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One bound scrapbook compiled by Helen Doble, circa 1857-1860
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One bound scrapbook, untitled, compiled by Helen Doble, ca. 1857--1860. It is approximately 100 pages in length, and contains images and scenes of cut out images and scenes created from paper and bits of material. Some of the pages contain representations of individual rooms with tables, chairs, and curtains, made from cutout images and collage-like formations. The book contains both black and white and chromolithograph images, and other black and white images that have been hand-colored. The scrapbook is bound in a cloth-covered paperboard binding, which has "Herbarium" printed in gilt letters on the spine. The front endpaper has "Helen Doble '57" written in ms., in blue ink, on it. Title supplied by cataloger.
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Tif- handle with lino-pens
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One boxed tool for carving labeled Tif- handle with lino-pens, manufactured by Heintze & Blanckertz, Berlin, Germany, ca. 1935. The tool is constructed of a wooden handle into which various carving bits are inserted. A glasseine envelope containing several bits complete the set. Stamped into the handle are "TIF 135, Germany" and "M. Grunbac Germany." The set is housed within a slipcase paperboard box with "Set Nr. 903" printed at one end. The paper covering of the box is in a brown and white bamboo pattern and has black lettering.
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Manuscripts, letters
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A collection of manuscripts and letters related to Helen Hunt Jackson. The autograph manuscripts include 21 poems and three prose works entitled: "Bits of Travel at Home," "One Woman and Sunshine," a draft of an article on Jeanne C. Smith Carr and the founding of Carmelita, her home in Pasadena, California, and "The Story of Clotilde Danarosch." The largest part of the correspondence is made up of Helen Hunt Jackson's letters to William Hayes Ward, the editor of the New York Independent. Also included are seventeen letters to Ray Palmer and his wife Ann Maria Waud Palmer; thirteen letters to Mary Elizabeth Fowler, the first government schoolteacher at Soboba in the San Jacinto Valley; four letters to Henry Chandler Bowen, the editor and proprietor of the Independent; four letters to Mrs. D. J. Whipple who ran a boarding house in San Diego and later Los Angeles; two letters to Richard Egan, a Los Angeles County supervisor; and two letters by William Sharpless Jackson and Charles C. Painter.
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Letters
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A collection of manuscripts and letters related to Helen Hunt Jackson. The autograph manuscripts include 21 poems and three prose works entitled: "Bits of Travel at Home," "One Woman and Sunshine," a draft of an article on Jeanne C. Smith Carr and the founding of Carmelita, her home in Pasadena, California, and "The Story of Clotilde Danarosch." The largest part of the correspondence is made up of Helen Hunt Jackson's letters to William Hayes Ward, the editor of the New York Independent. Also included are seventeen letters to Ray Palmer and his wife Ann Maria Waud Palmer; thirteen letters to Mary Elizabeth Fowler, the first government schoolteacher at Soboba in the San Jacinto Valley; four letters to Henry Chandler Bowen, the editor and proprietor of the Independent; four letters to Mrs. D. J. Whipple who ran a boarding house in San Diego and later Los Angeles; two letters to Richard Egan, a Los Angeles County supervisor; and two letters by William Sharpless Jackson and Charles C. Painter.
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A thread in the tapestry
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Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc. Author: Churchill, Sarah, 1914-1982 Notes: An unabridged audiobook read by Donada Peters. Sarah Churchill recounts her life with her famous father, Winston Churchill. She talks on a variety of subjects, including her father's ways with his children, the famous people she met, and her vacation with her father after his defeat in the General Election of 1945. Library has two copies, one of which is labeled "Home Edition", but appears to be identical to the other copy, except in the color of its housing.
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Helen Hunt Jackson collection of manuscripts and letters
Manuscripts
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