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Dixon’s Eldorado: 'the master drawing pencil'
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One boxed set of lead pencils entitled Dixon's Eldorado: 'the master drawing pencil,' manufactured by the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, Jersey City, New Jersey, ca. 1940. The set was issued with one dozen pencils; one is missing from this set. The pencils are varying degrees of hardness. The box is blue with gold lettering; the outer box serves as a slipcase for the inner box.
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The Eldorado Page, Sketching with "the master drawing pencil"
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Six advertisements entitled The Eldorado Page, Sketching with "the master drawing pencil," published by Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, New Jersey, ca. 1920-1940. These 6 sheets are promotional advertisements for Dixon pencils and feature aspects of pencil-drawing technique. Sheet No. 1 is "Area Technique"; No. 2 is "A Discussion of the Center of the Sketch"; No. 3 is "Notation of Procedure"; No. 4 is "Exercises"; No. 5 is "How to Sketch Evergreen Foliage"; and No. 6 is "The White Door". All of the illustrations and instructional text are by Ernest W. Watson, who was an instructor at the Pratt Institute. The six pages were originally published in various issues of an unnamed magazine.
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Albion C. Sweetser letters to Alvah Littlefield and A. Blood
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In these two letters written during February 1851 (HM 4189 written the 14th, HM 4190 dated the 26th), Sweetser writes of a damaged crate of goods shipped to him, business details, and his inquiry into the circumstances surrounded the death of a Mr. Gliden. He reports that business in general has taken a downturn, and writes of the potential profits should they all decide to sell the business and the land where it is located. In HM 4190, Sweester writes a fight between a gambler and a miner that resulted in the death of a bystander from a gunshot wound. Eight hours after the incident, the miner responsible for firing the fatal shot was put to death by public hanging; an example, Sweester reports, of the speed of California justice.
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People of California petition to President Franklin Pierce
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This manuscript is a petition addressed to United States President Franklin Pierce, from the "Citizens of the Northern District of the State of California," calling for the removal from office of J. Y. Mcduffie, Marshal of the Northern District, on account of his being "a professional gambler in this State, and that his appointment to office is exceedingly obnoxious to the moral sense of the People of this District." Printed form, with fifty-two hand-written signatures.
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A stormy sundown brought Grant McLain with his battered accordion to Junction City to accept a dangerous assignment from the railroad now building a spur into Montana's mountains. To McLain, disgraced railroad trouble-shooter, this meant a chance at redemption. And so he made passage through a long night, a night that included a railroad holdup and a kidnapping and reached a gunflame climax in a forgotten ghost town high in the Crazies. This is a story of taut suspense encompassed between a sundown and a sunup--Adapted from jacket.
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