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West winds : California's book of fiction
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Francis West Lewis letters to James Lorimer Graham
Manuscripts
This is a group of eighteen letters by Dr. Francis West Lewis to James Lorimer Graham, of New York, mainly describing the "getting up" of a microscope for Graham by Lewis. One of the letters is in the form of an illustrated poem and another letter has illustrations (hand-drawn sketches by Lewis). The letters also deal with Dr. Lewis' personal life, his activities, and local gossip. Six of the letters are undated. Seventeen of the letters were written from Philadelphia (one was written from Bellows Falls, Vermont).
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Manuscripts by Leonard John Rose, Sr.; Going West Accounts, manuscripts on California pioneers and emigrant narratives; Ephemera
Manuscripts
Leonard John Rose, Jr. was an amateur historian and this collection contains drafts of his memoirs and descriptions of 18th and 19th century California social life and customs. In "A Serial in Three Parts," L. J. Rose, Jr. thoroughly describes the livestock management practices and horsemanship of Mexican cowboys in 18th and 19th century California. In Gringos Grandees he further illustrates the social life and customs of Mexicans and Native Americans living in a small village in the San Gabriel Valley. In this manuscript, L. J. Rose, Jr., narrates his and his father's life stories, with accounts of his family's move west, success in wine production and horse breeding, but it is also a local view of Los Angeles and California history in the second half of the 19th century. The writing in this collection of Leonard John Rose is limited to his accounts of leading a failed California bound emigrant train from the Midwest. The third section contains short biographies of L. J. Rose and Calvin F. Fargo, narratives of the Rose Party, and the diary of Martha True Fargo, L.J. Rose, Jr.'s mother-in-law. The diary provides a social history of women in Portage, Wisconsin in 1864. The ephemera section of this collection revolves around newspaper and magazine clippings about the Rose family, their homes and estates, their prize winning horses, and their wine production. Some of the newspaper articles are from the Los Angeles Times and the Illustrated Los Angeles Herald, while the magazine articles include a 1950 three part series entitled, "Pastime of Millions" by Carleton F. Burke in The Thoroughbred of California.
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Frank West journal of marches
Manuscripts
This volume contains detailed notes, arranged chronologically, concerning 18 military marches in which 2nd Lieutenant Frank West took part from 1873 to 1876 with the 6th U.S. Cavalry. The journal covers military activity on the southern plains during, and surrounding, the Red River War, as well as activity in New Mexico and Arizona Territories in the mid 1870s. The notes for each march are generally structured in the same manner, providing information about the weather from day to day, the quality of the trail, the water, and grass encountered by the column as well as the condition of the men and their mounts. West also mentions the various Native Americans the troops encountered. Each set of notes is illustrated by a full-page, hand-drawn map with a list of notable topographical features.
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Menlo Park Hotel : Menlo Park, San Mateo Co. California
Visual Materials
Image of an elevated view of the Menlo Park Hotel and grounds in Menlo Park, California, showing a locomotive, people dancing in a field, and horse-drawn carriages. Image likely a lithograph from Moore and De Pue's Illustrated History of San Mateo County, California. Published by G.T. Brown in San Francisco, 1878.
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West side of Pasadena
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View from a landscaped clearing with a horse-drawn carriage on the right, leading out towards a populous area of dwellings in Pasadena, California.
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