Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 79 Collections and/or Records:
Joseph Talmage and Vera Jean Jones Collection
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-1118
Abstract
The J. Talmage and Vera Jones Collection mostly covers the decades of the 1930s through the 1970s. The photos and documents in this collection are personal, family, and church involvement records ranging from the US Southwest to Singapore and Canada. The majority of the records are from or about J. Talmage Jones with some records produced or about his family, having most to do with their church activities and missionary work. The primary language of this collection is English and is largely...
Dates:
1913-2002
Arthur Godley Baron Kilbracken letters
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-1066
Abstract
This collection contains the letters of Arthur Godley, Baron Kilbracken to his adult daughter Helen from the years of 1898-1899, along with two photographs of Helen from 1875. An additional autograph letter signed by Catherine Gladstone (wife of Prime Minister William Gladstone) to Walter Charles James is also included. The letters were written during Godley's time as Under-Secretary of State in India and provide an intimate picture of the private, upper-class world of the time, while also...
Dates:
1875-1899 and undated; Majority of material found within 1898 - 1899
Hubert A. Lowman Photographic Archive
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-1113
Abstract
The Hubert A. Lowman Photographic Archive consists of photographic materials, papers, books, magazines, printed matter, business archives, and other property representing the body of work of Hubert A. Lowman, photographer and publisher, and the Lowman Publishing Company. The Archive spans nearly 70 years and provides insight into the business and subject matter of a commercial photographer. The bulk of the Archive focuses on the American West (primarily California and Arizona) and supports...
Dates:
1941-2006 and undated
Iolene Lund Collection of Pomoniana
Collection
Identifier: PC-0004
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence regarding Iolene Lund's involvement in the Pomona College Alumni Association, photographs of the Pomona College campus, and printed materials from on and off-campus events.
Dates:
1920-1981; Majority of material found within 1920-1929
Found in:
06 - Pomona College Archives
E. Wilson and Carolyn Bartel Lyon papers
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0493
Abstract
The collection consists of the papers of E. (Elijah) Wilson Lyon (1904-1989) and his wife, Carolyn Bartel Lyon (1908-2006). E. Wilson Lyon was appointed the sixth President of Pomona College in Claremont, California, in 1941 and led the college for almost three decades - the longest serving president in the college’s history - retiring in 1969. E. Wilson Lyon’s papers consist of files from his scholarly and administrative work, extensive file material bearing on his scholarly interests in...
Dates:
1824-1991 and undated; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1980
Joseph S. Marriott Papers
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0050
Abstract
Writings and speeches, photographs, correspondence, and printed matter, relating to Joseph S. Marriott's career in the Civil Aeronautics Administration and its predecessor, the Bureau of Air Commerce, with special reference to the states of California, Hawaii, Arizona, and Utah.
Dates:
1895-1997 and undated
George Marston Correspondence Collection
Collection
Identifier: PC-0017
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence between George Marston, a founding trustee of Pomona College, and Pomona College presidents, James Blaisdell, Charles Edmunds, and E. Wilson Lyon. Correspondence covers a variety of topics including board of trustee meetings, fundraising, and campus planning projects.
Dates:
1910-1950
Found in:
06 - Pomona College Archives
Barbara McCarthy Papers
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0515
Abstract
This collection contains materials relating to Barbary McCarthy's time on the Citizens Advisory Committee of the Joint Committee on the Public Education System. These materials include a variety of correspondence, reports, and other administrative papers. The committee was charged with investigating California's public education system and make recommendations for changes deemed necessary. Mrs. McCarthy was herself an English teacher at the Sun Valley Junior High School in Van Nuys,...
Dates:
1958-1962 and undated
Robert Guy McCutchan papers
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0517
Abstract
Robert Guy McCutchan was an educator, noted hymnologist, and a collector of hymnals. This collection of papers includes miscellaneous correspondence in addition to his biographical scrapbook.
Dates:
1898-1968
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