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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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Father Serra and the Indian boy who accompanies him on his journeys watch their dream come true as the missions are built in California
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A little Chinese girl in Los Angeles participates in the celebration of the Chinese New Year.
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Visual Materials
One joint drawing and tracing book entitled Drawing and Tracing Book: Boats and Houses, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, copyright 1898. The cover title reads: Drawing and Tracing Book. This book is comprised of 8 lithograph plates of images for tracing and drawing, with 8 leaves of tracing paper bound in. The front cover is a chromolithograph image of a boy and a girl in a rowboat. Both are wearing hats, and the little boy is rowing like a gondolier. The back cover is a green and white mesh pattern. The images for tracing are of various types of boats and houses. "81" is printed in the lower left-hand corner of the front cover. None of the images have been traced or copied. "Bertie from Emily Jan. 11-1911" is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper left-hand corner of the title page. "2.50" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the title page.
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Stereograph showing an African American boy sitting on the ground between two pontoon boats resting on wheeled carts. The boats will be moved to a location and used in the construction of a pontoon bridge.
photSt Taylor (2557)
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One of a series of 35 charts of small California harbors. The maps are hand tinted and include notes on the harbor conditions for ships. From the library of John Haskell Kemble. "Presented to U. S. Coast Survey with compliments of New Zealand Insurance Company ... San Francisco, Jan. 23, 1886." "E. A. Dakin, Electric Pen Printer, 320 Sansome St." Previously identified as 479297u. Coordinates based on the location of Fisherman Bay (USGS ID 223549).
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