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Boston journal of natural history : containing papers and communications read to the Boston Society of Natural History
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
"Catalogue of the library": v. 1, p. [497]-512; "Additions to the library": v. 3, p. [513]-522; "Constitution and by-laws": v. 6, 13 p.
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Visual Materials
Smith, Walter. American Text Books of Art Education: Freehand Drawing number one. (Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow & Co., 1875) Smith, Walter. American Text Books of Art Education: Freehand Drawing number two. (Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow & Co., 1875) Smith, Walter. American Text Books of Art Education: Geometrical Drawing number two. (Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow & Co., 1875) Smith, Walter. American Text Books of Art Education: Freehand Drawing number four. (Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow & Co., 1875) Smith, Walter. American Text Books of Art Education: Freehand Drawing number five. (Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow & Co., 1875) Smith, Walter. American Text-Books of Art Education Revised Edition. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1879) Clark, John S., Mary Dana Hicks, and Walter S. Perry. No. 8 Prang's Complete Course in Form Study and Drawing. (Boston: The Prang Educational Company, 1894) Clark, John S., Mary Dana Hicks, and Walter S. Perry. No. 10 Prang's Complete Course in Form Study and Drawing. (Boston: The Prang Educational Company, 1892) Calkins, Norman A. and Mrs. A. M. Diaz. Prang's Natural History Series for Children. Birds of Prey. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1878) Calkins, Norman A. and Mrs. A. M. Diaz. Prang's Natural History Series for Children. Birds of Prey. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1878) Calkins, Norman A. and Mrs. A. M. Diaz. Prang's Natural History Series for Children. Swimming Birds. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1878) Calkins, Norman A. and Mrs. A. M. Diaz. Prang's Natural History Series for Children. Wading Birds. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1878) Calkins, Norman A. and Mrs. A. M. Diaz. Prang's Natural History Series for Children. Cat Family. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1878) Calkins, Norman A. and Mrs. A. M. Diaz. Prang's Natural History Series for Children. Cat Family. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1878) Calkins, Norman A. and Mrs. A. M. Diaz. Prang's Natural History Series for Children. Cat Family. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1878) Mathews, F. Schuyler. Wayside Flowers. Series I. being a description of American wild flowers that bloom in April, May, and Early June. (Boston & Springfield, MA: Taber-Prang Art Co., 1898) Mathews, F. Schuyler. Wayside Flowers Series II. being a description of American wild flowers that bloom in late May, June, July and early August. (Boston & Springfield, MA: Taber-Prang Art Co., 1898) Mathews, F. Schuyler. Wayside Flowers Series III. being a description of American wild flowers that bloom in July, August and September. (Boston & Springfield, MA: Taber-Prang Art Co., 1898) Mathews, F. Schuyler. Wayside Flowers. Series IV. being a description of American wild flowers that bloom in August, September, October, and June to October. (Boston & Springfield, MA: Taber-Prang Art Co., 1898)
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Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of English art historian Katharine Ada Esdaile (1881-1950), with the bulk of the materials relating to her research and writings on British monumental sculpture, sculptors, and church monuments from the medieval period to 19th century. Material types include personal writings, diaries, correspondence, business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials. Notably the collection includes more than 600 chiefly pre-World War II visitor booklets and pamphlets produced locally by British churches and approximately 3500 photographs taken or collected by Esdaile of sculpture, often funerary monuments in English churches, ranging from large churches like Westminster Abbey to small rural parishes. This collection provides a resource for viewpoints on monumental sculpture in the early 20th century (for instance as represented in book reviews by Esdaile) and for information about Esdaile's experience as a woman art historian in the early 20th century. Given the broadness of Esdaile's scope, from medieval to 19th century British monumental sculpture, the collection is less useful for specific information about monuments or sculptors. In addition, many of Esdaile's attributions in her notes appear to have been based primarily on her own instincts and do not have citations. Many of Esdaile's notes are handwritten on small scraps of paper or are fragments, sometimes making the information difficult to parse. The collection is chiefly Esdaile's files, but the dates on some items (such as post-1950 booklets) indicate the collection was added to and used after her death, presumably by her son Edmund Esdaile, who also made notes on items in the collection and appears to have done the preliminary organization of the papers after Esdaile's death.
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Three copies of a speech given by Otis Chandler before the Boston Security Analysts Society on October 31, 1974. One of the copies has a note from Paul D. Quadras which states its an edited version ready to be sent out for printing. Other items in this folder include six pages of economic data on principal market; a one page itinerary; and a thank you letter from a Dave at The Boston Globe.
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The bulk of this archive is about John Meredith Read, Sr. (1797-1874) a man of remarkable accomplishments and strong convictions. Having served as the United States federal judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, he was nominated for the United States Supreme Court in 1844, only to be denied confirmation because of his vocal opposition to slavery. The letterpress books contain the entirety of John Meredith Read, Sr.'s private, professional, and political correspondence between 1853 and 1868. All the letterpress books include an index, except for JMR 5, which appears to be incomplete. A large body of the letters are addressed to his son, John Meredith Read, Jr., documenting his studies at Brown University, life in New York, legal practice, and Civil War career. Read also corresponds with nearly everybody in the legal profession. The political contents in these letterpress books adds new, previously unknown information about the turbulent politics of the antebellum decade and the Civil War. The letters addressed to David Wilmot (1814-1868) are particularly important because no Wilmot papers have survived. In a private letter dated April 10, 1854, Read having been propelled to action by Stephen A. Douglas' Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, urges Wilmot to be at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to help pass an anti-Nebraska resolution. These letterpress books also showcase a successful law practice where correspondence with fellow lawyers, clients, and opposing counsel is abundant. The cases range from contested wills, administration of estates, and contested elections. Read was also involved in political lobbying on behalf of transportation companies including the Philadelphia & Trenton, Camden & Amboy, Erie, Susquehanna & Lehigh Turnpike, and Delaware Raritan Canal. Boxes 10-16 consist of loose correspondence primarily related to John Meredith Read, Sr. The topics in the letters range from investments, legal activities, personal matter, business affairs, and politics. There are a few letters between Read's father, John Read, and his son, John Meredith Read, Jr. Also found in these boxes are letters written by Charles Macalester (1798-1873), a businessman and Presbyterian Church philanthropist; Michael Meylert (1823-1883), a prominent businessman from Laporte, Pennsylvania; William Henry Rawle (1823-1889), a Philadelphia lawyer and legal author; and Lieutenant Colonel Harrison Ritchie (1825-1894). Boxes 17-20 include accounts related to the Cadwalader and Dickinson families; estate records related to the Meredith and Read families; miscellaneous financial and legal documents; and some intriguing cases Read handled. Other families represented in this portion of the collection include Champion, Clymer, Hollinshead, Kennard, Sarkies, and Zane.
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This collection contains research material compiled by American historian and author Georgia William Read and Ruth Gaines for their publication of the journal of California Gold Rush topographer and artist J. Goldsborough Bruff (1804-1899) The majority of it is arranged alphabetically by topic. This series is made up mostly of research notes by Read and Gaines. The research material also includes copies of the book's acknowledgement, bibliography, introduction, and index as well as Read and Gaines' correspondence with Columbia University Press. There are a few folders of material organized by type: miscellaneous notes (4 folders) and research notebooks (7 items, one of which is in oversize). Correspondence by Read and Gaines are mostly their retained, unsigned, copies. The correspondence is chiefly letters written between them and research libraries or other scholars to obtain information for or to obtain permission to publish material in their book. Notable participants are: Herbert Eugene Bolton, Frederick Coykendall, Edward Eberstadt, Francis Farquhar, Max Farrand, Frederick Webb Hodge, C. Hart Merriam, Herbert Priestley, the Bancroft Library, California Historical Society, California State Library, Henry E. Huntington Library, Library of Congress, United States National Archives, the Newberry Library, Smithsonian Institution, Southwest Museum and Yale University Library. The ephemera contains scholarly publications, clippings, maps, index cards, an oversize sheet with copies of several of Bruff's sketches, and several photostats. The photostats include 19th century newspapers (including two Native American publications: Cherokee advocate and Vinita leader), maps (including all four parts of the "Map of the Emigrant Road from Independence, Mo. To S. Francisco" by T. H. Jefferson), and Bruff's journal. Many of the photostats are rolled. Subjects covered by the collection are: Hubert Howe Bancroft, Joseph Goldsborough Bruff, Bruff's journey, camp, sketches and journal, Edwin Bryant, Alonzo Delano, John Charles Frémont, Peter Lassen, John Muir, Fort Hall (Idaho), frontier and pioneer life in early California, Indians in North America, overland journeys to the Pacific, the California Trail, the Lassen cutoff and National Park, and California history including the Gold Rush.
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