Accounts, deeds, legal papers, court records, household books, inventories and catalogs of family papers, estate and manorial papers, and correspondence relating to the estates, personal and financial affairs of the Hastings family. Most of the...
This collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, documents, deeds, indentures, leases, volumes, and ephemera, mostly related to Francis Bacon, Nathaniel Bacon, Nicholas Bacon, the Bacon family, their work, the Bacon lands in Essex, as well...
The collection contains 54 single-item catalogued items housed in one legal-sized box. The majority of the collection consists of land-related items such as indentures (10), survey documents (5), and maps (3) all relating to property within the...
The Manuscripts series contains various poems, stories, and historical accounts written by Samuel L. Kreider. Many of these accounts relate to individuals like Charles Victor Hall and Mary Hall (original homesteaders of Los Angeles' West Adams...
The manuscripts, correspondence and ephemera cover a wide span of Lord Kinross' literary career, from his earliest columns as a journalist to his final major work, The ottoman centuries. The photographs include many images used by Kinross for his...
The chronologically-arranged documents demonstrate the range of legal, administrative, ecclesiastical, military, and genealogical records initiated by government representatives, lawyers, litigants, clerics, and laypersons from the late sixteenth...
There are 17 items in the manuscripts section. Most of the manuscripts are short stories written by Ellen Steele Sturges. She also wrote two hymns. There is also a short autobiography by her father, Ebenezer Steele, and a small collection of...
The Singleton Collection is organized into four discrete yet interrelated units. The first consists of 79 photographs by Mathew Brady (1823-1896) and Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) of scenes of the Civil War taken between 1861 and 1865. Included are...
A panoramic view of members of the United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten, gathered in Los Angeles for the 17th Annual Session of the Grand Lodge. The men are dressed in dark suits and the women are wearing white dresses;...