Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
The golden horseshoe : A drama
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, including 190,000 reports, 1200 maps, 500 photographs, and 8200 pieces of printed material related to the life and career of Ralph Arnold. Subjects represented in the collection include: mining, petroleum, and seismology in the Western United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and South America; political papers from 1914 to 1956, mostly concerning the campaign of Herbert Hoover for president; family and personal papers from 1836 to 1961 of Arnold and his father, Delos Arnold, containing source material on Pasadena and Southern California local history. The collection also contains Arnold's field books, including those made at Stanford University with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1900 to 1909.
mssArnold
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Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, maps and reports related to the professional activities of mining engineer Harley A. Sill. There are reports on ores and mines and technical data, chiefly from California, Arizona, Nevada, Canada and Mexico. There are also some reports on mines in other parts of the United States and in South and Central America. There is also one small box containing bibliographical references related to mines and metallurgy (Box 15).
mssSill
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Visual Materials
photCL 402, photCL 470, photCL Whitt
Visual Materials
A panoramic view of Golden Horseshoe Camp at Big Bear Lake. The building on the far left has a sign on the roof that reads "Rustic furniture & bait shop". The rest of the buildings are small cabins, most of which are elevated slightly above the ground. There are tall pine and fir trees around all of the buildings. A few automobiles are parked next to separate buildings, and the one next to the furniture and bait shop pulls a flat trailer loading with long, medium sized logs. Writing in white in the bottom left reads "Photo No. 100555". To the left of the ms. note there is a stamp reading "Pettit's Studio ; commercial photographers ; 1416 W. Pico Blvd. ; Richmond 8534 ; Los Angeles 15, Calif."
photCL 470 (205)