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Charles Carlson papers
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Manuscripts
A collection of 43 items which contain citizenship information, travel permissions, correspondence, a biographical sketch, diaries (9 volumes), personal papers, correspondence, photographs, and clippings (1878-1929). The material gives a detailed account of daily life on a ranch in Orange County, California, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Documents and diaries
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A collection of 43 items which contain citizenship information, travel permissions, correspondence, a biographical sketch, diaries (9 volumes), personal papers, correspondence, photographs, and clippings (1878-1929). The material gives a detailed account of daily life on a ranch in Orange County, California, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Carlson family materials
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A collection of 447 photographs in two albums and other material related to the U.S. Navy in the Philippines and New Guinea during World War II. The photographs were made by commercial photographer and sailor H. Leroy Carlson, who created the albums as an inventory of his images for sale as souvenirs and postcards. A printed catalog with descriptive captions accompanies the albums. The first volume contains photographs taken in Finchhaven, British New Guinea (April 1944), and Hollandia and vicinity, Dutch New Guinea, from 1944 to 1945, including Japanese prisoners of war. The second volume of photographs were taken in the Philippines (1945), with scenes in Mindoro, Manila, Luzon, Tacloban, San Antonio, and a U.S. Navy receiving station. Images depict New Guinea and Filipino people in portraits and daily activities, along with street scenes, shops, rural villages, houses, tropical gardens, wedding celebrations, fishing, and other activities. Images in the Philippines include bombed-out buildings, schools, churches, a Chinese cemetery, indigenous Mangyan people, and Javanese (Indonesian people). U.S. military personnel are seen working, in barracks, on navy ships, and participating in recreational activities. Three of Carlson's 16mm motion picture films are also part of the collection: one of the naval Seabees Camp in New Guinea during World War II; and two home movies of Carlson family trips to New York, Nicaragua, Yellowstone, and Canada. Other personal materials are: a volume of clippings (1947-1949) of Carlson's photographs published in Lake Tahoe, California newspapers; the Cine-Kodak Magazine 16mm movie camera used to shoot the films; and several snapshots, negatives, color slides, and miscellaneous ephemera related to Carlson and his family. A hand-held Airequipt automatic 35mm slide changer (1950s?) for viewing color slides is also part of the collection.
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H. Leroy Carlson collection of photographs from New Guinea and the Philippine Islands
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A collection of 447 photographs in two albums and other material related to the U.S. Navy in the Philippines and New Guinea during World War II. The photographs were made by commercial photographer and sailor H. Leroy Carlson, who created the albums as an inventory of his images for sale as souvenirs and postcards. A printed catalog with descriptive captions accompanies the albums. The first volume contains photographs taken in Finchhaven, British New Guinea (April 1944), and Hollandia and vicinity, Dutch New Guinea, from 1944 to 1945, including Japanese prisoners of war. The second volume of photographs were taken in the Philippines (1945), with scenes in Mindoro, Manila, Luzon, Tacloban, San Antonio, and a U.S. Navy receiving station. Images depict New Guinea and Filipino people in portraits and daily activities, along with street scenes, shops, rural villages, houses, tropical gardens, wedding celebrations, fishing, and other activities. Images in the Philippines include bombed-out buildings, schools, churches, a Chinese cemetery, indigenous Mangyan people, and Javanese (Indonesian people). U.S. military personnel are seen working, in barracks, on navy ships, and participating in recreational activities. Three of Carlson's 16mm motion picture films are also part of the collection: one of the naval Seabees Camp in New Guinea during World War II; and two home movies of Carlson family trips to New York, Nicaragua, Yellowstone, and Canada. Other personal materials are: a volume of clippings (1947-1949) of Carlson's photographs published in Lake Tahoe, California newspapers; the Cine-Kodak Magazine 16mm movie camera used to shoot the films; and several snapshots, negatives, color slides, and miscellaneous ephemera related to Carlson and his family. A hand-held Airequipt automatic 35mm slide changer (1950s?) for viewing color slides is also part of the colleciton.
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Charles Janin Papers
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The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including diaries and mining reports), photographs and maps related to the career of mining engineer Charles Janin (1873-1937). Subject matter in the collection focuses on minerals, mines and mining, especially in California, Mexico, Alaska, Canada, Russia (including Siberia), and Central and South America. There is information about gold, silver, platinum, and tin mining as well as gold dredging, including a Commission for the Study of Gold in the U.S. by the United States Department of the Interior (Box 23, Folders 11-12) and a 1909 letter from Rossiter Worthington Raymond to Louis Janin regarding the professional ethics and legal problems common to mining engineers (Box 20, Folder 3). Notable material related to Siberia includes a 1918 Memorandum relative to the Necessity for Action by the Allied Governments in Siberia by the American Committee of Engineers in London (Box 1, Folder 7); five letters, dated 1929-1931) from Ennis C. Whitehead to Janin relative to projected flying trip across Siberia (Box 25, Folder 8); and correspondence from George S. Dyer relative to gold mining in Siberia, dated 1917-1936 (Box 4, Folder 23). In addition, there are papers related to the transfer of platinum to the United States from Siberia in the correspondence of Grigorio Benenson (Box 2, Folder 12); Arnold C. Hansen (Box 5, Folder 31); Norman C. Stines (Box 22, Folder 23), as well as responses from Janin to these individuals (see Box 7, Folder 25; Box 9, Folder 6; and Box 13, Folder 15), and in notes on platinum (Box 39, Folder 5). The collection also contains materials on Russian life and politics (including the Revolution of 1917). There are also materials on the history of the Santa Ynez Valley in California, including irrigation project papers (Box 21, Folders 6-8), and a piece, "Some Recollections of Early Days in the Santa Ynez Valley" by Janin (Box 14, Folder 24). Persons represented in the collection include Samuel Insull (14 pieces in Box 6, Folder 21), Vannoy Hartrog Manning (18 pieces in Box 17, Folder 19), and Montifiore G. Kahn (35 pieces in Box 15, Folder 16). The collection includes a letter to Janin from John Powers Hutchins related to pre-World War II in Europe (Box 6, Folder 14). Single letters from William Randolph Hearst, Harold L. Ickes, and William Gibbs McAdoo may also be found in the collection. There is also scattered correspondence from various Janin family members. Businesses or government agencies represented in the collection include the Ingersoll-Rand Company of California, Lena Goldfields, Ltd. (Lenskoe zolotopromyshlennoe tovarishchestvo), and the U.S. Department of the Interior. Although the collection consists basically of mining papers, it will also be of interest to researchers investigating Europe during World War I, Russia and Siberia at the time of the Revolution of 1917, or social and political affairs in the various parts of the world where mining engineers traveled and are intelligent observers, and from which they write letters to each other.
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Charles Dwight Willard papers
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A collection of 749 items from 1878 to 1913, which consists of letters, manuscripts, a diary, documents and photographs related to the life and business activities of Charles Dwight Willard. Much of the collection relates to family matters and Willard's college career at the University of Michigan from 1879 to 1883. There is also material about the Los Angeles Herald, approximately 1889 to 1890, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, approximately 1891 to 1895, the Land of Sunshine magazine, approximately 1894, and the railroad strike of 1894. The collection contains 12 letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Dwight Willard concerning politics; items are dated 1911 February 13, 1911 June 27, 1911 August 18, 1911 September 15, 1911 October 28, 1911 December 11, 1912 January 30, 1912 February 29, 1912 August 15, 1912 November 14, 1913 January 3, and 1913 April 12 (WI 578-589).
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