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S.C. (Samuel Clarke) Pomeroy letter to "Mr. Behrn,"
Manuscripts
Pomeroy writes that "we are just packing up to leave for the Summer" and that "we may be able to do what we would gladly do, according to your suggestion" but that it is "not conversant at this moment." Includes a clipping with a short biography of Pomeroy.
mssHM 29255
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Professor
Manuscripts
This category defines Morris' third long-time employer. It contains correspondence and other items related to his tenure as Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at Stanford University. The material includes lecture notes and items related to faculty and students at Stanford.
mssMorris, Samuel papers
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Acid Bloom
Rare Books
"It's the moment I feel like a plant, or like a bug alighting on a flower, that I release the shutter. When I'm not in this heightened state, I may shoot a beautiful flower beautifully, but that is all. For me, the process of photographing a flower is something more, something that goes beyond the flower. When I'm photographing well, I am always floating on another plane--a place between this world and the world beyond"--From artist's introduction.
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The mystery of distilling brieflye unfolded: [instructions for fermenting and distilling liquors, wines, and "some choice waters"]
Manuscripts
The manuscript defines and explains the process of fermentation, with instructions for the fermentation and distillation of wines and liquors and recipes for making brandy, cinnamon water, and "a good water for expelling wind." The author and nationality of this brief account of distilling and fermenting is unknown; according to the dealer from whom it was purchased, the mansucript was found in the attic of an estate on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
mssHM 66750
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Andy Warhol's index (book)
Rare Books
This book, "published under the aegis of Andy Warhol, [is a] quintessential photobook [a] cornucopia of photographic imagery in which found photographs, snap-shots, photographs by Warhol's associates, photographic reproductions of his 'paintings' (themselves self-screened photographs) and other kinds of imagery are collaged to talk about one basic subject--the gargantuan ego and artistic talent of Andy Warhol. Index (Book) is one of the most important and exuberant pop art objects ever published. From its holographic bubble-wrap cover to the various pop-ups and 'gifts'--the castle, the red accordion, the balloon (nearly always found perished nowadays, or stuck to the pages)--to the stream-of-consciousness photographs by such artists as Billy Name and Nat Finkelstein, it is also one of the ultimate photobooks-as-objects. It is, in addition, the primary Factory photo album, one of the most authoritative biographies of Warhol and a supreme example of the diaristic photographic mode before there was a considered diaristic mode."--The Photobook : A History Volume II / Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. London : Phaidon, 2004.
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Louella Parsons dinner party, Montmartre Cafe, 6757 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles. 1929
Visual Materials
About three dozen men and women pose in a dining room of the Montmartre Cafe at 6757 Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. Some of the people are seated and some are standing, but all are dressed in formal attire.
photCL Whitt 0978 ; Whitt neg. 0338