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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
Elisabeth Broadbent's account book of her expenditure on clothes, shoes and jewelery; including her particularly heavy expenditure in 1771 for wedding clothes. Evidently keen to follow the latest fashions, Elisabeth Broadbent makes do, having her dresses dyed and mended, shoes recovered, etc. Original wallet-style vellum with fold-over flap, brass fastener with leaf engraving, 15 x 11 cm., 60 pages with additional blank pages lined but not used.
mssHM 82609