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Rodman M. Price papers

Description: A collection of 256 items from 1842 to 1890, it consists of letters, manuscripts and documents related to the various activities and interests of Rodman M. Price. The collection includes material on naval affairs, mostly before 1864; national politics; and the business affairs of Ward and Price. Additional topics include the passenger trade to California in 1850 and the steamship "Constitution;" and San Francisco, California, property values and land titles. Correspondents in the collection include Simon B. Bissell, John B. Rittenhouse, Edward Wolff, and the companies Maunsel White and Co., and Smith and Lewis.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1842-approximately 1890
Call number: mssRP
Creator: Price, Rodman M (1816-1894)(Opens in new tab)

1851-approximately 1890

Manuscripts

A collection of 256 items from 1842 to 1890, it consists of letters, manuscripts and documents related to the various activities and interests of Rodman M. Price. The collection includes material on naval affairs, mostly before 1864; national politics; and the business affairs of Ward and Price. Additional topics include the passenger trade to California in 1850 and the steamship "Constitution;" and San Francisco, California, property values and land titles. Correspondents in the collection include Simon B. Bissell, John B. Rittenhouse, Edward Wolff, and the companies Maunsel White and Co., and Smith and Lewis.

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1842-1843 ; 1850-1864

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John R. Brooks. Letter to Rodman M. Price. New Orleans, La

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The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.

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Mary Eleanor Bissell Papers

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This collection chiefly contains correspondence and documents created by the Connecticut ancestors of Pasadena, California, socialite Mary Eleanor Bissell, the most prominent of whom are her great-grandparents, Eleanor Mills Bissell and Thomas Bissell (active 1796-1848). The collection contains around forty pieces of correspondence relating to her great-grandparents as well as over a hundred items relating to the Bissell family business. The business papers include court summons, bills of sale, receipts, promissory notes, quit-claim deeds and an account book, all dated between 1738 and 1836. The collection also contains documents on the genealogy of the Bissell family in Windsor, Connecticut, as well as eighteen photographs of family and friends. A one volume guest book for Bissell's home in Pasadena, an autograph album, three lantern slides of Bissell's rose garden, one piece of correspondence, and a college diary are the only items in the collection that specifically pertain to Mary Eleanor Bissell.

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Papers of Eleanor Bissell and family

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A one volume guest book, an autograph album, three slides, one piece of correspondence and a college diary are the only items in the collection that specifically pertain to Mary Eleanor Bissell. The remainder of the collection concerns her relatives, the most prominent of whom are her great-grandparents, Eleanor Mills Bissell and Thomas Bissell (fl. 1796-1848). The collection contains around forty pieces of correspondence relating to her great-grandparents as well as over a hundred items relating to the Bissell family business. The business papers include court summons, bills of sale, receipts, promissory notes, quit-claim deeds and an account book, all dated between 1738 and 1836. The collection also contains documents on the genealogy of the Bissell family in Windsor as well as eighteen photographs of family and friends.

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Hugh Rodman letter to D. M. Renton

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A collection of correspondence and business records dealing with the history of Santa Catalina Island, California. The vast bulk of the collection consists of letters between D. M. Renton and William Wrigley concerning operations of Wrigley enterprises on Santa Catalina Island, including Renton's ongoing management of the multiple enterprises on the island. Renton's letters detail visitation, public services ranging from food to entertainment, development of new facilities from the Casino ballroom to an on-island hospital; the letters also describe construction work to improve access to clean potable water, and the mining operations for lead, silver and zinc, and the ongoing labor to extract them. The letters also describe the Hollywood studios using the island for filming and the use of the island for baseball training and games. The letters also include correspondence with Ferdinand Ellerman, Herbert Hoover, Lawrence Mott, Johnny Noble, Joseph H. Patrick, Hugh Rodman, John Wayne, Ada Elizabeth Wrigley, and Philip Wrigley. The business records include monthly expense and revenue reports for the island, meeting minutes and correspondence for the Santa Catalina Island Company.

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