Manuscripts

Otto Brodtbeck papers

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Description: Papers related to Pasadena pioneer Otto Brodtbeck, members of his family, and the Koepfli and Cowan families. Subjects include: Otto and Emelie Brodtbeck and their daughter Adele (Brodtbeck) Cowan, who married Earl Cowan in 1908. Earl Cowan (1872-1944) was a wholesaler and coffee and tea importer in Los Angeles. Materials include account ledgers, tax receipts, letters, and ephemera, as well as photograph developing equipment. The film reels date from approximately 1928 to 1945 and subjects include: Rose Parade, 1937; Palm Springs; La Canada Flintridge horse show, 1929; Balboa, 1931; Westridge graduation, 1931; horseback riding at Pebble Beach. Oversize folder contains a handkerchief with a photograph imprinted in the corner (undated).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1888-1945.
Call number: mssBrodtbeck
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Otto Bendeleben deed of mortgage to Robert Field Stockton

Manuscripts

This manuscript is a mortgage deed from Otto Bendeleben to Robert Field Stockon, and concerns Bendeleben's purchase of land in the southern portion of Rancho el Potrero de Santa Clara. Printed form filled in by hand. Also included are a promissory note signed by Bendeleben and several copies of other promissory notes.

mssHM 31525

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Otto Glasser and Wilhelm Röentgen papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists of articles, correspondence, chiefly written by or to Otto Glasser, photographs, pamphlets, X-rays, and, an X-ray tube used by Röentgen. There are several copies of the X-ray Röentgen took of his wife, Anna Bertha's hand on December 22, 1895, and an X-ray of the hand of a gunshot victim, taken by Michael I. Pupin in February 1896. Correspondents include Thomas Edison, Bern Dibner, Wilhelm Conrad Röentgen, Arthur R. Von Hippel, and numerous other scientists and physicists. There are several articles written by, as well as X-rays done by, Wolfram Conrad Fuchs, a German electrical engineer who became a pioneer in radiography.

mssGRP

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Los Angeles, California: Kruger, Otto, [residence]

Visual Materials

Images of Otto Kruger's daughter Ottilie's bedroom and a bathroom. Envelope also included two images of people seated around a dining table having a meal.

photCL MLP 2069

Otto : a German

Visual Materials

Image of circular vignettes of head-and-shoulders portraits of German comedian George S. Knight and his wife, American burlesque performer Sophie Worrell Knight, surrounded by tree, leaf, and fence borders, and four vignettes of scenes with a top center image of an outdoors view of a couple and two men in the front yard of a house with a fountain captioned "Act. 1st"; a bottom left image of an outdoor view of a park with a couple and a man on the ground having just been hit by a woman captioned "Act. 2nd."; a bottom center image of three men in a warehouse captioned "Act 3rd."; and a bottom right image of individuals in a formal parlor captioned "Act. 4th."; the poster advertises the comedic drama "Otto, a German" by Fred Mardsen.

priJLC_ENT_000337

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Misc. envelopes & blotting paper, (6 pieces), ([before 1900?])

Manuscripts

The collection consists of a small number of manuscripts by and about Gladstone, as well as photographs, engravings, prints and ephemera. The bulk of the collection is made up of letters by Gladstone, which deal mainly with British politics and business; there is also a small amount of personal letters by various other members of the Gladstone family. Other correspondents represented in the collection include: A.J.B Beresford Hope, Patrick William Campbell, Sir John Cowan, John Nielson Gladstone, Abraham Hayward, Henry and Catherine Holiday, Stafford Henry Northcote (Earl of Iddesleigh), George Cornewall Lewis, Henry William Primrose, Archibald Philip Primrose (Earl of Rosebery), and Robert Lowe (Viscount Sherbrooke).

mssGLA 1-759

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"When an encounter between two creative, independent visual languages is such that one could speak of an embrace, the pictorial result reveals the essence of both. 'Architectural' is a dialogue between the architecture of Otto Steidle and the photography of Verena von Gagern"--Back cover.

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