Manuscripts

Hannah C. Smith autograph collection albums

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Description: Two volumes containg autographs and signed correspondence by British politicians and military leaders.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1691-1844.
Call number: mssHM 60319
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of January 2000.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

Autographs album: autographs of the class of 1857, with photographs

Manuscripts

A collection of manuscripts, correspondence, volumes, autographs, photographs, and ephemera collected by Mary W. T. Dickinson. The manuscripts include French military orders (1678) and a document signed by Charles II, King of England (1662). The volumes are both literary and historical, most with some type of illustration. The collection also includes a small amount of personal correspondence and a larger amount of correspondence with dealers and the Henry E. Huntington Library concerning her collection.

mssDickinson

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Manuscripts, correspondence, lists, dealer's information, autograph album

Manuscripts

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English admirals autograph collection

Manuscripts

Volume of bound autographs and correspondence by British admirals including Earl Richard Howe. Some letters have typescripts.

mssHM 60665

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William Hugh Sibbald autograph album and ephemera

Manuscripts

The autograph album contains autographs, caricatures, cartoons and drawings. The autographs in the album include U.S. presidents Theodore Roosevelt (1911 March 21) and William H. Taft (1911 October 16), politicians, cartoonists, actors, aviators, athletes and musicians; it appears many of the autographs were from guests staying the hotels managed by W.H. Sibbald. There is also a leather case with snap closure and one folder of printed ephemera with clippings, obituary, and a copy of a 1950 Los Angeles city resolution (5 pieces).

mssHM 82921

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Autograph album of Hartman Hotel

Manuscripts

This album includes autographs, short notes, and some sketches by over 100 visitors to Hotel Hartman, many of whom were famous. They include actors, both stage and screen, opera singers, performers, artists, and dancers. Some notable people are: American dancer Ruth St. Denis; comic strip writer and creator of Buster Brown, Richard F. Outcault; American actor Tyrone Power; musician John Philip Sousa; and Italian tenor Enrico Caruso; among many others. With the volume are two photographs of unidentified men and a typed list of all of the autographs.

mssHM 76512

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Album of poems and pictures

Manuscripts

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