Nicoll family papers, 1801-1933, (bulk 1820-1910).

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Nicoll family papers, 1801-1933, (bulk 1820-1910).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86129839

Letters, manuscripts, documents, photographs, ephemera. Family and business correspondence of John Nicoll (1756-1831), Charles Nicoll (1797-1831), Charles Edward Nicoll (1838-1916), Edward Bishop Nicoll (1868-1962), and other members of the Nicoll family regarding family affairs, political and literary news. The letters of Charles Nicoll to his wife describe construction works on canals in Montague and Greenfield, Mass., where he worked in the 1830-40's. The papers of Edward B. Nicoll include the journal of the automobile trip that he and Emma Matilda Nicoll, his wife, undertook in August of 1909 from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The family scrapbook and photographs of Los Angeles and Long Beach in 1910-30's include pictures of the aftermath of the earthquakes in San Francisco April 16, 1906 and Long Beach in March 3, 1933, and the costumed balls staged by the Los Angeles Turnverein in 1920's.

119 pieces, with photographs and ephemera.3 boxes, also, a scrapbook.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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