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San Marino, CA 91108
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The Brockway family : Some records of Wolston Brockway, and his descendants
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Rare Books
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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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Rare Books
190809
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Visual Materials
Bound photograph album with images depicting the family of Adna F. Brockway and Annie Brockway, their children, Leon Brockway and Elsie Brockway Snyder, and grandchildren, Dorothy and Marjorie. The album documents the family from the late 1880s to the early 1940s and includes scenes, residences, baby pictures, and family portraits, with detailed handwritten captions throughout. The album begins in 1886 with scenes and residences in Orleans, Vermont, and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and proceeds to South Pasadena, California, where the family moved in 1887. Scenes in South Pasadena and surrounding areas include the Brockway residence at 306 N. Raymond Ave., including interior views, the Marengo Hotel in 1888 with "Vermonters celebrating Thanksgiving" gathered on the porch, a schoolhouse, the Arroyo Seco (including Scoville Dam), the San Gabriel Mountain camps, a trip to British Columbia, and scenes of life in Southern California at the beaches, the California Missions, floats from the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, and a dilapidated cabin identified as "A Mexican home." Many of the snapshots document family activities and outings including camping, riding bicycles, and visiting friends and neighbors. There are many excellent tintype and cartes-de-visite portraits of members of the Brockway and Garland families, dating from 1866, with descriptions of the sitter and date. Among the photographs there is a forty-year reunion photograph of women from the Pasadena High School class of 1897, a photograph by A.C. Vroman showing a group of amateur photographers crossing a stream in the Arroyo, ca. 1897, and Dorothy and Marjorie shown at Pomona College in the 1920s.
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay (Henry E. Huntington's sister Caroline married Edmund Burke Holladay), and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. There is a series about Henry E. Huntington and his family that includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and physical objects. There is material related to the Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and the Pacific Electric Railway Company as well as other businesses in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley, California. This material includes business records, account books, annual reports, correspondence, maps, tracts, balance sheets, and others. There is also material related to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens including auction catalogs, invoices, receipts, and bills for art and rare books, and information regarding a lawsuit about Huntington's estate tax after his death, and the passing of Proposition 15, in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. There is also material related to Collis P. Huntington and his business interests and Arabella Huntington. The largest series contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning approximately 1790 to 1950. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.
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