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The history and development of the Ontario colony: [thesis]
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Manuscripts
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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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Manuscripts
The thesis covers the entire life of Caroline M. Severance, from her birth in Canandaigua, New York in 1820, to her death in Los Angeles, California in 1914, at the age of ninety-four. Stanley includes details regarding Severance's activities in several reform movements including temperance, the Unitarian Church, women's clubs, and women's suffrage. The thesis also includes a bibliography.
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The bound typewritten copy of the thesis covers the history of labor in California from before statehood to the 1880s. Cross discusses in detail the following subjects: Indian labor and the Spanish missions; the increase of population during the Gold Rush; the eventual growth of business and the labor movement in California; labor unions including the National Labor Union, the Workingmen's Party of California, and the Workingmen's Party of the United States; labor leaders such as Dennis Kearney and San Francisco Mayor I. S. Kalloch; riots, demonstrations and strikes related to labor disputes; and the issue of Chinese labor. The copy has handwritten edits by the author as well as notes glued onto the pages.
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The manuscript, which Alfred Jensen wrote for the Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project, covers the history of theater in the United States and more specifically in Los Angeles. The manuscript includes an appendix listing plays that were performed in Los Angeles, the theater in which they were performed, the opening dates, and duration of the plays. In his history of the theater Jensen specifically talks about the following early American playwrights: William Dunlap, John Howard Payne, John Augustus Stone, Mercy Otis Warren, Hugh H. Brackenridge, and Royall Tyler. Jensen also covers the early history of movies and some of its actors including John Barrymore as well as the development of the Federal Theatre Project.
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These five reminiscences, which were collected by Lindley Bynum, were written by individuals who came to southern California in the second half of the 19th century. They all lived in Los Angeles County, more specifically Pomona, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Pasadena, and San Gabriel. The five authors discuss life in early California including their social lives and education, their interaction with the Gabrielino Indians, the citrus industry, agriculture, farming and irrigation. California pioneers Abbott Kinney and William Wolfskill are mentioned.
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Briggs handwritten manuscript covers the first half of his trip from Boston to San Francisco in 1886. He talks about his visits to Niagara Falls, Omaha, Denver, Cheyenne, Reno, and Salt Lake City. He specifically describes the hanging of a man in Denver, and the climate in California. The manuscript might be the source for some of Chapter Eight "A Trip to California, 1886," in Briggs' book entitled Arizona and New Mexico 1882, California 1886, Mexico 1891 (1932); however, Chapter Eight covers the entire trip to San Francisco and back to Boston.
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Thesis on Dr. John McLoughlin (1784-1857) written by LeWanda C. Fenalson Cox as part of her BA degree from the University of Oregon. She began the thesis by noting "This paper seeks to dethrone a saint...there is no desire to evolve a demon...[instead] the search is for the man," and in many places this takes the form of criticism of McLoughlin's earlier biographers. Fenalson Cox then gives a brief biography of McLoughlin before writing more extensive analysis of his character, a criticism of his "Oregon City Claims" (McLoughlin became known as the "Father of Oregon"), expounding her belief in McLoughlin's hope for personal gain by aiding early settlers in Oregon, a section on his interactions with the Hudson Bay Company and what lead to the deterioration of the relationship, and a final section entitled "Why the Myth?" in which she sums up her conclusions about her views of reality and legend. Includes a bibliography.
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