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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters and documents which formed a portion of the Business Women's Legislative Council of California's records. The items in the collection pertain to the organization, maintenance and activities of the Council. The records span the years from 1927 to 1943, although there is a general gap in the files before 1929 and from 1936 through 1938. Grouped into folders, by document type, the folders are in alphabetical order by and files within every folder are arranged chronologically. Notable correspondence includes letters from elected officials as well as candidates in California and the governors of nearly all states in response to questions about their positions on "equal rights for women wage-earners." Prominent gubernatorial signatories include Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, Theodore Bilbo, and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Among the many letters from California legislators, the one from Culbert Olson is the most notable. Ephemera includes pamphlets on women's rights from other organizations, newspaper clippings/transcripts and convention programs.
mssBusiness Women's Legislative Council
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The collection consists of papers related to the political, business and personal life of Philip A. Stanton. The papers span the years from 1909 to 1929. Grouped into folders by document type, the folders are in alphabetical order and files within every folder are arranged chronologically, except for political correspondence. The majority of the collection concerns Philip Stanton's political relationships, ambitions, and positions. Three folders contain political correspondence, arranged in alphabetical order of the author's name. Notable items include letters from William H. Taft, Samuel M. Shortridge, fellow legislators, and exchanges with Charles C. Chapman about citrus growers' aid to the suffering civilian populations of Western Europe during World War I. One folder contains correspondence related to Stanton's business interests, almost exclusively in real estate and land development in Orange and Los Angeles Counties. It is organized chronologically. Notable items include a letter from Henry E. Huntington, several from his son Howard Huntington, and fifteen letters from Isaias W. Hellman, the prominent German-Jewish L.A. based businessman.
mssStanton papers
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A collection of material related to the work of L. Averill Cole, an American bookbinder. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, a volume, photographs, a prize medal, ephemera, and scrapbooks. The correspondents include Louis Jacobs, Robert J. Milevski, George Wolfe Plank, A. S. W. Rosenbach, Sandra Howland Smith, and Marianne Tidcombe; the correspondence also includes a small number of family-related letters. The collection also includes research material on Cole collected by Robert J. Milevski, Sandra Howland Smith, and Marianne Tidcombe. The volume was compiled by Sandra Howland Smith about her grandmother entitled: "Selected Fine Bindings of L. Averill Cole, (1880-1971)."
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Box contains Kelmscott Press related stationery, programs, notices, certificate samples, and other ephemera. Also included are invitations and programs to memorials for John Keats and for William Morris. Majority of the items are circulars and order forms announcing publications printed by Kelmscott Press. The circulars and order forms are organized by date when known.
priBerger
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The collection consists of correspondence, business and financial papers, family notes, bound volumes, and ephemera related to the Banning family and collected by Katharine Stewart Banning. It includes most of her original notes on family traditions (particularly Christmas), and genealogy. The correspondence consists primarily of family letters, and correspondents include Ellen Banning Ayer, Frederick Ayer, Elizabeth Lowber Banning, George Hugh Banning, Hancock Banning (1865-1925), Joseph Brent Banning (1861-1920), Katharine Stewart Banning, Phineas Banning, William Banning (1858-1946), William Lowber Banning, William Phineas Banning, Beatrice Ayer Patton, and George Hugh Smith. The legal, land, and financial papers include contracts, deeds, titles, and statements of account for Banning properties in and around Los Angeles. The miscellaneous manuscripts include sewing instructions from the American Red Cross, notes on Santa Catalina Island, and some photographs, as well as copies of printed articles on the life of Phineas Banning. Volumes include "Memories of Phineas Banning" (c.1895-1909), a Yale scrapbook belonging to Joseph Brent Banning Jr. (1889-1969) with accompanying ephemera, a Virginia Military Institute yearbook (1914) owned by Hancock Banning Jr. (1892-1982) with accompanying photographs, embossed volumes used to copy stories and poems and owned by Ellen Barrows Banning (Ayer) and May Alice Banning (1876), a Banning Rancho log book (1889-1894), various family scrapbooks assembled by Katharine Stewart Banning, various notes on "Bill's Comfort Bag for Soldiers and Sailors" (c.1917-1941), and Katherine's Los Angeles Children's Hospital notebooks, as well as a diary she kept while traveling to England aboard the Lusitania in 1914. Also included in the collection are various published books owned by the Bannings and miscellaneous ephemera.
mssBanning Company records addenda II
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Professional and personal papers of Charles Nordhoff, including typescripts of Nordhoff's works, his incoming and outgoing correspondence dealing with writing and family matters, numerous photographs, and copies of magazines, journals and comic books in which articles or works by Nordhoff were published. Correspondents include James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff, former Secretary of the Interior Gifford Pinchot, Adlai Stevenson, A.P. Watt, Ellery Sedgwick, and others.
mssNordhoff