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This collection contains items collected by Edwin H. Carpenter about hand printing presses located primarily in California intended to be used to create a list or census of hand presses. Correspondence, photographs, and press information originate from many of those of the California press and printing community.

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Scrapbooks, ephemera, photographs, and correspondence related to architect Robert D. Farquhar and his work, particularly buildings commissioned by William Andrews Clark, Jr.

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Diverse materials documenting the lives of several different members of the McManus family, including Alice G. McManus Clark, including clothing, textiles, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other papers, all originally stored in a large wooden steamer trunk originally owned by Margaret McManus.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists mainly of a scrapbook and loose photographs from the estate of John Clifford Cowles. The scrapbook was not compiled by Cowles himself, but by a woman named Mary L. Bennett, who purchased some of his papers and photographs after his death in 1951. In a note at the end of the volume, Bennett recounts that after purchasing some photographs from the Cowles estate at a local store, she went to his former house and rescued more documents and photographs from destruction,...