Rare Books
Slovenly Peter, or, Pleasant stories and funny pictures : translated from the German
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The English Struwwelpeter, or, Pretty stories and funny pictures
Rare Books
Classic tales in verse about naughty boys and girls and the fates that befall them when they misbehave
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Prang's Outline Pictures with Directions for Coloring
Visual Materials
One folder of images for painting entitled Prang's Outline Pictures with Directions for Coloring, Series 1, Children, published by L. Prang & Co., Boston, 1888. Within the folder are 9 outline images for coloring; each is titled with the subject, generally characters from fairy tales. Printed in the lower left-hand corner of each leaf is "Copyright 1888 by L. Prang Co. Boston." Also within the folder are three printed sheets: one contains coloring instructions, one is an informational piece about the set, and the third is a manufacturer's advertisement for Prang's Christmas Cards.
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Peter Frederick Hummel letter to "Dear Wife & Children,"
Manuscripts
In this 3-page letter, Hummel describes his overland journey to California from Illnois. He talks about arriving in Fort Laramie and describes in detail the bad weather he encountered, the deaths of mules, cattle and horses along the way, and the physical landscape of the desert and the Sierra Nevadas. He also talks about his life in Sacramento, the gold he has found at Sutter's Mill and the difficulty of gold mining. Hummel gives prices for items and suggests that his wife and children come to California to be with him and states that they "could get rich in 2 years time." The letters is on letterhead from "J. M. Hummel Wholesale and Retail" in Sandwich, Illinois.
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Telegram from Peter SooHoo to Frank F. Merriam
Manuscripts
Telegram from Peter SooHoo, Secretary of the Los Angeles Chinatown, to Governor Frank Marriam informing him that they have reorganized the opening celebration to earlier in the day so he can attend. Telegram stresses the number of Chinese-American that will present at the opening. They ask him to reconsider and come.
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Letter from Joe Shoong to Peter SooHoo
Manuscripts
Letter from Joe Shoong to Peter SooHoo, informing SooHoo that he, Shoong, had lunch with Frank McLaughlin, Head of the Work Projects Administration in California, and filled him in on the New Chinatown project. Shoong suggests that when Mclaughlin is in Los Angeles that SooHoo and Adrian Wilson meet with him. There may be WPA funds available.
mssSooHoo
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Translation from the German of Music Printing with movable type in the 16th century. Leipzig, 1892 [typescript manuscript]
Manuscripts
This collection contains of the business records of the Merrymount Press and the related papers of its founder Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941). The bulk of the collection consists of financial volumes; correspondence with customers, publishers, illustrators, craftsmen, and suppliers; bills; estimates; and scrapbooks with specimens of work. While the majority of the correspondence is comprised of letters, there are occasionally proofs, specimens, and cloth, paper, fabric samples, etc., found with the correspondence. The records reflect Updike's involvement with printing across the United States and in Europe, though much of his work was produced for clients in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York City. Some of the correspondence reflects Updike's personal interests including Rhode Island history and churches and charitable work with poor children as well as prison inmates.
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