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Photographs in Los Angeles County and Pasadena
Visual Materials
Consists of fourteen photographs. Ten photographs, including some duplicates, are portraits of Arthur W. Sinclair, Marjorie Rowley Sinclair, Robert S. Sinclair, and Agnes Rowley (labeled as Mrs. H. H. Sinclair). Some were taken at 375 Waverly Drive, Pasadena. One photograph of a 1842-3 portrait of Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, later Mrs. Levi Rowley, is also included. The four remaining items are: one photograph of a portrait of Samuel Sewall; one group photo of a picnic on Mount Wilson with Dr. B. M. Page, Governor Henry Harrison Markham, Benjamin Page, and Frank Daggett in attendance; and two photographs of Robert W. Lull and his bookstore at 1 Chapel St., Newburyport, Massachusetts.
photPF 20-29
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Brock Collection: Papers of James Harford, (bulk 1767-1805)
Manuscripts
Correspondence, accounts and legal papers, chiefly pertaining to Harford's legal affairs in America. Included is correspondence of Robert Pleasants, Thomas Bates, William Fisher, James Cowles and Samuel Fisher, Benjamin Day, Oliver Towles, John Dixon, and Micajah Crew. There are items that document the sale of slaves. Also included is a letter of Edmund Pendleton discussion various opinions of the case
mssBR Box 27 (1)
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Sinclair, Rowley, Jenkins, family photographs
Visual Materials
Thirty card studio portraits of members of the family of Henry Harbinson Sinclair and his wife, Agnes Rowley Sinclair, dating from about 1850 to 1910. Individuals include Henry Harbinson Sinclair and Agnes Rowley Sinclair, their children, Marjorie Sinclair and Arthur Sinclair; Agnes Sinclair's parents, Mary Jenkins Rowley and Levi Rowley; Caroline Jenkins, Fanny Harbinson, Cornelia Sinclair, Henry Jenkins, Robert Strong Sinclair, Elizabeth Sinclair, and Lucy Knowles. Identified photographers include Brooklyn photographs Herman Wunder, Brasier, Thos. W. Taylor of Gardner & Co, G. Frank E. Pearsall, and Charles Rawson; New York City photographers Hargrave, Fredericks, and Beardsley; F. Forshew of Hudson, New York; and Frank Fryette of Redlands and San Bernardino, California.
photPF 120-149
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Mary E. (Jenkins) Rowley at 35 years old, wearing brooch
Visual Materials
Handwriting on inside cover reads: "Mary E. Rowley at 35. March 17, 1859." Mother of Mrs. H. H. Sinclair and the wife of Levi Rowley. Information from donor.
(photDAG 23)
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Leicester's Commonwealth: manuscript
Manuscripts
A contemporary attack on Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, formerly attributed to the Jesuit Robert Parsons. More properly titled "The Copy of a letter written by a master of art of Cambridge...concerning...some proceedings of the Earl of Leicester and his friends in England."
mssHM 90
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Harry and Celia Cassman collection
Manuscripts
Collection contains three John Quincy Adams autograph letters or notes signed to: Benjamin Waterhouse, 1817 February 9 (HM 52212); John Adams, 1817 December 26 (HM 52213); and Mrs. W.D. Lewis, 1832 April 8 (HM 52215). Also present is one Marquis de Lafayette, New York, autograph letter signed to Joseph Lewis and James Kilmer, Philadelphia, 1824 September 22 (HM 52214). John Quincy Adams' letter to Benjamin Waterhouse is written from Ealing, London, and discusses British politics and an attack on the Prince Regent George IV's coach in London; his note to John Adams concerns finances and the bankruptcy of Robert Bird. Lafayette's letter relates to his upcoming visit to Philadelphia.
mssHM 52212-52215