Manuscripts

Herbert Crouch farming account books and diaries

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Description: Eight volumes kept by Herbert Crouch consisting of accounts and transactions in farming and livestock, in San Luis Rey and Oceanside, San Diego County. The first volume is a ledger for the business partneship of Utt and Crouch, in England.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1872-1919.
Call number: mssCrouch
Creator: Crouch, Herbert(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Emily E. Sawday, Lucy J. Crouch, and Joseph L. Crouch, May 1934.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Views of Southern California

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12 stereographic photographs of Southern California consisting of No. 3079, [View of the San Gabriel, San Diego and Orange exhibits]; no.3082, Cluster of Oranges weighing 12lbs.; no. 3096, Mission San Xavier, Arizona; no. 3115, Mission San Luis Rey, f'nd'd Aug. 25th 1781 (two copies); no. 3116, Cells of the Padres, Mission San Luis Rey; no. 3119, Mission San Juan Capistrano; no. 3121, Bell Chimes, Mission San Juan Capistrano; no. 3122, Corridor, Mission San Juan Capistrano; no. 3124, Corridor, Mission San Luis Rey; [no. 3125, Interior of court, Mission San Luis Rey]; and [no. 3126, Sierra Madre Villa].

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-----. Account book. No covers

Manuscripts

This small group of material contains personal and business papers of Blas Aguilar and members of his family. It consists of correspondence, an untitled poem, a play "Coloquio de los Pastores," an account book, a promissory note, receipts, mortgages, and deeds. There are also baptismal records from the San Juan Capistrano and San Luis Rey missions. All of the items are in Spanish. It deals with San Juan Capistrano, San Diego, and Los Angeles, California. There are a few letters written from Arizona and Nevada.

mssAguilar papers

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Mormon Battalion diary of Henry Standage

Manuscripts

Typescript of Henry Standage's diary, kept while he was serving in the Mormon Battalion from 1846-1847. The diary opens with his departure from Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the Mormon Battalion in July 1846. It traces their travels across the plains, including stopping at Fort Leavenworth, arriving in Santa Fe (where he recalls General Kearney's bloodless encounter with Mexican troops, and concludes "the Lord is...opening the way before us"), trading with Alpacha Indians, the taking of "Spanish prisoners," and the difficulties of marching and moving supplies. Once the Battalion had arrived in California, Standage records stopping in San Diego only to be ordered to march to San Luis Rey ("It does seem as though we should never have rest in the service of the United States," Standage complained), drilling in San Luis Rey before preparing to march to Los Angeles, derogatory remarks about the "Spaniards" in Los Angeles, a description of the city, and his interest in Roman Catholic ceremonies. The diary ends on July 19, 1847, while Standage was still in Los Angeles.

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Snapshot Album

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This volume contains: Chapel, San Luis Rey Corridor of San Fernando View through bell tower, San Fernando Ruined Chapel, San Juan Capistrano Bell tower, San Luis Rey San Luis Rey San Diego, Mother of Missions Campanile, Pala Mission Ruins, San Diego In the mission garden, San Juan Capistrano San Juan Capistrano: "These ruins were once the most beautiful mission in all California" Photo missing: "White campanile and chapel of Pala Mission" San Juan Capistrano Pages 5-13: Blank Page 14: Beach scene panorama (3 photos pasted together) Pages 15-16.: Blank Pages 17-26. Beach scenes. Note: Album opens from opposite directions.

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[San Fernando Rey]

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This photograph album is made up of early 20th century photographs of eight California missions, in both ruined and repaired states. The missions that are depicted in the album are San Luis Rey, Santa Ines, San Fernando Rey, San Miguel, San Francisco Dolores, San Luis Obispo, San Gabriel, San Juan Capistrano, and San Carlos Borromeo. Other photographs also show San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, the Church of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels (also known as Plaza Church), and the Royal Presidio Chapel. Two photographs depict people alongside the missions: photograph (8) shows people going into the Mission San Francisco de Asís and photograph (15) shows two Native American children at Mission San Fernando Rey. One photograph of particular interest is that of a group of Native American school children with three Catholic nuns, who presumably may be their teachers. They are standing in front of an unidentified church building. Some of the photographs are faded or are peeling off the album pages and are bent. Charles Ironmonger is the only photographer that has been identified as a contributor to this album; all other photographers have not been identified.

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San Miguel

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Herbert Crouch farming account books and diaries

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