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W.D.'s midnight carnival
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Painting as a pastime (Country beautiful vol. 4, no. 2)
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Language of material: English Publisher: Country Beautiful Foundation (Waukesha, Wis.) Author: Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 Editor: Dineen, Michael P. Related content page(s): 63-91 Woods reference: A125 Notes: Essay accompanied by a black and white photograph of Churchill at his easel and 21 color reproductions of his paintings.
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Gordon D. Friedlander letter to Bern Dibner, with essay
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Letter written by Gordon D. Friedlander to Bern Dibner, plus accompanying essay. The one-page typed letter requests that Dibner review an enclosed essay on André-Marie Ampère for publication in the IEEE Spectrum. The enclosure is a copy of a 22-page typescript that has been corrected; the typescript includes illustrations and reproductions of handwritten letters.
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The Earthly paradise : arts and crafts by William Morris and his circle from Canadian collections
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Offering a significant review of the achievements of celebrated British artist, poet and social reformer Morris (1834-1896) that also encompasses works by Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Ford Madox Brown and other figures associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, this catalogue provides reproductions and detailed analyses of more than 200 pieces produced from the 1850s to the 1910s, including textiles, wallpaper designs, stained-glass panels, furniture, ceramics and other decorative works as well as paintings, drawings, prints and books. An overview of Morris's career and a discussion of his broad influence on Canadian art and architecture are followed by a 13-part presentation of the featured works arranged by medium, each section prefaced by a summary essay.
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Exhibition Ephemera
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Contains: Box of labels from "William Morris: The Sanford & Helen Berger Collection" - 1984 exhibition at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Sheets of labels from "William Morris: The Sanford & Helen Berger Collection" - 1984 exhibition at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Morris-print fabric covered presentation box with label plaque – contains photographs, label text, and catalog for "Celebrating William Morris: Selections from the Sanford and Helen Berger Collection" – 1997 exhibition at the Huntington. "The Morris Work Book" , "The Morris Essay Book" (2 copies of each). Commemorating the 1975 exhibition "Morris & Co.", Stanford Art Gallery. Box of number labels. Unidentified use. Set of labels for Kelmscott books and proofs. Unidentified use but possibly for the exhibition "William Morris Drawing and Trial Designs for the Kelmscott Press" Oversized manila envelope containing labels and wall text for the 1979 exhibition "Morris and Company: The Stained Glass" at the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art. Typed page headed "Binder's Notes – December 21/22 1974 / Kelmscott Press – Specimen Book/ Property of Sanford Berger" signed by Gale Herrick, Binder. Oversize cardboard folder ms. labeled "Large negatives of William Morris" containing 2 copy negatives mounted on masking sheets from San Jose Blue Print company. One depicts William Morris and another gentleman (this is not from a photograph – it appears to be an image of a painting) and one of Morris' famous portrait photographed by Frederick Hollyer Poster "The legacy of William Morris" – lists various exhibitions and lectures centering around the exhibition "Morris & Co." held at the Stanford Art Gallery, March 4 – May 4, 1975. Four posters for the exhibition "The Craftsman Style: From Roots to Revival" held Sept. 10 – Oct. 29, 1983 at the Santa Cruz City Museum. Thirteen posters for exhibition "Art Nouveau: Objets D'Art 1900" at the Union Gallery – StudentUnion – SJSU (probably San Jose State University). Six photocopies(?) of varying sizes and of varying size views of woodcut initial "B". Nine posters for "The legacy of William Morris". Reproductions/mock-up of Morris design (ancathus) - 2 oversized sheets in plastic sleeve– on one ms. inscribed "This overlay for /invitation: / sheet @ 58.5% / shoot for window on invitation?" Textile banner from the Huntington's exhibition "Celebrating William Morris". Photo album. Ms (calligraphic) inscription "for/The Huntington 'Family'/ with / "Great Admiration & Appreciation"/ from / "Helen & Sanford Berger". Contains 53 dated, colored photographs from the Huntington's exhibition "Celebrating William Morris" October 25, 1996 – January 5, 1997. In envelope ms inscribed "Sandy Berger": Two (2) furniture tags – one from the Craftsman Workshops of Eastwood, NY and one from the Gaines-Walrath Co, of Oakland, CA. Eleven (11) color photographs possibly of the exhibition "The American Craftsman" (1964) at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in New York City. Exhibition catalogue – "From the Kelmscott Press: An Exhibition of Books, their Bindings and Pages" held January 19- - August 3, 1975 at the Low Art Museum, University of Miami.
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Robert Hine papers
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The collection spans the years 1841-2001, though the majority of it dates between 1960 and 1990. Almost all of the materials dated before the 1950s are reproductions made at Hine's request for reference in his research and writing, and many of them concern the 19th century figures Edward Kern, John Russell Bartlett, Josiah Royce and Theodore Talbot. The collection is organized to preserve, whenever possible, Robert Hine's original order. This includes most of his original folder titles, the original order of folders, and the original order of some of the boxes. As such there are small portions of it that do not follow the rules of cataloging to the letter (as in ascending date orders, etc). The collection contains Hine's professional work as a historian of the American West and a writer, and includes research notes, photocopied manuscripts, newspaper clippings, interviews, correspondence, and other research related papers. As such, the original order of Hine's papers reflects his process of collecting and referencing them as he worked on various book projects. In some instances, his original folders provide insight into the kinds of questions or themes he was pursuing in the course of his work. Box 16, Folder 6, for example, relates to his work on California's colonies and communes and is titled "Family," reflecting his special interest in this aspect of communal life. Hine also revised the organization of these papers as he prepared them for donation to the Huntington Library in the late 1990s. Despite Hine's own curatorship, some of his papers remained unsorted and unorganized at the time of this collection's cataloging. Those have been organized by the cataloger to reflect, as much as possible, Hine's own organizational methods. To this end, the boxes of the collection are organized largely according to the book or other scholarly project for which Hine obtained them, with the exception of the boxes that house correspondence. Boxes 1-22 pertain to Hine's work on California's colonies and communes, and in particular the books California's Utopian Colonies (1973) and Community on the American Frontier: Separate but Not Alone (1985). Within this series, boxes 1-12 are an alphabetical subseries of the communes by name; boxes 13 and 14 are a subseries dedicated specifically to the Llano Commune; boxes 15-18 are a miscellaneous subseries organized largely by subject (i.e. Family in colonies and communes); boxes 19-22 are miscellaneous notes, citations, and bibliographic index cards. Boxes 23-26 pertain to Hine's research into John Russell Bartlett and the book Bartlett's West: Drawing the Mexican Boundary (1969); boxes 27-30 relate to his work on Josiah Royce and the book Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard; boxes 31-33 relate to his work on Edward Kern and the book In the Shadow of Fremont: Edward Kern and the Art of American Exploration (1982); boxes 34-35 pertain to his research into Theodore Talbot and the book Soldiers in the West: Letters of Theodore Talbot During His Services in California, Mexico, and Oregon, 1845-53 (1972); box 36 relates to his memoir Second Sight (1993); boxes 37-39 contain miscellaneous research material, including chapter notes for California's Utopian Colonies, scholarly reviews of his books, and miscellaneous secondary scholarship; boxes 40-43 contain correspondence, largely with other historians but also notably with (then California governor) Ronald Reagan; boxes 44-47 contain bibliographic index cards; box 48 contains audio-visual material; box 49 contains ephemera; and lastly box 50 contains oversize material. There are a few things to note about the collection. First, it contains a number of oversize items housed in separate oversize folders. The items are marked by the presence of a "dummy folder" where they would have been filed, had they not been oversize. Many of the oversize items are duplications (photocopies, prints) of artwork done by John Russell Bartlett and Edward Kern, made while Hine was researching their artistic work in the West. This collection also contains a number of boxes in which the material is not sorted into numbered folders. These are the indexcard boxes (Boxes 19-22 and 44-47), which contain bibliographic records and the Miscellaneous Notes and Citations boxes, which contain half-sheet sized research notes, many regarding the secondary literature relevant to his book projects. In some respects, the kinds of notes contained in these boxes are similar to the notes Hine filed in folders in the grey upright boxes, and in some cases he made makeshift dividers to separate the notes into related groups. Lastly, it is important to note that Hine took many notes in Braille during the years he was blind. In some cases, Hine himself translated the Braille into English as he prepared the collection for donation to the Huntington Library; often, however, the Braille remained untranslated. The boxes relating to Hine's work on Colonies and Communes contain the majority of the Braille notes.
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Lozano family and La Opinión collection
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The personal correspondence consists of outgoing and incoming letters from Ignacio Eugenio Lozano, Sr.; his wife, Alicia Elizondo de Lozano; his son, Ignacio Eugenio Lozano, Jr.; and his daughter, Maria Alicia Lozano. The letters are written in Spanish, and occasionally, in English. For the majority of Maria Alicia Lozano's letters, she simply signs "Neta" and Jr. is referred to as "Nacho". The bulk of the family correspondence is written in the 1940s when Jr. is attending the University of Notre Dame to study journalism. The bulk of the outgoing and incoming correspondence of Ignacio Eugenio Lozano, Sr. is to a Mexican reporter and researcher, Jose C. Valadés (1901-1976). The correspondence is in Spanish. Other correspondence includes letters to and from employees of La Prensa and La Opinión including Horacio Martinez, La Opinión's manager. In addition to the typical work-related correspondence, letters to literary authors, politicians, and military leaders are also present. The majority of these letters are in Spanish. Note: There are two oversize letters in Oversize Ephemera Box 42 (4 and 5). The manuscripts and documents are loosely organized by genre; the bulk of the documents relate to particular persons, such as Ignacio E. Lozano, Sr. and employees of La Prensa and La Opinión. Many of these documents are photostats and include duplicates. There are also a number of unidentified typewritten manuscripts. Box 24 consists of bound volumes related to La Prensa and La Opinión from 1928 to 1986. They include bylaws, account books, and minute books. Boxes 25-29 consist of financial and legal documents. They are loosely organized by genre, including agreements, contracts, copyright certificates, deeds, financial records, leases, and insurance policies related to the Lozano family and their company. Many of these items include correspondence pertaining to that particular document. The financial and legal documents are in Spanish and English. Boxes 30-34 consist of ephemera, which are loosely organized by genre. Some of the ephemeral items include clippings, empty envelopes, greeting cards, invitations, illustrations, journals, magazines, printed matter, report cards, and telegrams. Box 35 consists of audio and visual materials, including compact discs relating to La Opinión's 75th anniversary. Box 36 includes 3-D objects, such as small commemorative items, plaques, and medals. In addition to the newspaper clippings found in Box 30, there are also newspapers in Boxes 43-45. These issues may or may not be complete. The bound newspaper volumes are restricted, due to their physical condition. There are two La Prensa volumes, which span from 1927 to 1938. There are 47 La Opinión volumes, which span from 1926 to 1983. There is also a volume from El Manana 1911-1913 and a volume of advertisers for the Metro Newspaper Service with the accompanying index. Please visit for digitized issues of La Opinión. There are currently 23,971 issues available from 1920s-2008. In Boxes 37-41 are twenty-three books, which are roughly organized by title. A few of these books are in fragile condition. They are mostly in Spanish. Box 42 consists of oversize ephemera, including awards, certificates, an autograph book, correspondence, empty envelopes, magazines, and printed matter. Photographs are found in Boxes 47-58. Box 47 consists of company photographs, including celebratory events, headshots, and proof sheets related to La Prensa and Opinión. The corresponding negatives to the proofs are housed separately. There are also some reproductions of photographs from the 1930s, which are from the Bill Mason Collection. Box 47 includes photographs of Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr., which are roughly organized chronologically. The majority of these images were shot in 1976 when Jr. was the United States Ambassador to El Salvador. Also in this box is a folder with personal family photographs. Boxes 48-54 consist of unsorted news photographs. These were taken by La Opinión photographer, Octavio Gomez in the 1970s and 1980s, mostly but not all unidentified. Subjects found in the news photographs include sports (professional and local), politicians, public demonstrations, buildings, people, car accidents, celebrities, crime scenes, natural disasters, law officials, and press conferences. These photographs may have been used for publication. Box 55 includes more miscellaneous photographs. Some of these photographs include captions and studio/credit information. They also appear to have been used for publication because of the mock-up details. The last three folders include miscellaneous headshots/portraits of celebrities, politicians, and writers. Box 56 includes printed matter and postcards that were possibly used for publication because of the mock-up details. The bulk of this box is images and printed matter from United Press International (UPI), including images of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, and other significant historical events and people. Box 57 consists of two photo albums of La Opinión's 60th anniversary. Box 58 consists of oversize photographs. There are images of Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr., the La Opinión building, and other miscellaneous photographs. Oversize framed photographs are in box 67, and negatives are in boxes 68 and 69. Boxes 59-61 and 70-72 consist primarily of books, awards, and commemorative objects. The 2021 addendum is housed in boxes 62-66, whhich are primarily photographs, as well as ephemera, books, and some historical materials. Photographs include many images of staff and the original print room and offices of La Prensa.
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