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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Correspondents include: Baldwin, E.H. ; Jenkins, Thomas M.
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Visual Materials
Note with item reads: "These may be two of Mary E. Jenkins' (Mrs. Levi Rowley) brothers. Thomas? Jenkins, Edwin? Jenkins." Date based on years of major usage of daguerreotypes.
(photDAG 14)
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Visual Materials
Thirty card studio portraits of members of the family of Henry Harbinson Sinclair and his wife, Agnes Rowley Sinclair, dating from about 1850 to 1910. Individuals include Henry Harbinson Sinclair and Agnes Rowley Sinclair, their children, Marjorie Sinclair and Arthur Sinclair; Agnes Sinclair's parents, Mary Jenkins Rowley and Levi Rowley; Caroline Jenkins, Fanny Harbinson, Cornelia Sinclair, Henry Jenkins, Robert Strong Sinclair, Elizabeth Sinclair, and Lucy Knowles. Identified photographers include Brooklyn photographs Herman Wunder, Brasier, Thos. W. Taylor of Gardner & Co, G. Frank E. Pearsall, and Charles Rawson; New York City photographers Hargrave, Fredericks, and Beardsley; F. Forshew of Hudson, New York; and Frank Fryette of Redlands and San Bernardino, California.
photPF 120-149
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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. The collection also contains a diploma from Sinclair's membership in the American Institute of Electric Engineers and a manuscript, by Englishman Thomas Cowper, of calculations regarding a solar eclipse on June 24, 1778.
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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. The collection also contains a diploma from Sinclair's membership in the American Institute of Electric Engineers and a manuscript, by Englishman Thomas Cowper, of calculations regarding a solar eclipse on June 24, 1778.
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Manuscripts
Recipients include: Barbour, F.F.; Brown, Frank L.; Clark, Clarence; Clark, C.E. (c/o Portland Railway Light & Power Co.); Finkle, F.C.; Fleming, Arthur H.; Gillis, R.C.; Hawley, Edwin; Josselyn, B.S.; Lewis, John H.; McCay, W.S.; Staats, William R. (William R. Staats Co.); Waller, C.W.; Wilson, H.P.
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