Green Family Papers, 1839-1980

Summary

Creators:

Green, Mildred Browning, 1890-1978.

Abstract:

This collection contains the papers of Los Angeles art collectors Mildred Green (1890-1978) and her husband, attorney Lucius Peyton Green (1883-), and their family.

Extent:

175 items in 3 boxes

Language:

English.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains documents, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera. Documents include legal, contractual, and real property papers of the Green and Browning families as well as Lucius Peyton Green’s Stanford law degree and petition to the Greek letter society, Delta Chi. Manuscripts include the diaries of Lionel Browning and the travel and art notebooks of Mildred Browning Green and Lucius Peyton Green. Also featured in this series are genealogical research manuscripts compiled by members of the Green, Browning, and Rust families, documenting the lives of their descendants and those of their distant relations. The third series of correspondence mostly contains letters to and from family members. Several letters of note include two Civil War-era letters written by Lucius Peyton Green, Sr. to his parents as well as a letter and gift from Arthur Gardiner Coons (1900-1968), former president of Occidental College, to Lucius Peyton Green and Mildred Browning Green. A series of photographs contains images of members of the Walker and Green Families and their estates in Surrey, England and Los Angeles, California, respectively. The final series of ephemera contains printed announcements, monographs, copies from monographs, address and birthday books, and the passports of Mildred Browning Green and Lucius Peyton Green.

Biographical / historical:

A native of Anaheim, California, Mildred Clara Browning Green (1890-1978) was born to Lionel Browning and Adele S. Rust on January 14, 1890. In 1915, she married Stanford University-educated attorney, Lucius Peyton Green (born 1883), son of Civil War-veteran Lucius Peyton Green, Sr. and Fannie DuBrutz. The Greens amassed a sizeable European art collection, portions of which were later bequeathed to the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Their art collections were featured in William R. Valentiner’s Catalog of the Collection of Mrs. Lucius Peyton Green (1956) and the Huntington Library’s Adele S. Browning Memorial Collection (1979). In addition to their involvement in the arts, the couple collected their families’ histories. Both accumulated genealogical information in the forms of local history books, newspaper clippings, photographs, and manuscripts compiled by relatives. Mildred Browning Green died in Los Angeles in November 1978; Lucius Peyton Green died the following month.

Acquisition information:

Gift from estate of Lucius Peyton Green and Mildred Browning Green, February 1980.

Arrangement:

The collection is alphabetically arranged into Documents, Manuscripts, Correspondence, Photographs, and Ephemera.

Rules or conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related resources

Other descriptive data:

Subjects in the collection include:

• Anaheim (Calif.) - - Biography. In Coons, Arthur Gardiner, 1900-1968. 1 letter (1960, Apr. 18) to Lucius Peyton Green and Mildred Browning Green. Box 2 (3).
• Anaheim (Calif.) - - History. In Coons, Arthur Gardiner, 1900-1968. 1 letter (1960, Apr. 18) to Lucius Peyton Green and Mildred Browning Green. Box 2 (3).
• Brundage, Avery - - Art collections. In Lucius Peyton Green and Mildred Browning Green’s copy of Harris Newmark’s Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 (1926). Includes newspaper clippings. Box 3 (6).
• California, Southern - - History - -19th century. In Lucius Peyton Green and Mildred Browning Green’s copy of Harris Newmark’s Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 (1926). Includes newspaper clippings. Box 3 (6).
• California, Southern - - History - - 20th century. In Lucius Peyton Green and Mildred Browning Green’s copy of Harris Newmark’s Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 (1926). Includes newspaper clippings. Box 3 (6).
• DuBrutz Family. In Rust, Ethel Lee. The Histories of the DuBrutz and Montgomery Families (1945-1959). Box 1 (10).
• Hanson, Roger Weightman, 1827-1863. In Green, Lucius Peyton, Sr. 2 letters (1862) to John R. Green and Elizabeth T. Nelson Green. Box 2 (8).
• Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. In Printed Announcements (1886-1980). Box 3 (7).
• Kentucky - - Genealogy. In Green, Susanna T. “The Green Family of Culpeper County, Virginia” Genealogical Chart (1957). Box 1 (9).
• Los Angeles County (Calif.). Dept. of Tax Collector. In Real estate, tax, and business receipts of Frederick William and Sophie C. Koll, Lionel Browning, and John Donovan (1872- 1891). Box 1 (4).
• Mechanics’ liens - - California. In Legal, contractual, and business papers concerning Mildred Browning Green’s family-owned property at Seventh and Spring Streets in Los Angeles (1873-1923). Box 1 (3).
• Montgomery Family. In Rust, Ethel Lee. The Histories of the DuBrutz and Montgomery Families (1945-1959). Box 1 (10).
• Obituaries - - California, Southern. In Lucius Peyton Green and Mildred Browning Green’s copy of Harris Newmark’s Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 (1926). Includes newspaper clippings. Box 3 (6).
• Pennington, Edward Alonzo, 1811-1846. In Green, John R. 1 letter (1844) to Ann F. Green. Box 2 (6).
• Stanford University. School of Law. In Stanford University. Lucius Peyton Green’s diploma and Petition to Delta Chi from the Members of the Stephen J. Field Club of Leland Stanford Junior University Law Department (1905). Box 1 (6).
• Surrey (England) - - Buildings, structures, etc. In Printed Announcements (1886-1980). Box 3 (7).
• United States. Army - - Military life - - Civil War, 1861-1865 - - Sources. In Green, Lucius Peyton, Sr. 2 letters (1862) to John R. Green and Elizabeth T. Nelson Green. Box 2 (8).
• Virginia - - Genealogy. In Green, Susanna T. “The Green Family of Culpeper County, Virginia” Genealogical Chart (1957). Box 1 (9).

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- California.
Mechanics' liens -- California.
Obituaries -- California, Southern.
Clippings -- United States -- 20th century.
Diaries -- California, Southern -- 19th century.
Letters (correspondence) -- 19th century.
Letters (correspondence) -- 20th century.
Manuscripts -- 19th century.
Photographs -- 19th century.
Photographs -- 20th century.
Wills -- California -- 19th century.

Restrictions:

Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.

Location of this collection:

Huntington Library, Manuscript Collections

1151 Oxford Road

San Marino, CA 91108, US

Contact:

(626) 405-2191

reference@huntington.org

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