Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Collection of miscellaneous personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, and documents of Methodist and Baptist ministers and congregations, mostly of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and Baptist Southern Convention. Included are groups of correspondence of Samuel T. Moorman, a Methodist minister who served in North Carolina and Virginia in 1840-1860's., Rev. George William Keese, a Richmond, Va. Baptist minister, and materials relating to First Baptist Church (Richmond, Va)
mssBR Box 119
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Rare Books
Poems by Athalia Irwin, Universalist minister (settled: Pensacola, Fla. , 1902-1904; Little Rock, Ark., 1904-1907; Riverside, Calif., 1913-1915). The work is dedicated "to my friend and spiritual benefactor, the Rev. Quillen H. Shinn."
427451
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Manuscripts
Approx. 10 items: letters, memos, and other material related to The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Most of these items are letters between Jack Landau, Exec. Director of The Committee, and William Thomas (LAT). Folder includes complete issue of The News Media and the Law, 5-6/1979.
mssLAT
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Manuscripts
Approx. 50 items: LAT clips and reprints plus tear sheets from Time and Wall St. Journal on press freedom. Notable items: complete issue, The Review of Southern California Journalism, 12/1972, lead story - "It can happen here - ask Bill Farr" (the LAT reporter jailed for refusing to reveal a source to a judge) ; reprint, Time, 7/8/1974, "The Press..fair of foul" ; LAT, bound reprints, 4/1976, series title, "Free trial and free press...on a collision course."
mssLAT
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Rare Books
Argues that concepts of freedom and dignity are destructive of values they claim to foster; that a technology of behavior would be more prductive of the good society.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items. A sampling of headlines from LAT news stories and editorials: 9/19/1929, "Shuler radio gossiping scored by grand jury...charges (made) based on mere hearsay injuring innocent persons" ; 12/28/1930, "Shuler radio battle opens here on January 8...Radio Commission to decide if pastor must get off the air" ; 6/22/1953, "Dr. Bob Shuler Sr. ends pastorate...veteran fundamentalist gives farewell sermon at Trinity Methodist Church" ; 9/12/1965, "Rev. Shuler dies...former prohibitionist."
mssLAT