Manuscripts
Engineer field notes regarding the El Capitan Dam
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U.S. Army - March Field Anti-Aircraft Training Base and Housing for Personnel
Visual Materials
Location: Riverside Co., California Job #: 544 Architect/Designer: Lippincott, Joseph Barlow ; Bowen, Oliver G. Format: Ephemera Description: Photocopies of three newspaper articles about the construction of the anti-aircraft training base.
photCL 454
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U.S. Army - March Field Anti-Aircraft Training Base and Housing for Personnel
Visual Materials
Location: Riverside Co., California Job #: 544 Architect/Designer: Lippincott, Joseph Barlow ; Bowen, Oliver G. Format: Photographic prints ; Film negatives Description: One photo of officers' quarters, one of hospital barracks, 42 snapshots of construction of the base housing, plus negatives.
photCL 454
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El Capitan, Yosemite
Visual Materials
These lantern slides depict urban, agricultural, and nature scenes of California in the 1870s. The slides acted as a visual accompaniment to real estate developer Charles Victor Hall's traveling lecture promoting California's resources and benefits, aimed to encourage New Englanders and Europeans to relocate to California. This collection is significant in its images of Native Americans in California, mainly in the Yosemite area, and views of prospecting and mining. The majority of the lantern slides depict scenes from northern California, including Yosemite National Park and San Francisco. Some southern California views are also shown, including San Diego and Los Angeles County. Other slides of interest are views of the California ranches of F.P.F. Temple, Ellwood Cooper, F.D. Bacon, Maria Sepulveda, L.J. Rose (and family), and H.H. Moore. Portraits of General John C. Fremont and actress Maude Granger are also featured in the collection. In addition to the lantern slides, three copy negatives depicting the logging industry are also included. The originals are not in this collection. A printing plate with Hall's portrait is also included in this collection. The images were most likely taken by several different photographers, including Carleton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, and Bradley & Rulofson.
photCL 521
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[Rhoads, Horace Emerson]. Notes Regarding the Newspaper Industry. [undated]
Manuscripts
The collection is single-item cataloged and contains 759 items including 92 manuscripts. Most of the manuscripts are documents regarding the advertising, circulation, and financial concerns of The Los Angeles record, The San Diego sun, and The San Francisco daily news from the early 1910s. The other substantial manuscripts are diaries of Adaline Rhoads and Roscoe Maxwell Rhoads detailing the social life and customs of late-19th century Indiana and early-20th century Southern California. Adaline Rhoads wrote about her daily chores, the activities of her children and her travels. Roscoe Maxwell Rhoads also details his attempts to mend his health through exercise, various diets, bathing in magnetic wells and two visits to the Battle Creek Sanitarium in the late 1890s. Roscoe Maxwell Rhoads also detailed the family's journey from Anderson, Indiana to San Diego, California and their later move to La Jolla, California. The collection contains 102 pieces of correspondence, the majority of which are addressed to Horace Emerson Rhoads regarding the newspaper business. There are also a significant number of letters from Horace Emerson Rhoads regarding the newspaper business and the San Diego Athletic Club. There are letters concerning San Diego and California politics, including three letters regarding the purchase of an airplane for the governor of California. Rhoads received letters on the subject of honorary membership in the Los Angeles Record Newsboys' Club. The collection also contains letters regarding participation in La Jolla events and politics.
HM 70574
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Morris Dam
Manuscripts
Reports and Memoranda regarding the construction from Morris Dam to Pasadena, Mar. 23, 1934, to Jul. 5, 1934.
mssMorris, Samuel papers
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Notes on the establishment of San Diego
Manuscripts
This manuscript, whose author is unknown, describes the Spanish expedition to San Diego in the late 18th century. It may be an excerpt from a larger work. In Spanish. Also contains scholar notes (in English) regarding potential authors and details about the expedition.
mssHM 323