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Rare Books
Recipes which have appeared in the column Chefs of the West in Sunset.
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Rare Books
Features interviews with sixteen American master chefs and presents fifty of their recipes, explaining individual techniques that make the dishes memorable.
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Manuscripts
This volume contains detailed notes, arranged chronologically, concerning 18 military marches in which 2nd Lieutenant Frank West took part from 1873 to 1876 with the 6th U.S. Cavalry. The journal covers military activity on the southern plains during, and surrounding, the Red River War, as well as activity in New Mexico and Arizona Territories in the mid 1870s. The notes for each march are generally structured in the same manner, providing information about the weather from day to day, the quality of the trail, the water, and grass encountered by the column as well as the condition of the men and their mounts. West also mentions the various Native Americans the troops encountered. Each set of notes is illustrated by a full-page, hand-drawn map with a list of notable topographical features.
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Manuscripts
Consists of: 1. Planting Plan for Cemetery Lot for Mrs. F. W. Taylor, Plymouth, Massachusetts. 1930 August 26. 2. Plan of Land in Plymouth Belonging to the Estate of Louise M. S. Taylor. 1951 March 26. 3. Marriage License for Frederick W. Taylor and Louise M. (Spooner) Taylor. 1884.
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Visual Materials
View shows Louis XV furniture arranged on a large area carpet and a Beauvais tapestry, "The Bird Catchers." The writing desk and filing cabinet (bureau plat et cartonnier), attributed to Etienne Doirat, are from 1720 to 1732. The settee and chairs belong to the set of two settees and ten chairs whose upholstery covers were woven at Gobelins Manufactory, Paris, probably under the supervision of Jacques Neilson (1714-1788), after design by François Boucher (1703-1770) and Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1733-1755). The covers were woven circa 1779, and the frames are nineteenth century. The screen on the right is a six-panel folding screen (paravent) made at the Savonnerie Manufactory, Chaillot workshop, Paris, after designs by Alexandre-François Desportes (1661-1743), made between 1719 and 1784; the frame is of a later date. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 15 West end, Library room in Huntington Art Gallery. Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture. Beauvais tapestry, "The Bird Catchers," designed by Boucher." Appeared in Westways, March 1938. Appeared in San Marino Tribune, April 22, 1937.
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Visual Materials
Originally named the Nugent when built by Arthur Nugent McBurney in August 1903, it was renamed the New Grand in 1940.
Book 1, pg. 34 / Neg. 11852