Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of a full-length portrait of actor John T. Raymond in costume as the frontiersman character Major Bob Belter sitting on a log in the woods, with a border with two wilderness images and a flower and dot decoration; the poster advertises the comedic melodrama "In Paradise" written by George Jessop and William Gill.
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Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of American actor John T. Raymond in an oval frame, surrounded by vignettes of scenes from six of Raymond's plays consisting of a man handing another man a rolled document captioned "Risks." and depicting a scene from the comedy by Bartley Campbell; a man speaking in a courtroom captioned "Col. Sellers." and depicting a scene from the play "Colonel Sellers" based on the novel "The Gilded Age" by Mark Twain; a man trying to strangle another man before a well captioned "Wolfert's Roost." and depicting a scene from "Ichabod Crane" by George Fawcett Rowe and based on a story by Washington Irving; a young couple sitting in a romantic embrace on a couch captioned "Paradise" and depicting a scene from the play "In Paradise" by George Jessop and William Gill; a crowded political rally with signs, including one reading "For Congress Peter Woolley," depicting a scene from the play "For Congress" written by D. D. Lloyd; and a group of gypsy women surrounding a man, captioned "Fresh the American," and depicting a scene from the play by Archibald Clavering Gunter; with date information printed at top of image for a July 12, [1886], show at the Bush St. Theatre in San Francisco, California.
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Image of an advertisement for Barnum & Bailey circus featuring several species of antelope and a giraffe pictured outdoors near a waterfall; portraits of Barnum & Bailey at left.
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View of the exterior of the Hawaiian Paradise nightclub and cafe at 7566 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, California, at night, with an illuminated neon sign in the shape of a palm tree.
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Image of a Woodie sedan parked in front of a mobile home at Paradise Cove in Malibu, California, with newer automobiles, seen in the distance.
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Manuscripts
Letter from William Raymond to his mother and sister, written from San Pedro, California, shortly after Raymond had returned from an oceanography research trip on Catalina Island. Raymond was in charge of hydrographic work for the expedition, as well as lending his expertise in conchiferous mollusca. He accompanied William E. Ritter, a professor of zoology at U.C. Berkeley who in 1903 secured funding from Ellen Browning Scripps and E.W. Scripps to found the Marine Biological Association of San Diego, which later became the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Raymond's fellow researchers included zoologists Charles A. Kofoid and Calvin O. Esterly, as well as men named Cady, Bancroft, and Jorrey. The letter also mentions work being done by geologist Ida Shepard Oldroyd and zoologist Alice Robertson. Raymond writes of dredging work near Silver Canyon, in the harbor at Avalon near the Isthmus, at Little Harbor, and at Long Point. He describes the topography of the ocean floor and of "small but good" harvesting results. Raymond writes of the types of conch shells collected, some of which were "new to the trip, if not undescribed." They later discovered a few "extremely rare species...so rare that Mrs. Oldroyd says that have not even at Washington a good one." Raymond writes extensively of the sorting and preserving process, as well as answering his mother's questions about his cooking and camping conditions. He mentions sailing to the island on the Banning brothers' steamer Hermosa, and notes that "the Bannings are trying to start a new town at the Isthmus," although in Raymond's opinion "better places for a town might be imagined." Back in San Pedro he reflected on the future of such expeditions, noting that "Ritter is in a quandary about how to keep the work going." He was optimistic that "L.A. people seem enthusiastic about our work" and that a donor had given $25 at a recent lecture. Raymond hoped that "there will be something for our expenses" and thought he might not make further research trips. Includes envelope.
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