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1151 Oxford Road
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").
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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
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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Image of an outdoor scene with an older African American man, the character Uncle Tom, sitting on a porch in a rocking chair and reading a book to Eva, a blond child who stands at his side; the poster advertises the Harmount Company production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stow.
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Portraits and staged candid shots of the interior designer Tom Douglas working at his desk and in an elaborately decorated living room.
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Manuscripts
1 item: 130-pp. transcript of interview with Tom Johnson, Los Angeles Times Publisher. Subjects include: TJ describes his typical day at that time ; he feels "a great frustration in my inability to read everything in The Times...to read other publications that I feel [it] essential of read" ; getting used to the sheer size of LA and the scope of Los Angeles Times ; his thoughts about the quality of Los Angeles Times - "one of the finest news and editorial products in the nation," etc. ; the Hispanic market (p. 28) ; "I have the reputation of being a workaholic...(but) I love my work" (p.37) ; "Otis believes...in fitness and vacations and in time away to reflect..." (p.39) ; "off-duty" time, evenings, etc. ; memories of the Johnson White House, TJ's work in Texas ; job moves including Texas to Los Angeles, saying "my son may have paid the heaviest price" (p. 49) ; plans for upgrading of high technology equipment around the newspaper (p. 54) ; product improvement ; helping to prepare Norman Chandler (Otis' son) to "achieve his...aspirations" (p. 62-68) ; personnel ; 1980 newsprint shortage ; his interest in government and civic service vs. newspaper management ; "Mrs. Lyndon Johnson is one of my best friends" (p. 100) ; his youth, his mother and father (p. 105+) ; "I'm...39...I've never failed...(with) my son...we're going down a tough path right now" ; White House Fellows program (p. 124) ; more.
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