Rose Lucille Ellerbe (1894-1929) came to California as a teacher in 1884 and then became a journalist, contributing regularly to the Los Angeles Times. Materials in this collection are from 1900-1929 and include fiction and non-fiction mansucripts by Ellerbe, correspondence, financial records, and information on the Pasadena Center for Russian Handicrafts.

Rose Lucille Ellerbe (1894-1929) came to California as a teacher in 1884 and then became a journalist, contributing regularly to the Los Angeles Times. Ellerbe published many short stories and wrote several monographs on California history. Ellerbe was involved with the Pasadena Center for Russian Handicrafts. Ellerbe's cousin was Frank Rolfe, a geologist who worked on the Los Angeles Aqueduct Survey and who donated his library of books and papers to the Southwest Museum library in 1933.

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