Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
The Russian fleet, 1914-1917
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Deck view of Russian frigate "Osliaba," harbor of Alexandria, Virginia. Photograph shows officers from the Baltic Fleet and their cannons on the deck. Man in top hat stands at the ship's wheel. This image similar to photCL 301 (45) & (46). Title on mount: Deck Russian Fleet. Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 33.
photCL 301 (47)
Visual Materials
Sailors on Russian frigate "Osliaba," harbor of Alexandria, Virginia. Photograph showing Russian sailors standing on the deck of their ship. This image similar to photCL 301 (45) & (47). Title on mount: Crew of Russians. Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 34.
photCL 301 (46)
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Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, narratives, and eight large volumes of clippings related to the members of the Jayhawkers, their overland trip to the California gold fields through Death Valley, and their annual reunions held between 1872 to 1918. It also contains diaries by Asa Haines and Sheldon Young of the Jayhawkers' route and a map of Death Valley by William Lewis Manly, approximately 1889. The collection was assembled by John B. Colton (1831-1919), a member of the Jayhawker party. Participants in the collection include: John Wells Brier, Reverend James Brier, William Frederick Dody, Jessie Benton Fremont, John Groscup, Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, Charles Fletcher Lummis, William Lewis Manley, Charles B. Mecum, and Lorenzo Dow Stephens. The collection also includes items related to Mary Hunter Austin, Frederic Remington, and Theodore Roosevelt.
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