Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
A collection of 749 items from 1878 to 1913, which consists of letters, manuscripts, a diary, documents and photographs related to the life and business activities of Charles Dwight Willard. Much of the collection relates to family matters and Willard's college career at the University of Michigan from 1879 to 1883. There is also material about the Los Angeles Herald, approximately 1889 to 1890, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, approximately 1891 to 1895, the Land of Sunshine magazine, approximately 1894, and the railroad strike of 1894. Of note in the collection are 12 letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Willard concerning politics written between 1911 and 1913.
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Visual Materials
Items related to the Avila (also spelled Abila), Fraters, Palomares, and Yorba families. Also undated clippings about Dona Laura Garfias de Lainesse and Reginaldo F. Del Valle and a program for the Celebration, Carnival and Street Fair in San Rafael, California, July 2-5, 1902.
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Items related to Graciosa Vejar; Mr. and Mrs. Francisco Zoilo Vejar and Francisca (Yorba) Vejar's marriage announcement for their daughter Graciosa Vangelin to William Merrill Pipkin, 1917.
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Marriage license certificate for Joseph August Fraters and Petra Avila, Los Angeles County, October 5, 1898.
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Tax receipt (1859) and communion certificates (1875, 1878).
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