Overview of the Collection
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Administrative Information
Biographical Note
Scope and Content
Arrangement
Indexing: Subjects
Indexing Terms
Overview of the Collection
Title: Green Family Papers
Dates (inclusive): 1839-1980
Collection Number: mssGreen family papers
Creator:
Green, Mildred Browning, 1890-1978.
Extent: 175 items in 3 boxes
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2129
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
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.
Language: English.
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Administrative Information
Publication Rights
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to
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activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is
one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Green Family Papers, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Provenance
Gift from estate of Lucius Peyton Green and Mildred Browning Green, February
1980.
Biographical Note
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.
Bibliography
Schlotterbeck, John T. “Plantation and Farm: Social and Economic Change in Orange and Greene Counties, Virginia, 1716 to 1860.”
Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1980.
Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold.
Catalog of the Collection of Mrs Lucius Peyton Green. Los Angeles: Phaidon Press, 1956.
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.
Arrangement
The collection is alphabetically arranged into Documents, Manuscripts,
Correspondence, Photographs, and Ephemera.
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).
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Brundage, Avery -- Art
collections.
DuBrutz
family.
Green family.
Green, Mildred
Browning, 1890-1978.
Hanson, Roger
Weightman, 1827-1863.
Pennington, Edward
Alonzo, 1811-1846.
Henry E. Huntington
Library and Art Gallery.
Stanford University.
School of Law.
United States. Army --
Military life -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Art -- Collectors and collecting --
California.
Mechanics' liens --
California.
Obituaries -- California,
Southern.
Anaheim (Calif.) --
Biography.
Anaheim (Calif.) --
History.
California, Southern
-- History -- 19th century.
California, Southern
-- History -- 20th century.
Kentucky --
Genealogy.
Surrey (England) --
Buildings, structures, etc.
United States --
History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence.
Virginia --
Genealogy.
Forms/Genres
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.
Additional Contributors
Coons, Arthur Gardiner, 1900-1968.
Green, Lucius Peyton.
Los Angeles County (Calif.). Dept. of
Tax Collector.