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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Reminiscences on early Kern County, Calif
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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
Typescripts of letters and reminiscences on the history of Ventura County, California. Includes a series of letters written by Thomas Robert Bard to his mother and sisters from 1865-1869, including references to his time in Soledad, Ojai, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and near the Mission San Juan Bautista; a letter from Thomas G. Bard to his sister Beryl Bard on the possible connection of Frederick William Seward to the elder Bard's time in California; essays on encounters with Tiburcio Vasquez by a Mrs. De Nure and William Whittemore; and various memoirs on Ventura from about the 1860s to 1880s by Whittemore (including an account of catching California condors), Carrie Hicks, E. M. Sheridan (including an account of the murder of T. Wallace More in 1877), and Hugh Warring.
mssHM 74129-74138
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Manuscripts
This photocopy of a typescript written by Herbert E. Lougheed a few years before his death, was for his son and daughter about his early memories in Los Angeles from the 1870s-1880s.
mssHM 80473
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Manuscripts
Group of items related to the early history of Tuolumune County and particularly Sonora, California. Includes lists of members and membership applications (with dates of arrival in California from abroad, including Peru) for the Pioneer Society of Tuolumne County, as well as membership lists and receipts for the Sonora Hose Company No.1 fire department. Also includes an indenture for land in Mono County, California; a trading license from Esmeralda County, Nevada; a letter to the Tuolumne County Court of Sessions regarding a public road along the Stanislaus River; and an indictment in People vs. Jose Carralles (grand larceny horse theft, Sonora, California).
mssHM 74139-74153