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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Included: José Aurioles Díaz political essay, liquor licenses, and Rodolfo Cabrera letter
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Manuscripts
This collection consists of materials that Pedro Villaseñor created and assembled that document the troubled church-state relations of Mexico and their effect in Los Angeles, chiefly in the 1930s. It documents transnational politics between Mexico and Los Angeles as well as politics and political organizing and activities within the Mexican community of Los Angeles in the 1930s. It also documents the intellectual and political thought of Mexican conservative Roman Catholicism in Los Angeles and beyond through correspondence from Mexico, Cuba, Peru, and throughout the United States; newsletters; poetry; books; essays; and flyers. Holdings in United States research libraries and archives related to Roman Catholic political resistance to the Mexican government, an important part of twentieth-century Mexican church-state history, are extremely rare. Of particular interest is the large amount of literary material that Mexican conservative Roman Catholics in this collection authored. Books accompanying this collection are assigned call number RB 646900.
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Manuscripts
Pedro Villaseñor incoming and outgoing correspondence re church/state relations in Mexico, the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico, and subscriptions to "Pro Patria"
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Visual Materials
This volume describes the efforts of Walter S. Wright, J. H. Holmes (here referred to as John H. Holmes), and their partners to secure the concession to build the San Jorges Bay and Eastern Railroad to the Los Pintos Mines, detailing a meeting with Judge Ygnacio Sepúlveda, former judge of the Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles, who facilitated American capital investment in Porfirian Mexico. The volume contains an appendix, Memoranda of the Concession, that outlines the terms granted to Holmes and partners "to construct and exploit a railroad on public domain from Sierra Pinta to San Jorges Bay in Sonora, Mexico." The journal account includes a business card from the Mexican Herald and describes a story in that newspaper claiming that Wright and Holmes were in Mexico in order to persuade President Porfirio Díaz to overthrow the current government of El Salvador and restore deposed President Carlos Ezeta to office. Photographs in the volume include depictions of Walter S. Wright; J. H. Holmes, including an image with Ezeta; President Díaz entering a carriage; Judge Sepúlveda; and several thumbnail portraits of various business partners. Photographs also show pilgrims on the way to the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe; indigenous people with their children and selling goods; people and street scenes in Mexico City, including some taken from the Hotel Iturbide, where the business partners stayed; the American Club and Cathedral of Mexico; palace guards and Mexican soldiers; markets, including the Flower Market; the floating gardens and Viga Canal; a bullfight; the Paseo de la Reforma; and images from a train journey, some taken from within the train and some on stops, of fruit sellers and residents of villages. One photograph features the daughter of the Reverend E. L. Conger and her husband, Mr. Vose, on their honeymoon; she is described as "a fair Pasadenan" (page 25).
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Manuscripts
Essay is in German. With notes and clippings on Florence Nightingale.
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Manuscripts
Microfilm of three typescript essays by Evans Coleman, and which primarily trace the history of the Alpine, Nevada, area. The first essay, entitled "Firsts in Alpine," describes early events in shaping the settlement, including the arrival of the first settlers and the introduction of agricultural implements, a school, and mail service. The second essay, "Land Transactions in the Eighties," is a brief account of the influx of Mormon pioneers to the Alpine area and the decision of the first settler, a non-Mormon named Bush, to sell his land in the area. The final essay is a biography of Coleman's mother, Emma Beck Coleman (1840-1913). The account reads like an autobiography and is written in the first person as Emma. It describes the nomadic lifestyle Emma and her family were forced to lead as they faced persecution in Illinois and Missouri, and describes the hardships of traveling in wagons, specifically focusing on the discomfort suffered by the pack animals and Emma's recollections of going hungry. It briefly traces Emma's life in southern Utah, her move to Alpine, Arizona, in 1881, and her eventual settlement in Thatcher in the Gila Valley in 1899.
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