Manuscripts

Joseph Whitaker letter

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Description: In this letter, written from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, to an unknown addressee, Joseph Whitaker describes the Native Americans in the area: "...not many deer now the Indians kill about all there is a few Indians about all the time they speak muskrats and fish on the ice in the winter the muskrats build a kind of house of pieces of old bog one of them is worth a shilling to them. The skins they sell for six pence and eat the rest they don't wash themselves once a month and when they have good luck they paint themselves with all kinds of paint...." Whitaker also talks briefly about his farming and hunting.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1851, April 25.
Call number: mssHM 82459
Creator: Whitaker, Joseph(Opens in new tab)

Wives: Whitaker, Bettina

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Articles and newspaper clippings about Otis Chandler's second wife, Bettina Whitaker. They are mostly about the marriage to Otis Chandler. Also in this folder are a wedding announcement and invitation to the reception.

mssLAT

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John Mills Whitaker Papers

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This collection consists of the typed transcripts of the journals keep by John Mills Whitaker (1863-1960) and a typed transcript of the funeral service held for him. The journals cover the majority of Whitaker's life and discuss both his personal as well as professional life. Several journals deal with his functions as a secretary to Franklin Dewey Richards (1821-1899) where Whitaker discusses the political oppression of the Mormons by the United States government, the public and political opposition to the practice of polygamy, and the persecution of the Mormons. Some of the people covered in these journals include George Quayle Cannon (1827-1901), Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), Erastus Fairbanks Snow (1818-1888), Lorenzo Snow (1814- 1901), and Wilford Woodruff (1807-1898). Other journals deal with Whitaker's functions as secretary to John Willard Young (1844-1924), and he discusses in detail the financial aspects of the railroads being built in Utah, public education, and the statehood of Utah. In later journals Whitaker discusses Brigham Henry Roberts (1857-1933) and Reed Smoot (1862-1941) and their problems in dealing with the U. S. Congress.

mssWhitaker papers

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Employees - Whitaker, Alma

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Approx. 12 items: two samples of Alma Whitaker's "Sugar and Spice" column, from 1931 and 1936; a 1941 sample of W's writing; LAT, 12/4/1941, "Feminine reporter takes baby along," memories of W's early days at LAT (original & copy in plastic sleeve); Among Ourselves, 2 copies, 6/1949, "Women who made The Times," about Whitaker; (orig. & copy in plastic sleeve) LAT obit, "Alma Whitaker, retired Times columnist, dies"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 1/1957, "Alma Whitaker lived by wit, good humor"; article tear sheet, date / publication unknown, "Veteran Newshens made history" (on Whitaker and other women journalists in L.A. during early decades of 20th century).

mssLAT

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Transcript of the funeral services for John Mills Whitaker, 1863-1960 [20 p.]

Manuscripts

This collection consists of the typed transcripts of the journals kept by John Mills Whitaker (1863-1960) and a typed transcript of the funeral service held for him. The journals cover the majority of Whitaker's life and discuss both his personal as well as professional life.

mssWhitaker papers

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Early Santa Monica and Whitaker Ranch photographs

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Nine photographs, of various dates and sizes, related to the Whitaker family and their ranch in Santa Monica, California, primarily from the late 1890s. Photographs include card portraits of Katherine Bergk Whitaker (photPF 297) and Alonzo Whitaker (photPF 298), three images of the exterior of the Whitaker Ranch House (reproductions) located on Centinela Avenue (photPF 299-301); two snapshots of a man and a woman driving a small horse-drawn carriage (photPF 302-303); a picture of the students of Santa Monica School, 1895 (photPF 304); and a 20th century photograph of women on the Venice Pier (photPF 305). The folder also contains a copy of the Whitakers' marriage certificate and deed of purchases.

photPF 297-305

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Finished Copy Daily Journal In duplicate – 1946 - # 36 [24 p., 19 of these pages consist of a typed transcript of the funeral services for Ida Oakley Taylor Whitaker]

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Wives: Whitaker, Bettina

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Finished Copy Daily Journal In duplicate – 1946 - # 36 [24 p., 19 of these pages consist of a typed transcript of the funeral services for Ida Oakley Taylor Whitaker]