Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Dr. George Wharton James
- Description
- Portrait of George Wharton James seated at a desk.
- Call number
- photCL Pierce 08625
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Jack London sits on a wheelbarrow with an open book on right, George Wharton James sits across from him.
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Manuscripts
Letter by George Wharton James to bookbinder John F. Grabau regarding Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass.
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Manuscripts
A collection of 266 items which consists of personal and professional papers of George Wharton James; the collection includes correspondence, lectures, sermons, articles, 2 scrapbooks, and photographs (1871-1921). The manuscripts cover such topics as the Grand Canyon, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Native Americans, American literature and humor, religion, overseas travels, and biographical pieces on Jesse Benton Frémont, William Ewart Gladstone, Lilla Leighton Lindley, William McKinley, Queen Victoria, and others. The correspondence includes letters and other material relating to the Robert Browning Centenary and letters from applicants for summer school at Echo Mountain, near Pasadena, California. The Addenda consists of letters and poems sent to James; the poems were probably intended for publication in Land of sunshine or Out west magazine and included are pieces by, among others, Thomas Bracken, Frona Eunice Wait, and Helen Hunt Jackson. The ephemera includes programs, lecture announcements, clippings and other printed material.
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Visual Materials
An autochrome half-length portrait of Mr. Huntington seated at a desk covered in papers, with a desk lamp to the right and book shelves in the background.
photCL 285
Visual Materials
[Portrait of executive seated at desk] [with 11 variants]
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Visual Materials
Portrait of Susan B. Anthony seated at her desk, left profile.
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