Rare Books
Poems
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Pen and ink drawings
Manuscripts
Four original pen and ink drawings by Lute Pease. The drawings include "A Shocking Comeback" (showing a boy with an axe and pants reading "Allies," a headless turkey with a sign reading "give it back...", and a turkey head with a tag reading "Constantinople"); "When the Premiership was Vacant" (showing a lion with his tail caught in a door reading "Pressing European Problems" with an apparent George V painting a sign reading "Wanted Quick A New Keeper"); "We'll 'Emancipate' Him" (showing robbers labeled "Lenine" and "Kemal" referring to a traveler marked "Balkans"); and "Vampiring" (showing an apparent Uncle Sam writing "Internal Revenue Business" in a ledger while being attacked by a winged elephant labeled "Republican Job Raid"). The drawings appear to date from the early 1920s.
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"Sound Finance" [drawing]
Manuscripts
Original pen and ink drawing by Lute Pease entitled "Sound Finance." The drawing depicts a bald eagle nesting on a rock emblazoned with the title.
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Lute Pease photograph collection
Visual Materials
A collection of photographs from the life of Lucius ("Lute") Pease, with views of the Canadian Yukon and Alaska; Pease as a child and in his later years; family members; friends and some sitters of his portrait work; and views of his paintings. The scenes in Yukon and Alaska date from approximately 1898-1901 and show Pease and others in heavy fur clothing, living in log cabins, travelling with dog sleds, prospecting, hunting, and posed outside the Del Norte Hotel in Nome. Native (or Inuit) men and women are seen in fishing boats, hunting sea lions and aboard the United States Revenue Cutter "Bear." The remainder of the collection focuses on Pease and family members, and Pease during his years painting and working as an editorial cartoonist, with a view of him at the drawing board. Other photographs of note: American political cartoonist Homer Davenport, ca. 1880s; Pease with Walt Disney, ca. 1940s; a copy photograph of Robert Todd Lincoln as a young man; and three snapshots from the South Seas, which may be Jack London photographs (London wrote for the Pacific Monthly).
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Lute Pease papers
Manuscripts
Mining and settlement in 1860s Nevada, prospecting and settlement in the Yukon Territory and Alaska 1897-1901, West Coast literary magazines in the early twentieth century, Pease family history.Letter from James B. Pond to Lute Pease about Mark Twain's meeting with Pease, written Sep. 12, 1895 (HM 51785), a diary kept by Lute Pease in Alaska from Apr. 15 through June 24, 1899 (HM 51734), Lute Pease's letter to Helen (Hutton) Webster and others from Noatak River, Alaska, Dec. 3, 1901, describing life in Alaska and his tasks as a U. S. Commissioner (HM 51759), a 55-page diary-letter to Virginia (Pease) Hunt from Noatak River, Alaska Feb. 28, 1902 (HM 51746), a typewritten manuscript of To the Meadow Lark a poem by C. E. S. Wood with corrections in the author's hand, Feb. 1907 (HM 51828), In Old Bohemia. II. The `Overland' and the Overlanders, an essay by charles Warren Stoddard about The Overland Monthly (HM 51797), a letter from William Simon U'Ren to Pease, Mar. 9, 1908, commenting upon Oregon politics (HM 51805), a letter from Maynard Dixon to Pease, c. 1913, with an ink sketch on recto (HM 51583), a letter from C. E. S. Wood to Pease, May 17, 1917, commenting upon the moral dimension of the European war (HM 51833), a letter from C. E. S. Wood to Pease, Feb. 22, 1928, describing his Alaska experiences (HM 51835), a letter from the Huntington Library to Pease, Apr. 22, 1936, asking if he would donate copies of one or two published cartoons to a budding collection of political cartoons (HM 51637), and Lute Pease's notes about Mark Twain, Jack London, and other prominent figures, c. 1947 (HM 51732).
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