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San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Slip of paper with a signature of William F. Cody, also known as Buffalo Bill. Paper reads: Your friend, W.F. Cody. and appears to have been removed from its original source.
mssHM 84518
Visual Materials
Image of a central image of a portrait of William F. Cody as Buffalo Bill sitting at a campfire in a frontiersman costume with a rifle and saddle, surrounded by eight vignettes of different dramatic scenes including a street parade with a horse-drawn cart labeled "Buffalo Bill To Night"; Cody digging at a hill with a knife in the wilderness with the caption "Buried Alive"; Cody holding up the head of a young injured man with the caption "He Still Lives"; a farmer sleeping on a plow pulled by two oxen while holding a book of the "Life of Buffalo Bill" while images of caricatured Native American Indians and a man hanging by a noose while another is burned at the stake appear in his dreams, captioned "The Farmer's Dream"; Cody on horseback cutting the rope of a hangman's noose from a young man’s neck who hangs from a tree, captioned "Whose Picnic Is this?"; a parlor scene where a man is shot while others look on, captioned "The 20 days are up, and my pledge fulfilled"; a man in a fistfight with Cody in the parlor and wielding a knife, captioned "Keep Cool Pard."; and Cody riding on horseback through the plains while a fire burns in the distance and a battle with Native American Indians on horseback goes on; with images of a bison with the caption "Diamond Pin with Diamond Eyes," at bottom of central image, and an eagle that holds a medal that reads "Congress to W. F. Cody Buffalo Bill Scout & Guide" at top; the poster advertises the melodrama "20 Days or Buffalo Bill's Pledge" (also known as "Twenty Days or Buffalo Bill's Pledge") and includes printed date information for performances beginning on December 11, [1882], at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
priJLC_ENT_001344
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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.
photCL MLP
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Manuscripts
Stewart reports that the town is not under the control of a mob, and that "both mills are running." Printed Western Union Telegram Company telegram form, filled in by hand.
mssHM 31539
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Manuscripts
The papers concern Pelton's agreement and disputes with Jack London concerning the film rights of his novel, The sea wolf (1904), and with Cecil B. DeMille concerning various productions of plays.
mssHM 50981-51034
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Manuscripts
The collection contains J. Goldsborough Bruff's oversize revised version of his journal (c. 1853) which documents his journey across the American plains in 1849 by way of Lassen's Trail. Also included in the collection are 264 drawings of scenes from his overland journey, of various places he visited in California, and of his sea voyage to the Eastern United States via Mexico and Panama. Many of Bruff's drawings are in pencil, but thirty-eight of them were drawn with pastels and are in color.
HM 8044 (207)
