Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Notable trees and shrubs of Camp Cherry Valley, Catalina Island
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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
Visual Materials
A group of people standing in front of camping tents on Santa Catalina Island, with one man holding oars marked "30."
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Books
QK149 .O83 1990
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Manuscripts
Personal and business papers of George Smith Patton, Sr., and his family including wife Ruth Wilson Patton, son General George S. Patton, and daughter Anne Wilson Patton. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, receipts, tax documents, estate papers, maps, photographs, ephemera, etc. There is some General George S. Patton related material in the collection; most of which is in the Anne Wilson Patton series (finance documents). Box 42 contains correspondence by General George S. Patton (photocopies), his wife Beatrice, and their children. The collection also contains several photographs of General George S. Patton. There is some information amongst the real estate-related papers about racial restrictions in the San Gabriel Valley.
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Visual Materials
Bound scrapbook of snapshots belonging to Kenneth E. Tipton, an employee at the Los Angeles Times's Catalina Island summer camp from 1915-1918. The photographs, all from 1915, show views of the camp and its operations, as well as scenes of Avalon, and primarily depict young men and women posing and enjoying recreational activities at the beach and around the island. The album is accompanied by a 1917 list of weekly balances for individuals at the Times Camp with an agent for the Sanitary Laundry Co. of Los Angeles and Golden State Laundry of San Pedro and a note from the Manager of Circulation, The Times-Mirror Company, dated September 23, 1918, and addressed "To Whom it May Concern" recommends Kenneth E. Tipton as an employee: "For the past four seasons he has handled our Camp at Catalina Island, superintending the construction of the Camp, and management of from fifty to one hundred boys."
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