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
Bound in textured brown material. The title, "Samoa and Fiji" is embossed in gold lettering in the center of cover. Opening pages contain a handful of images of Jack and Charmian London on the Snark. Images on following pages are souvenir portraits of Fijians and Samoans in staged settings, and landscape views of the sea and islands.
JLP 546
Manuscripts
Album is bound in black textured material. The title "Bora-Bora and Samoa," is embossed in gold lettering in the center of cover. Images are of the sights, indigenous people, and Europeans that the Londons met while traveling through Oceania on the Snark. There are also several postcards and souvenir photographs.
JLP 500
Manuscripts
Bound in textured black material. The title "Over the World" is embossed in center of cover in gold lettering. The number "81" is affixed to the top of spine with glue. Images are primarily picture postcards and souvenir photographs collected by Charmian London. Also included are a handful of photos of Ernest and Gerhard Untermann taken in Colorado and Utah. Relationship to the Londons unknown.
JLP 519
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Manuscripts
134 photographs, many of native huts and villages. Also featured are Charmian London, Ernest "Nature Man" Darling, Martin Johnson, and Jack London. Places include Tahiti, the Marquesas, Savii, Papeete Tahiti, Raiatea, Bora Bora, Samoa, Suva, Manua, and the Snark at sea. Also shown is the ship S.S. Mariposa.
JLP 429
Manuscripts
Bound in textured black material. The title "Yoshimatsu Nakata" is embossed in the center of the cover in gold lettering. Images are those collected, and some possibly taken, by the Londons' valet of eight years, Yoshimatsu Nakata. Nakata accompanied the Londons on the Snark voyage, Roamer river cruises and their journey and the Northwest via horse-drawn carriage.
JLP 530
Manuscripts
Bound in textured black material. The title "New England Jamaica and Other Places" is embossed in gold lettering in the center of cover. The number "17" is affixed to the top of spine with glue. Images primarily commercial and souvenir photographs of Maine and Jamaica.
JLP 548