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Harry Carr letters to Jesse Lasky

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Description: Carr wrote these letters to Jesse Lasky, pioneer motion picture producer and founder of Paramount Pictures. In the letters, Carr talks about the problems on the set of the film The Wedding March between director Erich von Stroheim, the producer, and others (Lasky was one of the film's producers). One is dated 1926, July 4, the other is only dated "Aug. 1."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1926.
Call number: mssHM 82427-82428
Creator: Carr, Harry (1877-1936)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Donated by Dennis Harbach in honor of Natalie Russell, April 2015.

Harry Carr letter to Charles Yale

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mssHM 12748

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Robert Van Carr letter to James Horsburgh

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In this letter, written to James Horsburgh of Sunset magazine, Carr describes his current writing project: a series of volumes about California for tourists and people moving to the state. Carr is looking for a publisher for these books. Accompanying the letter is a dummy of the first book Carr wrote entitled The Los Angeles book. Only the first chapter is printed (the rest of the book is made up of blank pages). The book was never published.

mssHM 68242-68243

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Employees - Carr, Harry

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Approx. 40 items: a selection of Harry Carr columns from the 1920s and 1930s; letters written by Carr; correspondence about Carr after his death. Carr's column went by the name "The Lancer" for a number of years. Included in this folder is a definitive profile of Carr which appeared in the "Men who made The Times" column of Among Ourselves, 3/1948.

mssLAT

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Miscellaneous writings of E.S. Carr and Jeanne C.S. Carr

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A collection which consists of approximately 200 letters and manuscripts related to Jeanne C. Smith Carr and Ezra S. Carr and their interests; subjects include botany, agriculture, and education. There are materials related to the history and description of California (especially early Pasadena), botany, and gardening, the University of California and the University of Wisconsin. Persons represented in the collection include: Asa Gray, Helen Hunt Jackson, John Gill Lemmon, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Helena Modjeska, Charles Warren Stoddard, Fujimaro Tanaka, and Marshall Pinckney Wilder. The collection also includes one envelope of ephemera, a volume entitled "Eminent Persons," and two scrapbooks.

mssCA

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Carr scrapbook

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mssCA

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Carr scrapbook

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Harry Carr letters to Jesse Lasky

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