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San Marino, CA 91108
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Fac-simile of the Vicksburg, Miss., Daily citizen
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
This collection consists of two series: the Grace Nicholson papers (2,926 items) and addenda (1,444 items). The papers consist primarily of correspondence, while the addenda is primarily notes. Both relate to Grace Nicholson and her work in the fields of Native American and Asian art. There are many letters from Native Americans to Nicholson and extensive diaries and notes that Nicholson kept on her buying trips through Native American territory, especially of the Karok, Klamath, and Pomo Indians. Subject matter includes Native American legends, folklore, vocabulary, tribal festivals, basket making, business in art trade, and living conditions. There is also a considerable amount of correspondence from China, Japan, and Korea between Nicholson and her buyers. Among the subjects covered are Chinese art and architecture, Japanese art, Korean art, Javanese textiles, Siamese art, Philippine art, life and social conditions in Asia, and the business of trading Asian art. Being a well-known dealer in Native American and Asian art, Nicholson was in contact with many artists, such as Frederick Arthur Bridgman, W. Herbert Dunton, Sadakichi Hartmann, Elizabeth Conrad Hickox, Louise Merrill Hickox, Grace Carpenter Hudson, George Wharton James, Lilian Miller, Hovsep T. Pushman, Joseph Henry Sharp, and Millard Sheets. Nicholson also purchased materials for institutions such as the Field Museum of Natural History, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art, the Pasadena Art Museum, and the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California. Her intimate relationships with Native Americans give particular insight into their lives and culture. Historians and academics sought her out, including Alfred Lewis Kroeber, Charles Fletcher Lummis, and Clinton Hart Merriam. Nicholson also received letters from political figures such as Frederick Webb Hodge, Herbert Hoover, Hiram Johnson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Visual Materials
One boxed set of 16 art reproductions (and one duplicate) selected from the Masters, for the use of students in Drawing, Moses King, Publisher, Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an accompanying pamphlet. The images were selected and described by Charles H. Moore, "Instructor in Drawing and Principals of Design in Harvard University", with plates by the Forbes Company of Boston and include reproductions of Durer, Holbein, Da Vinci, Ruskin, Turner and Rout.
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Visual Materials
One boxed set of art reproductions entitled Fac-Similes of Examples in Delineation, selected from the Masters, for the use of students in Drawing, Moses King, Publisher, Cambridge, Massachusetts, ca. 1882. The images were selected and described by Charles H. Moore, "Instructor in Drawing and Principals of Design in Harvard University", plates by the Forbes Company of Boston. There are 17 loose images total, including reproductions of Durer, Holbein, Da Vinci, Ruskin, Turner and Rout, with two copies of plate No. 5. The accompanying pamphlet, written by Mr. Moore, states the "[the drawings] have been selected with regard to their fitness to serve as guides in point of method to students of drawing, and they are published in this form [loose] in order that they may be conveniently used as drawing copies." Each of the 16 images are briefly described at the end of the pamphlet. The pamphlet and plates were originally enclosed in slim black case, which is also in the box.
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