Armor (Samuel and Alice L.) papers

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Armor (Samuel and Alice L.) papers

MS.R.012

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Table of contents

Correspondence Series 1. 1898-1938

Physical Description: 0.2 Linear Feet

General Physical Description note: no content

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains letters, cards, and membership information sent to Samuel and Alice Armor and includes correspondence from Rev. M.L. Pearson of the First Presbyterian Church of Orange and his second wife Lola to the Armors and two photographs of natives of the Dutch East Indies taken by the Pearsons on one of their cruises. Also included are a 1917 letter from California Governor William D. Stephens and correspondence regarding Alice Armor's affairs following the death of her husband. Incoming correspondence in this series is arranged topically, followed by other correspondence.

box 1, folder 1-6

Incoming correspondence to Samuel and Alice Armor

box 1, folder 1

Christmas cards, and undated 1938

box 1, folder 2-3

General

box 1, folder 2

1898-1926

box 1, folder 3

1928-1938

box 1, folder 4

Knox College alumni 1922-1924

box 1, folder 5

Memberships 1908-1926

box 1, folder 6

Pearson, M.L. and Lola 1926-1928

box 1, folder 7

Correspondence regarding Alice Armor 1938

Orange County materials Series 2. 1876-1934

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Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains miscellaneous materials pertaining to Orange County history. Materials in this series are arranged topically.

box 1, folder 8

Armor biographical information, undated

folder XOS 1

Election ballot sample, Republican Party, 11th Congressional, 39th Senatorial and 76th Assembly District, 1926

box 1, folder 9-10

First Presbyterian Church of Orange

box 1, folder 9

Program for reception honoring Rev. M.L. Pearson, 1934

box 1, folder 10

Typescript history by Samuel and Alice Armor, 1924

box 1, folder 11

Hewes Park (Orange, CA) postcards, undated.

General Physical Description note: 10 items.

box 1, folder 22

Orange County Public School student journal, 1876-1878

folder XOS 1

Plat map in manuscript, illustrating blocks between 4th Street in Santa Ana and LaVeta Avenue in Orange, and between the Santa Fe Railroad and Grand Avenue, ca. 1900

folder XOS 1

Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, annual report, 1928

box 1, folder 12

Water and politics, miscellaneous writings by Samuel Armor, undated

box 1, folder 13

Weather reports kept by Alice Armor, 1933

Topical materials Series 3. 1899-1927

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General Physical Description note: no content

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series includes miscellaneous materials not associated with Orange County, California. Materials are arranged topically.

box 1, folder 14

Allied War Exposition postcards, undated.

General Physical Description note: 12 items.

box 1, folder 15

"Best Practicable Plan by Which the United States may Cooperate With Other Nations to Achieve and Preserve the Peace of the World" by Samuel Armor, typescript and holograph summary, undated

box 1, folder 16

Bishop, California postcards, undated.

General Physical Description note: 13 items.

box 1, folder 17

Church-related materials

box 1, folder 17

A History of the Congregation Church and Society of Claridon, Ohio, . 1899

General note

Alice Armor's father served as pastor of this church.

box 1, folder 17

Calvary Presbyterian Church of San Diego, dedication service program, 1920

box 1, folder 17

Poems by Rev. Horace Taylor (Anacortes, WA), typescripts, and undated 1927

box 1, folder 18

Ohio postcards, undated.

General Physical Description note: 4 items.

folder XOS 1

Temperance newspaper, Southern California White Ribbon (Covina, CA), 1922 July

Photographs, undated. Series 4.

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General Physical Description note: no content

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series includes photographs of the Armor family, their friends, and a group of unidentified photographs.

box 1, folder 19

Armor family, and undated. ca. 1890

General Physical Description note: 5 items.

box 1, folder 20

Armor friends, and undated 1894-1906

General Physical Description note: 7 items.

box 1, folder 21

Unidentified people, undated.

General Physical Description note: 6 items.

Collection Contents

Correspondence

Orange County materials

Topical materials

Photographs, undated.