Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
The dates for the photographs are the 1860s to approximately 1900. It is assumed the individuals in the photographs are Shugart family members. The majority are cabinet cards by various photography studios, mostly in Iowa. The photography studios heavily represented are: Boyd, Des Moines, Iowa; J. L. Hudson and Hudson's Gallery, Tama City, Iowa; J. S. Moore, Toledo, Iowa; J. B. Scholl, Chicago; and I. L. Townsend, Iowa Falls ,Iowa.
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Manuscripts
The 46 loose photographs in the collection are mostly unidentified and undated. The dates for the photographs are the 1860s to approximately 1900. It is assumed the individuals in the photographs are Shugart family members. There is one daguerreotype of Zachariah T. Shugart. There are two tintypes of unknown men (one standing with a bicycle). The rest are cabinet cards by various photography studios, mostly in Iowa. The photography studios heavily represented are: Boyd, Des Moines, Iowa; J. L. Hudson and Hudson's Gallery, Tama City, Iowa; J. S. Moore, Toledo, Iowa; J. B. Scholl, Chicago; and I. L. Townsend, Iowa Falls, Iowa.
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Manuscripts
The diaries consist of two volumes kept by Zachariah Shugart. The first is a diary Shugart kept from January to September 1867 while running a drugstore in Belle Plaine, Iowa. The second diary, kept from September to October 1880, documents a trip Shugart took to Ohio and Indiana. The Bible is a pocket edition of the New Testament published in 1853. It has a pencil note on flyleaf, in Shugart's hand: "A. Shugart, [illegible word] Bureau Co., Ill." and "Princeton, Ill. Bureau Co."
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Manuscripts
Collection of Shugart family papers and photographs dating from 1838 to approximately 1900, most likely preserved by Shugart's widow, Suzanna, and the family of his daughter Lucinda. The collection includes an account book kept by Zachariah T. Shugart from 1838 to 1853, which contains a 10-page list of names of 137 enslaved men, women, and children who he, and his associate Stephen Bogue, helped escape to Canada. There are also two diaries by Shugart, Civil War letters by Joseph Shugart, one land indenture, a pocket New Testament, 46 photographs, a photograph album, ephemera and newspaper clippings.
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Manuscripts
Collection of Shugart family papers and photographs dating from 1838 to approximately 1900, most likely preserved by Shugart's widow, Suzanna, and the family of his daughter Lucinda. The collection includes an account book kept by Zachariah T. Shugart from 1838 to 1853, which contains a 10-page list of names of 137 enslaved men, women, and children who he, and his associate Stephen Bogue, helped escape to Canada. There are also two diaries by Shugart, Civil War letters by Joseph Shugart, one land indenture, a pocket New Testament, 46 photographs, a photograph album, ephemera and newspaper clippings.
mssShugart
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Manuscripts
Collection of Shugart family papers and photographs dating from 1838 to approximately 1900, most likely preserved by Shugart's widow, Suzanna, and the family of his daughter Lucinda. The collection includes an account book kept by Zachariah T. Shugart from 1838 to 1853, which contains a 10-page list of names of 137 enslaved men, women, and children who he, and his associate Stephen Bogue, helped escape to Canada. There are also two diaries by Shugart, Civil War letters by Joseph Shugart, one land indenture, a pocket New Testament, 46 photographs, a photograph album, ephemera and newspaper clippings.
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