Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
[Group portrait of Harry Truman and the Advisory Committee of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion]
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
This document reports on the activities of the RFC in assisting with the aftermath of the earthquake that hit southern California on March 10, 1933. The report is addressed to RFC member Jesse H. Jones and signed by Henry S. MacKay, Jr., Chairman of the RFC's Special Advisory Committee.
mssHM 72894
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Carte-de-visite photographs of primarily Confederate Army generals, with a few Union Army generals, and portraits of other individuals. Contents: (photograph of a drawing) of Jefferson Davis (on verso: ticket for a raffle for the original drawing, held in Macon, Georgia); Gen. Alexander McDowell McCook; Gen. John Bankhead Magruder; Gen. William Mahone; Gen. George Gordon Meade; Alfred Mitchell; Col. John H. Morgan (1825-1864); Edward Duffield Neill; Rev. Nicholson (Richmond, Virginia); John Ott (Virginia); Gen. William Pendleton; Gen. George E. Pickett; John T. Pickett; Gen. John Pegram; Rev. William Swan Plumer; Davis Quinn (purser, steamer Keyport); Gen. George W. Randolph; Conway Robinson; Gen. Lovell Rousseau; John Thomas Scharf; Confederate Navy Admiral Rafael Semmes; Gen. William T. Sherman; Thaddeus Stevens (legislator); Mary Spotswood, daughter of Charles Campbell; Flora Cooke Stuart, wife of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart; Charles Sumner (senator); Gen. William R. Terry; Robert Toombs (Confederate secretary of state); Brig. Gen. Williams Carter Wickham; Gen. Henry A. Wise. Majority of photographs taken at Lee Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; a few by Mathew Brady, Washington D.C.
photPF 2210-2242
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A group portrait of the officers and the office staff of the Redlands Light & Power Company standing in front of their company office on Orange Street. [The same office used by Southern California Power Co., and the Lytle Creek Power Company] Henry Fisher (5th from left), H. Fisher's son (4th from left), H.W. Sinclair (is 3rd or 4th from right).
photCL SCE 01 - 00911
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Manuscripts
Items in this collection primarily relate to the Panama Canal, dating from 1900 to 1915. There are nine letters from the following senders: William McKinley's secretary, George B. Courtelyou; chief engineer of the Panama Canal, George W. Goethals; Admiral George Dewey; President Theodore Roosevelt, 1908 April 24 (facsimile, HM 76524); William H. Taft as Secretary of War, 1908 June 2 and June 6 (facsimiles, HM 76525 and HM 76526); Reverend J. F. Carson of Brooklyn, New York; and Will Rogers. In addition, there are a few items about horse showing including a photograph of a horse and two awards won by Balfe's horse "Maximum" in 1915, given by the National Horse Show Association of America. The ephemera includes Balfe's 1914 passport, a newspaper clipping, and a document appointing Tom Wentz Balfe to Captain in the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service in 1918. A number of items in this collection are facsimiles.
mssHM 76518-76526
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Manuscripts
Items in this collection primarily relate to the Panama Canal, dating from 1900 to 1915. There are nine letters from the following senders: William McKinley's secretary, George B. Courtelyou; chief engineer of the Panama Canal, George W. Goethals; Admiral George Dewey; President Theodore Roosevelt, 1908 April 24 (facsimile, HM 76524); William H. Taft as Secretary of War, 1908 June 2 and June 6 (facsimiles, HM 76525 and HM 76526); Reverend J. F. Carson of Brooklyn, New York; and Will Rogers. In addition, there are a few items about horse showing including a photograph of a horse and two awards won by Balfe's horse "Maximum" in 1915, given by the National Horse Show Association of America. The ephemera includes Balfe's 1914 passport, a newspaper clipping, and a document appointing Tom Wentz Balfe to Captain in the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service in 1918. A number of items in this collection are facsimiles.
mssHM 76518-76526
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Four of the men are identified in handwriting on a copy of this photograph in the Historical Society of Southern California photograph collection (photCL 400, box 36), by an unknown source: "Back row, left to right: William McKee, Charles Johnson, Alfred Robinson (?) and man seated, second from right: Robert Carlisle." Photographer's imprint on inside front cover: "Robert H. Vance, Premium Daguerrean Galleries, San Francisco, Sacramento & Marysville." Date based on years that Vance had galleries in these locations.
(photDAG 36)