Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Carl Van Vechten : a bibliography
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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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Manuscripts
Material documenting the personal and professional life of artist Don Bachardy, including artworks, personal papers, and photographs. Artworks consist of portraits Bachardy created primarily between 1961 and 2002, with some early works from the 1940s and 1950s, and include drawings in pencil or pen and ink, as well as acrylic paintings.
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Rare Books
Collection of African-American theatre and concert programs, art exhibition announcements and related ephemera; examples of African-American publications, ephemera related to lectures, performances and events at Fisk University and race and social justice ephemera. Most of the material is from the New York City area, and dates between the years 1940 and 1948. Some of the African-American performers and social figures represented include: Katherine Dunham (and dance company), Clara Miles, Effabelle Davis, Emmer Booker, National Negro Opera Co., Pearl Primus, African Academy of Arts and Research, Festival Negro Chorus of New York, American Negro Theatre, Harlem Experimental Theatre, Negro Actors Guild of America, Negro Reperatory Theatre, W. E. B. Dubois, Fisk University (Nashville, Tenn.) and Carl S. Johnson.
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Visual Materials
Printer: Weed, Parsons & Co.'s print Text features concert of Miss Electa Cone
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence and ephemera, the majority written by Evelyn Waugh and related to his later works. The manuscripts include Decline and fall, Ninety-Two days, and material related to Basil Seal rides again, A Little learning and The Loved one. The majority of the correspondence is with Chapman and Hall, is business-related and covers the years 1961-1968; other business correspondents include A.D. Peters, Associated Book Publishers Ltd, Methuen & Co., and Penguin. Other correspondents in the collection include: Robert Murray Davis, Anne Adelaide Ford, Hugh Heckstall-Smith, James G. Hepburn, Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster, Sir Victor Mallet, Alfred Robert McIntyre, Howard Irwin Ross, Christopher Sykes, Arthur Waugh, Laura Waugh and Joel Wells. The ephemera includes Inter-Office business correspondence, compact disks, clippings, photographs, including an original Carl Van Vechten photograph, printed material and original storage boxes; the oversize folder contains one LP phonograph record.
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