Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of an aerial view of the plans for the World's Columbian Exposition buildings along the lakeshore in Chicago, Illinois; names of several buildings and exhibits planned are labeled, including "naval exhibit" and "fine arts" near each location; steamships and sailboats visible on the lake; bust portraits of Christopher Columbus and George Washington in oval frames at top right and left.
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Manuscripts
There are 631 manuscripts, 525 of which are by Caroline Severance. These include speeches, poetry, essays, articles, notebooks, commonplace books, miscellaneous notes, and a 347-page unpublished autobiography by Caroline Severance entitled "Own Story." The majority of the 10,634 pieces of correspondence is made up of family letters; only 232 letters are written by Caroline Severance. The rest of the correspondence is made up of letters written to Caroline Severance by over 1,700 different authors. The collection contains 9,007 pieces of ephemera, which is made up of address books, appointment books, brochures, business papers, greeting cards, legal documents, newspaper clippings, postcards, fliers, brochures, programs, notebooks, photographs, and financial papers of the family. The manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera cover the following subjects: African American women suffrage and clubs, Susan B. Anthony, Jessie Benton Frémont, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Julia Ward Howe, child labor reform, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Fröbel and the Kindergarten movement, Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, Helen Modjeska, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, dress reform, suffrage, temperance, Unitarianism, women's rights, women's clubs, and the history, politics and social life of 19th and 20th century Los Angeles, California.
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Manuscripts
4 items.
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Rare Books
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Visual Materials
This scrapbook consists primarily of individual head-and-shoulder portraits of Wellington Catering Company employees, many of whom were women and children, all with handwritten captions identifying the name of the sitter. Two pages contain portraits of African American employees. The photographs are 5 x 4 cm ovals and many bear partial embossed stamps of "Department of Admissions." In addition, the scrapbook contains World's Columbian Exposition ephemeral items including business cards, work passes, programs to orchestral events and organ concerts, and 3 business letters written to William Cornelius, the former owner of the scrapbook. There is also an envelope with an additional 20 pieces of loose ephemera.
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