Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
Note inside case reads: "J. L. Brent" and is written in the hand of Hally Carrington Brent, J. L. Brent's daughter-in-law. Date based on years of major usage of ambrotypes.
(photDAG 157)
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Visual Materials
Joseph Lancaster Brent (1826-1905) served in the California State Legislature and held other civic positions before returning to Louisiana to serve as a Confederate officer in the Civil War. Date based on estimated age of sitter and photograph type.
(photDAG 156)
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of legal papers, correspondence, letter books, ledgers, and account books related chiefly to the Banning Company, Wilmington harbor, Wilmington property, and Santa Catalina Island. There are also papers of the various subsidiary firms of the Banning Company, as well as Banning family letters, and receipts of William and Hancock Banning.
mssBanning Company
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Manuscripts
A collection of 460 items from 1850 to 1936, which consists of letters, documents, and manuscripts related to the life and activities of Joseph Lancaster Brent. Subject matter includes Brent's experiences and life in Southern California from 1850 to 1861; social and business affairs in California, Louisiana, and Maryland; the Civil War and the Confederate war effort in particular; the capture of the U.S. ironclad, "Indianola;" Brent's military promotions; United States foreign affairs, national defense, and economy. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Ignacio Del Valle, Winfield Scott Hancock, John Bankhead Magruder, Ygnacio Sepulveda, Richard Taylor, and Benjamin Davis Wilson.
mssBT
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Manuscripts
Writing from Los Angeles, Whiting asks for another week to pay back the money he owes to Brent.
mssHM 47983
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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.
WN 1943.