Manuscripts

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Description: Chiefly miscellaneous clippings related to the history of the San Rafael area.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Call number: mssSRR
Creator: San Rafael Ranch Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Marguerite Bock, 2/8/1954.; Gift of Lawrence Cook, 2/8/1955.; Gift of Nicholas Brandt, 6/21/1972.; Gift of Steve Brandt, 7/1/2000.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Associated people: Campbell-Johnston, A. (1846-1931.); Campbell-Johnston, Conway. (1831-); Long, James, (1831-); Platt, James, (1858-1885,)

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Manuscripts

Consists of: Annual Report: Church Home for Children, 1917 Citrus Fair of San Gabriel Valley [program], 1885 "Enjoy the Advantages of the Pasadena Savings & Loan Association" [booklet], undated Guide to San Rafael Area, Pasadena (San Rafael P.T.A.) 1955 "Horace Dobbins and the One-Week Tollway" [historical booklet, undated] Pasadena Pioneer Pictorial: An Album of Early Day Pasadena and Environs (Mountain View Mausoleum Association), 1954 Queen Victoria Memorial Service Address ... Rt. Rev. J. Horsfall Johnson ... Church of the Angels, February 3, 1901 [program] Valley of Hahamog-na: Pasadena Through Two Centuries (Pasadena Savings and Loan Association), 1952 Vista del Arroyo Hotel and Bungalows [promotional booklet], 1939

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San Rafael Ranch Company records

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters, documents, and maps, including 14 bound volumes, related to the business affairs (1898-1923) of Conway S. Campbell-Johnson and A. Campbell-Johnson, the sons of Alexander Robert Campbell-Johnson. The collection includes property titles, cattle records, property annexation agreements with the city of Pasadena, right-of-way agreements with the Pacific Electric Railway Company, and records of the Church of the Angels in Highland Park, Calif. The addenda consists of estate papers related to the Campbell-Johnston family, including Conway Seymour Campbell-Johnston, R.A. Campbell-Johnston, A.R. Campbell-Johnston (through Louis Johnston), and Ida Campbell-Johnston; 2 maps of the San Rafael Heights area; programs, printed ephemera, and magazine clippings primarily related to the San Rafael area of Pasadena; miscellaneous newspapers and magazines on Southern California history; and 3 published books, including Progress and Economy by J. Platt (1882) and The dairy of the farm by James Long and J.C. Morton (1885). The addenda also includes 29 photographs of Southern California, including Eagle Rock, the Garvanza Hotel and miscellaneous images of Garvanza, the Mt. Lowe Railroad, the Webster's Hotel dining room in Pasadena, the beach of Hotel Arcadia in Santa Monica, the Sierra Madre Villa Hotel, and the Sierra Madre Mountains.

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Manuscripts, Printed Items, and Ephemera

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Maps of San Rafael Heights

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Photograph of Sierra Madre Villa Hotel [card photograph]

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Gillette, Gibson, and Wood (firm). Abstract of title to property in Rancho San Pascual

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