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San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847
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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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Visual Materials
Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material consists of 57,893 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints; 39 presentation albums; and 17 boxes of office records, 1930-1974. Created primarily by Maynard Parker, the archive documents the residential and non-residential work of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists, builders, real estate developers, and clients associated with these fields, foremost among them the magazine House Beautiful. Also included in the collection are photographs taken by other individuals, such as architect Cliff May and Parker's assistant, Charles Yerkes.
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Visual Materials
The Charles Francis Saunders and Mira Culin Saunders Collection of Photographs and Negatives consists of 5826 black and white photographs, 68 glass plate negatives, 3832 film negatives, 10 photographs albums, 261 lantern slides, and related ephemera, ca. 1871-1965 (bulk 1910s-1920s), collected and created by Charles Francis Saunders, Elisabeth Hallowell Saunders, and Mira Culin Saunders. The collection provides a comprehensive overview of Charles Saunders' activities as a naturalist and travel writer.
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters and documents (in Spanish and English) of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. The bulk dates from 1844 to 1846, and there are approximately forty drafts of letters by Vallejo in the collection. Subject matter includes the defense of the northern frontier, relations with the missions, and the treatment of Native Americans by Father Jesús María Vásquez del Mercado. Correspondents include Juan Bautista Alvarado, Jacob P. Leese, Manuel Micheltorena, Antonio María Osio, John Augustus Sutter, and José de Jesus Vallejo. In addition, the collection contains one letter signed from James Buchanan to Thomas O. Larkin, 1847 January 13 (VA 150b).
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