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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Recollections of Benjamin Franklin Bonney
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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
A collection of 277 items which contains correspondence, a letterbook, documents, and manuscripts. The material is related to Oregon politics and government, transportation, including some material on pack trains, mail routes and railroads; there is also material on the Indian Wars including the Rogue River Indian War.
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Manuscripts
A collection of 1,100 items from 1838 to 1911, it consists of documents, letters, manuscripts, receipts, orders, muster rolls, and a diary. The collection includes documents detailing general and special field battles such as Buena Vista and Murfreesboro; returns; final statements of deceased soldiers; personnel records; circulars; duty rosters; requisitions; and receipts for supplies. The collection includes a diary of Scribner's activities written during the Mexican War from 1846 to 1847 with some pages which were edited by another hand for publication. There are also a few documents relating to Scribner's Treasury work such as indentures and tobacco stamp reports. The collection also contains an 1838 childhood composition book of essays; letters written to Scribner's family; personal and business papers. Correspondents include: Absalom Baird, Don Carlos Buell, William Passmore Carlin, Speed S. Fry, James A. Garfield, Robert S. Granger, Ulysses S. Grant, Milo S. Hascall, Richard W. Johnson, John H. King, Alexander McDowell McCook, O.M. Mitchell, J.S. Negley, William S. Rosecrans, L.H. Rousseau, William T. Sherman, William S. Smith, J.C. Starkweather, and Thomas J. Wood.
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Rare Books
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Manuscripts
An annotated photograph album of a trip to Zion National Park, Utah, and the Grand Canyon, Arizona. It includes 71 photos (including real photo postcards); color landscape postcards; one Grand Airlines souvenir ticket; one Grand Canyon Lodge pictorial letterhead; and one color postcard map. The album also includes a 3-page manuscript letter from guide "Kit" Carson to Bonney (1935, January 7), with four loose photos in the envelope, laid in. Kit Carson is also included in several photographs as are Hopi Indians in Oraibi. Album also contains two loose photographs.
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