Manuscripts
Monnette-Amestoy families papers
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David and Dora SooHoo family papers
Manuscripts
Primarily material related to David W. SooHoo (1911-1970), Dora SooHoo (1913-2001), and their families, including family documents, photographs, and artifacts. The collection also includes school notebooks, yearbooks, and other items related to David SooHoo's upbringing as a second-generation Chinese American in Los Angeles. David SooHoo served as director of the Los Angeles Mei Wah Girls' Drum Corps for many years, and the collection contains photographs, clippings, and correspondence related to the group, particularly around the World War II era. Also included are photographs, plans, and promotional material featuring Old Chinatown and New Chinatown, Chinese Presbyterian Church newsletters and anniversary booklets, and other items representing aspects of the Chinese American community in Los Angeles. The collection also contains written and printed Chinese documents that functioned as receipts, business records, essays, menus, and educational texts.
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Family Estate Papers, Wills, etc. (1888-1974). 9 items
Manuscripts
The manuscripts include two complete copies of Pflueger's book New paradise lost as well as draft pages and notes for the novel. There are also papers and essays written by Helen in high school and later in life as well as copies of writings and poems by Helen and others. The diaries span the years 1911 to 1979. The diaries include daily entries with detailed information about Helens' daily activities: visits to friends, seamstress work, trips taken, etc. She also talks a lot about her religious beliefs and her struggles to be a good Christian. The majority of correspondence is written by others to Helen but there are a few pieces of correspondence by her (retained copies). There are several letters to and from Rev. Gilbert P. Symons of the Forward Movement of the Episcopal Church and others dealing with her religious beliefs and search for a church to attend. There is also one letter by Edgar Bergen (1941, Apr. 15) in response to a letter Helen wrote to him and "Charlie." There are also a few letters regarding her book New paradise lost (1940). The ephemera includes a variety of material including account books, address books, bank statements, biographical information, financial papers, medical papers, calling cards, church bulletins, dress patterns, family estate papers (including a copy of Helen's will), greeting cards, newspaper clippings, photographs, school notebooks and a recipe book. Some of the newspaper clippings deal with Sierra Madre, California. There are also three rolled items: two diplomas from the Minneapolis School of Music (1919-1920) and a painting of Helen Pflueger.
mssPflueger papers
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Portraits of girls at the Marlborough School, Los Angeles
Visual Materials
Studio portraits of students (possibly seniors) at the Marlborough School, a private girls' school in Los Angeles, California. Many of the portraits are signed by the girls and inscribed to Mary Isabel Fry.
photPF 20021-20029
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Evertson Family Papers
Manuscripts
The collection is arranged chronologically and includes 56 items including 7 pieces of ephemera. The first four items are land grants and plats for land in Georgia (1832-1843). The majority of the rest of the collection is correspondence between Evertson family members with three distinct sections: Mexican-American War, Civil War and California. There are four letters concerning John R. Evertson's work which was somehow related to the Mexican-American War. In his letters he talks about the war, General Zachary Taylor, Antonio Santa Anna, and the battle of Buena Vista. These letters also discuss family matters and there are letters by John R. Evertson to two of his sons warning them to be diligent, do their school work and listen to their Mother while he is away. The second section consists of twelve letters from various correspondents to Evert C. Evertson while he was being held as a political prisoner in Carroll and Point Lookout prisons in Washington, D.C. and Maryland from 1863 to 1865 (there is one note by Evert). The letters by family friends, mostly William H. Richards, discusses their attempts to free Evert from prison and clear his name and express their sympathy with his situation. Richards also talks about the family situation in California at the time. (The collection also includes three documents related to Evert's release from prison including a letter of exemption from the Confederate States of America's War Department Bureau of Conscription, a parole and a pass for Evert issued by the United States' Office of the Provost Marshal General - all dated 1865). The third section of correspondence relates to John R. Evertson, Jr.'s life in Havilah and San Francisco, California in April-December 1866. These letters which are written to his mother, sister and brother-in-law in Los Angeles, talk chiefly about Evertson's search for stable employment, his attempts at mining (gold and quartz), his bad health and his general depression about his current situation. He often mentions Los Angeles in his letters. The last few items of the collection include documents about real estate in Los Angeles and a letter related to the estate of John R. Evertson.
mssHM 70414-70462
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Amestoy, Domingo
Manuscripts
The collection consists of maps, field books, legal documents, business papers, and diaries related to the work of surveyors George Hansen, Alfred Solano, Sidney B. Reeve, and others. The maps and surveys in the collection are of the city of Los Angeles, Southern California ranchos, and subdivisions of the city of Los Angeles and neighboring towns. The collection contains over maps and sketch maps. Other subjects represented in the collection include: civil engineering, land subdivision, mines and mineral resources, and daily life in Los Angeles and Los Angeles County.
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Early family
Manuscripts
Bulk depict Sakai and other children in the Sunland area with one caption referencing a Hansen Heights school; several depict girls in kimonos; a few images appear to be of family in Japan.
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