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Views of Lake Chautauqua

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Description: Glaser/Frey lithographic reproductions of drawings of Chautauqua Lake, New York. Includes landscape views and images of local hotels, cottages, school of liberal arts, Grove auditorium, and various leisure sites.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [between 1890 and 1899?]
Call number: 645480
Creator: Frey, Charles(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Randy Young, May 2015. From the library of Betty Lou Young.
Dimensions: 13 x 174 cm, folded 13 x 16 cm

Arts and Crafts at the Chautauqua Summer Schools

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One flyer entitled Arts and Crafts at the Chautauqua Summer Schools, published by Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York, 1930. This 8-page (a single sheet folded into fourths) brochure advertises various summer classes offered by the Chautauqua School of Arts and Crafts. The classes offered fall under three broad categories: Art Education, Industrial Arts, and Practical Craft Courses. The dates of this particular summer program are July 7-August 15, 1930. This brochure is accompanied by a mailing envelope addressed to "Miss Mabel Spofford, Winchester Arms, Gloucester, Mass."

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Chautauqua Lake, A Beautiful Summer Resort

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One flyer entitled Chautauqua Lake, A Beautiful Summer Resort, published by Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York, ca. 1930. This is an 8 page promotional piece for summer vacations at Chautauqua Institute. It is printed on green paper, and illustrated with images of various activities offered at the Institute. Laid in is a single sheet of "Supplementary Courses to be given in the Art Education Department, Chautauqua Summer Schools, in 1930." Dimensions given are for the folded brochure.

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Three promotional flyers for Chautauqua Summer Schools, 1930

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Three promotional flyers for Chautauqua Summer Schools, 1930. The three pieces are in a paper envelope addressed to Miss Mabel Spofford. The first piece is an 8-page (a single sheet folded into fourths) promotional flyer that provides general information about the Institution and photographic illustrations. The second piece is an 8-page (a single sheet folded into fourths) informational brochure entitled Arts and Crafts at the Chautauqua Summer Schools, July 7-August 15, 1930. Laid into this piece is a single sheet addendum that lists two supplementary courses on stage craft and stage design, also offered as part of the arts and crafts classes. The third item is the complete list of summer school course offerings entitled Chautauqua Summer Schools, Fifty-Seventh Season 1930, July 7 - August 15. This brochure is 8 numbered pages in length; on the second page is series publication information: The Chautauqua Quarterly, Vo. 30, No. 2, April 1930. Courses offered fees charged, are listed in full. Title supplied by cataloger.

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Hollywood Union High School (Hollywood, California)

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Architect: Unidentified Description: Photographs of exterior of Beaux-Arts style buildings on Hollywood High School campus, including Liberal Arts building, the Memorial Auditorium, Household and Fine Arts building, the Mechanics building and Science Hall.

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Map of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway and its connections : compiled from the latest sources and showing the true location of each road

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Image of a map of the routes and connecting lines of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway showing portions of the Midwestern and Eastern United States; three vignettes to the left of the map labeled “Chautauqua Views” and consisting of a landscape with a train in the foreground labeled “Hill of Chautauqua,” the “Grant Hotel, Pt. Chautauqua,” and “St. Paul’s Grove and Hall of Philosophy” showing a Greek-style amphitheater behind trees; map verso contains panels with fold-up map covers with vignettes of steam locomotives, railroad timetables, promotional descriptions, and a map of a railroad route between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Lake Erie.

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View from Lake Vineyard, B.D. Wilson's, San Gabriel

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A grove of trees on the left with more scattered trees to the right and in background on the Lake Vineyard property owned by Benjamin Davis Wilson in San Gabriel (now mainly part of San Marino, California).

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