Manuscripts
Press cuttings album
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Charles H. Tweed letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Enclosure: 1902 August 5 letter had copy of letter from Tweed to Wiliam F. Herrin, 1902 June 17; 1902 August 6 letter had letter from E.H. Harriman to Tweed, 1902 August 5; 1902 August 28 letter had letter from J.A. Muir to Tweed, 1902 August 22; 1902 September 2 letter had copy of letter from J.J. Jackson to Isaac E. Gates, 1902 August 30; 1902 September 2 letter had copy of letter from Tweed to Muir, 1902 August 6 and letter from Joseph L. Murphey to Arabella Huntington, 1902 August 27; 1902 November 19 letter had copy of letter from W.C. Dismukes to Tweed, 1902 November 15; 1902 November 26 letter had letter from Rogers, Locke & Milburn to Tweed, 1902 November 25. Also: printed notice to shareholders of the Canda Manufacturing Co., 1902 August 4; descriptions of Oneonta and Warsaw, New York, properties in estate of Collis P. Huntington; note from Tweed to Henry E. Huntington, 1902 November 20. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.
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Other Collections - Times Mirror Press
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Pamphlets: "The Fine Arts Building" for Edwards and Wildey Company, circa 1926; "The Lure of Latin America" for the Los Angeles Steamship Company, circa 1929; "The Three Circles" by Evans-Winter-Hebb, Inc., 1935. Envelope used for mailing copies of "Three Minutes." Issues of "Three Minutes," Times Mirror Press house organ: November 1922; February 1923; July, November, December 1924; October, November 1925; April 1926; January, October, December 1927; April, August, November 1928; April, May, June (2), July (2), August, September (2), October (2), November, December 1929; January (2), February (2), March, June, July, August, October, November, December (2) 1930. Includes special issues: Direct Market Advertising Association, Silk Stocking, etc. From the Sam Platus Collection.
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Plat map of Rancho los Nogales, confirmed to María de Jesús Garcia
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Surveyed by Henry Hancock in November 1858 and Alexis Waldemar Von Schmidt in August and September 1880.
mssHM 46206
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Page and Markham families albums
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Box 1 HM 83502: Page family album. This scrapbook documents the Page family history from Connecticut to Pasadena, California in 1887. The contents of the scrapbook include: clippings regarding Connecticut and Pasadena social and religious activities, invitations to functions, correspondence, photographs, postcards, and pamphlets pasted in. There is a telegram from Booker T. Washington where he kindly declines Cornelia B. Page's invitation to visit Pasadena, California. The earliest item in this scrapbook was a letter written by Samuel Malty Page to his "Grandmother" in 1843. The latest clipping reports the death of Emily B. Page in 1916. Note: This scrapbook is fragile.
mssHM 83502-83504
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Jamaica journal & reporter: manuscript newspapers
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Although these manuscripts are unsigned, their style, art work, tone, humor and handwriting, suggest that they may be written by Abraham Leech. The two issues of the "Jamaica Journal & Reporter" are dated November 25, 1846 and November 1847. They discuss the Mexican-American war and United States politics during that period through articles and hand-drawn cartoons. The newspapers specifically talk about the war, Colonel Santa Anna, the US and Mexican governments, Wall Street financier Jacob Barker, Reverend Colonel James Hazard Perry, and events happening in Jamaica.
mssHM 72094-72095
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The theatre in Los Angeles
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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.
mssHM 66768