Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Sketch of Dabney Carr Harrison : minister of the gospel and captain in the army of the Confederate States of America
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Rare Books
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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
Brock's collection of papers and manuscripts relating to political, military, economic, religious, social, and genealogical history of the state of Virginia. Included are papers of prominent Virginia families, business firms and businessmen, religious and fraternal organizations, government offices and departments, politicians, statesmen, and administrators.
BR 23
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Manuscripts
A collection of 422 items from 1835 to 1886, it consists of military, personal, and family papers of Mansfield Lovell. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, dispatches, communications, reports, and other military records accumulated by Lovell during his military career, particularly his command of Department No. 1. Correspondents include Judah P. Benjamin, Johnson K. Duncan, Joseph E. Johnston, and others. Also included are Lovell's letter books, special and general order books, and items relating to Lovell's Court of Inquiry. The collection also includes a group of manuscripts dealing with Lovell's Mexican War experience, including his journals from 1848 to 1849, correspondence, memoranda, and other items. Personal and family papers include letters to Mansfield Lovell from his brother Joseph Lovell written from Yale, Williams College, Poughkeepsie Collegiate School, and elsewhere from 1836 to 1847, Lovell's valedictory address at West Point, notes on travel in Virginia, New York, and Canada from 1842 to1843, correspondence between Mansfield Lovell and Emily Plympton Lovell from 1862 to 1863, and miscellaneous papers dealing with the family property.
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Rare Books
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Visual Materials
A collection of portrait photographs of over 200 Confederate army generals and high-ranking personnel, mostly taken during the Civil War, 1861-1865. Photographs include cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards, cyanotypes, and albumen prints affixed to paper. Many have biographical notes or regimental history written on the back, or clippings from newspapers adhered next to the photograph on board. Sitters are in uniform and in civilian clothes. Includes portraits taken into the 1890s. There are no images of General Robert E. Lee or James Longstreet. There are occasionally portraits of Confederate sympathizers, such as Mary E. Surratt.
photPF 2920-3275