The collection consists of the personal correspondence of Orrin Peck and his sister, Janet Peck. There are 119 letters from Phoebe Apperson Hearst and these letters discuss her philanthropy in the fields of art and education, her son William...
Boxes 1-3 contain correspondence, organized alphabetically by the last name of the sender. The correspondence contains letters sent to Rebecca Lash Miller by J. A. Heagy, her longtime suitor. The correspondence, dated between 1861 and 1865,...
This collection contains the following series: manuscripts, correspondence, legal documents, ephemera, and oversize. The manuscripts include Moore's daily diaries as well as his field books. The diaries contain short entries reflecting his business...
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...
A full-length studio portrait of James Otis Moore (1822-1886), who served as assistant surgeon to the 22nd Colored Infantry Regiment, turned slightly to the left. He has a full mustache and beard which reaches past his lapels. Moore is resting his...
This collection is an excellent research resource for an English military and diplomatic family in the 19th century; specifically the period covering the Napoleonic Wars and British diplomatic influence in Europe and Central America. Though there...
The collection was assembled by author and collector Grahame H. Hardy. The documents and manuscripts demonstrate the range of legal, administrative, municipal, and real estate-related transactions initiated by railroad and mining interests,...
The collection consists of manuscripts by Dunstan Thompson, including book reviews, diaries, essays, plays, poems, and short stories, and correspondence (both to and from Thompson), photographs, drawings and ephemera. Correspondents represented in...
This collection comes from the files of Harvey Seeley Mudd and is divided into three separate sections. The first consists of correspondence dealing with the history of the Alexander and Brooklyn Mines from 1921 to 1944 and covers the following...
The collection has several strong subject points for the purpose of research including journalism and the writing process and the history of Los Angeles. There are many letters written during World War II that discuss life in America as well as...
The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, and printed material related to the FNCB, NCB and local ballet companies; the papers also include sheet music and original music scores, ballet production files and photographs for the...
The collection consists of H.H. Beauchamp's Journals with typewritten transcriptions for the years 1870-1907, in which he wrote extensively about family matters, as well as, his travels, often pasting in photos, newspaper clippings and other...
Image of an elevated landscape view of the residence of Sheldon Purdy Pharis (born 1828) in San Mateo County, California, showing farmers harvesting hay with horse drawn carts, and rolling hills and the Pacific Ocean in the distance; four corner...
One boxed set of art reproductions entitled Fac-Similes of Examples in Delineation, selected from the Masters, for the use of students in Drawing, Moses King, Publisher, Cambridge, Massachusetts, ca. 1882. The images were selected and described by...
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...