Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The collection includes letters and documents (including 8 scrapbooks and 2 volumes of transcripts) chiefly related to the years following the failure of Adams & Co., especially as they affected Alfred A. Cohen, who was appointed first receiver of the company. Other subjects covered in the collection include Cohen's business and legal associations (1864-84) with the Central Pacific Railroad Company and the 1876 trial, Central Pacific Railroad Co. vs. Alfred A. Cohen. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Alfred A. Cohen, Frederick Cohen, Augustus G. Richardson, H. A. Whiting, and Isaiah Churchill Woods. There is also an affidavit by James King of William and some materials related to the firm of Hoge & Wilson.
AM 42
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Manuscripts
The collection includes letters and documents (including 8 scrapbooks and 2 volumes of transcripts) chiefly related to the years following the failure of Adams & Co., especially as they affected Alfred A. Cohen, who was appointed first receiver of the company. Other subjects covered in the collection include Cohen's business and legal associations (1864-84) with the Central Pacific Railroad Company and the 1876 trial, Central Pacific Railroad Co. vs. Alfred A. Cohen. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Alfred A. Cohen, Frederick Cohen, Augustus G. Richardson, H. A. Whiting, and Isaiah Churchill Woods. There is also an affidavit by James King of William and some materials related to the firm of Hoge & Wilson.
AM 29 (Volume 1)
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Manuscripts
The collection includes letters and documents (including 8 scrapbooks and 2 volumes of transcripts) chiefly related to the years following the failure of Adams & Co., especially as they affected Alfred A. Cohen, who was appointed first receiver of the company. Other subjects covered in the collection include Cohen's business and legal associations (1864-84) with the Central Pacific Railroad Company and the 1876 trial, Central Pacific Railroad Co. vs. Alfred A. Cohen. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Alfred A. Cohen, Frederick Cohen, Augustus G. Richardson, H. A. Whiting, and Isaiah Churchill Woods. There is also an affidavit by James King of William and some materials related to the firm of Hoge & Wilson.
AM 29 (Volume 2)
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Manuscripts
The collection includes letters and documents (including 8 scrapbooks and 2 volumes of transcripts) chiefly related to the years following the failure of Adams & Co., especially as they affected Alfred A. Cohen, who was appointed first receiver of the company. Other subjects covered in the collection include Cohen's business and legal associations (1864-84) with the Central Pacific Railroad Company and the 1876 trial, Central Pacific Railroad Co. vs. Alfred A. Cohen. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Alfred A. Cohen, Frederick Cohen, Augustus G. Richardson, H. A. Whiting, and Isaiah Churchill Woods. There is also an affidavit by James King of William and some materials related to the firm of Hoge & Wilson.
AM 27
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Manuscripts
ff. 1-2v. [Bartolomé de las Casas, Presentation to the Audiencia de los Confines]: Incipit: Muy poderosos señores, El obispo de chiapa don fray bartolome de las casas por cumplir con mi officio pastoral ... Explicit: presentada y leyda a los dichos presidente y oydores en su acuerdo jueves veynte y dos del mes de otubre de 1545. Fray bartolome de las casas, obispo de chiapa.
mssHM 21720
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Manuscripts
The Strachan-Tuck family collection includes correspondence, notes, memoranda, legal documents, financial documents, and newspaper clippings. The papers primarily relate to the Tuck family's life in Petersburg, Virginia, during the two decades before the outbreak of the American Civil War. There are a few pieces of Civil War items, including a post war invoice for $10,000 of Confederate bonds consigned for sale to a Liverpool banker.
HM 75824