Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Filed alphabetically by title: A-H
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Manuscripts
Includes: Address at banquet in honor of Los Angeles Mayor Frank L. Shaw, 1933. Addresses (others that were not contained in her alphabetical file). Broadcasts (1938) campaign. Broadcasts (except 1938 campaign) filed in chronological order. Compositions (school, 1904-1910?) Music (accompanied by readings) Poems by Louise Ward Watkins. Published works by Louise Ward Watkins. Notes for speeches, etc.
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including 23 diaries, 1915-74), documents, 17 scrapbooks, and photographs related to the life and interests of Louise Ward Watkins. Subject matter in the collection includes California politics; Japan and her continuing interest in Japanese-American relations; her father, engineer George Clinton Ward; and the Watkins family. There is also an unpublished autobiography of Louise Ward Watkins and ten pieces in the collection related to John Steven McGroarty
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Includes some World War I pieces of ephemera
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The scrapbooks chiefly contain newspaper clippings from the 1930s.
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Manuscripts
See also oversize folders of photographs and albums at the end of the collection
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