Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 110 items: letters (many from "Pat" at the ranch to "Mr. Garbutt" with "news" of the ranch), reports, and other Vermejo Ranch materials. Includes major financial report (5-pp. on brown backing), "Vermejo Club- Assets," 12/31/1928.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 110 items: letters (many from "Pat" at the ranch to "Mr. Garbutt" with "news" of the ranch), reports, and other Vermejo Ranch materials. Includes major financial report (5-pp. on brown backing), "Vermejo Club- Assets," 12/31/1928.
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Approx. 65 items: letters, reports and other materials related to Vermejo Club (& Vermejo Ranch) and involving Harry Chandler, H.E. Downing, Ira Aten and others. Also in the folder is a 6-pp. legal document headed "Leasehold Agreement," created in 1940 between the St. Louis, Rocky Mountain & Pacific Company and Southwest Land Co. related to lands known as Vermejo Club (or Vermejo Ranch) in Colfax County, New Mexico.
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Approx. 15 items, grouped in two bundles, one dating from 1953, the other from 1959 : 1953 group consists mainly of letters to and replies from W.S. Ruby, Real Estate Manager of Chandis Securities (after merger with Southwest Land Co.) related to Vermejo Club / Vermejo Ranch property ; 3-pp. letter, 10/28/1959, from W.S. Ruby to W.D. Grisso of the University of Oklahoma, which reads in part, "W.J. Gorley of Fort Worth purchased the Vermejo property from Southwest Land Co. over ten years ago and that much of the file pertaining to the property has long since been destroyed" ; 3-pp. "Vermejo Club members" list, undated, but it predates Harry Chandler's 1944 death (also predates actor Douglas Fairbanks' 1939 death). Some prominent names from the list: Capt. William Banning, Harry Chandler, Col. Ira Copley, Cecil B. de Mille, Douglas Fairbanks, Harvey Firestone, Will H. Hays, Herbert Hoover, Glenn L. Martin, Andrew Mellon, Claus Spreckles and Adolf Zukor. Another item in the 1959 group is a letter addressed to Harry Chandler fifteen years after his death.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 55 items: letters, handwritten notes, invoices and other material related to Vermejo Club (Vermejo Ranch) and involving H.E. Downing (later W.S. Ruby) Ira Aten and others. Major item: 4-pp. (stapled) headed "The following documents will be found in the Vermejo Club Sundry Documents File in the safe in the Treasurer's vault."
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Approx. 70 items: letters, less formal memos, club documents, reports on operations at the Club's ranch property in New Mexico or on subjects related in some way to ranch operations ; member lists ; telegrams ; 5-pp. "credo" titled "The Reason for the Vermejo Club" ; 8-pp. "Special Agreement" (on brown backing) being the purchase document when Robert and Virginia Doulton sold "the 'Bartlett' or 'Vermejo' Ranch" to Vermejo Club ; more.
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