Manuscripts

Correspondence, Speeches, Miscellaneous and Ephemera

Description: Collection of correspondence, speeches, notes, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and ephemera primarily focused on Melvin S. Morse's campaign for election to the Pasadena Board of Education in 1953. Also included are some miscellaneous printed journals.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1950-1957.
Call number: mssMorsepapers
Creator: Morse, Melvin S(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired through the Rare Books Department from Mrs. Janet Stanford, August 15, 2005.
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Melvin S. Morse papers

Manuscripts

Collection of correspondence, speeches, notes, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and ephemera primarily focused on Melvin S. Morse's campaign for election to the Pasadena Board of Education in 1953. Also included are some miscellaneous printed journals.

mssMorsepapers

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Series II. Correspondence, Manuscripts, and Ephemera

Rare Books

This collection contains professional papers generated by Calvin S. Hamilton during his tenure as planning director for the City of Los Angeles. The Bound Volumes Series contains 45 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings on subjects such as Calvin S. Hamilton and planning issues related to Los Angeles during the period of 1964 to 1986. This series also contains an area plan of Los Angeles (1963 to 1975), land use community plan, City of Los Angeles employees' telephone directory, and a zoning code book. The Correspondence, Manuscripts, and Ephemera Series contains a range of unbound materials that were generated by Hamilton. Most prominently are periodicals that featured Hamilton and the City of Los Angeles planning endeavors and projects, various planning reports, transcripts of speeches given by Hamilton, and subject files on earthquake preparedness and Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles City Archives also holds a large collection of Calvin S. Hamilton's professional papers.

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Miscellaneous volumes and ephemera

Manuscripts

The collection consists of personal and business correspondence, political papers, account books, legal documents, and land papers related to the Patton family, and is particularly focused on the activities of George Smith Patton (1856-1927). Topics covered include railroads, Patton's senate campaign, irrigation, land sales, and the development of the San Marino area. Notable businesses represented in the collection include the Wilmington Transportation Company, Porter Brothers Co., San Gabriel Wine Company, Alhambra Addition Water Company, the Lindsay Water Development Company, Garvey Water Company, Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Banning Company, Pasadena Electric Light and Water Company, and the Santa Catalina Island Company. Notable individuals represented in the collection include Ruth Wilson, Annie Wilson, Anne Wilson Patton, James DeBarth Shorb, George Hugh Smith, Collis P. Huntington, Henry E. Huntington, Arthur J. Hutchinson, William Banning, William Reeves Banning, James P. Donahue, Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, William Howard Taft, Frank Putnam Flint, Ellen Banning Ayer, Robert W. Patton, Arvin Harrington Brown, and Benjamin Davis Wilson.

mssPF 1-350

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Newspaper clippings, miscellaneous, and ephemera

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mssPF 1-350

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PF 312.

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Speeches

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Correspondence, Speeches, Miscellaneous and Ephemera

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