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William Butler Yeats photograph collection
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W. B. Yeats correspondence
Manuscripts
The collection contains correspondence written by W.B. Yeats to his friend, and fellow Irish writer, Katherine Tynan (1861-1931). Issues discussed by Yeats include his and Tynan's writing, the writings of other prominent authors of the period, and his personal life.
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George F. Chalender collection of railroad photographs
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A collection of 66 photographs (prints) of various railroad subjects, including steam locomotives, stations, and many scenes of train wrecks, approximately 1880s-1939. Subjects include the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad; and a set of six cabinet card photographs titled "View of the Great Railroad Wreck," showing the wreckage (and crowds of people) of the disastrous 1887 Toledo, Peoria, and Western Railroad's "Great Chatsworth Train Wreck" in Illinois. Other images include several photographic postcards of trains and scenes of wrecks from 1939. Accompanying the photographs is a 7-page typescript biography of Chalender, with his portrait.
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George F. Chalender collection of railroad photographs
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A collection of 66 photographs (prints) of various railroad subjects, including steam locomotives, stations, and many scenes of train wrecks, approximately 1880s-1939. Subjects include the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad; and a set of six cabinet card photographs titled "View of the Great Railroad Wreck," showing the wreckage (and crowds of people) of the disastrous 1887 Toledo, Peoria, and Western Railroad's "Great Chatsworth Train Wreck" in Illinois. Other images include several photographic postcards of trains and scenes of wrecks from 1939. Accompanying the photographs is a 7-page typescript biography of Chalender, with his portrait.
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Yeats Thompson collection
Manuscripts
The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay, and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. Series 2. Henry E. Huntington and his family includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and physical objects. There is material related to the Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and the Pacific Electric Railway Company as well as other businesses in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley, California. This material includes business records, account books, annual reports, correspondence, maps, tracts, balance sheets, and others. There is also material related to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens including auction catalogs, invoices, receipts, and bills for art and rare books, and information regarding a lawsuit about Huntington's estate tax after his death, and the passing of Proposition 15, in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. There is also material related to Collis P. Huntington and his business interests and Arabella Huntington. Also included are the blueprints for the Huntington's San Marino residence. Series 3. Correspondence contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning 1794 to 1970. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.
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William Newton Meeks family photograph collection
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A collection of 68 photographs, primarily portraits, of William Newton Meeks, his wife, Abigail Livia Martha Davis, their children, and other Meeks and Davis family members, including Abigail's brother, Charles Sylvanus Davis. Also included are photographs of the Meeks' mansion (1890s) in Temescal, a neighborhood of Oakland, California, featuring an attached greenhouse or conservatory. There are also some photographs of engravings of earlier relatives, including Captain John Meeks (b. 1737), James Cooper, Susannah (Cooper) Meeks, Phineas Davis, and Isaac Davis. A group portrait depicts the wedding party of Meeks' daughter Blanche Thayer and John Heath, son of a pioneer California family, in 1889.
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William H. Weinland photograph collection
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The William H. Weinland Photograph Collection contains 525 loose photographs and 3 photograph albums that depict the people, experiences, and places witnessed by Moravian missionary William H. Weinland (1861-1930) and his family during their years of missionary service between the mid 1880s and the 1920s, first in Alaska and, more extensively, among Native Americans of Southern California. Though the vast majority of the photographs depict life on the Morongo Reservation, near Banning, California, Weinland was an itinerant of sorts, an activist who sought a foothold for Protestantism wherever he could. Consequently, there are images from a number of the reservations that surrounded Morongo. The Alaska images were photographed by Weinland and fellow missionary Henry Hartmann, as many of the mounts attest, and by the commercial photographer M. Lorenz. The Morongo views are harder to attribute, though many were definitely taken by Weinland himself. Some commercial photographers are also represented throughout this portion of the collection. Volumes 2 and 3 were albums compiled by Sarah Morris, one of the first schoolteachers at Morongo and a personal friend of the Weinlands. Her albums focus, naturally enough, on the schoolhouses where she taught as well as her charges. There are about 50 original film and glass plate negatives in the collection. Contact prints were made for reference use and are in Boxes 1 to 5, according to subject. See the Negatives series for a list of the item numbers.
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