Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Waiting for the Kettle to Boil
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Edwin Powell Hubble (center) and unidentified companions (two women, one girl, and two adolescent boys) seated around a camp fire. A coffee pot is visible in the center near the fire, and trees are in the background.
mssHUB 1096 (8)
Visual Materials
A group of over 200 Camp Fire Girls pose at Griffith Park in Los Angeles. The girls are seated in the foreground and standing in the background in a grassy area surrounded by trees. A message printed in white in the bottom right corner reads "Los Angeles Camp Fire Girls First Annual Pa-hi ; May 5, 1934, Griffith Park, Los Angeles".
photCL Whitt 3111
Visual Materials
A group of Indians seated around a small tree, in a field of flowers. There may be a person dancing (blurred). Tepees can be seen in the background.
photCL 275 fld. 18 (18)
Visual Materials
Image of a certificate issued to Sally Williams from the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church; an angel with a trumpet and the Holy Bible flies over three vignettes, including people tormented by snakes in front of a cross with a building being destroyed by flood and fire in the background, a group of Native American Indians seated in a circle in front of tipis with a priest preaching to them, and three African people kneeling and reaching towards the sky with a hut and palm trees in the background.
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Manuscripts
In his reminiscences, William Hickman Dolman recounts his childhood in Roseville, Ohio (he also spends several pages on the history of his family). Dolman describes years of moving around looking for full-time work and his decision to go to California to mine for gold. Dolman details his overland journey to California including the bad weather, deaths along the way, and a group from his wagon train deciding to turn around and go back east. While in California and Nevada, Dolman talks about his constant struggle to make money from the mines. Dolman moves around a lot, but spends most of his time in Carson City and Gold Hill, Nevada. Dolman also discusses his disappointment with his loss of money in the Comstock Lode, vigilance activity in Carson City, as well as the Battle of Pyramid Lake where Major William M. Ormsby was killed by Paiute Indians. Part of Dolman's reminiscences have been published: New Mexico historical review, July 1947, and Before the Comstock, 1857-1858: memoirs of William Hickman Dolman, also in 1947. This version of his reminiscences is not the same as the two published versions.
mssHM 66494