Manuscripts
Harry Carr letter to Charles Yale
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Harry Carr letters to Jesse Lasky
Manuscripts
Carr wrote these letters to Jesse Lasky, pioneer motion picture producer and founder of Paramount Pictures. In the letters, Carr talks about the problems on the set of the film The Wedding March between director Erich von Stroheim, the producer, and others (Lasky was one of the film's producers). One is dated 1926, July 4, the other is only dated "Aug. 1."
mssHM 82427-82428
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Austin A. Carr diary
Manuscripts
Diary kept while serving in Company F, 2nd New York State Militia - 82nd New York Volunteers Second Division, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac.
mssHM 31063
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Robert Van Carr letter to James Horsburgh
Manuscripts
In this letter, written to James Horsburgh of Sunset magazine, Carr describes his current writing project: a series of volumes about California for tourists and people moving to the state. Carr is looking for a publisher for these books. Accompanying the letter is a dummy of the first book Carr wrote entitled The Los Angeles book. Only the first chapter is printed (the rest of the book is made up of blank pages). The book was never published.
mssHM 68242-68243
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Charles Harry St. John Hornby letters
Manuscripts
Six A.L.S. and one L.S. (typewritten) from C.H.St.J. Hornby to Ambrose Heal, concerning various books printed by the Ashendene Press. Also, one Ashendene Press envelope, postmarked Mar. 1, 1933, with autograph note by Heal.
mssHM 80454-80460
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Harry Chandler letter to Eddie Mannix
Manuscripts
Harry Chandler letter written to Eddie Mannix of MGM Studios asking him to meet for a luncheon of "considerable civic importance," taking place on February 18, 1941, at the Board of Directors Room in the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, "about which your advice and cooperation is needed." Eddie Mannix was known as a "fixer" who covered for Hollywood stars' indiscretions to protect the reputation of the film studio. Written on Los Angeles Times letterhead and signed by Harry Chandler.
mssHM 84153
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Carr, Harry
Visual Materials
The collection consists of 6202 black-and-white and color photographs, pen and ink drawings, and postcards, 1412 black-and-white and color negatives, 2606 black-and-white and color slides, and ephemeral materials, 1898-1982 (bulk 1920s-1930s) collected by the Automobile Club of Southern California. They form a general photographic reference collection as well as a broad visual survey of topics of interest to California motorists. Included are images of sites in North and Central America (with an emphasis on California), Europe, the Pacific Islands, and portraits, as well as images related to other subjects of interest to the Club's membership. Many of the images were published as illustrations for articles in the Club's first member magazine, Touring Topics. A large portion of the photographs were taken by authors of articles that appeared in Touring Topics; others were commissioned by the Club; and others appear to have been sent to the Club. Photographers (and authors) include, but are not limited to, Ansel Adams, Fred Archer, Viroque Baker, George Hugh Banning, Adelbert Bartlett, Virginia S. Bartlett, Andrew R. Boone, Julius Cindrich, Norman Clyde, Will Connell, Loyd Cooper, Imogen Cunningham, Asahel Curtis, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Fred Dapprich, E.H. Davis, E.E. East, John Anson Ford, Frasher, Ewing Galloway, Forman G. Hanna, Phil Townsend Hanna, Hoag and Ford, John Edwin Hoag, Bert W. Huntoon, Philip Johnston, Dr. Frederick Monsen, Dave Packwood, C.C. Pierce, Ernest M. Pratt, Putnam Studios, E. Willard Spurr, and John L. Von Blon.
photCL 375