Manuscripts
City of Pasadena
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Sinclair, Marjorie: "Pasadena Community Playhouse Beginnings."
Manuscripts
The Henry H. Sinclair Papers number more than 1,600 items, including diaries, journals, newspaper clippings, ledgers, and extensive personal and business correspondence. The complete date range is 1802-1937 (bulk dates 1909-1914). Subject matter includes business matters of the Great Western Power Company, Palmer Oil Company, Mt. Hood Railway and Power Company, etc.; diaries and notebooks concerning power plant inspection trips, mostly to the Kern River in California; the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association; and the California to Honolulu yacht races. The collection also includes his son's papers pertaining to California Delta Farms, Inc.
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Photographs in Los Angeles County and Pasadena
Visual Materials
Consists of fourteen photographs. Ten photographs, including some duplicates, are portraits of Arthur W. Sinclair, Marjorie Rowley Sinclair, Robert S. Sinclair, and Agnes Rowley (labeled as Mrs. H. H. Sinclair). Some were taken at 375 Waverly Drive, Pasadena. One photograph of a 1842-3 portrait of Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, later Mrs. Levi Rowley, is also included. The four remaining items are: one photograph of a portrait of Samuel Sewall; one group photo of a picnic on Mount Wilson with Dr. B. M. Page, Governor Henry Harrison Markham, Benjamin Page, and Frank Daggett in attendance; and two photographs of Robert W. Lull and his bookstore at 1 Chapel St., Newburyport, Massachusetts.
photPF 20-29
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Misc. correspondence: Sinclair not sender or recipient
Manuscripts
Various documents including business correspondence, informal financial notes and one form letter from a homeowner group to the City of Pasadena.
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Henry Harbinson Sinclair Papers
Manuscripts
The Henry H. Sinclair Papers number more than 1,600 items, including diaries, journals, newspaper clippings, and extensive personal and business correspondence. The complete date range is 1802-1937 (bulk dates 1909-1914). Subject matter includes mostly business matters of the Great Western Power Company, Palmer Oil Company, Mt. Hood Railway and Power Company, etc.; diaries and notebooks concerning power plant inspection trips, mostly to the Kern River in California; the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association; the California to Honolulu yacht races. The collection also includes the papers of his son, Arthur W. Sinclair, pertaining to California Delta Farms, Inc. Call numbers for the papers in this collection are 1 (1) through 8 (4), with the first digit representing the box number and the second digit the folder within the box. For the most part, items are not foldered individually; however, a rolled diploma from Sinclair's membership in the American Institute of Electric Engineers is slightly oversized and housed separately. A more detailed, searchable database of the attached container list is available at The Huntington Library.
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Correspondence from H. H. Sinclair
Manuscripts
Recipients include: Adams, J.H., & Co. (attn: James R. Martin); Bartow, R.C. (secretary, Tournament of Roses Assn.); Batchelder, George A.; Bedford, A.C.; Clark, L.W.; Cone, W.S.; Cook, D.S.; Cookley, Harry H.; Cortright, B.B. (also spelled Courtright, B.B.); Crane, Harold O. (Marysville, CA); Crocker National Bank (San Francisco, CA); Denman, A.C. Jr. (Redlands, Calif.); Dicey, E.C. ; Doty, J. Lamb; Dr. Bullock (New Mexico Cottage Sanatorium; Duke, Minnie; Ellis, George B. (president, Union Home Telephone Company); Fisher, Henry (Redlands, CA); Graham, Thomas K.; Guy, I.C.; Hall, H.S.; Harbor Land Company; Hilborn, E.P.; Jardine, J.E.; Johnson, Milbank; Lardner, H.A.; Long, Oscar Fitzalan (US Army, general, retired); Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank; Marshall, E.J. (Chino Land Company); McCuiston Company; Miller, H.L.; Mulligan, E.H. (Southern California Edison Company); Munger & Munger (a Pasadena company); Munson, S.M. (City Tax Collector, Pasadena); Newberry, John R.; Nolan, G.N.; Off, E.T. (Tournament of Roses Association); Palmer Oil Company, San Francisco (Attn: Mr. Walker); Pasadena, City of - Tax Collector; Phillips, Lee (Pac. Mutual Life Ins. Co); Powell, C.L. ; Robinson, H.M.; Short, Frank H. ; Sinclair, Elizabeth (Nutley, N.J.); Snook, John P. (Sacramento); Staats, William R. (William R. Staats Co.); Stimson - G. Lawrence Stimson Co., Pasadena; Tompkins, F.M. (treasurer, California Electric Generating Co.); Torrance, J.S. (Torrance-Marshall Co.); United States Geological Survey; Willcox, O.B. (W.P. Bonbright & Co.); Williams, Silas (Domestic Water Co., Redlands, CA).
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Diary
Manuscripts
Includes notations for most days from Jan. until early Dec., when Dec. 12, when notation reads, "left for S.A."
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