside County; Lake Tahoe, Mount Whitney, Temple Crag, Mount Tallac, and the Devil's Postpile in the Sierra Nevada Mountains; Mount Shasta; redwoods in Sequoia National Park; Yellowsone; Crater Lake and Mount Hood in Oregon; and Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon in Utah. Other scenic views depict images of ships, including the U.S.S. California, the steamer "Ruth Alexander," and a wrecked warship off Point Honda; the aftermath of the 1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake, including many views of the Hotel Californian and the Santa Barbara Mission; dams, including the ruins of the St. Francis Dam, and the Boulder Dam; the 1918 San Jacinto Earthquake; the Montrose-La Crescenta flood of 1934; and the construction and completion of the Angeles Crest Highway. Other images portray parade scenes (in Glendale, Burbank, and Azusa?); the 1925 National Orange Show in San Bernardino; rural and mountain roads (including views of the Ridge Route); unidentified individuals; Malibu Lake Mountain Drive; surf and beach scenes; residential interiors; and personal snapshots of B.D. and Cora Jackson on various trips, at home, and in front of Jackson's shop in Glendora. The collections also contains sample stereo cards, used by Jackson to advertise this aspect of his business, and photograph albums that display many of his postcards and scenic photographs. Ephemeral materials include brochures and leaflets about Jackson's stereo views and the Angeles Crest Highway, and type blocks for two of his stereographs. Manuscript materials include correspondence regarding the printing of a client's stereo negatives. The collection also contains family photographs taken after Jackson's death, presumably by his stepdaughter, Ruth Green, and postcards of Gold Rush Country scenes, presumably collected by Cora Jackson or Ruth Green.
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