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Personal and business papers of George Smith Patton, Sr., and his family including wife Ruth Wilson Patton, son General George S. Patton, and daughter Anne Wilson Patton. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, receipts, tax documents, estate papers, maps, photographs, ephemera, etc. There is some General George S. Patton related material in the collection; most of which is in the Anne Wilson Patton series (finance documents). Box 42 contains correspondence by General George S. Patton (photocopies), his wife Beatrice, and their children. There is some information amongst the real estate-related papers about racial restrictions in the San Gabriel Valley. Also included is material on Arvin Harrington Brown, his family and their property in Arizona. There is a large series of letters written by Arvin Harrington Brown, Jr., to his parents while he was serving in World War II. The "Miscellaneous" series contains similar material to the first two series including financial documents, abstracts of title, real estate information, deeds, maps, and some information about General George S. Patton. The oversize items contain tract maps of southern California. The Receipts & Vouchers Binder 11 is missing or was never received, and two boxes of material from the Brown Family series were returned to the family and one photograph album transferred to the Rare Book Department as Album 98, Volume II, April 1976 (Volume I is in the Shorb papers).
mssPattoncollection
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Manuscripts
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mssPattoncollection