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Military Intelligence Service Language School album
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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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A collection of three photograph albums, one college scrapbook, 103 loose photographs, and ephemera documenting the education, family life, teaching career, and travels of Mamie Marie Walton-Jackson (1916-2009). The materials span approximately from 1916 to 1968. The college scrapbook includes images, lists, and ephemera representing Walton-Jackson, her classmates, instructors, and campus life. The three photograph albums cover Jackson's wedding day, her husband, her son Durante, family-related events; her career as a home economics instructor at Buford High School from nineteen fifty one through nineteen fifty two, pupils, fellow instructors; and vacations in the West and Southwest. The loose photographs and ephemera cover the aforementioned areas. The six pieces of loose ephemera include a Mother's Day card from her son, a newspaper clipping about her niece Janice, a cable car ornament, a napkin from the Buford High School 1953 Junior-Senior Prom, a small Faculty label, and a small Clark College label. Among the photograph albums and loose photographs are color as well as hand-colored images of a younger Mamie, Jerry, Durante, and friends and family.
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This disbound scrapbook documents the student experience of Irma Rogers at Paradise Valley Sanitarium and Hospital School of Nursing, 1944 to 1947, in National City, San Diego County, California. The scrapbook contains photographs, notes from fellow students, copies of the school newsletter, graduation cards, memorabilia, and official correspondence from the school. It includes Rogers' 1944 acceptance letter; school evaluations; and her Registered Nurse certificate, 1947. Five issues of the school newsletter describe school activities, students, instructors, and where graduates are working. Much of the album contains snapshots of Rogers and her student friends with humorous captions, and there are some group photographs of nurses, including a group of Asian nurses with American soldiers. A clipping from 1967 announces the 20-year reunion of the class of 1947. Also of note is an inscription from a student who signs her name using gay slang.
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Rare Books
This 1923 handbook of sign language for the deaf was especially prepared for ministers, Sunday school workers, theological students and friends of the deaf.
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An album featuring photographs of the Jesse Lee Home, a residential Methodist mission school for displaced children, mainly Alaskan Natives from the Seward Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands. Residents included those orphaned by the Spanish Flu pandemic, which hit Native communities particularly hard, and those whose parents were in tuberculosis sanatoria. The home opened in Unalaska in 1890 and moved to Seward in 1924; this album depicts the very early years of the home's operation in Seward, including buildings and group photos of teachers and Native students, both boys and girls. The photographs are uncaptioned, but four individuals have been identified from other sources: Anna Gould, an Aleut woman who served as cooking instructor and domestic helper at the school; Ethel Ard, dormitory matron and deaconess of the Methodist church; "Mr. Love," an industrial arts teacher who passed away in 1927; and Lura Olson, assistant to the girl's dormitory matron.
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A photograph and scrapbook album compiled by serviceman James R. Vial, documenting his time with the U.S. 1123rd Military Police Company in Manila, Philippines, in 1946. The photographs include soldiers at the base, the mess hall and bunks, and images of Filipino residents posed for portraits or in everyday activities. Several images document the Philippines Independence Day parade and ceremony on July 4, 1946, including close-up views of the speakers: Philippines President Manuel Roxas, Vice President Elpidio Quirino, and General Douglas MacArthur. Soldiers are seen returning to the U.S. via the U.S.S. Comet, entering the San Francisco Bay on October 8, 1946. The album also includes some of Vial's military documents, ration cards, newspaper clippings, and Japanese/Philippines currency.
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Manuscripts
1 item: Management Bulletin, 12/24/1990, subject is pay and benefits policies for employees called to active military service as a result of the "threat of war in the Middle East."
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