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Rare Books
Voyages and travels of Lord Brassey ... from 1862-1894
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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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Visual Materials
This collection consists of 70 bound folio volumes containing approximately 5,616 photographs collected and made by Lady Annie Brassey during her oceanic voyages, spanning from the 1860s to the late 1880s. The majority of photographs are by professional photographers of the era. The photographs primarily date from 1874 through 1887 when the Brassey family toured aboard their yacht Sunbeam, though some of the photographs were collected and taken by Lady Brassey during several pre-Sunbeam voyages. Lady Brasseys photographic interests included architectural views, British fortifications, indigenous peoples (she collected many photographs showing native "types," a genre popular in the period), exotic plants, and animals, all subjects reflected in the volumes. Geographic regions depicted include locations in Australia, Asia, the Pacific Islands, the Caribbean, North America, Africa, and Europe. There is no evidence indicating when or in what order the albums were assembled, nor who assembled them. The collection also includes an album containing photographs of seascapes by English photographer Colonel Stuart Wortley (1832-1890) taken in the 1860s and 1870s. Identified photographers consist of: Baldus, Edouard, 1813-1889 (France): Volumes 54 and 66 Bayliss, George (Sydney, Australia): Volume 6 Béchard, Émile 1844-1891 (Egypt): Volumes 29-33 Bell & Langford (New Zealand): Volume 15 Bingham, A. H. Volume 66 Bisson frères (France): Volume 54 Burton Brothers (Firm) (Dunedin, New Zealand): Volume 15 Cazabon, S. C. (India): Volume 12 Chase, Henry (Honolulu, Hawaii): Volume 16 Chuck Photo (Ballarat, Australia): Volumes 3 and 6 Cotter, James (Canada): Volume 21 Deen Dayal, Raja, 1844-1905 (India): Volume 12 Dumas (Egypt): Volume 33 Fiorillo, L. (Egypt): Volume 31 Fong, A. (China): Volume 9 Foster & Martin (Melbourne, Australia): Volume 6 Gibson (Penzance) (Great Britain): Volume 57 Godard, A. (Italy): Volume 42 Graziani (Venice, Italy): Volumes 39 and 51 Hammerschmidt, William (Egypt): Volumes 28 and 33 Henderson, Alexander (Canada): Volumes 21 and 70 Horetzky, Charles (Canada): Volume 21 Kerry & Jones. (Sydney, Australia): Volumes 1, 2, and 6 Le Gray, Gustave Volume 66 MacPherson, R. (Italy): Volume 44 Mage, E. (France): Volume 54 Notman, William (Canada): Volumes 21 and 57 Ponti, Carlo (Venice, Italy): Volumes 39 and 67 Rose, C. (Denmark): Volume 60 Scherer & Marholz (St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia): Volume 63 Sebah, J. Pascal (Cairo, Egypt): Volumes 28-34 and 62 Sommer, Georgio (Naples, Italy): Volumes 40, 42, and 61 Stuart Wortley, Henry, 1832-1890 Volume 64 Tagliarini, T. (Sicily): Volume 42 Valentine, James (England): Volume 57 Voland Volume 66 Washbourne Photo (Melbourne, Australia): Volume 7 West & Son (Southsea and Gosport, England): Volume 70 Wilson, George Washington (England): Volume 57.
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Thomas Lord Kimball, primarily focused on his activities with the Union Pacific Railroad. The personal correspondence includes over 330 letters sent by Kimball to his wife Mary Porter Rogers Kimball between 1859 and 1893, a letter from Kimball to his daughter Frances (1870), and a letter to Mary Kimball from her brother I.S. Hodsdon (correspondence between Hodsdon and Thomas Kimball is included in the business correspondence). The personal papers also include diaries kept by Kimball between 1860 and 1899, diaries kept by Mary Kimball between 1890 and 1898, and a biographical sketch of Kimball. The railroad papers include business correspondence from a variety of correspondents including Frederick L. Ames, Sidney Dillon, I.S. Hodsdon, W.H. Holmes, Jay Gould, and E.P. Vining, as well as a few pieces of outgoing correspondence by Kimball. The financial and operation papers include Kimball's Union Pacific pocket notebooks dated 1891-1899, a small group of Jay Gould manuscripts (1877-1880), correspondence on the W.C. Thompson scandal (1872-1873), a letter appointing Kimball as travelling agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. (1860), correspondence on the sale of a Unitarian Church in Omaha (1877-1880), production summaries for the Union Depot in Omaha (1879-1896), and miscellaneous railroad agreements, circulars, passes, receipts, promissory notes, financial statements, and stocks and bonds. The political papers consist of incoming correspondence, an agreement for Charles H. Brown to back the Union Pacific in pending legislation before Congress (1877), an agreement between Kimball and the National Union Publishing Co. (1877), a congressional voting record (1878), and a payroll. The mining papers include items related to the Newcastle Mining & Improvement Co. in Wyoming (1891-1894) and the Ella Mine in Idaho (1879-1880), as well as an analysis of coal on the Union Pacific Railroad line and a report on the coal business in Wyoming (1888). Also included is a box of newspaper clippings regarding Kimball's railroad activities from 1888-1889 (approx. 470 items).
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