Manuscripts

George Cochrane Hazelton scrapbook

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Description: The scrapbook contains items collected by George C. Hazelton throughout his visit to California in 1879. Included in the scrapbook are: calling cards, labels from wine and champagne bottles, trade cards, menus from dinners, tickets, letters giving him privileges at various clubs, and invitations to events such as the reception for Ulysses S. Grant in San Francisco after his world tour, and a dinner reception for the journalist John Russell Young.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1879.
Call number: mssHM 66795
Creator: Hazelton, George C (1832-1922)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of John H. Hazelton, November 22, 1946.

Elizabeth C. Hazelton papers

Manuscripts

The material in this collection relates to the life and work of Elizabeth C. Hazelton and dates from 1882 through 1954. The material includes biographical information, business papers, personal and business correspondence, and early compilations of the books "Alaskan For-get-me-nots" and "Poppy of California." The compilations are made up of poems, artwork, photographs, historical and botanical essays, personal essays, and postcards. The collection also includes supplementary research material on state emblems, flowers, poems, and songs; clippings and printed material, drawings, imprints and illustrations.

mssHazelton

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An eyewitness account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Manuscripts

Phonograph record of Hazelton's reminiscence of Lincoln's assassination. The written version of this account first appeared in the February 1927 issue of Ladies Home Journal. The recording was made in 1933 at Freeman Lang's studios on Hollywood, Calif. There are some inaccuracies. Hazelton noted that the Lincolns' arrived to the theater during the second act, although the majority of the eyewitnesses place their arrival at 8:30, half hour into the performance. He also erroneously listed the Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes among the guests in Lincoln's box. Hazelton added, as if it were a matter of fact, the fictitious story that John Wilkes Booth managed to escape to South America, later to return to the United States and commit suicide in 1903.

mssHM 70913

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Abram Keller Shaifer Antebellum movable scrapbook

Manuscripts

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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Miscellaneous: Scrapbook album

Rare Books

Scrapbook album, grey cloth covered. Decorated with image of classical Greek muse playing pan-pipes. This item is #02905 in Berger's catalogue under the title "Album of Invitations" with date range 1880-1910 and described simply as "Invitations to exhibition openings – A+C" with "A+C" presumably meaning "Arts and Crafts". The album contains many elaborately engraved invitations to various events such as gallery openings, dinners, book launch events, etc. associated with or intended for eminent figures of the Victorian and Edwardian Arts and Crafts milieu such as Gleeson White, Walter Crane, and John Diblee Crace.

633396

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Scrapbook

Manuscripts

The collection contains printed and manuscript material compiled by C.W. Williams related to aeronautics and parachuting in the late 19th century. Contents include: newspaper clippings, several about falls and deaths of aeronauts, promotional broadsides/advertisements for Williams & Young's air show, a letter, pencil sketches of a parachute ascent and descent (probably done by Williams), a scrapbook, and other ephemera and printed items. There is also a 7-page manuscript entitled: "Biography of the World famed aeronaut C.W. Williams...." The scrapbook contains clippings about aeronauts, ballooning, and parachuting; it is in fragile condition and many items are loose.

mssWilliams

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Scrapbook: San Marino Ward scrapbook history

Manuscripts

This scrapbook was begun in 1972 and continued until early 1978. The beginning covers the formation of the Ward in 1963. This scrapbook documents the history of a Latter-day Saints ward in San Marino, California. The people documented include all of the ward leaders of this era, including short biographical sketches with head shots. The events covered include craft bazaars, socials, Christmas, birthday parties, fashion shows, home tours, the American Bicentennial, luncheons, special speakers, musical recitals, and costume parties. Also included, a lot of ephemera related to these events and people.

mssHM 80485

George Cochrane Hazelton scrapbook

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