Manuscripts

Sadao Sugimoto photograph album

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Description: An album of 353 tipped-in photographs dating from 1921 to 1928, made by Sadao Sugimoto. The album also includes photographs of J.H. Duus and W.J. Toms, the founders of the Union Trading Company, and of Sugimoto's travels to New York, Worcester, Massachusetts, San Francisco, Hawaii, and other locations. There are also photographs taken in Japan.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1921-1928.
Call number: mssHM 83486
Creator: Sugimoto, Sadao(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Kagerou Bunko, Februrary 2019.
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Photograph album

Manuscripts

This material includes letters, documents, clippings, and photographs, dating from 1910 to 1957, related to the employment of Nora N. Larsen at the estate household of the Huntington family in San Marino, California. The letters and documents, dating from 1913 to 1920, detail the working lives and responsibilities of the staff, including material related to Carrie M. Campbell, Arabella Huntington's long-time companion. Also included is Larsen family material written between 1886 and 1958, much of it from Wisconsin, in the form of letters, documents, and ephemera. Of special interest in the papers are the many photographs dating from 1897 to 1955; there are 35 loose black & white photographs and a photograph album with 79 black & white photographs and colored postcards. The photographs include the Huntington mansion, library, gardens, and staff.Of particular rarity in the album are photographs of the cottage Nora N. Larsen lived in on the Huntington grounds (now demolished) and the poultry pens once kept by the mansion. The album also contains Larsen family photographs taken in Wisconsin and California.

mssHM 83772

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Album of pressed seaweed and sea moss specimens

Manuscripts

A Victorian album of seaweed and sea moss specimens gathered by an unidentified female collector in England. The album consists of 80 pressed specimens of red, green, and brown seaweed and sea mosses, some of which are artfully arranged into crosses, a laurel wreath, an anchor, and the word "love." Tipped onto the first blank page is an eight-line manuscript poem adapted from "Flowers of the Sea." The album is bound in contemporary roan, with spine compartments tooled in gilt, the front cover lettered "Sea Mosses" in gilt and handmade textured endpapers printed with crescent moons in red and accented with gilt stars.

mssHM 84529

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Ken Okumura photograph album

Manuscripts

Photograph album compiled by Sargent Ken Okumura of California. The album contains multiple images of Okumura in his U.S. Army uniform at Camp Roberts. It also contains photos of Japanese American families, presumably Okumura's family and friends, hiking, picnicking, attending various social events, and taking road trips to Yosemite and Lake Tahoe, as well as posing in front of their homes, some in traditional Japanese kimonos. Toward the end of the album is a series of images of Japanese Americans preparing to leave for the Topaz Internment Camp in 1942; the Topaz camp, now known as the Central Utah Relocation Center, is shown in a few photographs.

mssHM 83859

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Photograph album depicting travel in Central Mexico

Manuscripts

Album containing photographs taken during a 1905 train tour of Mexico. The photographs depict people and places throughout Mexico including Monterrey, Mexico City, Guanajuato, and Queretaro; there are also several photographs of the travelers and tour employees. The photographs are numbered and there is an index glued on the rear pastedown providing a description and location for all the photographs in the album. A souvenir brochure laid into the album indicates that the trip was a Raymond & Whitcomb Tour, which departed from Boston, New York, and Philadelphia on February 9, 1905. The brochure lists the names of the travelers.

mssHM 83832

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Photograph album

Visual Materials

This personal album of photographs documents a trip from the South to the West Coast of the United States with photographs by various unidentified professional photographers. The book begins with images of New Orleans, Louisiana, and continues westward to California, with 36 of the 49 photographs depicting California landmarks. The photographs are printed onto the album pages and are accompanied by handwritten captions identifying the landmark or view. This album may have been owned by C.W. Hornick, whose name is engraved on the album's front cover.

photCL 230

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Photograph albums

Manuscripts

The collection consists of a series of diaries (37 volumes, 1900-1938) and 8 photograph albums (approximately 1862-1919) related to Selena Gray Galt Ingram. (There are no diaries for 1934 or 1937.) The diaries reflect the social life and customs of the Los Angeles area, 1902-1938, including descriptions of the Banning family, the Patton family, Santa Catalina Island, and ranch life in Imperial Valley. There are also passing references to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and the Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad Company. Some diaries also document the few years Ingram spent in St. Albans, Vermont; Empalme, Mexico; and Berkeley, Mill Valley, San Francisco, and San Rafael, California. The photograph albums depict many of the same people and places listed above, as well as some photographs of Yosemite, 1903. An album dating from 1908-1914 contains many images of Imperial Valley and the Ingram ranch near Holtville, California. Some of the diaries also contain photographs, including George S. Patton Sr., George S. Patton Jr., the Patton home, and other family (1911 diary), and a photograph of Captain William Banning (1913 diary).

mssHM 31060

Sadao Sugimoto photograph album

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