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Peppe, a Sicilian boy, lives on the California coast where his father is a fisherman and the festival for their patron saint, Rosalia, is a joyous occasion
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When his family sells its California ranch and returns to Italy, a little boy wears his Indian chief suit on the trip and in the Italian village, where he makes a great hit with all the children
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George Orr has dreams that come true--dreams that change reality. He dreams that the aunt who is sexually harassing him is killed in a car crash, and wakes to find that she died in a wreck six weeks ago, in another part of the country. But a far darker dream drives George into the care of a psychotherapist--a dream researcher who doesn't share George's ambivalence about altering reality.
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A twelve-year-boy in the Boston of 1775 has been bought by a smithy and treated badly. He was kidnapped in England when he was nine and smuggled to the United States. A counterfeiter buys him from the smithy and treats him well but Jed finally tells some Army officers about his counterfeiting activities.
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"[L]imited edition book honoring the twenty-one California missions and their founding father, Junípero Serra, who will be canonized by Pope Francis in September of this year [2015] ... Today, these missions stand as important monuments of both California state history and the history of the United States. Each mission has its own character and feel that makes it distinctive and worthy of notice ... Craig Alan Huber repurposed a 5 ₉ 7-inch Wood Field Camera and four lenses, including a circa 1860s Darlot Opticien Petzval. His choice of view camera equipment and well-honed professional techniques has produced a rich panoply of imagery that invites viewing the California missions in a new light"--Kickstarter webpage for The spirit within: the California missions, viewed on July 15, 2015.
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Visual Materials
A collection of approximately 1,500 photographs and various ephemera and publications of California missions, collected by Southern California educator Connie Rothstein, with an emphasis on the San Gabriel Mission, the history of the city of San Gabriel, and the production of "The Mission Play" by John Steven McGroarty. The collection also includes late-19th and early-20th century photographs of Los Angeles and Southern California, and postcards and ephemera related to the Southern California region. Notable in the collection are 391 stereographs of missions and Los Angeles, including some by photographers William Godfrey and H. T. Payne, A. C. Varela, and Carleton Watkins. All of the California Missions are represented in the collection, plus the "sub-missions" or Asistencias of California. The mission photographs include many unusual views and details, and are a mixture of snapshots made by tourists and commercial photographs. There are many views in and around Southern California, most dating from 1880s-1920s, by various photographers. Specific topics emphasized in and around Los Angeles are: Olvera Street, Chinatown, La Fiesta de Los Angeles celebration; and the Mount Lowe Railway. There are many cabinet cards and stereographs, and six large panoramic photographs of the Los Angeles area. The ephemera include hundreds of postcards and photographic postcards, scrapbooks, and many small publications on the history of the missions and California, as well as ephemera related to "The Mission Play." Other topics in the collection are: photographs and ephemera of Monterey, California; Oregon and the Columbia River Highway; and a group of photographs of cowboys and Western culture (mid-20th century).
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