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Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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"Many Hands is an informational listing of services, centers, businesses and people involved in health, holistic awareness and personal, spiritual and community growth. The objective of Many Hands is to provide an opportunity for each group, business or individual to describe their work in their own words in an educational, non-commercial medium. In this way, the directory can give its users a broader sense of who the participants are and what they are offering"--From 1983-1984 Issue.
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"The "Communal Grapevine", a support network for communal living, is having a general work meeting for all interested houses and individuals. The focus is to implement ideas generated through contacts with East Bay households"--From Issue #1 (March 1978).
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"With this volume, the first major monograph on Lucas Samaras, one of the most enigmatic, deceptive, and confounding artists of our time emerges as a force to be reckoned with. During the 1960s, when his work stood defiantly apart from the Formalist mainstream, he introduced perverse eroticism and shameless self-exposure along with the materials and procedures of craftswork, illusionistic space, and visceral geometry, offering alternatives that have pointed the way to recent artistic attitudes. Out of the most common materials and objects - pins, jewels, mirror, yarn, knives and forks, goblets and chairs - he created magically alluring and repelling artworks that both conceal and reveal psychological secrets and universal truths. His extraordinary boxes, rooms, dinners, paintings, parelts, and Autopolaroids force on us a new awareness of the psychology of creation - and a realization that it is the artist's self that is constant and inescapable"--Dust jacket flap.
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"The basic principle of the Single Tax is that all men are equally entitled to the use of the earth, and the Single Tax as proposed by Henry George, is the method of securing that right by placing a "single tax" on the land values created by the community. If the land has no value, there are no taxes. The Fairhope, Alabama Single Tax Colony pioneers, few in number and feeble in purse, were imbued with the idea that the most potent educational force they could use in demonstrating the Single Tax theory would be to present an example, set a precedent. This they have been doing for four score years!"--Page 32.
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Manuscripts
The Los Angeles Times newsletters and certificates includes eight Los Angeles Times community resolutions and commendations from 1997 to 1998; seven bound volumes and twenty-two loose issues of the company's employee newsletter entitled "Among Ourselves" from 1952 to 1995. Volumes and loose issues include: volumes 22-25 (November 1952-February 1956); volumes 26-28 (March 1956-February 1959); volumes 29-31 (March 1959-February 1962); volumes 32-34 (March 1962-February 1965); volumes 35-37 (March 1965-February 1968); volumes 41-43 (March 1971-February 1974); volumes 47-50 (March 1977-June 1980); (January 1969, partial issue); volume 40, number 2 (April 1970, partial issue); volume 42, number 8 (October 1972, partial issue); volume 46, number 4 (June 1976, partial issue); volumes 64-65 (August 1994-October 1995, partial issues).
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Visual Materials
Image of the monument to the 90th Pennsylvania Volunteers. An ornate monument, is topped by a large eagle, wings spread, standing on a battle drum. A carved panel in the front reads: This Regiment recruited in Phila./ responded to the first call April / 16, 1861, served until Aug. 9, as the / 19th P.V. Reorganized Oct 1, 1861, as / the 90th P.V. serving in the / First and Fifth / Corps, and participating in all / the important battles of the / "Army of the Potomac" until / mustered out Nov. 26, 1864. / "Non sibi sed patriae." ["Not for self, but for country"]. Around the base of the monument: 90th P.V. 2nd Division. In the lower corner of the photograph, in white is: 1045. . The photograph has been affixed to a card with the photographer's signature and "Gettysburg, Pa." printed in gold lettering at the bottom.
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