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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The Charles Fernald papers consists of personal, legal, and land papers primarily related to the Santa Barbara area from 1852 to 1904. Included are approximately 600 letters from Thomas Robert Bard, a developer of oil lands in Southern California to Fernald from 1870 to 1892. Subjects represented include court cases, chiefly in Southern California; land papers; and ranchos. Materials include correspondence, letter books, judicial records, appointments, commissions, petitions, maps, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and others.
mssFernald
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of correspondence (including 23 letter books), 3 photographs, 2 scrapbooks, business documents, and financial ledgers related to the life and business activities of Jackson A. Graves. Subject matter includes banking and finance, and much of the business correspondence in the collection is with Isaias W. Hellman (1842-1920), president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Los Angeles from 1875 to 1920 and president of Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank in San Francisco from 1890 to 1920. The collection also contains land papers of the Los Angeles area (including materials related to Rancho San Pasqual) and papers of California law firms.
mssGraves
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Rare Books
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Manuscripts
Cash accounts of daily till takings, payments to suppliers (especially Robert Castle of Bristol, William Porter of Shoulton, John and George Cowell of London, and various Worcester merchants. Also, includes weekly payments to Mrs. Read, evidently for housekeeping, wages, poor rates, and other miscellaneous accounts.
mssHM 60696