Skip to content

Rare Books

Charles et Ella : Roman Louisianais

Image not available



You might also be interested in

  • Image not available

    Amis et fortune

    Rare Books

    402127

  • Image not available

    Pouponne et Balthazar : nouvelle Acadienne

    Rare Books

    402125

  • Image not available

    Dillingham, Charles Theodore, b.1842 to A. Roman

    Manuscripts

    The collection, which contains 10,844 items, consists of correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, speeches, diaries, account books, published articles, legal papers, financial statements and business records. The 10,528 pieces of correspondence are chiefly addressed to James De Barth Shorb, James M. Tiernan and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb. The 17 letter books are related to the business and financial affairs of Shorb and Benjamin Davis Wilson. The 75 manuscripts consist of items chiefly written by Shorb and Wilson family members. The 224 items in the Business Papers include material related to Shorb's many companies including the San Gabriel Wine Company. The following subjects are covered in the Shorb collection: the Shorb, Wilson, and Patton families, David Jacks, Mariano Vallejo, Santa Catalina Island, the Mount Wilson Observatory, California government and politics, African Americans and the Chinese in California, agriculture, the citrus fruit industry, Indians of California, irrigation, lend tenure, mining, railroads, ranching, water rights, and the wine industry. The collection also documents the history and development of the following California cities: Alhambra, Elsinore, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ramona, San Gabriel, San Marino, and Wilmington.

    mssShorb papers

  • Image not available

    Charles Milton Buchanan letter to Ella Higginson

    Manuscripts

    Buchanan wrote this letter in response to a letter he received from writer Ella Higginson requesting information on Indians in Alaska and Alaska in general. Buchanan suggests she read some of the Bulletins published by the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology, as well as various works by Miner Bruce, Henry Henshaw, Otis Mason, and Dr. Sheldon Jackson. Higginson, who was from Washington, published her book Alaska, the great country three years later.

    mssHM 68055