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Many hands : western New England's magazine for personal & social transformation
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CMD Magazine: News of Western Industry
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The papers provide a unique perspective of 20th century California history and American business history and more specifically, a view of business practices in Los Angeles. The Business Files, the largest series of the collection has 6,436 items. This material includes invoices, receipts, bills of lading, purchase orders, bid requests, bids, statements, and other general account and job information including handwritten notes, drawings, construction plans and diagrams. The Correspondence series contains 768 items. Most of the correspondence is also business-related. The Photographs and Negatives series contains 1,110 items. The photographs (and negatives) include views of jobs (at various stages of completion), plants, machinery, as well as a few aerial views of the company's jobs. The Ephemera series contains 124 items. The series includes: business-related newsletters and bulletins, brochures and publications, newspaper clippings; tax forms, several LA Paving Company related artifacts, a copy of the 1926 Who's who in Los Angeles and a copy of Scratches: a volume of cartoons and caricatures of Los Angeles citizens, 1911 (Ernest R. Werdin is in both volumes). There is also one folder related to E. Russell Werdin's involvement in the USC Alumni Association. The 38 volumes include bid requests, daily job reports, invoices, journals, one photograph album, a plant and shop register, and stock certificates.
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Hands across the sea
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Image of an outdoor scene in a courtyard with a woman on a horse charging through a gate to stop a firing squad of French soldiers with rifles and bayonets who are preparing to shoot a prisoner who stands next to a guillotine in the back of the courtyard; the poster advertises the English melodrama "Hands Across the Sea" by Henry Pettitt.
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18 landscapes
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"It comes as no surprise that Mark Wyse hones his artistic vision in Los Angeles. His images, rich with the rapture of light and detail that have attracted photographers since the conception of the medium, both confound and embrace photographic conventions. Through the descriptive power allowed by the 8 x 10 view camera, Wyse directs our eye through expansive Californian views with the precise detail of aerial maps, enticing us into recesses, and forcing us along impenetrable surfaces. It is through Wyse's acute awareness of heightened vision that he is able to absorb us into the pictorial surface, a surface that oscillates between the hyper-real and his own nostalgic leanings. In Wyse's hands, the drama of the view is never found in the landscape it describes, nor the light it exploits, but in the very act of perception itself. Wyse's images project a balanced relationship in which man seamlessly assimilates into the landscape that surrounds him. His contemporary landscapes present nature and man as a united, harmonious entity, creating a timeless illusion of lasting tranquility, allowing the viewer to drift into the picture and back into memory"--Publisher's description.
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Aspects of collage : May 5-June 9, 1991
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Presents a selection of artists, most of whom have an affilitation with Long Island, who had used the medium of ocllage as the sole component of, an important part of, or have used some new and innovative aspect of collage in their work.
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The New-England Magazine
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One bound volume of The New-England Magazine (Boston: Printed and Published by J.T. & E. Buckingham): v. 4, Jan.-June, 1833.
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Children holding hands in the surf, Santa Monica
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Image of children in bathing suits holding hands and walking into the surf on the beach in Santa Monica, California.
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