Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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The English Struwwelpeter, or, Pretty stories and funny pictures
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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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Tales in verse, some about naughty children and the fates that befall thme when they misbehave
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Stories and verses for boys and girls.
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Manuscripts
Black and white photograph of 2 little girls in towels and swimming caps at the edge of the pool with 3 women seated behind them. Newspaper caption reads, "These two little girls can't wait for the official opening of the Harry Chandler Memorial Pool March 20. Kathy and Donna, left, will frolic with a thousand other girls and boys when the ribbons are cut and the dedication a memory." Women seated behind are Mrs. Frederick Wehrle (far left), and Mmes. Joseph C. Shell and Robert C. Hill (at right). All three women were to take part in the dedication ceremony.
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Four tales about Jimmieboy and his adventures with animal friends that talk.
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In this letter, written from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, to an unknown addressee, Joseph Whitaker describes the Native Americans in the area: "...not many deer now the Indians kill about all there is a few Indians about all the time they speak muskrats and fish on the ice in the winter the muskrats build a kind of house of pieces of old bog one of them is worth a shilling to them. The skins they sell for six pence and eat the rest they don't wash themselves once a month and when they have good luck they paint themselves with all kinds of paint...." Whitaker also talks briefly about his farming and hunting.
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"Concluding tells the story of the strange events that occur in a single day at a State-run school for girls." "Retired scientist Mr. Rock, "an old man in love with his goose," lives in a cottage with his adult granddaughter Elizabeth. Bordering the grounds of the school, the cottage - which the State has given Rock for the duration of his life in gratitude for his scientific contributions - is coveted by the school's two spinsterish governesses, Misses Edge and Baker." "As the story opens, two students are missing. The resultant search for their whereabouts raises numerous fears and questions: have they been harmed? have they left on their own, alone? or have they perhaps been persuaded by the school's only male instructor, Sebastian Birt? how will the governesses keep the news from parents and State authorities until the girls have been found and an "acceptable" story contrived? will Rock report them for negligence? Meanwhile, as rumors and versions of the girls' disappearance spread through the school, and the governesses attempt to conceal their alarm by preparing for the school's tenth annual Founders Day Ball, the seemingly innocent proceedings take on an air of mystery, intrigue, and impending doom."--Jacket.
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