Manuscripts

Milton D. Painter collection

Description: A collection of 42 items from 1848 to 1935, it primarily contains documents, such as agreements, deeds, and maps relating to the Painter family and the Pasadena Land and Water Company. The majority of the maps and plats show the land owned or controlled by the Painter family in Southern California. There are also personal letters from John H. Painter and Alonzo J. Painter to Milton D. Painter from the late 1800s.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1848-1935
Call number: mssPainter
Creator: Painter, Milton D(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Charles W. Painter, May 1978.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Painter, Alonzo J.; Painter, John H.
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Correspondence and documents

Manuscripts

A collection of 42 items from 1848 to 1935, it primarily contains documents, such as agreements, deeds, and maps relating to the Painter family and the Pasadena Land and Water Company. The majority of the maps and plats show the land owned or controlled by the Painter family in Southern California. There are also personal letters from John H. Painter and Alonzo J. Painter to Milton D. Painter from the late 1800s.

mssPainter

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Collection of California survey maps

Manuscripts

A collection of six survey maps and plats of various California ranchos, tracts, and properties from 1870 to 1893. The maps are drawn on paper, linen-backed tracing paper, and linen using black and various colors of ink. There are some tears and two of the maps are separated at the seams.

mssCalsurvey

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Milton Frank Kemble Papers

Manuscripts

The bulk of the collection consists of the diaries, account books, weather diaries, and notebooks of Milton Frank Kemble (1829-1888). Of particular interest is the diary Kemble wrote while traveling by train from Iowa to California in 1873. The rest of the collection is of materials from other members of the Kemble family.

mssKemble papers

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Raymond Hotel (second) and Painter Hotel

Visual Materials

Includes images of the Roy Knabenshue dirigible on site (Items 93-94) and a stereograph of the Painter Hotel (Item 95).

photCL 280

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Milton B. Stevens Correspondence

Manuscripts

This collection contains 62 letters from twenty-six different authors, including Milton B. Stevens, C. K. Dixon and Byron Whitcomb, in mining camps and cities throughout Northern California illustrating aspects of the Gold Rush experience, chiefly from 1849-1864. Milton B. Stevens is the most prolific figure in this collection, as he wrote fifteen of the letters in the collection and was the addressee of twenty. There are, however, twenty-five other authors in these letters, including four women, two of them writing from California. Other significant authors in this collection are: Abbey Stevens (5 letters), Byron Whitcomb (7 letters), and C. K. Dixon (9 letters). The letters mention various mining camps throughout Northern California, such as Fosters Bar, Galena Hill, Murderers Bar, Pilot Hill, Salmon Falls, Weber Creek, and the Klamath River Valley mines. The letters illustrate several aspects of the Gold Rush experience: the journey to California through South America; life in California and the gold camps; gold discoveries, or the lack thereof; the techniques and equipment used in mining; loneliness and longing for home. The letters from Milton B. Stevens' mother tell of the experience of the miners' families back at home in the East. The letter dated 1954 was written by Stephen C. Lyon, who at one time owned the collection. Eighteen of the letters have handwritten or typed transcripts.

mssHM 59471-59532

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The painter's pool

Rare Books

'Stoke Woods, in the south west of England, are truly ancient woodland, with records showing them gifted by King Athelston to the Church in Exeter in 953 AD. For painter Mike Garton, these woods - a mixture of oak, beech, ash, wild cherry, sycamore and the more recently introduced larch and Douglas fir - were both his studio and his obsession. Every day for over two decades he would go and capture on canvas what he saw amongst the woodland canopy, leaving his works-in-progress rolled up in hidden dens. He constructed a pool where a tree had fallen across a stream, and secretly tended it for many years. Jem Southam happened upon both painter and pool, and began to take pictures of the latter. The early photographs show signs of Garton's presence - an easel, poles of wood, bits of string - but as illness prevented him from working, these disappeared into their surroundings. The Painter's Pool is a touching story beautifully and discreetly revealed through the lens of one of Britain's most outstanding photographers. Jem Southam's work has been widely exhibited both in Europe and the United States, and is represented in many major collections such as the Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Council' -- Publisher's information.

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Milton D. Painter collection

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