Guide to the Carr Family Collection, 1870-1936
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Guide to the Carr Family Collection, 1870-1936
Pasadena Museum of History
Research Library and Archives
Pasadena, California
Contact Information:
- Pasadena Museum of History
- Research Library and Archives
- 470 West Walnut Street
- Pasadena, California 91103-3594
- Phone: (626) 577-1660, Ext. 13
- Fax: (626) 577-1662
- Email: research@pasadenahistory.org
- URL: http://www.pasadenahistory.org
- Processed by:
- Teresa Fitzgerald
- Encoded by:
- Genie Guerard
© 2000 Pasadena Museum of History. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Carr Family Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1870-1936
Origination:
Carr Family
Extent: 1 Box
Repository:
Pasadena Museum of History
Pasadena, California 91103-3594
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
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Preferred Citation
Suggested citation of these records: [Identification of item], Carr Family Collection, Research Library and Archives, Pasadena
Museum of History.
Biographical Note
After a career in academics, Dr. Ezra Slocum Carr (1819-1894) was elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction for the
State of California in 1875 or 76. His wife, Jeanne C. Carr (-1903) was Assistant Superintendent of Education and a writer.
They had two surviving children: Edward C. (1848-1929) and Albert Lee (1857-1937).
In 1880, the Carrs retired to Pasadena with the intention of raising orange and fruit groves on their property, named Carmelita.
Carmelita stretched from Orange Grove to Fair Oaks along Colorado Boulevard (the present day site of the Norton Simon Museum).
Jeanne Carr is credited with being the first person to package and market oranges for shipment to the East and Europe. However,
while their orchard flourished the Carrs' financial venture failed. So to capitalize on Pasadena's growing tourist trade,
the Carrs built a boarding house, which was said by historians to have been the cultural center of all Southern California
during the 1880s. Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, William Keith, the artist, and Helen Modjeska, the Polish opera singer,
were among those who stayed with the Carrs. Supposedly, Helen Hunt Jackson wrote part of her famous novel,
Ramona in a cabin on the grounds of Carmelita.
Financial problems forced the Carrs to sell the house and property to Mr. and Mrs. Simon Reed (founders of Reed College in
Oregon) in 1892.
Helen Gilloon, 1977
Scope and Content
The Carr Family Collection (1870 - 1936) includes family papers, legal papers (including deed for Carmelita), correspondence,
sketches, photographs,
Trail of Yesterday transcript (by A.L. Carr) with paste-up of illustrations and some original photographs.
Box 1, Folder PC-2
Smith, The Rev. - photograph
Box 1, Folder PC-5, PC-6
Smith, Dr. Frank - photographs
Box 1, Folder PC-7, PC-8
Smith, Albert and Smith, Lee C. - photographs
Box 1, Folder PC-9a, PC-9b
Smith, Jenny and Bertha - photographs
Box 1, Folder PC-10
Smith, Bertha - photograph, 1883
Box 1, Folder PC-11
Smith, Jennie - photograph
Box 1, Folder PC-12
Smith, Fanny - photograph, 1871
Box 1, Folder PC-13a, 13b, 13c
Carr, Dr. Ezra S. - photographs, 1864, 1870
Box 1, Folder PC-14
Carr, Dr. Ezra S. - photograph, 1880
Box 1, Folder PC-15
Carr, Dr. Ezra - photograph, 1888
Box 1, Folder PC-16
Carr, Mrs. J.C. - composite photograph, 1860
Box 1, Folder PC-17
Smith, Caroline D. - photograph
Box 1, Folder PC-18
Carr, (Mother and sister of Ezra S. Carr) - photograph
Box 1, Folder PC-19
Carr, Mrs. Jeanne C. - photographs at 18
Box 1, Folder PC-20
Carr, Jeanne C. (Mrs. Ezra S. Carr) - photograph, 1880
Box 1, Folder PC-21, A thru D
Box 1, Folder PC-22, A thru D
Box 1, Folder PC-24
Professor and Mrs. Carr - photograph
Box 1, Folder P(8)C-25
Jeanne Carr, Kensington Place - photograph
Box 1, Folder P(8)C-28
Al Carr - photograph, 1894
Box 1, Folder P(8)C-31
Edward C. Carr - photograph
Box 1, Folder P(8)C-35
Annie Wanda Muir - photograph (daughter of John Muir)
Box 1, Folder P(8)C-35, 36
Wanda Muir - photograph (oldest daughter of John Muir)
Box 1, Folder P(8)C-37
Wanda & Helen Muir - photograph
Box 1, Folder P(8)C-38
Mrs. Strentzal - photograph (Mother-In-Law of John Muir)
Box 1, Folder P(8)C-39
Dr. Strentzal - photograph (Father-In-Law of John Muir)
Box 1, Folder P(8)C-40
J. Ohinondell (?) - photograph
Box 1, Folder P(8)C-42
Jeannie Carr at 18 - negative
Box 1
Carr, Jeanne C. - Power of Attorney, February 5, 1892
Box 1
Carr, Dr. Ezra Slocum - Will, October 21,1881
Box 1
Carr, Jeanne C. - Will, October 21, 1881
Box 1
Carr, Jeanne C. - Correspondence, 1890s
Box 1
Carr, Jeanne C. - Letter to Uncle Murray, n/d
Box 1
Carr, Dr. Ezra S. - Letter from his mother, May 16, 1841
Box 1
Carr, Jeanne C. - Complaint against the Altadena Railway Company
Box 1
Letter from Louisa to William D. Locke, February 16, 1846
Box 1
Carmelita - Partial list of plants and shrubs
Box 1
The Genesis and Development of Carmelita, by A.L. Carr
Box 1
Carr, A.L. - Misc. notes and correspondence,1934-1936
Box 1
Carmelita - real estate documents, 1877-1890
Box 1
Sketches done by A.L. and Jeanne Carr
Box 1
Articles written by Jeanne Carr or about the Carrs
Box 1
Description of the Carr Collection and biographical data
Box 1
A Retrospect: Being Intimate Incidents and Episodes of the Rancho San Pasqual, Indiana Colony and Pasadena, by A.L. Carr
Box 1
A Retrospect: Being Intimate Incidents and Episodes of the Rancho San Pasqual, Indiana Colony and Pasadena, by A.L. Carr (duplicate)
Box 1
The Trail of Yesterday, Book 1, by A.L. Carr
Box 1
The Trail of Yesterday, Book 2, by A.L. Carr
Box 1
The Trail of Yesterday, Book 3, by A.L. Carr
Box 1
The Trail of Yesterday, Book 4, by A.L. Carr
Box 1
Card Index for
A Retrospect: Being Intimate Incidents and Episodes of the Rancho San Pasqual, Indiana Colony and Pasadena by A.L. Carr
Box 1
Carr Collection notes, folders, etc.
