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San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The Minute Book records the official meetings, appointment of trustees and officers, management, financing, and operations of the Burford to Swindon Turnpike Trust, particularly the operations on the Second District of the road (from Lechlade to Swindon). Individual trustees have signed their names after their recorded oaths of office and to signify their attendance at individual meetings of the trust. Of particular interest is information about surveying, land purchases, toll rates, and the leasing of individual toll-gates.
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Manuscripts
The regimental orderly book of the 2nd Battalion of the 71st Regment of Foot, containing general, brigade, regimental, and battalion orders, including those from the headquarters of Henry Clinton and John Campbell, records of proceedings of court martial, etc.
mssHM 617
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Manuscripts
The 184 documents include military pay warrants, receipts, and estimates for British forces in the Mediterranean and North America, particularly Nova Scotia, Upper and Lower Canada, and Quebec; pay warrants for the colonial governments of Canada; miscellaneous documents such as returns of provisions and assignments of off-reckoning. This collection includes autograph documents, printed forms, filled in and one printed engraving; many of the documents also contain the penciled notes of a previous owner (perhaps J.B. Learmont) and in some cases are quite extensive, the notes usually contain biographical information or are comments on the authenticity of the signatures.
mssHM 82876-82893
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Visual Materials
This collection spans the years 1906 to 1947 and consists primarily of plans, photographs and drawings of Reginald D. Johnson's architectural projects in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California. The collection includes material that was acquired as two separate donations between 1988 and 1993: an album of photographs and drawings of the Baldwin Hills Village planned residential community in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles; an album of photographs of residential projects in Pasadena and Santa Barbara, and three drawings for buildings in San Marino, Pasadena, and Alhambra. An additional donation made in 2011 includes blueprints and photographs of "Penjerrick," the residence of Pierre E. Letchworth in Covina, California, built in 1915. Credited photographers represented in the collection include William M. Clarke, E. M. Pratt, the Padilla Company, and the Gill Engraving Company.
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Visual Materials
This collection contains original architectural drawings and microfilm of drawings and correspondence from architectural firm Morgan, Walls & Clements, dating between 1895 and 1960. Some material bears the names of forerunner and successor firms during those years, particularly Stiles O. Clements, who practiced on his own beginning in 1937. Materials include sets of original drawings for 129 projects from 1900 to 1960, and microfilm of drawings for more than 600 projects from 1895 to 1951, as well as over 10,000 pieces of business correspondence from the 1930s. Many of the plans are incomplete, and this material represents only a portion of the firm's entire output. The microfilm was created by the firm after 1951. The majority of projects represented are commercial buildings in downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood, and the Wilshire Boulevard corridor. They include theaters, office and store buildings, banks, industrial warehouses, manufacturing plants, apartment buildings, and schools, among others. Some projects are in cities and communities of greater Los Angeles County, and three are in Arizona and Oregon. The firm was known for large-scale Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings, contributing many significant public buildings to Los Angeles between the wars. Notable projects in the collection are: the Pellissier Building and Wiltern Theater, the Hollywood Turf Club, Richfield Tower (demolished), the Samson Tire and Rubber Company, Music Box Theater, and the Mayan Theatre. (There are no drawings for the Richfield Tower or El Capitan Theater, two of their well-known buildings.) In the 1930s and 1940s, under Stiles Clements, the firm designed many Streamline Moderne-style Ralph's Grocery Company markets, and Sears department stores. There are a few residential projects, including original drawings for the Merritt Adamson residence in Malibu (Adamson House), and Malibu pioneer May K. Rindge's residence. There are also six blueprint drawings for the residence of Octavius W. Morgan Jr. in Los Angeles.
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