Special Collections of The Libraries of the Claremont Colleges are pleased to announce that the first series of the Dr. Walter Lindley Scrapbooks is available online in the Claremont Colleges Digital Library, CCDL.
The Lindley Scrapbooks were assembled by Dr. Walter Lindley (1852–1922), early resident of Los Angeles and prominent physician, and are a part of the Francis Haynes Lindley Memorial Collection housed in Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library for The Claremont Colleges. The Lindley Scrapbooks consist of 33 scrapbooks covering the period 1861 to 1921 and document through clippings, correspondence, and ephemeral materials, Dr. Lindley’s professional and civic achievements. The first series to be made available through the CCDL covers his candidacy for mayor of Los Angeles. Among the other series to be digitized are the formation of the California Hospital, the development of the Whittier State School for Boys, the Los Angeles Public Library board, and the founding of a tuberculosis sanitarium in Idyllwild.
Digitization of this collection is made possible by a grant from The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
The Lindley Scrapbooks also are available for study in person in Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library during our Reading Room hours and by appointment.
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The Ella Strong Denison Library and Honnold/Mudd Special Collections are pleased to announce a new collection in the Claremont Colleges Digital Library: the N.A. Chandler Gold Rush Era Letters.
The N. A. Chandler Gold Rush Era Letters collection consists of fifty-six handwritten letters from 1855 to 1872. Newton Amos Chandler (1818?-1880) wrote these letters from San Francisco and California mining camps, and Nevada silver and gold rush locations. These letters offer insights on life in San Francisco, Virginia City, Civil War opinions in California and Nevada, and the opportunities and discouragements of a prospector. In addition, Chandler’s letters provide some information on the settling of Nevada, Native American interactions, and the mining history of Northern California and Nevada.
A gift from John I. Perkins to the Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College in 1942, the Chandler letters were purchased by Perkins from a rare manuscripts dealer in Los Angeles in 1932. Previous to that, these letters may have been owned by N.A. Chandler’s surviving daughter, who died in 1948.
For a school project, Jacob High (CGU) was charged with reading any primary source gold rush letters and was referred to a collection of “California Pioneer Letters” at Denison Library that were written by a Northern California prospector to his wife. Jacob immediately recognized one of the letters written on a picture sheet featuring “The Miners’ Lamentations” as a picture sheet that was recently reproduced in Susan Lee Johnson's well respected Gold Rush book “Roaring Camp,” though the source of her picture was the Huntington Archives. Of more interest to Jacob were small references to events in early Nevada Territory and statehood, including the Paiute Indian War of 1860. This battle was described by Hubert Howe Bancroft in his history of Nevada and was widely considered the most important engagement with American Indians in the history of Nevada. After reading these letters, Jacob recommended that these letters be digitized; volunteering to create an item-level finding aid for the Online Archive of California and to create the descriptive metadata for a CCDL collection. To further his research into these letters, Jacob made a trip to Eureka, Nevada where Chandler wrote the last two letters in this collection and visited several courthouses stretching from San Francisco to North Eastern Nevada to find mining claims and legal deeds or other references to Chandler and the contents of the letters. The information he obtained will be compiled and, with this new online digitized collection, form part of his graduate portfolio and aid in the writing of his Master’s thesis.
We would like to thank Jacob High for providing all of the descriptive metadata and Alannah Haddad for digitization of the letters. We would also like to thank Special Collections at the University of Nevada-Reno Library and The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley for allowing a digital copy of an original N.A. Chandler letter from each of their collections to appear as part of this collection.
The Ella Strong Denison Library and Honnold/Mudd Special Collections are pleased to announce a new collection in the Claremont Colleges Digital Library. This new collection, Gradual from Maundy Thursday to the Vigil of Pentecost, can be seen at http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/scg/.
The collection currently consists of an entire illuminated Renaissance manuscript, officially named "Denison Library, Perkins 4. Gradual. s. XVI," which is a choir book that contains Latin text and plainsong music sung by cantors and choir at the Roman Catholic mass. The book was created in northern France, probably Rouen, in the early 16th century. Many pages contain decorated initials, and nine pages have large historiated initials enclosed by floral borders. Annotations include full liturgical information, translation of rubrics, musical and liturgical comparisons with the Liber Usualis (abbreviated LU), and descriptions of each page, including descriptions of illuminations. Future additions to the collection will include audio/visual recordings of the music being performed, musical transcriptions, and possibly downloadable PDF files of all or portions of the manuscript. Be sure to check back for updates.
We wish to give many thanks to Charles W. Kamm, Scripps College, who made the annotations, translations, comparisons, and descriptions; John Sullivan, Huntington Library, who digitized the manuscript; and the CCDL staff for all their support and cooperation.
The Claremont Colleges Digital Library is pleased to announce the most recent addition to the collections: American Occupation of Japan, Voices of the Key Participants.
The Pacific Basic Institute produced a 10-part documentary series The Pacific Century, in 1993. This collection contains digitized video from Part 5, "Reinventing Japan," which focuses on post-World War II Japan. Key figures of the American occupation government were interviewed about their contributions and views. Subjects cover Communism; women's rights; occupation of Japan; Japanese history, politics and government, and social conditions in 1945.
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