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Rare Books
Souvenir of Nome, Alaska
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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 collection consists of maps, field books, legal documents, business papers, and diaries related to the work of surveyors George Hansen, Alfred Solano, Sidney B. Reeve, and others. The maps and surveys in the collection are of the city of Los Angeles, Southern California ranchos, and subdivisions of the city of Los Angeles and neighboring towns. The collection contains over maps and sketch maps. Other subjects represented in the collection include: civil engineering, land subdivision, mines and mineral resources, and daily life in Los Angeles and Los Angeles County.
mssSolano
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Visual Materials
Photographs of the American West, dating from the 1870s to the 1890s, collected by Carl S. Dentzel (1913-1980), director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California, including a disbound album of photographs of Alaska taken by A. L. Broadbent. These views show Revenue Cutter Service ships and officers; Alaskan natives; towns; scenery; the fur trade and mission schools. Other notable photographs in this collection include portraits of John C. Frémont, Harrison Gray Otis, and John A. Sutter; a series of Lake Tahoe card photographs; and views of early western settlers around the time of the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. The collection also depicts Alaskan native graves; missionaries; walrus hunting; whaling ships; totem poles; officers in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service; vacationers throughout California; the logging industry; Kingston, New Mexico; Greek Orthodox church buildings; the first grand jury in Nome, Alaska; James Gilchrist Swan; and a portrait of one of the collection's photographers, Alfred Lee Broadbent. Photographers who contributed to this collection include William C. Billington, Alfred Lee Broadbent, F. Davey, Edward De Groff, Charles D. Kirkland, D. S. Mitchell, C.H. Shaffner, Julius Ulke, and Raper James Waters.
photCL 98
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Manuscripts
Number of pieces: 1
mssLake papers
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Visual Materials
An album with 29 commercial card photographs of Alaska, produced by brothers W.H. Partridge, E.J. Partridge, and Sam C. Partridge. Places shown include Fort Wrangle (i.e. Fort Wrangel, now the town of Wrangell), Sitka, Juneau, Muirs Glacier, Chilkat, Takou Inlet, and Killisnoo. Some of the photographs include settlers and/or indigenous people. One image shows the crew of the steamship Idaho, with some individuals identified on the verso. Two of the photographs of Muir Glacier and one of the photographs of Juneau, which uses the town's earlier name, Harrisburg, are from the studio of Isaac G. Davidson of Portland, Oregon (Items 13, 15-16). Based on research it appears likely that most of the photographs are by W.H. Partridge; it is possible that some are by E.J. Partridge.
photCL 167
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Rare Books
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