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Manuscripts
This collection contains two prospectuses: Rancho San Pedro and Del Amo Industrial Park. It includes an autograph book to Gregorio del Amo, Madrid, 1931. There are also photographs of Colegio Mayor Jaime del Amo in Madrid, Spain. There is one letter from Robert G. Breyer to Jaime del Amo accompanied with four photographs of the Del Amo Center. Finally, the collection includes a newspaper clipping describing how Don Wilson and Milton Kauffman presented a one-million-dollar check to Jaime del Amo as first payment for purchase of the del Amo property on May 15, 1955.
mssHM 83501 (a-e)
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The Leticia Quezada papers is a collection of personal and professional correspondence, documents, ephemera, and photographs related to her career in education, politics, and Mexican culture.
mssQuezadapapers
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Reprints of editorials, articles, and reports originally published in the Los Angeles Times. Includes an essay by Editor Nick B. Williams on "The Newspaper's role" and booklet "Sirhan the Wanderer never found his way" (on the assassin of Robert Kennedy).
mssLAT
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Typescript of a history of the Texas Wightites compiled by Heman Hale Smith (1887-1962). The essay traces the origins and development of Wight's Mormon community in Texas from its founding in 1846 through Wight's death in 1858. The essay draws on a variety of secondary sources and also includes transcripts of original correspondence. With bibliography.
mssHM 27981
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Rare Books
Brief essay about artist and book designer Merle Armitage, originally intended for publication in Matrix: A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles, volume 16, but published separately. Gloria Stuart assisted Ward Ritchie in finishing the article when his eyesight started to fail him.
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Page proofs of essay by Hermann von Helmholtz originally written in 1887; the essay discusses the topic of the electrolysis of water that he had initially explored in his 1883 essay, On the Thermodynamics of Chemical Processes. The typescript is in German, with corrections and emendations by the author in German and marginal annotations by an unidentified person in English. One annotation in English is signed by an unidentified editor at the publisher, Taylor & Francis.
mssHM 83096