Rare Books

[Vida de Santa Rosa de Viterbo]

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: between 1763-1807]
Call number: 295024
Creator: Nava, José de (1735-1815)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mary W.T. Dickinson, June 1954. With some water damage on bottom of first few leaves. Extensive manuscript annotations on foot of leaves 2 and 3. Bookplate obscurred by label "Este libro usado fue desinfectado para su venta..." Image of "Vista de Puebla parte oriente" pasted into back cover. Two page letter addressed to Cary [Cary S. Bliss, curator of rare books] discussing this work signed by "Ed" [probably Edwin H. Carpenter] laid in back. Letter removed and transferred to Provenance File.
Dimensions: 21 cm (4to)
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Santa Rosa Winery to James De Barth Shorb

Manuscripts

The collection, which contains 10,844 items, consists of correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, speeches, diaries, account books, published articles, legal papers, financial statements and business records. The 10,528 pieces of correspondence are chiefly addressed to James De Barth Shorb, James M. Tiernan and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb. The 17 letter books are related to the business and financial affairs of Shorb and Benjamin Davis Wilson. The 75 manuscripts consist of items chiefly written by Shorb and Wilson family members. The 224 items in the Business Papers include material related to Shorb's many companies including the San Gabriel Wine Company. The following subjects are covered in the Shorb collection: the Shorb, Wilson, and Patton families, David Jacks, Mariano Vallejo, Santa Catalina Island, the Mount Wilson Observatory, California government and politics, African Americans and the Chinese in California, agriculture, the citrus fruit industry, Indians of California, irrigation, lend tenure, mining, railroads, ranching, water rights, and the wine industry. The collection also documents the history and development of the following California cities: Alhambra, Elsinore, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ramona, San Gabriel, San Marino, and Wilmington.

mssShorb papers

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Vida, excelencias, y muerte del gloriosissimo patriarca y esposo de Nuestra Señora, San Ioseph

Rare Books

380215

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Santa Rosa Brand

Visual Materials

The Citrus label collection contains more than 1,500 lithographed labels related to the California citrus industry in the United States from 1880 to 1960, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1890 to 1940. The vast majority of the collection consists of lithographed labels produced for Californian growers, packers, and distributors to identify brand names and packing locations on wooden shipping crates of oranges, lemons and grapefruits. Many of the labels were printed by Los Angeles and San Francisco lithographers. The collection includes a range of lithography techniques from crayon drawing and hand stippling to the use of Ben Day screen patterns and half-tone lithography. The collection also includes more than 100 examples with "bronzing," a printing technique where varnish is printed on the label, followed by a dusting of fine bronze powder. A significant number of labels are stamped on verso with a received date by the Fruit Growers Supply Company, and some include signatures of approval or notations about printing corrections. The collection provides a broad view of the development of citrus fruit advertising over time, and also touches upon topics of commerce, manufacturing, travel and tourism, and promotion of the western United States. In the earliest examples, themes include naturalistic designs of flowers, animals, women, historical subjects, and scenic landscapes. Brand names, simple designs, block letters, and geometric patterns dominate in later examples. Many of the labels depict orange groves, scenic views, or flowers, though the collection also includes a wide variety of imagery beyond these themes including Native Americans, transportation, children, and portraits of famous or fictional people.

ephCL S_21

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Rancho Santa Rosa

Manuscripts

The collection consists of the personal, family and business papers of Cave Johnson Couts (1821-1874) and his son, Cave Johnson Couts, Jr. (1856-1943). There is personal and business correspondence, army papers of Cave J. Couts (1837-1855), accounts, land papers, legal papers, survey correspondence and field notes of Cave J. Couts, Jr., family papers, photographs, ephemera, and 250 maps.

mssCT 2585 (1-2)

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Santa Rosa Island

Manuscripts

mssHM 26404 and various photPF call numbers

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Santa Rosa and vicinity

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