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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters (including 1 letter book), manuscripts (including 50 diaries), documents (including 55 account books, 12 cash books, and 5 miscellaneous volumes), and photographs related to the lives and activities of various Janin family members and the extended Janin-Blair-Jesup-Croghan families. Subject matter in the collection includes: politics and government in Washington, D.C., and Louisiana; society and customs in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans; Blair House (Washington, D.C.); land titles in Indiana Territory, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Missouri; the Ocean Canal and Transportation Company, which ran from Louisiana to St. Louis; the history of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, from the time of purchase by John Croghan in 1839 until 1932, when it became a national park (at which time Violet Blair Janin was the primary owner); and mining in Australia. Persons represented in the collection include: James Lawrence Blair, Mary Jesup Blair, Violet Blair Janin, John Croghan, William Croghan, Albert Covington Janin, Louis Janin, Julia Clark Jesup, Thomas Sidney Jesup, George M. Wheeler, and Lucy James Blair Wheeler. Organizations represented in the collection (with which Violet Blair Janin was affiliated) include: Daughters of the American Revolution, National Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage, National Cathedral Association, National Society of Children of the American Revolution, and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.
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Manuscripts
The aerospace oral history project consists of 61 oral histories in PDF format and provides a range of perspectives related to the aerospace industry in Southern California. Interview subjects were selected to provide a range of perspectives on the aerospace industry, from senior corporate leaders to design engineers, manufacturing engineers, major airframe manufacturers, think tanks, smaller suppliers, and both military and civilian programs. Most of the interviews cover the period from World War II and the Cold War up to the present, although several interviews include memories of the 1920s and 1930s. The transcripts reflect guided oral histories conducted by professional historians; interviews have been transcribed for clarity, and reviewed for accuracy by the interviewee before being entered into the catalog. Some interviewees were interviewed multiple times.
HM 80611 (24)
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Manuscripts
Incomplete draft. On verso: Notes for memoirs by J. D. (Jonathan D.) Hale.
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