Manuscripts
Searing family papers, (bulk 1870-1890)
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Howell family papers, (bulk 1850-1950)
Manuscripts
The entire collection spans 240 years of American history and includes seven generations of the Howell and Taylor families. Subjects covered are: the Society of Friends; land ownership in the New Jersey colony; Mount Ephraim, New Jersey; fisheries in New Jersey; the Revolutionary War, General William Maxwell and the New Jersey 2nd Regiment; the Mexican War; pre-Civil War New Orleans; the Civil War and Jefferson Davis; Quaker Missionaries; the removal of the Pawnees to their new reservation in Indian Territory; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; farming in early 20th century southern California; Adam Clark Vroman; the Gila River Relocation Center; the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and refugees in post-World War II Europe and Belgrade; the Pasadena Playhouse; and life in late 20th century southern California including Altadena, San Dimas and Pasadena. There are letters written by William Burgess, Jefferson Davis, Varina Davis, George F. Howell, Richard Howell, Charles H. Searing, and William Henry Taylor. The collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, William Henry Jackson stereographs of Pawnee Indians, land deeds, legal papers, marriage records, diplomas, and notes.
mssHM 66800-67889, HM 69632-69644
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Brock Collection: Lee family papers, (bulk 1765-1870)
Manuscripts
Papers, chiefly correspondence, of four generations of the Lee family
mssBR Boxes 4 & 5
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McNair family papers, (bulk 1835-1943)
Manuscripts
A collection of approximately 5000 items from 1760 to 1964, which is related to multiple generations of the McNair family of Pennsylvania and California. The collection consists of family correspondence, diaries, business records, legal papers, scrapbooks, estate papers, photographs, prints, and ephemera. Included in the collection is material for Thomas McNair, Thomas Speer McNair, and his children: Thomas Ferguson McNair, William Righter McNair, Jean Ferguson McNair, Rebecca Sharon McNair, and James Birtley McNair. Subjects covered in the collection include: Princeton University; University of California, Berkeley; Irish American families; Pennsylvania commerce, education, history, mining, and railroads; Freemasons; Southern California citrus industry, and history; World War I and World War II. Notable people in the collection include, among others: Simon Cameron, Ernest Dawson, and Charles Fletcher Lummis.
mssMcNair
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Brock Collection: Randolph-Tucker family papers, (bulk 1770-1890)
Manuscripts
Correspondence, personal papers and financial records of the Randolph and Tucker families.
mssBR Boxes 6-10
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Hastings family papers, (bulk 1560-1830)
Manuscripts
Accounts, deeds, legal papers, court records, household books, inventories and catalogs of family papers, estate and manorial papers, and correspondence relating to the estates, personal and financial affairs of the Hastings family. Most of the materials deal with national and local politics during the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I and the Civil War (1641-1649), Protectorate, Restoration, and the American Revolution.
mssHA
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Frederick Hanley Seares Papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists of the correspondence files and manuscripts, notes, and notebooks of American astronomer Frederick Hanley Seares. While roughly one half of the papers deal with administrative matters of the Mount Wilson Observatory, the remainder cover his scientific work. There are also some manuscripts, notes and notebooks (Boxes 19-21) related to Seares's research activities. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Walter S. Adams, Robert Grant Aitken, Edward Emerson Barnard, William Wallace Campbell, Gustav Fock, Edwin Brant Frost, Henry Gordon Gale, Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin, Walter M. Gilbert, George Ellery Hale, Ejnar Hertzprung, Edwin Powell Hubble, J.C. Kapteyn, Armin Otto Leuschner, C.E. Kenneth Mees, John C. Merriam, Charlotte Emma Moore, John Adelbert Parkhurst, Francis Gladheim Pease, Edward C. Pickering, P.J. van Rhijn, Frank E. Ross, Henry Norris Russell, Harlow Shapley, Joel Stebbins, Otto Struve, and Edwin Bidwell Wilson. Corporate and organizational organizations represented in the collection include: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Carnegie Institution of Washington, William H. Guild & Company, International Astronomical Union, International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research, Mount Wilson Observatory and the University of Chicago Press.
mssSeares papers