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Harper's family library

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1831-1840.
Call number: 481345
Associated people: Bush, George, (1796-1859.); Gleig, G. R. (1796-1888.); Jameson, Robert, (1774-1854.); Russell, Michael, (1781-1848.); Russell, Michael, (1781-1848.); Lander, Richard, (1804-1834.); Abercrombie, John, (1780-1844.); Dover, George Agar Ellis, (1797-1833.); Smedley, Edward, (1788-1836.); Murray, Hugh, (1779-1846.); Taylor, W. C. (1800-1849.); Russell, Michael, (1781-1848.); Montgomery, James, (1771-1854.); Barrow, John, (1764-1848.); Crichton, Andrew, (1790-1855.)

The best for family reading" Harper's magazine

Visual Materials

The Artist posters collection at the Huntington Library contains over 180 printed works from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The bulk of the materials date from 1890 to 1900 and advertise American literary books and periodicals. Bicycles, household goods, and other products are also advertised. Notable illustrators represented in the collection include William L. Carqueville, Charles Dana Gibson, J. J. Gould, William Sergeant Kendall, J. C. Leyendecker, Maxfield Parrish, and Edward Penfield. Subjects addressed within the collection include international art styles (such as Art Nouveau), fashion, graphic design, publishing, book and literary journal publication, product advertising, and the intersections between them, especially during the last decade of the 19th century.

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UNIVERSALIST CIRCULATING FAMILY LIBRARY

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The Patriarch, or, Family library magazine

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History of the United States : for families and libraries

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Horse Library-Rohman - Warner Family

Manuscripts

The correspondence files consist of letters, faxes, invoices, and book catalogs related to Edward Lasker's rare book and manuscript purchases that made up his horse library. Notable corespondents include: Blood-Horse Inc., DeWitt Clinton, Fasig-Tipton Co., J. A. Allen & Co., and James Cummins Bookseller. There is also a folder containing material regarding British jockey Fred Archer, including photographs. Several folders contain photographs of books, copies of title pages, or other resource material.

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Harper's Writing Books: Symmetrical Penmanship with Marginal Drawing Lessons, for Schools and Families

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One penmanship book entitled Harper's Writing Books: Symmetrical Penmanship with Marginal Drawing Lessons, for Schools and Families, published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1868. The subtitle reads: School and Family Series: Writing and Drawing, In Ten Numbers, Number 5. This penmanship practice book is 24 pages in length. Across the top of each page are the letters, phrases or sentences which are to be copied in the lined spaces below. Along the outer vertical margin of each page is a shaded block of figures and drawing exercises to be copied. On the front cover, the title surrounds several images and vignettes of people writing and drawing. The centered vignette shows three students seated at a table, writing. Instructional text, including specific directions for Book 5, are printed on the inside of the front cover, and continue on to the inside of the back cover. The back cover also features instructions for using and copying the additional exercises found in the margins of the book. None of the exercises have been completed.

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