Manuscripts
Sadao Sugimoto photograph album
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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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Ken Okumura photograph album
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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
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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 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
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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.
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Automobile travel and mountain climbing photograph album
Manuscripts
The photographs in the album document four different expeditions undertaken in Oregon by four young men who traveled together between 1908 and 1912. The excursions include an ascent of Mount Hood in 1908 (including a stay at the Cloud Cap Inn), a fishing trip on the Nehalem River in 1909, deer hunting near West Fork in 1912, and an undated automobile trip through central Oregon. The album contains 182 black-and-white photographs, several of which were produced by Oregon commercial photographer George M. Weister. The photographs for the first three excursions are captioned; those for the car trip are not.
mssHM 83836