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Manuscripts
The Baptist churches of southern California: a dissertation :
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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
Typewritten dissertation for Jensen's Ph.D. degree in philosophy from the University of Chicago. The dissertation describes the separation of church and state in Mormon theology and philosophy, with an emphasis on the theological underpinnings of Mormon political practices. Includes a descriptions of Mormon links to Islamic practices (including a comparison of Mohammed and Joseph Smith and the Mormon "jihad"); the "theocratic era" in Illinois from 1839 to 1840 and the 1846-1849 theocracy in Iowa and Utah; the creation of government for the State of Deseret and Nauvoo, Illinois; the western expansion of the Mormon church; the establishment of Mormon ecclesiastical courts; conflicts between Mormon and non-Mormon factions; and speculations on the future of the Mormon church. Also covers church and political history centered around Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Includes a table of contents and bibliography.
mssHM 72273
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1 item: Small copy of "The Los Angeles Times, Labor, and the Open Shop, 1980 - 1910" by Jerome Wolf, A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School, University of Southern California, In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts (History).
mssLAT
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This collection chiefly contains research notes by Eugene A. Hessel, most concerning his studies of José Rizal. Also included are letters, copies of articles, both by Hessel and others, newspaper clippings, printed ephemera, and some photographs. The collection also includes a printed copy of Hessel's 1958 dissertation, "The Religious Thought of José Rizal: its context and theological significance," presented to San Francisco Theological Seminary, and two drafts. There are also a few copies of items written by José Rizal.
mssHessel
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Dissertation on the history of California's cattle industry. Chapters are largely divided chronologically and identified by Pulling as Spanish California Cattle Days (1770-1822), the Mexican Era (1822-1848), Early American California (1848-1862), Drought and Rebuilding (1862-1870), and An Industry at Bay (1870-1890). Covered topics include the natural environment of range cattle, their care and feeding, the price and distribution of cattle products, the number of cattle in California, range restrictions (including the Land Act of 1891), no-fence laws, diseases (including Texas fever, blackleg, and anthrax), various laws regarding cattle ownership and slaughter regulations, and the effect of droughts on the cattle industry. Includes two map drawings of California, an extensive bibliography, and appendices. Presented as a dissertation for the Ph.D. in history from the University of California, June 1944.
mssHM 72901-72902
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The small group of items includes two diaries kept by David Woosley while he was a Moravian missionary to the Cahuilla, Cupeño, and Luiseño Indians of southern California. Woosley would travel to the Pala Indian Reservation, the Pechanga Reservation, the Potrero Indian Reservation, and the Fort Yuma Reservation, as well as La Jolla, Rincon, Temecula, and Banning, California, to teach Sabbath School and conduct church services. In his diaries, Woosley includes details regarding his interaction with other missionaries, including William H. Weinland, his experiences with the Indians, their attitude towards Christianity, and their attendance at his church services. One of the diaries contains lists of children that attended Sabbath School at La Jolla and Pechanga from 1908-1911. The other items in the group are several letters, from 1940, written by various missionaries regarding the 50th anniversary of the Moravian's mission work in southern California; an incomplete booklet entitled "Proceedings of the Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Heathen" for the year 1914 (Woosley is author of one of the entries); and a photograph of the faculty and staff of the Moravian Theological Seminary taken in 1896
mssHM 66349-66358
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Visual Materials
An album of 103 photographs documenting the years 1905 to 1907 in the life of a young man from a large Church of the Brethren family who settled in Southern California. The album is signed "S. A. Minnich, 752 Hull St., Pasadena" on the inside back cover, and large groups of family and friends are seen posed in front of houses, though the people are not identified. Handwritten captions indicate locations and dates of sites across Southern California, including the train depot at Port Los Angeles, the Lordsburg train depot (now in La Verne), downtown Long Beach, Riverside Cactus Garden, picnics in Eaton Canyon, and the Ocean Park Bath House. Many scenes are in Pasadena, showing houses on Hudson and Hull streets, grand homes on Orange Grove Boulevard, the 1906 Tournament of Roses parade, Hotel Green, the Pasadena Library, and Busch Gardens, which opened in 1906. There are also photographs of the First Brethren Church in Los Angeles, and the Baptist Brethren Church on Hull Street in Pasadena.
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