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Manuscripts
This typewritten account details an excursion coordinated by Raymond & Whitcomb Inc. to California by train from Feb. 17-April 21. The journey began in Buffalo, NY, where Mr. Tripp, his wife and several of their friends boarded the train for their trip west. The train traveled to California via Chicago, Kansas City, Santa Fe, Flagstaff, and San Bernardino before arriving in Pasadena, CA. They visited Pasadena, Altadena, the San Gabriel Mission, downtown Los Angeles, Redondo Beach, Riverside, and San Diego before heading north. They visited Santa Barbara, Monterey & 17 mile drive, and in the San Francisco Bay Area saw Chinatown, the Lick Observatory and the U.S. Mint. On their return trip eastward, they traveled through Sacramento and Salt Lake City before stopping for visits at the Royal Gorge and Garden of the Gods in Colorado en route to Chicago and Buffalo, NY
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Visual Materials
A collection of 137 photographs from the life of Anita Baldwin, focused primarily on her mansion "Anoakia" built in 1913 in Arcadia, California. Baldwin inherited the land from her father, E. J. "Lucky" Baldwin, and built a 50-room Italian-Renaissance style mansion, seen in a set of 69 mounted photographs by Harold A. Parker, and snapshots. Photographs show wood-paneled rooms (one with murals by Maynard Dixon), Native American and Asian artifacts and decor, house and stables, a swimming pool and a Greek-revival style bathhouse. The collection also contains views of Baldwin's hunting lodge "Nid-ji-eh Wa-ri" at Fallen Leaf Lake, Lake Tahoe, showing interiors decorated with animal heads and hides, and one photograph of Baldwin on skis in the snow. Baldwin is also seen in portraits and on a trip to Egypt in 1925, posing on a camel with pyramids in the background. There are a few photographs related to her involvement in the American Red Star Animal Relief organization, including a parade and banquet scenes with soldiers. There are three photographs of the ruins of the Baldwin Hotel and Theatre in San Francisco after the fire that destroyed it in 1898.
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Visual Materials
A photograph album documenting an automobile trip taken by friends across the western United States (with excursions into Canada and Tijuana, Mexico), during the summer of 1928. The first page is titled "Trip West 1928" and includes an image of an automobile covered with travel decals captioned: "Home after 10,000 miles." Photographs show the travelers visited many national parks, including Crater Lake, Yellowstone, Glacier, and Yosemite, as well as other tourist attractions such as Garden of the Gods, Pikes Peak, Catalina Island, Hollywood, the Redwood Highway, Vancouver, and Canada's Waterton National Park. Some images show the unidentified young men dealing with automobile trouble, hiking in the mountains, camping, and posing with an "old" and "new" car. The majority of the snapshots were taken in the West, but there are some images of tourist attractions in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, all identified in handwritten captions. The album has three pages titled "My Pals" for autographs; several men and women signed their names and home towns, dated between 1929 and 1933.
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Manuscripts
Drafts of King's book, Long horn trail drivers, make up the majority of the manuscript material. There is a copy of the manuscript that King sent to the publisher in 1940 and one incomplete draft of the book. In addition, there are a variety of manuscripts written by King relating his memories and stories about the American West and cattle drives, some of which were used in his books or printed in his column "Mavericks." Many of these items are untitled short stories, folklore, and biographies. Other book materials include King's handwritten inscriptions, an incomplete set of chapter drafts from Pioneer western empire builders, and the image proofs. Other items in the manuscript series are short stories, memoirs, and nonfiction writings of King's cowboy friends and associates, which King often quoted for use in his books and articles. There are also nine sketches by R. S. Carroll. The majority of the correspondence expresses interest in King's life in the West, requests, praise, and questions about King's books, praise for his writing and activism on American Indian welfare issues in his "Mavericks" column for the Western Livestock Journal, and submissions of personal stories about life in the American West. The correspondence also includes Kings letters responding to requests for information on his book and the Western Livestock Journal. Prominent correspondents include many of the individuals who King included in his books and articles such as E. A. Brininstool, Chuck Martin, Jeff Milton,Tex Moore and Loraine M. Reynolds. Much of the correspondence provides insight into King's work regarding American Indian rights and welfare issues. In particular, the Loraine M. Reynolds letters highlight her work with the Navajo Indians on the Alamo Indian Reservation and her critique of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Some of the correspondence includes drawings and illustrations of cowboy and trail herding images.
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Rare Books
"She was last seen alive at the San Francisco docks, three months before Lew Archer was hired to search for her. The search lead him first to her family and her college friends, then far afield from the respectable and moneyed world where Phoebe had been brought up, into the criminal lower depths where life is valued lightly. Ross Macdonald's new book has the texture of a good novel; the characters, ranging from an oil millionaire to an unemployed actress writing her "true-confession" autobiography, are freshly seen; and, as always, with Ross Macdonald, the narrative is fast-paced, leading up to an explosive climax"--Half-title verso.
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Manuscripts
The journal covers all Lilla's life beginning in 1894. The journal starts with the "Journal of Lola Hammond," which is a pseudonym for Lilla S. Perry. "The Journal of Lilla S. Perry" begins on page 316 (before that is a note by Perry, written in 1970, about the writing of the journal). She talks about her days growing up on the East Coast, her college years at Cornell and her relationship with Everett Perry. She discusses in detail her doubts about their relationship, their long courtship, their marriage, and their constant marital problems. She also talks about Everett's library work and involvement in the American Library Association, including attending ALA conferences and the opening of the new LA library in 1926. Many notable people, who were Lilla's friends, show up throughout the journal including Carl Sandburg, Charles Lummis and his wife Dorothea Moore - Perry includes transcripts of letters between Lummis and Moore, which Moore gave to her. Perry talks in detail about her Japanese prints and Chinese snuff bottle collections as well as trips to view other collections and exhibitions including her trip to Japan. In her various art interests she becomes connected to several collectors and artists such as Judson D. Metzgar, Carl Schraubstadter, Louis Ledoux, and Fujio and Hiroshi Yoshida. Lilla was a member of several women's clubs including the Friday Morning Club and in her journal she talks a lot about her work with that club. The journal includes an Index and note as well as notes written throughout by Lilla years later. Several photographs of Perry and her family are included in the journal.
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