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San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of a Sequoia forest; cowboys on horseback stand at the base of a central sequoia tree, which is giant in comparison; wrapped Sunkist orange logo on left.
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Visual Materials
An oversize framed panoramic photograph of giant sequoia trees in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite Valley, California. In original heavy oak frame, approximately 12 feet long. H. C. Tibbitts was a photographer for the Southern Pacific Railroad; the photograph was probably hanging in railroad offices or in a local railroad depot.
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Rare Books
Tells the story of Giselle, a disobedient and spoiled ten-year-old girl, and her family.
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Rare Books
This poignant and powerful narrative tells the dramatic story of Kunta Kinte, snatched from freedom in Africa and brought by ship to America and slavery, and his descendants. Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins back to the seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte, who was abducted from his home in Gambia and transported as a slave to colonial America. In this account Haley provides an imaginative rendering of the lives of seven generations of black men and women.
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Manuscripts
Manuscript of a novel by Heber R. Woolley, originally written under the pseudonym of Joshua Tobin. The novel tells the story of Johnny Grant, a devout Mormon living in Salt Lake City in the second half of the nineteenth century. It opens with a sixteen-year-old Johnny (born "ten years after the first band of Mormons had come to Deseret") growing up in a polygamous family as the son of the neglectful Bishop Grant and his second wife. The novel traces Johnny's life as he tries and often fails at a variety of business endeavors, moves to Idaho, serves on a mission to England, and is made a Bishop. It also tells the parallel story of Johnny's less-devout wife, Martha. Toward the end of the novel, Johnny leaves the Church and turns to Darwin and Freud, at one point declaring that he has become an atheist. The story is set against a backdrop of debates over polygamy and tithing, and is apparently intended to criticize perceived hypocritical doctrines of the Mormon Church.
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Manuscripts
9 items. Materials include: reprint of LAT front page, 2/25/1942, "EXTRA! L.A. AREA RAIDED!"; copy of brief from L.A. Express, 5/20/1906, critical of H.G. Otis and LAT; 1-pp. chronology, "Midwinter and other special numbers" - 1885 - 1898;clips from AO, 1928; copy of complete Midwinter Number, 1/1/1900; 2-pp. memo, dated 10/4/1961, about "demise" of the Midwinter Number, and start-up, "early next year," of feature to be called "Outlook & Review," - "it will concern itself with business and financial conditions in the Pacific Southwest"; memo dated 12/18/1961, on upcoming January 2 "Tournament of Roses Edition"; undated Editorial, "To our Eastern 'Midwinter' readers"; copy of article from News Chronicle (Thousand Oaks) 3/27/1974, byline Bob Baker, "Yesterday via old newspaper."
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