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San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Letters, manuscripts, autographs, drawings, and prints related to James Wolfe, collected for their autograph value. Most of the letters are addressed to Wolfe's mother and concern's his effects and papers. The correspondents include Thomas Bell, Wolfe's aide-de-camp; Welbore Ellis, the 1st Baron of Mednip; Philip Hardel, a London goldsmith; Thomas Fisher, an executor of Wolfe's estate; William Pitt, the Elder, , and Samuel Francis Swinden, Wolfe's tutor, George Warde and Charles Warde. Also included are letters from Mrs. Wolfe to Wolfe's friend William Weston (1740, Dec. 16); Lord Shelbourne to Wolfe (1758, January); Wolfe's fiancee, Katherine Lowther to Mrs. Wolfe (1759, Oct. 25), and a note, in the hand of Thomas Bell, written at Montmorenci instructing "Major Dalling to come to Headquarters with both the captured women").
mssHM 9667-9695
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Visual Materials
Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material consists of 57,893 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints; 39 presentation albums; and 17 boxes of office records, 1930-1974. Created primarily by Maynard Parker, the archive documents the residential and non-residential work of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists, builders, real estate developers, and clients associated with these fields, foremost among them the magazine House Beautiful. Also included in the collection are photographs taken by other individuals, such as architect Cliff May and Parker's assistant, Charles Yerkes.
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Visual Materials
Disbound album of amateur snapshot photographs documenting the activities of the Sisson family beginning with views of Illinois, Ohio, and New Hampshire (Mt. Washington) in 1898-1899 and continuing on to their life in Southern California. Includes views of a vacation camping trip by Edward A. Sisson, his father, George H. Sisson, and other men to Lower California (Baja, Mexico) in 1901 around Ensenada, Sausalito, El Rosario and Santa Catarina. The second half of the album documents the life of the Sisson family in the Garvanza section of northeast Los Angeles (near Pasadena and South Pasadena) beginning in 1902. Many of the Los Angeles photographs focus on Dorothy Sisson and Margaret Sisson as young children, with some views in Pasadena, the Arroyo Seco, the Sisson's house (the "Garvanza Villa"), and a trip to San Francisco. All photographs are captioned and many are dated. Contains photographs by Stella Hart, Mrs. Joseph L. Ball, Mrs. Kyellberg and Mr. Wheeler.
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Visual Materials
Mr. Huntington visiting the Patton family; the future general George Patton is standing on the left in his cadet's uniform from West Point. MS note on verso reads "On porch of Wilson house, Lake Vineyard, Nov. 1903. Miss Susan Patton (Mrs. Wills); George S. Patton, Jr.; Ruth Wilson Patton (Mrs. George S.); Henry E. Huntington; George S. Patton; Hancock Banning."
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Visual Materials
Image of a family portrait of the musical and sketch entertainment ensemble the McGibeny Family of Portland, Oregon, sitting in a parlor with musical instruments displayed on the floor; the family consists of the parents Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McGibeny and their twelve children, including an infant: Alice McGibeny, Fred McGibeny, Dockie McGibeny, Hugh McGibeny, Leo McGibeny, James McGibeny, Frank McGibeny, Grace McGibeny, Carl McGibeny, Victor McGibeny, Florence McGibeny, and Viola McGibeny; floral border around portrait.
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Visual Materials
Family album of snapshots depicting the family of Du Wan and Tom J. Chong in Los Angeles, California, in the 1930s. There are many views of the Chong family and friends, as well as members of Los Angeles's Chinese community on outings, at the beach, attending picnics, on the University of Southern California campus, and at their residences. The album was presumably compiled by the Chongs' son Paul Tom, a pharmacist, and there are many images of him with friends as a young man, as well as a few of him posing at the shop where he worked in Old Chinatown near the Los Angeles Plaza. There are also images of the "Majestic Mandarins" band, shots of Paul on location in 1936 as an extra for the films "Lost Horizon" and "The General Died at Dawn," and of the "Chinese Group" of the Screen Actors Guild in a 1937 Labor Day parade. In addition there are 14 pieces of ephemera at the back of the album related to Paul consisting chiefly of cards and invitations often related to the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, and a program for Paul's 1928 graduation from Los Angeles High School. Some photographs have handwritten captions.
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