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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Photograph of Phillip Margetts
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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
Microfilm of diaries and notes kept by Phillip Margetts during his missions to England (1857-1861; 1891) and South Africa (1862). The first volume is a notebook kept during his 1857-1859 mission to England, and much of it consists of pages of poems, notes (including a list of cities visited), accounts, and drafts of letters. A second 1891 diary briefly recounts a second mission to England. It is followed by a detailed autobiography and diary of the 1857-1858 mission to England and a final volume of Margett's 1861 mission to England, which also includes a diary kept while he was sailing on the Sidney in 1862 to South Africa, where he spent time in Mowbray, Port Elizabeth, and Oliphants Hoek.
MSS MFilm 00203
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Manuscripts
Modern reproductions of 25 black and white photographs showing members of the Rich and Hunter families. Individual portraits include several of Charles Coulson Rich in middle and old age, three photographs of Sarah DeArmon Pea Rich in her 60s and 70s, and a photograph of Sarah Jane Rich Miller in her early 80s. Other portraits show Joseph C. Rich at age 19 (taken during his work on his father's mission to England in 1860), as a young attorney, at about the time he became judge of the Fifth District of Idaho, and with his wife, Ann Eliza Hunter Rich. Additional photographs depict Ann as a young girl, Joseph and Ann's three children (Edward, Susanna, and Sarah Jane), Ann's father Edward Hunter (taken in Salt Lake City in 1881), and Ann's mother Ann Standley Hunter. Also included are six family tree style pages with photographs depicting Charles Rich's wives and children, including his first wife Sarah DeArmon Pea, second wife Eliza Ann Graves (1811-1879), third wife Mary Ann Phelps (1829-1912), fourth wife Sarah Jane Peck (1825-1893), fifth wife Emeline Grover (1831-1917), and sixth wife Harriet Sargent (1832-1915).
mssHM 72988 (1-25)
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Visual Materials
One portrait of three theater performers, including a clown (California); two men in boxing pose, with the interior walls of studio and roof skylight showing in photograph.
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Manuscripts
1950s reproduction of a nineteenth-century photograph of Isaac Chauncey Haight.
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Visual Materials
A collection of 33 card photographs chiefly of the Magalia Mine in Butte County, California, showing workers, equipment and works, and scenic views of the vicinity. Includes a photograph of a miner standing in a mine, a group portrait of a mining crew, which is dated December 1895, a photograph of Kerr and Rushing's Southside Hotel in Albion, California, and four panoramic views. Also includes a reproduction of sketches by Ed Smith of the North and South Forks, Clearwater, Salmon River, and the Snake and Seven Devils Mountain made for the Chicago World Fair in 1893. The four panoramas, 9 x 30.5 cm (3.5 x 12 inch), depict a building next to a river; a mule team pulling a piece of machinery; cows and horses in a field; and a reservoir with mining cart bridge behind. Most of the photographs are unattributed, but two contain the imprints of Oroville, California, photographers: I. H. Hogan and Phares.
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Manuscripts
In this volume, Foster tells her life story beginning with her birth and childhood in Corydon, Iowa. She gives many details such as the death of two of her siblings within a month of each other in 1864, her older brother leaving to go fight in the Civil War, learning music as a child, her marriage to Edward E. Foster in 1875, etc. Throughout the volume are poems, sketches and drawings done by Foster. In the front of the volume is a photograph of Foster taken in 1930.
mssHM 82441