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Burton (Robert and Paul Jordan-Smith) Collection

Collection

Identifier: 0153

Scope and Contents The Robert Burton 1577-1640 Collection came to The Libraries of The Claremont Colleges as one of three gifts from Paul Jordan Smith 1895-1971, literary editor of the Los Angeles Times during the 1940s, in memory of his wife, Sarah Bixby Smith 1871-1935. The first six editions of Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy 1621-1652, the 1927 edition edited by Smith and Floyd Dell, and original editions or contemporary versions of Renaissance Latin authors and others cited by Burton form the bulk of the...

Dates: 2009 - 2009

Found in: 01 - Special Collections & Archives, The Claremont Colleges Library

Burton (Robert) Collection

Collection

Identifier: 0152

Scope and Contents

Letters and correspondence to Paul Jordan Smith who collected items pertaining to Robert Burton's "Philosphaster." Smith revised "Philosphaster" in 1930 which was originally published in 1606.

Dates: 2009 - 2009

Found in: 01 - Special Collections & Archives, The Claremont Colleges Library

Bush (George H.W.) Photograph

Collection

Identifier: 0154

Scope and Contents

Letter from President George HW. Bush speaking to the possibility of an all-volunteer military as a method of ending the campus anti-war violence of that era.

Dates: 1970 - 1970

Found in: 01 - Special Collections & Archives, The Claremont Colleges Library

Butler (Samuel) Collection

Collection

Identifier: 0155

Scope and Contents

The Samuel Butler 1835-1902 Collection incorporates eighty volumes by Butler, associated biographies and bibliographies, and a manuscript catalog by the donor, Paul Jordan Smith 1895-1971.

Dates: 2009 - 2009

Found in: 01 - Special Collections & Archives, The Claremont Colleges Library

California Citrograph collection

Collection

Identifier: H-Mss-1063

Dates: 1919 November - 1977 November

Found in: 01 - Special Collections & Archives, The Claremont Colleges Library

California Citrus Industry Collection

Collection

Identifier: H-Mss-1097

Abstract This collection contains documents relating to the citrus industry from various vendors and growers associations in Southern California. It was collected by Claremont Heritage and gifted to Special Collections in the Honnold Mudd Library in 2015. Although the dates range from 1891-1973 the bulk of the collection is material from the early twentieth century pertaining to the College Heights, Etiwanda, and Covina Orange Growers Associations. Notable materials in this collection includes...

Dates: 1891-1973

Found in: 01 - Special Collections & Archives, The Claremont Colleges Library

California College in China Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: H-Mss-0158

Scope and Contents

"The California College in China Collection consists of about five hundred titles of works in history, literature, and local gazetteers. There are original editions of the Ming and Ch´ing dynasties and the early 19th century. There are also fifty Chinese serial titles in original editions. Eleven boxes of records are in the Special Collections Department including the William B. Pettus papers.

Dates: 2009 - 2009

Found in: 01 - Special Collections & Archives, The Claremont Colleges Library