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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Susanville daily reminder
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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
Many diary entries on daily activities. Signed by Lucy Brunetta Moon at back.
photCL 484
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Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, including 190,000 reports, 1200 maps, 500 photographs, and 8200 pieces of printed material related to the life and career of Ralph Arnold. Subjects represented in the collection include: mining, petroleum, and seismology in the Western United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and South America; political papers from 1914 to 1956, mostly concerning the campaign of Herbert Hoover for president; family and personal papers from 1836 to 1961 of Arnold and his father, Delos Arnold, containing source material on Pasadena and Southern California local history. The collection also contains Arnold's field books, including those made at Stanford University with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1900 to 1909.
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Visual Materials
Artists: Stephens, L. H.
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Visual Materials
This bound album of snapshot photographs appears to document the tourist activities of a woman and her friends in California at the beginning of the twentieth century. The unidentified compiler labeled all the images including the three Pasadena homes in which she stayed during her visit: 149 S. Madison Avenue ("first home"), 300 Palmetto Drive ("second home"), and 44 S. Orange Grove Avenue ("third home"). The photographs depict common tourist sites of the era including the San Gabriel Mission, Mt. Lowe, San Gabriel Canyon, San Diego and Coronado Island, Catalina Island, Venice canals and beach, Redlands, Riverside, Redondo, Lake Tahoe, the gardens at the Hotel del Monte, Mission San Juan Capistrano, the Old Mill, Mission Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Berkeley, and San Ysidro. There are pictures of women driving automobiles, having picnics, and taking beach and other excursions, as well as many pictures of regional trees and flowers. There are also several photographs of ships-- including the "Atlantic Fleet" at San Diego, with the ships the Connecticut, the Vermont, and the California, as well as sailors identified as "Jackies" in a parade in San Diego. Photographs of ethnic groups include pictures of Chinese women at Castroville (pg 82) and of Native American children at the Sherman Institute in Riverside (pgs 45-46). Since Pasadena was home base for the travelers, many photographs depict local friends and events such as the Tournament of Roses celebration of 1909 and the New Year's Day games at Tournament Park.
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