Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Stereo photographs of Mr. and Mrs. William Mead in the garden of their Los Angeles home, Dreamwold
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Visual Materials
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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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Visual Materials
An album with 21 photographs of "Captain" William Sanford Banning's residence, nicknamed "The Barn", located at 1012 West 31st Street, near Hoover Street, in Los Angeles, California. There are views of the interior and exterior, and photographs of the plans for the first and second floors; many of the photographs document details of the intricately carved furniture in the house. Exterior views show the famous and rare cast-iron "Cornstalk" fence, made in 1858 by Wood & Perot of Philadelphia, which originally stood at a New Orleans residence before being purchased by Banning in 1910. The house was demolished around 1930. Note: this house is not the Banning house in Wilmington that appears on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Visual Materials
An album of 28 photographs of a well-off Los Angeles family and their expansive, richly appointed home directly across the street from Westlake Park (now MacArthur Park) in Los Angeles. The photographs were likely taken shortly before American businessman Homer Laughlin bought the home, as a handwritten caption notes it was sold to Laughlin of "East Liverpool, Ohio." Images include photographs of the exterior and various interior rooms, showing furniture, a grand piano, several angles of the parlor, the dining hall, "Papa's Room," and the children's room. Other photographs depict the lush garden around the home, often including children Marion and Elizabeth playing or picking "California wildflowers" with their grandmother Louisa and other family members, including one of "Papa" labeled with the initials "E. G. J." The family home's address is given as 9th Westlake Avenue, possibly what is current day Alvarado Street. Other photographs include women in fancy Victorian dress, images of Westlake Park, the bells of San Gabriel Mission, and a group photograph of "the Dane family, Pasadena." This is most likely Ezra Dane (1828-1921) and family at their "Sunny Ridge" residence.
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Manuscripts
The collection contains correspondence to, from, and about Don Blanding. The majority of the correspondence is by Arthur J. Babcock, Don Blanding's literary representative with Dodd, Mead and Company. Arthur J. Babcock wrote to Don Blanding, Dodd, Mead and Company, and several bookshops in California. The majority of the correspondence deals with scheduling autograph book tours for Don Blanding in 1948 for the book Mostly California and in 1953 for the book Joy is an inside job. The collection also has 11 photographs and ephemera.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 8 items: correspondence between Ainsworth and William J. Mead, Executive Secretary of the Water Association of Kern County ; 18-pp. booklet, "Water Association of Kern County...in cooperation with Farm Year, 1956 -- Water Crisis!" ; related materials.
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Manuscripts
Panoramic photo of the Kuromi family on a flower field off of Los Feliz Boulevard.
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Manuscripts
Nine maps documenting properties in Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego counties in the late nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century. Includes maps of Southern California ranchos, a flood control map, and various survey and tract maps. Maps of Los Angeles area ranchos and Rancho Los Feliz were surveyed by former Los Angeles City Engineer George C. Hansen.
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