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The adventures of Joel Pepper

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Description: Young Joel Pepper has a knack for the most interesting escapades including forming his own circus.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1900]
Call number: 489901
Creator: Sidney, Margaret (1844-1924)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Signed in manuscript multiple times on front endpapers: "Miss Florence Brett, December 25, 1900".; Signed in manuscript multiple times on recto of frontispiece: "Miss Rosalyn Virgiel (Florence Brett), December 25, 1919".
Dimensions: 19 cm.
Associated people: Gallagher, Sears, (1869-1955,)
Associated organizations: Lothrop Publishing Company,

Joel Robert Chappell letters

Manuscripts

Two letters written to Joel Robert Chappell shortly before his death. The first, dated January 24, 1876, was written by H.L. Binford, a Los Angeles real estate broker who had also lived in Jackson, Tennessee. Binford writes of the restoration of his own health after moving to California, the temperance of the climate, and the successes of local farmers and business professionals. The second letter was written by H. Stephens in Los Angeles and dated February 19, 1876, the day after Chappell's death. In the letter Stephens writes of the availability of timber ("taken as a whole the country is not well wooded"), housing conditions, the cost of land, and sea passage to San Francisco. He also advises Chappell to buy a small amount of land and to save enough money to live on for a year.

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Brigham Young letter to Joseph A. Young

Manuscripts

Letter to Joseph A. Young from his father Brigham Young in Salt Lake City. Young writes of his approval of Wyoming as an "outfitting point on the Missouri," that Joseph has been "much blessed in [his] railroad contract," of his own trip to Ogden and plans for future travels throughout Utah, a visit to his cotton and woolen factory, and that "Uncle Sam's prospectors on the Bench" are in the mountains looking for gold and silver.

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The Adventures of Ceresota

Visual Materials

One painting book entitled The Adventures of Ceresota, published by Northwestern Consolidated Milling Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota, producers of Ceresota Flour, copyright 1912. The front cover shows Ceresota contemplating his image on a sack of flour; the subtitle, A Painting Book in Story Form, appears below the image. The back cover features the company's trademark in the upper left, an image of Ceresota cutting bread in the center, and "Serial No. 143" in the lower-right corner. The inside front cover contains copyright information, the inside back cover has "[g]eneral instructions for young artists" for using "Japanese Water Colors." There are 24 images in the book, 12 in color and 12 in outline. Each outlined image was to be filled in by using the complementary color image at its side and by following the instructions preceding each group of images. Each outline image could be cut out of the book as instructed on the "cut here" line printed on the page near the gutter. None of the images have been in removed from this particular copy. The book also explains why the flour is called Ceresota, and how Ceresota's image came to be on sacks of flour. The numeral "7--" has been penciled onto the upper-right corner of the first page.

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The misadventures of Marjory

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Much too pretty for her own good, Marjory brings out the protective instinct in men. While away at a secretarial school she discovers that her older brother plans to marry. Annoyed that someone else has usurped her long-held spot in his affections, she rushes home to stop the wedding. When she cannot, she runs off to Columbus to start a new life. One misadventure after another ensues as she meets some very interesting characters and finds romance along the way.

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Wachs, Joel. 1 letter to Smith, Jack, 1916-1996. (1983, Aug. 10)

Manuscripts

The collection has several strong subject points for the purpose of research including journalism and the writing process and the history of Los Angeles. There are many letters written during World War II that discuss life in America as well as abroad, especially Iwo Jima. The bulk of the collection includes correspondence to Smith from his readers, many of whom were persons of note, and Smith's own subject files of topics often discussed in his columns. The manuscripts include a number of Smith's notebooks as well as drafts of essays and monographs. The ephemera includes appearances of Smith's columns, photographs of Smith's work and family, and printed materials related to Smith's work and family life.

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A good life : newspapering and other adventures

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"This is the witty, candid story of a daring young man who made his own way to the heights of American journalism and public life, of the great adventure that took him at only twenty years old straight from Harvard to almost four years in the shooting war in the South Pacific, and back, from a maverick New Hampshire weekly to an apprenticeship for Newsweek in postwar Paris, then to the Washington Bureau chief's desk, and finally to the apex of his career at The Washington Post." "Bradlee took the helm of The Washington Post in 1965. He and his reporters transformed it into one of the most influential and respected news publications in the world, reinvented modern investigative journalism, and redefined the way news is reported, published, and read. Under his direction, the paper won eighteen Pulitzer prizes. His leadership and investigative drive following the break-in at the Democratic National Committee led to the downfall of a president, and kept every president afterward on his toes." "Bradlee, backed every step of the way by the Graham family, challenged the federal government over the right to publish the Pentagon Papers - and won. His ingenuity, and the spirited reporting of Sally Quinn, now his wife, led to the creation of the Style Section, a revolutionary newspaper feature in its time, now copied by just about every paper in the country.--Jacket.

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