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San Marino, CA 91108
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Abram Pease Williams letter to Lawrence F. Bower
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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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Perkins apologizes for the delay in addressing Mr. Bower's request, but he has been "greatly pressed with business by reason of the long sessions of the Senate." He hopes that Mr. Bower will accept the enclosed photograph. No photograph is included.
mssHM 21316
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Letter from Thomas R. Bard on United States Senate letterhead to the Reverend Lawrence F. Bower answering a query as to when he took his seat in the Senate. Included is a contemporary newspaper clipping about the Senator and a mounted photograph.
mssHM 21326
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Alice Blackwood Baldwin (c.1845-1930) was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and in 1854 traveled with her parents to Sacramento. Following her mother's death, Alice and her sister moved back to Michigan to live with their aunt and uncle Robert and Rebecca Blackwood, and they remained permanently when their father died soon after. In 1867 Alice married Frank Dwight Baldwin and moved first to Fort Harker, Kansas, and then to the New Mexico Territory. While traveling through Trinidad, Colorado Territory, Alice gave birth to her daughter Juanita Mary in 1867. Alice moved back to Northville in 1869 while Frank served in the Sioux War, and spent the next several years living with relatives. In 1878-1879 Alice and Frank made a European tour (while Juanita was at boarding school in Detroit). Frank retired from the military as a major general in 1906, and the Baldwins moved to Denver. Juanita Baldwin married Ambrose C.G. Williams-Foote, a native of Cornwall, in 1893.
mssHM 75335-75360
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This scrapbook was assembled by Abram Keller Shaifer and features clippings of articles, poems, and other printed matter that were published in various newspapers and magazines. Shaifer created flaps and little doors out of colored paper to expand the scrapbook pages in order to hold additional text. Included in the scrapbook are all 19 installments of Alexander Walker's "Jackson and New Orleans" which were published in the New Orleans Weekly Delta. Other topics featured in the scrapbook include steamboat accidents, Kansas and enslavement, the telegraph system, plantation operation, the Know-Nothing Party, and world events.
mssHM 84539
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An assemblage of approximately 130 clippings of articles, poems, and other printed matter related to nativist and racist social and political issues in the Antebellum South. The scrapbook, which was made by an unknown person in Mississippi, is made from an old diary. Clippings include the American Party of Mississippi's platform statement, pieces on the "Bloody Monday" riots in Louisville, the American Party State ticket, and with articles entitled "Americanism Nothing New," "Immigration & Americanism," and "Union of Disunion-What Shall it Be?" In the middle of the volume is a woodblock print used by the Port Gibson newspaper, The Herald and Correspondent, of an American eagle with a banner proclaiming, "Americans Must Rule America. Our Whole Country." The scrapbook contains a few racist depictions of Afrrican Americans. The cover features components of the Saturday Evening Post masthead laid down, and a large engraving of a reception by Queen Victoria is on the rear board. The scrapbook features homemade flaps and foldout tabs, often with colored tabs and the terms "up" or "down" to indicate which direction will reveal more text.
mssHM 84096
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Series of letters written from Horace F. Page to C.C. Williams between January 1881 and July 1882 in response to the latter's seeking of a presidential appointment for a consulship. Page writes repeatedly to Williams that he is doing all he can to secure Williams such a position, and urges him to come to Washington or continue to wait patiently for a position to become available. Page also offers Williams a place in the pension office, which Williams declined.
mssHM 73673-73681