Manuscripts
Photographs of scenes in Mexico
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Notes on the trees of extra-tropical Mexico :
Manuscripts
As part of his Yale education, Robertson researched and wrote a master's thesis on various aspects of Mexico's native vegetation
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Mexico street scene [Photographer: Cox and Carmichael]
Visual Materials
This collection contains photographs by commercial photographers dated ca. 1890-1910 that show images of recreational scenes on Catalina Island, a hotel and public parks in Southern California, and various historical sites in Mexico City. Photographs of Catalina Island include views of Avalon, Sugarloaf Point, sailboats and glass-bottom boats, steamships, bathers at the beach, a tent city, and sailors of the steamship the "San Diego". California views include Missions San Gabriel, San Fernando, and San Juan Capistrano; the Coronado Hotel in San Diego; Central Park, St. James Park, and Hollenbeck Park (all based in Los Angeles); Adams Street in Los Angeles; the Shakespearean actress Helena Modjeska's home in Orange County; and an interior view of Columbia Savings Bank's then president Aaron M. Ozum's residence at 3131 Figueroa Street, Los Angeles. Photographs of Mexico depict the Cathedral de Mexico, Paseo de la Reforma, interiors and exteriors of Castillo de Chapultepec, Hotel Iturbide, Mercado Volador, Canal de la Viga, the daily lives of Mexican citizens, the Zócalo (now known as the Plaza de la Constitución), and various street scenes. Miscellaneous photographs are of cargo ships at shipping docks possibly in San Francisco, a steamship, and gardens. C.B. Waite photographed 19 of the 114 prints in this collection. Other photographers who contributed to this collection are Charles F. Ironmonger, Frank L. Park, Percy Cox and R.J. Carmichael, J.C. Hatton, Noren F. Swenson, and the Special View Company. Two photographers were identified on some photographs only by their surname: Graham and Scott.
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Jesuit missionaries in Mexico letters
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The first letter is from Juan María de Salvatierra, S.J. to Antonio Nuñez de Miranda, S.J., the Jesuit Provincial, on the 12th or 30th of June 1680. From the mission of Santa Inés de Chínipas (in the modern day state of Chihuahua), Salvatierra writes to Nuñez de Miranda, asking permission to carry out the charge that the Father Inspector ("Padre Visitador") Juan Fernández Cabero has assigned to him of working in the district ("partido") of Santa Teresa de Guasapares (also in Chihuahua). Salvatierra quotes a letter from another Father Inspector Juan Ortíz Zapato that spells out this charge. Salvatierra is to work with the Native Americans called "Usarones" (Husarones). HM 83155
mssHM 83155-83157
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Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière letter to Monsieur L'Héritier
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Letter written by Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière to French botanist [Charles Louis] L'Héritier (1746-1800). The letter states that La Billardière sent specimens to L'Héritier for Baltic German botanist [Johann Gerhard] König (1728-1785) and British botanist [Sir James Edward] Smith (1759-1828). The letter, written from Paris in 1791, is in French; one page consists of the address.
mssHM 83086
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[Photograph album of scenes in Mexico]
Visual Materials
Photograph album with various snapshots chiefly documenting a trip to Mexico by Los Angeles, California, resident Charles A. Finlayson around 1930, including images of buildings and streets in Mexico City, a visit to a park with deer, buildings under construction, the canals of Xochimilco, and Aztec ruins at Teotihuacan, as well as images, presumably, of Finlayson. Throughout the album, there are also images of the derailment of a locomotive and train cars, presumably of the National Railroad of Mexico, which were carrying military cannons, with photographs of executed men who had been hanged from utility poles along the tracks.
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James B. Clover and Katherine M. Clover papers addenda
Manuscripts
The addenda consists of material relating to Katherine Clover and contains notebooks, drawings, poems, and University of Southern California educational material including Katherine M. Clover's Master's thesis. These are the items contained in the box: 1) Library of Congress circulars # 4, 12, 27, and 35, 1927-1929; 2) University of Southern California. The Graduate School. Instructions for the Preparation of Thesis and Dissertations in Candidacy for Advanced Degrees, 1930; 3) Katherine M. Clover's Master's thesis "Resume of 'The Sources of Evangeline', 1930; 4) Notebook regarding miscellaneous bills and cases; 5) Spice Stories by a Grain of Salt [short stories], 1936; 6) University of Southern California. Course of Study for Types of Literature, 1938; 7) Binder containing facts and printed matter about Los Angeles, California; 8) [Katherine M. Clover's] notebook on Freehand Drawing, 1942; and 9) [Katherine M. Clover's] notebook on spices.
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