Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Basil, Beatrice, Ethel
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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 Mary Beatrice Fox papers consist of maps, land papers, diaries, correspondence, and documents related to the Fox family and the greater Pasadena, California area from 1789 to 1961. Of note in the collection are the diaries of Mary Beatrice Fox, from 1889 to 1909, and those of her mother, Sarah Mary Baker Fox, from 1889 to 1899. These diaries illustrate life in the Los Angeles and Pasadena areas during this period. The collection also contains two letters from Julia Morgan, which were written from Paris, 1896 and 1898, and one 1862 letter from C. Meinerth to Charles James Fox regarding photography.
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Visual Materials
The collection contains material from independent private presses and university presses from around the world, but the majority of the presses represented in the collection are from the United States. Types of materials include annoucements, correspondence, flyers, booklets, and catalogs. The collection also includes material from printing clubs including Grolier, William Morris Society, Moxon Chappel, Rounce and Coffin, Typophiles, and Zamorano.There are also catalogs and material relating to various type foundry companies such as Ludlow, Linotype, Bauer, and American Type Founders (ATF) as well as paper samples from Japan Paper Company, Linweave, and Worthy Paper Company.
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