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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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Manuscripts
The "California Gold Rush Fleet Encyclopedia of Vessels Sailing from the East Coast of the United States and Canada for San Francisco, December 7, 1848-December 31, 1849" comprises individual histories of 762 ships as well as various subject files, arranged in alphabetical order. Goodman records a broad spectrum of information derived from a variety of sources about the multitude of Gold Rush vessels. The bulk of the manuscripts are photocopies and some are heavily annotated in the author's hand. Some histories include hand colored illustrations of maps and ships. They were written and edited between 1970-1991.
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Manuscripts
The majority of the correspondence is addressed to Oliver Bainbridge (there are a few letters not addressed to him and there are only two letters written by Bainbridge). The authors of the correspondence are mostly British royalty, diplomats and administrators in India and Australia, as well as American, British, Australian and Canadian clergy, writers and politicians. Issues addressed within the correspondence include the life and career of Oliver Bainbridge and 20th century politics and government within Great Britain, India, Canada, and Australia. Correspondents include Sir George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood, Sir Henry Arthur Blake, Sir William Martin Conway, Sir Almeric William Fitz Roy, Sir Henry Knollys, Reginald Brabazon, the 12th Earl of Meath, Olʹga Alekseevna Novikova, Sir George Houstoun Reid, Horatio Nelson Nelson, and Ellis Rowan.
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters (including 1 letter book), manuscripts (including 50 diaries), documents (including 55 account books, 12 cash books, and 5 miscellaneous volumes), and photographs related to the lives and activities of various Janin family members and the extended Janin-Blair-Jesup-Croghan families. Subject matter in the collection includes: politics and government in Washington, D.C., and Louisiana; society and customs in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans; Blair House (Washington, D.C.); land titles in Indiana Territory, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Missouri; the Ocean Canal and Transportation Company, which ran from Louisiana to St. Louis; the history of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, from the time of purchase by John Croghan in 1839 until 1932, when it became a national park (at which time Violet Blair Janin was the primary owner); and mining in Australia. Persons represented in the collection include: James Lawrence Blair, Mary Jesup Blair, Violet Blair Janin, John Croghan, William Croghan, Albert Covington Janin, Louis Janin, Julia Clark Jesup, Thomas Sidney Jesup, George M. Wheeler, and Lucy James Blair Wheeler. Organizations represented in the collection (with which Violet Blair Janin was affiliated) include: Daughters of the American Revolution, National Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage, National Cathedral Association, National Society of Children of the American Revolution, and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.
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This collection primarily contains letters addressed to Eric George Millar and Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell from various literary figures, artists, designers, musicians, scientists, librarians, and illustrators. There are two manuscripts concerning Phoebe Stabler, an English sculptor, along with seventeen pieces of ephemera relating to Stabler. There is also a volume compiled by Eric George Millar containing miscellaneous items relating to John Downman, a Welsh portrait and subject painter.
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