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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
A month among the Indian missions and agencies on the Missouri River, and in Minnesota and Wisconsin
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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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Visual Materials
This collection contains approximately 1,000 printed 19th and early 20th century entertainment broadsides, playbills, and related advertisements, and forms a subset within the Jay T. Last Collection of Entertainment. These items advertise theatrical performances including plays, variety entertainment such as minstrel, burlesque, and vaudeville shows, and optical displays such as dioramas, living statues, and tableaus. Over 250 theaters primarily from the Northeastern United States are represented in the collection, though there are also materials from theaters in the Midwestern, Southern, and Western United States, and approximately 26 items from Canada, Ireland, England, and Scotland. The materials range in size from approximately 9 1/2 x 6 inches to 42 1/2 x 14 inches and consist of single-sheet unfolded advertisements for theatrical productions that were intended to be distributed by hand, posted on walls, fences, or in windows, or sold to playgoers entering the theater. Among the names given to these types of advertisements, according to their size and mode of distribution, are broadsides, dodgers, handbills, hangers, playbills, posters, and show bills.
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Rare Books
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Manuscripts
This typescript is from The Deseret Weekly, April 18, 1891. Ruby Lamont provides a brief history of the Salmon River Indian Mission. Her research comes primarily from the recollections of one of the missionaries, Thomas Day (1814-1893). This history is told through his perspective and covers his preparation for and activities during the mission. Also included are descriptions of the conflict between the Mormon missionaries and the Bannock and Shoshoni Indians that caused the abandonment of Fort Lemhi and stopped Mormon missionary efforts in the area.
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