Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
View of an adobe house with a veranda. There is laundry on a clothesline at the side of the house.
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Visual Materials
View of several houses and laundry hanging on a clothesline in the vicinity of Fourth Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with a child playing next to a pile of wood scraps. Identified as the former home of postmaster George J. Clarke (unclear which building). Clarke was identified in the 1875 Los Angeles City Directory as living on Fort Street (now South Broadway) near Fourth Street.
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Visual Materials
Street view of an adobe structure with a courtyard landscaped with a palm and other trees and plantings and a central fountain.
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Visual Materials
One story, frame and adobe house, square C in shape.
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.
Visual Materials
A house in a rural setting, with a dog and child near the doorway. A chicken is seen in the field, which appears to be plowed, and there are wash tubs hanging on the wall.
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