Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Port Hueneme : a history
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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
The Charles Francis Saunders and Mira Culin Saunders Collection of Photographs and Negatives consists of 5826 black and white photographs, 68 glass plate negatives, 3832 film negatives, 10 photographs albums, 261 lantern slides, and related ephemera, ca. 1871-1965 (bulk 1910s-1920s), collected and created by Charles Francis Saunders, Elisabeth Hallowell Saunders, and Mira Culin Saunders. The collection provides a comprehensive overview of Charles Saunders' activities as a naturalist and travel writer.
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Manuscripts
This small group of records consist of one box and two volumes. The following items are in the box: 1) Hueneme, Malibu and Port Los Angeles Railway stock certificates; 2) a catalog book entitled Steel Rails and Accessories by the Pennsylvania Steel Company; 3) Malibu Tidewater Railway stock certificates (blank); 4) Hueneme, Malibu and Southern Railway stock certificates (four stubs filled-in); and 5) Ventura County Historical Society quarterly publication entitled The Determined Mrs. Rindge and her Legendary Railroad. The first volume is Hueneme, Malibu and Port Los Angeles Railway cash ledger with entries listing disbursements from 1903 through 1913. The second volume is Hueneme, Malibu and Port Los Angeles Railway financial journal for issuance of stock, road repairs, and taxes from 1903 through 1922. Included in this journal is a copy of the company's bylaws.
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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
[Banquet - outdoors at Point Hueneme Bay]
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