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Proceedings instituted in applying for the place known by the name of Santa Anita
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Cuenta y razon del acopio
Manuscripts
This document, in the handwriting of Reid, is an account and report of the tithes collected for 1845 at San Gabriel Mission in California. In Spanish. With typescript translation in English.
mssHM 27915
Photograph of a drawing of Anita Loos, drawn by Rene Bouche
Manuscripts
Sketch of Anita Loos by Rene Bouche. Inscribed to Grace (Burke) Hubble from Anita Loos. Note in the hand of Grace Burke Hubble on verso: "Rene Bouche's sketch of his painting. 1958 (Anita Loos)".
mssHUB 1076 (1)
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Documents related to Hastings Ranch and Rancho Santa Anita, California
Manuscripts
The four volumes are entitled: 1. "Hastings Ranch - Chapman Tract;" 2. "Hastings Ranch - Learned Place, U.S. Govt Lands;" 3. "Hastings Ranch - Bailey Tract and U.S. Lands;" and 4. "Hastings Ranch - Learned Place, Sierra Madre Tract." The volumes contain handwritten and printed copies of the following documents: agreements, abstracts of title, land deeds, land grants (patents), legal documents, mortgages, plats, wills, tax documents, survey results, estate records, and inventories of property. The documents cover a 42-year history of Rancho Santa Anita and Hastings Ranch, California. All of the various owners of the property are represented in the volumes including: Hugo Reid, Henry Dalton, Lewis L. Bradbury, Alfred and William Chapman, Albert and Thomas Dibble, William Corbett, Lewis and William Wolfskill, Benjamin Davis Wilson, Leonard J. Rose, Joseph A. Rowe, María Victoria Bartoloméa Comecrabit Reid, and Charles Cook Hastings. More specifically there are several documents dealing with the estates of Hugo and Victoria Reid, the Chapmans, the Wolfskills and Charles Cook Hastings. There are also documents involving the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of California. Volume 4 includes one letter about a survey of the land.
mssHM 76514-76517
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Photographs of Santa Anita Ranch, Sierra Madre, and San Gabriel, California
Visual Materials
Cabinet card photographs of a Victorian house and lake in Sierra Madre, part of Santa Anita Ranch. Includes man in horse cart with a Black driver. Also E. J. "Lucky" Baldwin's ranch in San Gabriel, showing his horse, Gano, and the Hugo Reid house and lake. Two photographs by Carleton Watkins.One photograph of San Gabriel Mission and parsonage. One unrelated photograph of George Peyser and brother outside a western clothing store in Grass Valley, California.
photPF 580-589
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The will of Juan Bandini
Manuscripts
This manuscript is a certified contemporary copy of the will of Juan Bandini, and discusses the disbursement of his assets upon his death. In Spanish. Also includes a typed English translation.
mssHM 26658
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Pledge for obtaining parole
Manuscripts
After being taken prisoner in California, Noriega promises in writing "not to take arms against the United States of North America or the Residents of California." In Spanish. Includes translation into English, in the hand of John Augustus Sutter.
mssHM 540