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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Frederic P. Hart collection on John Percival Jones, (bulk 1874-1908)
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Manuscripts
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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
The collection includes photographs, photograph albums, printed material, negatives, and correspondence related to, and addressed to, John Percival Jones, Georgina Jones, and the Jones family.
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Manuscripts
This letter was written from Hearst's home in Pleasanton, California to Mrs. John Percival Jones. In it, she reminds Mrs. Jones that she is expected to visit on "Saturday the ninth...[and] remain until Monday, the eleventh."
mssHM 82398
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Visual Materials
5 card photographs with portrait views of the children and friends and mother of United States Senator John P. Jones consisting of: Georgie Jones (photPF 20151); Marion Jones at eight years old, November 1887, by photographer Thors (photPF 20152); Alice Jones and Nellie Hamilton by photographer Morse (photPF 20153), Bessie Gorham and a dog, ca. 1892 (photPF 20154); and Mary Jones, known as "Grandma Jones," the mother of Senator Jones, aged 86 (photPF 20155).
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Manuscripts
Photocopies of stock certificates for John Percival Jones for the Comstock Mill and Mining Company, Gold Hill, Nevada.
mssComstock
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Manuscripts
Series I: Ely Valley Mines Company The first series, Ely Valley Mines Company, primarily contains reports, such as Foreman's Daily Reports, Daily Explosives Reports, Shift Reports, Truck Operation Reports, Daily Timber Reports, and Daily Drill Reports. Also, pertaining to Ely Valley Mines Company, are Assay Certificates, Requisition for Supplies forms, time cards, financial records, production estimates, and other technical figures. Included are letters to and from supply companies, stockholders, company officers, and legal firms. Also in this series, are letters to and from John Janney and wife, Alice Janney in Box 57 (3). Series II: Mountain View Hotel The Mountain View Hotel series, mostly consists of invoices, receipts, statements, and tax records from various supply and utility companies. This series is roughly organized chronologically. The few letters in this section concern a Redflash boiler leak at the hotel. Series III: Oriental Refining Company The third series mostly includes correspondence, memoranda, notes, and statements concerning two lawsuits: Oriental Refining Company, Plaintiff, vs. American National Bank of Denver, Defendant and Richard K. Baker, as Trustee, Francis G. Shaw and Richard K. Baker, as Trustees, Wallace M. Scudder, James B. Thayer, Augustus Hemenway, and Francis G. Shaw, Plaintiffs, vs. Max P. Zall, E. M. Stringer, H. L. Jewell, and Oriental Refining Company, Defendants. Series IV: Amalgamated Pioche Mines and Smelting Corporation:The Amalgamated Pioche Mines and Smelting Corporation series primarily consists of invoices, receipts, and statements from various supply and utility companies from the late 1930s to early 1940s. Series V: Pioche Mines Company and Pioche Mines Consolidated, Inc. This series is roughly divided into two parts. The first part concerns Pioche Mines Company from the early 1900s to late 1920s. The second part relates to Pioche Mines Consolidated, Inc., which incorporated in December 1928. Both sections contain business correspondence to and from supply companies, stockholders, company officers, and legal firms. Additional subject matter related to Janney includes Twin Falls, Idaho, anti-communism, constitutional limitations, and monetizing silver. Box 239 consists of newspaper clippings related to civil rights and right wing politics. Also, there are correspondence, countersuits, drafts, memoranda, notes, and statements concerning two major lawsuits: Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company, Trustee et al., Plaintiffs, vs. Pioche Mines Consolidated, Inc. Pioche Mines Company, and John Janney, Defendants and Helen Dolman, Lawrence Rust Lee, E.P.R. Duval, Katherine Hansbrough, and James Keith Marshall, Jr., Plaintiffs, vs. Ely Valley Mines, Inc., Pioche Mines Consolidated, Inc., and John Janney. Series VI: Pioche Power and Light Company The Pioche Power and Light Company series primarily consists of correspondence, documents, printed matter, and reports addressed to and from the Public Services Commission of Nevada. Also, there are tax related material, financial records, and work orders. Box 222 consists of mostly retained carbons to customers. Series VII: Randsburg California Mines In this series, there are agreements, correspondence, deeds, financial records maps, notes, reports, and test results related to Randsburg mining district and Goler Canyon Placer. The bulk of the letters are between John Janney and his agent, Samuel M. Mingus. Series VIII: Tenabo Mining and Smelting Company There is only one box in this series. The contents include letters and documents concerning Charles D. Bates, Complainant vs. Tenabo Mining and Smelting Company, Defendant. There are three ledgers: Minutes from the "First Meeting of the Incorporators and Stockholders", a blank receipt book, and a transfer of capital ledger. Box 237 (6) consists of copies of telegrams regarding the sale of Tenabo property. Series IX: Miscellaneous This series consists of material related to all the mines in the previous sections. There are business and personal correspondence, financial records, ephemera, shorthand notes, and other material related to Janney's life as a businessman and a devout American capitalist. Boxes 286-290 contain additional material related to the Helen Dolman, Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company, Pioche Mines Consolidated, Inc. and Ely Valley Mines Company lawsuits. There are two oversize boxes consisting of rolled blueprints, drawings, and maps. Series X: Oversize There are 29 oversize ledgers and two oversize folders related to Ely Valley Mines Company, Pioche Power and Light Company, and Tenabo Mining and Smelting Company. One folder consists 26 drawings of the Pioche floatation mill and the other depicts mining shafts.
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Visual Materials
This collection contains thirteen scrapbooks chiefly containing narratives, snapshots, and clippings documenting summer canyoneering, camping, and tourism trips to the American Southwest, the Colorado River, the Canadian Rockies, and Wyoming by Mildred E. Baker in the 1930s and early 1940s, as well as volumes related to Baker's activities and interest in bookbinding, poetry, and the Woodcraft League of America in Upstate New York with bookbinder John F. Grabau in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Most of these volumes reflect the participation of two Baker's friends from Buffalo: Florence A. Huck and Katherine Crisp, who frequently traveled with Baker and were also involved in bookbinding activities. Baker's scrapbooks follow a general pattern: they include typescript narratives describing her trips illustrated with her own snapshots and handwritten captions, as well as clippings from magazines and newspapers, occasional bits of poetry, and printed ephemera. Most of the travel volumes include lists of identified flowers, shrubs, trees, ferns, and birds seen on the trip, reflecting Baker's interests in botany and ornithology. Many of the volumes also have additional printed items laid in, with some dating through the early 1970s. All of the volumes are bound in decorative bindings stamped "Grabau," and most have marbled paper over the pasteboards. Volumes 1-2 and 4-5 reflect Baker's experiences chiefly at Sunset Hill, the summer home and artist's retreat of bookbinder John F. Grabau, near Buffalo, New York, presumably as part of the "Ojenta tribe" of the Woodcraft League of America. These volumes include poetry and photographs of the landscape, camping and other outdoor outings and group events, and bookbinding, including images of binding specimens by both Grabau and Baker. Many of the volumes document Baker's trips to the American Southwest, including her experience as one of the first women to raft the full-length of the Colorado River as part of the 1940 "Nevills Expedition" led by Norman D. Nevills. Her scrapbook of this trip (volume 11) includes photographs of Nevills and his wife, Doris Nevills, and fellow participants including mining engineer John S. Southworth of Glendale, California, botanist Hugh C. Cutler of the Missouri Botanical Gardens, and future Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. Regular themes among the photographs include depictions of the natural landscape including rock formations, mountains, rivers, and lakes; Native Americans; trading posts; cliff dwellings; petroglyphs; lodgings; and means of transportation including by train, automobile, airplane, horse, and burro. The volumes consist of: Volume 1: [Sunset Hill "Christmas" scrapbook album]. 1927-1928 Locations referenced: Sunset Hill estate, Upstate New York Volume 2: Sunset Hill and Algonquin Park "birthday" scrapbook album]. 1927-1933 Locations referenced: Sunset Hill estate, Upstate New York, and Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada Volume 3: Navajo Mountain, 1931 Locations referenced: Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico Volume 4: Anthology of Sunset Hill (Its Trails and Poets' Glen). 1934-approximately 1938 Locations referenced: Upstate New York Volume 5: Some poems of Sunset Hill by Mildred E. Baker, Wm. P. Alexander and others. Christmas 1936 Locations referenced: Upstate New York Volume 6: Memorable Days on Teton Trails. 1934 Locations referenced: Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming Volume 7: A Glimpse of the Old West. August 16th-September 2nd, 1935 Locations referenced: New Mexico Volume 8: Wilderness Wanderings in Jasper and Mt. Robson Parks. July 3rd to 23rd 1936 Locations referenced: Alberta, Canadian Rockies Volume 9: Trail Riding in the Canadian Rockies. July 23 to Aug. 8, 1937 Locations referenced: Alberta, Canadian Rockies Volume 10: Peace of Rainbow and Canyon. July 2nd to 25th, 1938 Locations referenced: Arizona, Utah Volume 11: Rough Water. Down the Green and Colorado Rivers from Green River, Wyoming, to Boulder Dam, Nevada. June 20th-August 22nd, 1940 Locations referenced: Wyoming, Utah, Nevada Volume 12: [Scrapbook of newspaper clippings related to the Nevills expedition]. 1940-1941 Locations referenced: Wyoming, Utah, Nevada Volume 13: Turquoise Skies and Copper Canyon. 1942 Locations referenced: Arizona, Utah
mssJanney
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