Manuscripts

1. Genealogy: Arnold family

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1699-1875
Call number: mssArnold
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1. Arnold, Andrew and his wife, Lydia Wilbur Arnold to his brother, Joseph Arnold

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.

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1. Belonging to Delos Arnold and/or his wife, Hannah Richardson Mercer Arnold

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1. Arnold and Garfias: Casing of Oil Wells

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Scrapbooks related to Arnold family, Pasadena, San Gabriel Valley, U.S. politics and history

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6. Arnold, Mr. or Mrs. Delos Arnold to their son, Ralph, and/or his wife, Winninette Stokes Arnold

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Arnold family tree

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The addenda focuses on correspondence, school records, and ephemera related to Ralph Arnold's daughter, Winninette Arnold Noyes. There is also a variety of other correspondence by members of the Arnold family, as well as their friends and colleagues; diaries kept by Delos Arnold (1856), Ralph Arnold (1891-1901), and Winninette Stokes Arnold (c.1921-1934); an account book including John N. Noyes (1848-1867); ephemera and photographs from South Pasadena Junior High School (1930s); some professional papers related to Ralph Arnold; photographs of the Rose Parade (1930s); a large Arnold family tree; Arnold family photographs; and some printed texts and maps.

mssArnold addenda

1. Genealogy: Arnold family

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