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Studio portrait photographs annotated by Olive Percival
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Studio portrait photographs annotated by Olive Percival
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Sitters include: Florence Dunham; Frederick Russell Burnham; Princess Philip of Saxe Coburg; H.M. Queen of the Belgians; Theodore Parker; William Cullen Bryant; Lucretia Mott; H.I.M. The Empress Frederick; E.M. Fowler.
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Studio portrait photographs annotated by Olive Percival
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Sitters include: Leland Stanford; Robert Louis Stevenson; George Steckel; E.C. Holloway; William Mead; William H. Bonsall; John Gilmore.
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Olive Percival Collection of Photographs
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The Olive Percival Collection of Photographs contains approximately 875 photographs of California and Mexico, chiefly cyanotype snapshots and gelatin silver prints of locations in Los Angeles and environs and Mexico City, taken chiefly by Olive Percival (1869-1945) from approximately 1880-1941; many of the photographs contain captions written on versos by Percival. The photographs of California depict San Pedro scenes including fishing shacks, boats, and squatters' huts on Terminal Island and East San Pedro; Chinatowns in Los Angeles and San Francisco, including street scenes and images of the first Fiesta de Los Angeles (1894) and the Feast of the Dead in Los Angeles (1902); exterior and interior views of Percival's home, collections, and garden, including many photographs with captions identifying particular plants; and cemeteries in Los Angeles, including the Calvary Cemetery, the Fort Hill Cemetery, and the San Gabriel Mission Cemetery. The collection also includes two sepia portraits of Percival as a young woman, one dated 1895 (Items 754-755); one photograph of Percival with her mother (Item 753); images of Indian basket collections that she used in writing articles (photPF 3940-3945); and photographs depicting various people and locations, chiefly in Los Angeles and environs, taken by Percival and by commercial photographers, including a set of studio portraits featuring various sitters. Photographs of Mexico depict various views of Mexico City, including the Flower Market, the Thieves' Market, the market at Viga Canal, and others; the Mexico City Cathedral and various other buildings; and street and courtyard scenes. Photographs depicting other areas of Mexico include views of churches, rural scenes, and images of various towns and regions including Juarez; Toluca; Guadalupe; Teotihuacan, including images from journeys to the Pyramid of the the Sun and Pyramid of the Moon; Tocuba; Vera Cruz; Texcoco; Tlaxcola; and other locations.
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Studio and other portrait photographs
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The Olive Percival Collection of Photographs contains approximately 875 photographs of California and Mexico, chiefly cyanotype snapshots and gelatin silver prints of locations in Los Angeles and environs and Mexico City, taken chiefly by Olive Percival (1869-1945) from approximately 1880-1941; many of the photographs contain captions written on versos by Percival. The photographs of California depict San Pedro scenes; Chinatowns in Los Angeles and San Francisco; exterior and interior views of Percival's home, collections, and garden; and cemeteries in Los Angeles. The collection also includes two sepia portraits of Percival as a young woman; one photograph of Percival with her mother; images of Indian basket collections that she used in writing articles; and photographs depicting various people and locations, chiefly in Los Angeles and environs, taken by Percival and by commercial photographers, including a set of studio portraits featuring various sitters. Photographs of Mexico depict various views of Mexico City and other areas of Mexico, including Juarez; Toluca; Guadalupe; Teotihuacan; Tocuba; Vera Cruz; Texcoco; Tlaxcola; and other locations.
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Caroline Maria Seymour Severance Papers
Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of American suffragist, reformer, and social activist Caroline Severance (1820-1914) and includes 631 manuscripts; 10,634 pieces of correspondence; and 9,007 pieces of ephemera. The collection consists of: Manuscripts (Boxes 1-7): The collection contains 631 manuscripts, 525 of which are by Caroline Severance. The manuscripts are comprised of speeches, essays, articles, notebooks, commonplace books, poems, and miscellaneous notes (there is also one diary of Caroline Severance). The manuscripts with titles are arranged alphabetically by author and title; however, the majority of Severance's speeches and essays do not have titles so they are arranged by subject and then arranged alphabetically by first line. Severance's manuscripts are mostly incomplete handwritten drafts. Also included in the manuscripts is a 347-page, unpublished autobiographical monograph by Caroline Severance entitled "Own Story," which spans the majority of her life. The subjects covered in the manuscripts are: African-American women suffrage and clubs, Jessie Benton Frémont, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Julia Ward Howe, kindergarten, Lulu Pile Little, Los Angeles, Helena Modjeska, Lucretia Mott, the peace movement, politics and labor unions, reform movements, religion, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, suffrage and women, temperance, women's clubs, and women's rights. Correspondence (Boxes 8-58): There are 10,634 pieces of correspondence, of which Caroline Severance writes only 232; most of her correspondence is made up of incomplete drafts of letters. The majority of the correspondence in the collection is addressed to Caroline Severance and includes letters written by more than 1,700 different authors. Notable authors include (piece counts in parenthesis): Susan B. Anthony (3); Rachel Foster Avery (2); Susan Look Avery (35); Alice Stone Blackwell (5); Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell (5); Elizabeth Blackwell (1); Henry Browne Blackwell (4); Jeanne C. Smith Carr (3); Carrie Chapman Catt (2); Amanda Mathews Chase (3); Clara Bewick Colby (11); Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper (5); Frederick Douglass (1); Will Allen Dromgoole (6); Georgia Ransom Fay Ferguson (31); Jessie Benton Frémont (35); Lily Frémont (10); Friday Morning Club (6); Lucretia Rudolph Garfield (14); Francis Jackson Garrison (16); William Lloyd Garrison (5); Charlotte Perkins Gilman (9); Kate M. Gordon (6); Margaret Collier Graham (11); Elizabeth Boynton Harbert (16); Phoebe Apperson Hearst (5); William Randolph Hearst (1); Isabella Beecher Hooker (1); Timothy Hopkins (7); Julia Ward Howe (3); Intercollegiate Socialist Society (2); Carrie Jacobs-Bond (6); Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1); Jack London (2); Charles Fletcher Lummis (35); Alice Moore McComas (6); Mila Tupper Maynard (5); Elizabeth Smith Miller (3); Harriet Mann Miller (16); Maria Mitchell (2); Helena Modjeska (10); Dorothea Moore (6); Eva Perry Moore (3); National American Woman Suffrage Association (2); Nelson O. Nelson (46); New England Women's Club (2); Alice Park (20); Jenny Marsh Parker (9); Mary Elizabeth Phillips (32); Louis Prang (15); Mary Amelia Dana Hicks Prang (15); Ella Giles Ruddy (26); Kate Sanborn (4); Ellen Clark Sargent (7); Caroline M. Seymour Severance (232); James Seymour Severance (3,063); Mark Sibley Severance (557); Pierre Clark Severance (53); Theodoric Cordenio Severance (50); May Wright Sewall (6); Henry W. Seymour (1); Anna Howard Shaw (10); Homer B. Sprague (3); Julia A. Sprague (36); Rebecca Buffum Spring (5); Sarah B. Stearns (16); Lucy Stone (4); Henry Baldwin Ward (2); Lydia Avery Coonley Ward (17); Booker T. Washington (2); Kate Gannett Wells (12); Charles William Wendte (10); Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (20); Gaylord Wilshire (8); J. Stitt Wilson (13); Woman Suffrage Convention (1); Kate Tannatt Woods (22); and Marie E. Zakrzewska (18). Ephemera (Boxes 59-84), Oversize Items (Boxes 85-86), and Calling Cards (Boxes 87-107): The majority of the 9,007 pieces of ephemera are directly related to Caroline Severance's various reform and club interests. It is arranged by type and subject, and consists of address books, appointment books, brochures, business papers, genealogy information for the Clarke, Severance, and Seymour families, greeting cards, invitations, legal documents, miscellaneous lists, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, petitions, club notebooks, photographs, postcards, fliers, programs, reprints, material related to the Harvard Club and the University Club of San Francisco, and financial papers of the Severance family and of the Sidney M. Smith Estate, of which James Seymour Severance was executor. The subjects covered are: kindergarten, Los Angeles, the peace movement, politics and labor unions, reform movements, religion, suffrage, temperance, Unitarianism, women's clubs, and women's rights. The 2,700 calling cards are housed after the Oversize Items; they are in alphabetical order.
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W. Graham Robertson Papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists of correspondence both to and from W. Graham Robertson, including letters from literary and theatrical persons and fan mail regarding his published reminiscences, Time was (1931). There are approximately 800 letters from Robertson to Kerrison Preston and also 15 notebooks and sketchbooks of Robertson's. Correspondents include: James Agate, Henry Ainley, William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham, Helen Rossetti Angeli, Elizabeth Arnim, Marie Bancroft, Squire Bancroft, J.M. Barrie, H.N. Bate, Julies Bastien-Lepage, Clifford Bax, Sir Max Beerbohm, Sarah Bernhardt, R.D. Blackmore, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Bourchier, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen (Baron Brabourne), James Bridie, Gordon Bottomley, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, William Frederick Cody ("Buffalo Bill"), Noel Coward, Edith Craig, Edward Gordon Craig, Walter Crane, E.M. Delafield, Alan Dent, Charles Dickens, Jr., Alix Egerton, Nellie Farren, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Loie Fuller, Sir Edward German, Philip Gibbs, Sir John Gielgud, W.S. Gilbert, Ronald Gorell Barnes (3rd Baron Gorell), Harley Granville-Barker, Weedon Grossmith, Paul Hellew, Robert Smythe Hichens, Violet Hunt, Sir Henry Irving, Rufus Daniel Isaacs (Marquess of Reading), Henry James, Geoffrey Keynes, W.M. Letts, Georgette Leblanc, Vivien Leigh, Belloc Lowndes, Desmond MacCarthy, Denis George Mackail, Norman McKinnel, Maurice Maeterlinck, Arthur Melville, Mortimer Menpes, Alice Christina Thompson Meyell, Robert Montesquiou-Fézensac, Albert Joseph Moore, Jane Burden Moore, May Morris, and Montrose Jonas Moses. Additional correspondents include: A. Edward Newton, Julia Neilson, Frederic Norton, Laurence Olivier, Will Owen, Bernard Partridge, Walter Pater, Hesketh Pearson, William Lyon Phelps, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, Sir Nigel Playfair, Sir Edward John Poynter, Sir Hugh Edward Poynter, Terence Rattigan, Sir Michael Redgrave, Ada Rehan, Athelstan Riley, Sir William Rothenstein, Sir John Rothenstein, Arthur William Row, Archibald Geoge Blomefield Russell, Frederick Sandys, John Singer Sargent, Emily Sargent, Athene Seyler, Robert Harborough Sherard, Robert E. Sherwood, Louis Shipman, M.H. Spielmann, Alfred Sutro, Arthur Symons, Una Taylor, William Terriss, Dame Ellen Terry, Fred Terry, Kate Terry, Ruthven Todd, Herbert Trench, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, H.M. Walbrook, Theodore Watts-Dunton, James McNeill Whistler, Maude Valerie White, Oscar Wilde, George Charles Williamson, Alexander Woolcott, and William Butler Yeats.
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