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Assembly. V. 3, no. 3, Oct. 1944
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Subjects of the entire collection include: Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, American dance and dancers, dance instruction and notes, exercises and warm-up routines, various dance types (international as well as American), famous dancers from around the globe, Denishawn dancers, the Ruth St. Denis Center, the Ruth St. Denis Foundation, the Ruth St. Denis Theatre Intime, Jacob's Pillow dance festival, American Dance Film Association, Society of Spiritual Arts Church, the various teachers and pupils at St. Denis' dance studio and school, the Orient trip the Denishawn dancers took in 1926, as well as dance productions and events St. Denis put on throughout her career. There is also much material about St. Denis' effort to have her studio and school become a non-profit entity and her desire to create an artist colony in Hemet, California. More specifically, several dancers show up in the notebooks and photographs, including: Harold Kreutzberg, Peter di Falco, La Meri, Karoun Tootikian, Miriam Schiller, Jean Léon, Gladys Bowen, Antonio Gades, Devi Dja, Doris Humphrey, Mary Wigman, and Martha Graham.
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Literary times v. 3 no. 3
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Publisher: Jay Robert Nash (Chicago, Ill.) Related Content: "Poetry -- comments, poems" (p. 4, review) Note: It catches my heart in its hands is reviewed under the heading "The champ". "(1964)" written in ms. in upper left corner of cover p. [1], "review of 'It catches'" written in ms. in the upper right corner of cover p. [1]. Related Content Author: Ron Offen
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Proceedings. New series, v. 20, part 1, v. 22, pt. 2, v. 29, pt. 2; Oct. 20, 1909, Oct. 16, 1912, Oct. 15, 1919
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Miscellaneous - Damn Lies (1944). 3 items
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The collection contains Frank F. Latta's research material from his five decades of researching the history of California's San Joaquin Valley and Miller & Lux, in particular dry farming known as skyfarming. Subjects include: agriculture and farming in the San Joaquin Valley, the development of agricultural machinery (combines, plows, reapers, scrapers, threshing machines, tractors and various types of harvesters), livestock, ranches, cattle, and crops, mostly wheat. Also covered are: early aviation, early automobiles, bears, crime, the Dalton Gang, the Donner Party, earthquakes, education and schools in the San Joaquin Valley, floods, freight and steamships on the San Joaquin River, gold mines, irrigation, canals and water rights in San Joaquin Valley, land grants, livestock, lumber, outlaws, pioneers, the Presbyterian Church in California, ranches, rivers, roads, saddlery, sheepherding in California, overland journeys to California and California politics, government and history. Also talked about are women, African Americans, Chileans, Chinese, Mormons, Native Americans and Jews in California. The collection contains roughly 180 oral interviews with people living in the San Joaquin Valley in the 1930s through the 1970s. One of the series contains drafts of the unpublished manuscript Sky Farmers and Mule Skinners with Something about Hay Muckers, Buckaroos, and Bindle Stiffs and a Sheepherder or Two. Frank F. Latta worked on this manuscript for five decades.
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The Painted Bride Quarterly. v. 3 no. 3
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Content: "thought from a stone bench in Venice" (poem - accompanied by a black and white photograph; some water damage), p. 30 Content author: Charles Bukowski
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painted bride quarterly v. 3 no. 3
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Publisher: Painted Bride Quarterly (Philadelphia, Pa.) Related Content: "thoughts from a stone bench in Venice" (p. 30, poem) Related Content Author: Charles Bukowski
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