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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Goody Two-Shoes : a facsimile reproduction of the edition of 1766
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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
An orphan girl grows up to become a wise and virtuous school mistress.
623227
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Rare Books
Two novellas. In the title piece, a man whose mother was killed by a union buster grows up to become a union organizer, while The Knifemen is on a doctor turned killer.
622720
Manuscripts
A group portrait of about 30 students and 1 teacher taken in front of Snelling School in Merced County, a brick structure with a covered porch. The group is arranged in rows on the steps leading up to the porch of the schoolhouse. There is an African American boy and girl among the students, on the left.
mssLattaS, Box 115, Folder 5, Item 1
Visual Materials
Image of a central image of two young woman, orphan sisters Henrietta and the blind Louise, standing together, with two vignettes of scenes consisting of Louise begging in the snow with an older woman, and a sword fight between two men in historical costumes in France with a crowd looking on; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Two Orphans" written by Adolphe D'Ennery and adapted by Hart Jackson and provides information for performances staring actress Mary Jeffrey Lewis to begin on September 27, [1886], at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco, California.
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Manuscripts
An older woman sits on a wide porch with a little girl to her right, and another person wearing a satin Western style shirt to the left.
mssJL JLP 415
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Manuscripts
Subjects of the entire collection include: Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, American dance and dancers, dance instruction and notes, exercises and warm-up routines, various dance types (international as well as American), famous dancers from around the globe, Denishawn dancers, the Ruth St. Denis Center, the Ruth St. Denis Foundation, the Ruth St. Denis Theatre Intime, Jacob's Pillow dance festival, American Dance Film Association, Society of Spiritual Arts Church, the various teachers and pupils at St. Denis' dance studio and school, the Orient trip the Denishawn dancers took in 1926, as well as dance productions and events St. Denis put on throughout her career. There is also much material about St. Denis' effort to have her studio and school become a non-profit entity and her desire to create an artist colony in Hemet, California. More specifically, several dancers show up in the notebooks and photographs, including: Harold Kreutzberg, Peter di Falco, La Meri, Karoun Tootikian, Miriam Schiller, Jean Léon, Gladys Bowen, Antonio Gades, Devi Dja, Doris Humphrey, Mary Wigman, and Martha Graham.
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