Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
The humorous side of Erskine Caldwell : an anthology
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Interiors and exteriors of the home of writer Erskine Caldwell, in a desert setting. Includes two portraits of Caldwell at his desk and one color view of Caldwell and his third wife, June, on the patio.
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Visual Materials
Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material consists of 57,893 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints; 39 presentation albums; and 17 boxes of office records, 1930-1974. Created primarily by Maynard Parker, the archive documents the residential and non-residential work of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists, builders, real estate developers, and clients associated with these fields, foremost among them the magazine House Beautiful. Also included in the collection are photographs taken by other individuals, such as architect Cliff May and Parker's assistant, Charles Yerkes.
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Manuscripts
A collection of approximately 1,900 items which consists of manuscripts by C. E. S. Wood and his wife, Sara Bard Field, as well as correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, clippings, business papers, photographs, printed materials, four audio cassette tapes, and ephemera. Subject matter represented in the collection includes labor (including the McNamara trial and Clarence Darrow), women's suffrage, Oregon, and the American artists Childe Hassam, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and J. Alden Weir. Persons represented in the collection include, among others, William Rose Beňt, Childe Hassam, Una Call Kuster Jeffers, Mary Field Parton, John Cowper Powys, Llewelyn Powys, Lincoln Steffens, Genevieve Taggard, Mark Van Doren, Julian Alden Weir, and Ella Young.
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