Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Jesse Johnston and his times
Image not available
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Image not available
Rare Books
This collection contains 324 booklets from the Little Blue Book and related series published by the Haldeman-Julius Company of Girard, Kansas. The collection includes booklets dating from 1921 to 1943, with the bulk dating from the 1920s. The titles in the collection range from reprints of literary classics by authors such as ancient Greek tragedians, William Shakespeare, and Ralph Waldo Emerson to contemporary writings by geologist Carroll Lane Fenton, historian Will Durant. More than 150 authors are represented and the booklets often focus on topics such as free thought, philosophy, religion, evolution, natural history, biographies of scientists and historical figures, and guides and essays about philosophers and authors. The booklets are primarily identified as part of the "Little Blue Book" series on the front cover, but there are some titles from the Five cent pocket series; the Ten Cent pocket series; the Appeal pocket series; and the Pocket series.
644677
Image not available
Manuscripts
Brief biography of Jesse Hobson (1812-1833). Begins with his birth in Randolph County, North Carolina, and outlines his early family life. Also traces Hobson's 1935 marriage to Catherine Daughtery in Cook County, Illinois; the couple's 1844 travels with the James Emmett Company up the Iowa River; their stay at Fort Vermillion (which Russell spells "Vermullion"), South Dakota, in 1845; their move to Council Bluffs in 1846 at the request of Brigham Young, who wanted them to assist Mormon immigrants; their 1847 stay at Winter Quarters and move to Pottawatamie County, Iowa; and their 1852 travels to Utah with the Benjamin Gardner Company. Russell also describes Hobson's travels to Nebraska with the George Miller Company to interact with Punca Indians and a detailed account of his travels from Utah to New York while on his way to a mission in England in 1856. Also references the death of Hobson's wife Catherine, includes a physical description of Hobson, and lists the birth dates and places of his children with Catherine and subsequent wives Nancy Henderson and Sarah Dowell. The full title of the biography is "A History of the Life of Grandfather Jesse Hobson, assembled from the Story given to Henry U. Russell by his mother, Lydia Ann Hobson Russell, eldest daughter of Grandfather Jesse Hobson; and from the diary of Grandfather Jesse Hobson."
mssHM 72842
Image not available
Rare Books
425832