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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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The 282 photographic prints in this collection document voyages of the United States Revenue Cutters "Bear," "Corwin," and "Richard Rush" to Alaska and the Arctic Ocean in the 1880s and 1890s. The images depict the boats, Captain Michael A. Healy, Frank A. Healy (Healy's son), the crewmen of the afore-mentioned revenue cutters; Alaskan natives and their homes; and various views of the Alaskan wilderness and towns. The collection provides insight into the people and events the "Bear" and "Corwin" encountered on their voyages while under the command of Healy. The collection also depicts Alaskan native graves; missionaries; whaling ships; ice fields in the Arctic Ocean; J.B. Vincent, a survivor of the shipwrecked "Napoleon"; Francis "Frank" Fuller, murderer of Archbishop Charles John Seghers; Alaskan native umiaks and various artifacts; and reindeer stations. Photographers who contributed to this collection include H.W. Bradley, Edward DeGroff, Lt. C.D. Kennedy of the USRC Maine, Geoff Knight, William H. Rulofson, and I.W. Taber. See also photCL 97 for related photographs concerning the "Corwin". The photographs were originally part of the Huntington's Manuscripts collection for Papers of Michael A. Healy, 1881-1900, call number mssHM 47577-47618.
photCL 131
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Manuscripts
This letter was written by John Groom to "My dier Wife and Children," on September 22, 1850 from Georgetown, California. In this letter to his family, Groom describes his difficult journey from the Missouri River to California. He opens the letter about the hardships of his journey, which includes contracting the flu and mountain fever. He passes numerous graves while crossing the plains, which disheartens him. In California, he states that the prospects of mining for gold "looks very Gloomy." According to Groom, the chances are very slim. "I am speaking now of the late emegrtion per haps 1 in 20 makes theire half ounce a day and 1 in 50 is doing what we all expect to do that is to do well by hard work and aconemy while 1 in a 1000 is makeing there fortunes..." He reveals the harsh reality of the California Gold Rush, "...I tell you now that the dark side of callafornia has been kept hid while the good side has been mutch Exagerated there is not 1 man in 100 but wishes himself at home of this years emegration and every man almost without exepttion that can Raise the money is a going and has gone already for my part I am here without the means to get home..." He also includes details about the costly supplies in California. He concludes the letter, "...be content to stay where you are doing well or not for God forbid that I ever should be the cause of any man coming to Calafornia to get Gold..."
mssHM 68184
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A collection of 45 photographs (glass plate negatives, lantern slides, and copy prints) of Chiricahua? Apache people at an encampment in Arizona, approximately 1899. Images include Apache men, women, and children in a line outside a federal agency building in San Carlos, Arizona; a woman and man displaying baskets; Apache men standing in a line next to a U.S. Army soldier; brush huts and adobe buildings; Apache men riding horses and holding guns (probably scouts). Three images show Apache men and a boy in poses for the Devil Dance, wearing headdresses, masks, and blankets, and holding weapons. One group portrait depicts Native American and Anglo men and women posed together. There are also five copy photographs of the collector, Reverend Berry Edmiston, and his wife Ednah Lee Edmiston, seen in youth and in old age, including one image of them standing outside their Riverside, California home, approximately 1890s. Box 1 contains copy prints of all the glass plate negatives, and 17 of 30 lantern slides. Some lantern slides are duplicates of the glass plate images.
photCL 623
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A set of 55 photographs chiefly depicting North Pasadena, Sierra Madre, and the San Gabriel Mountains and foothills, with a few images of Pasadena and Los Angeles, taken chiefly by unidentified photographers, plus later prints from 19 of the photographs. The photographs show residences, including the home of Sierra Madre founder Nathaniel Coburn Carter, which he named Carterhia, one view encompassing a lake in the foreground and the San Gabriel Valley beyond; one view depicting Nathaniel Carter in the foreground and Carter's wife, Annetta M. Carter, standing on the balcony next to wisteria vines; and several views of the house, some with people on burros in front (Box 1, Items 5-6, 24-27). Other homes depicted include the residence of Levi Richardson, also in Sierra Madre (Box 1, Item 10); views of an unidentified dwelling in the foothills, with a large gathering of men, women, and children in front, one playing a guitar and one sitting in a wheelbarrow, and American flags planted on the hillside (Items Box 1, Items 1-4); and homes draped by wisteria and ivy. Photographs also show mountain and forest scenery; agricultural images including grape vines, fruit trees, and a banana grove; and plants including yucca, roses, and cacti, some with people posing by them. Some photographs are portraits of people, including women posing indoors; people on a trail, among trees or sitting on rocks in the woods, or on railroad tracks; groups of men and women with burros; people on front porches and stairs outside of residences; and an infant on a bed. The collection also includes a few images taken by commercial photographers, including views of an unidentified building taken by [William Mollock?] Godfrey (Box 1, Items 21-23); a man seated on the front steps of a house surrounded by roses and foliage, taken by E. A. Bonine (Box 2, Item 51); a man standing in a cactus garden, taken by William Henry Hill (Box 2, Item 53); a yucca plant, taken by E. S. Frost and Son (Box 2, Item 54); and Los Angeles, with a view Southwest from the courthouse, taken by Park and Company (Box 2, Item 55).
photCL 378