Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Following the flag, from August 1861 to November 1862, with the Army of the Potomac
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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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Manuscripts
Correspondence, orders, reports, dispatches, reconnaissance reports, and other military documents accumulated by Hooker's headquarters from October 1861 through September 1864. Included are papers relating to the battles of Antietam and Chancellorsville. There are no items for the four months from October 1862 through January 1863.
mssHooker
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Rare Books
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Manuscripts
A collection of approximately 2,600 items from 1833 to 1901, which consists of letters, documents, and manuscripts; the collection also includes 117 volumes of journals of daily occurrences, letter books, accounts, and records related to the activities of the Hudson's Bay Company and the Puget Sound Agricultural Company at Fort Nisqually. Subject matter in the collection includes: fur trade with Native Americans; life in the various forts and posts (particularly Fort Vancouver and Fort Victoria); the early history of Fort Steilacoom; settlement and history of the Pacific Northwest; and shipping on the Pacific coast and in Puget Sound. Significant persons represented in the collection include Edward Huggins, John McLoughlin, Peter Skene Ogden, and William Fraser Tolmie.
mssFN