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Marie Rankin Clarke collection
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0211
Abstract
Collection of books, papers, and scrapbooks belonging to Marie Rankin Clarke and Chauncey D. Clark. Items include several reproductions of German religious artwork, a set of the People's Pocket Series books, and a set of travel and tourist guides to Hawaii (1935-1938) and Australia (1938).
Dates:
1842-1965
William McPherson Papers
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0524
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, photographs, account books and journals, land and tax records, manuscripts, scrapbooks, notes, transcripts, reports, newspapers, clippings, promotional materials, and ephemera, relating to the family, life, career, and intellectual pursuits of Orange County, California, avocado rancher and historian William McPherson (1885-1964). Family papers document the McPhersons' settlement in Orange County in the 1870s, and their involvement in local agriculture, first in the...
Dates:
1664/65-1970.; Majority of material found within 1884 - 1945
Padua Hills Theatre Collection
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0617
Abstract
The Padua Hills Theatre was built in 1930 by an investment syndicate under the direction of Herman Garner as part of the Padua Hills real estate development in the foothills above Claremont, California. Envisioned as a colony for local artists, the development included an arts and crafts shop, performing arts center, and 300-seat theatre facility that also housed a dining room, a kitchen, and an exhibition room where craft items could be displayed and sold. The theatre presented productions...
Dates:
1936-2011