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Ginza kaiwai

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Description: Volume 1 contains Kimura's history of the Ginza. It is bound in embossed paper-covered boards with a plate mounted on the front cover. In a rice-paper covered slip case with illustrated label on front and text label on spine. Volume 2 is an accordion book or leporello with panoramas of the Ginza running along the top and bottom of the pages. It is bound in publisher's paper covered boards.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: Shōwa 29 [1954]
Call number: 653030
Creator: Kimura, Shōhachi (1893-1958)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Ursus Books, Ltd., July 2020.

Fair Oaks Rancho

Visual Materials

Album has a sewn board binding covered with blue marbled paper. A label reading: "Fair Oaks Rancho. San Gabriel Valley, California" in hand-drawn block letters is affixed to the front. Also on the label are two hand-drawn graphic design elements between the words "Oaks" and "Rancho." The spine is covered with black book binding tape.

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San Francisco pharmacy album

Manuscripts

A bound volume containing over 2,400 manuscript prescriptions filled by an unidentified San Francisco pharmacy. The dated and numbered prescriptions are mounted on both sides of each page, with approximately seven to nine prescriptions per page; the prescriptions are written on various billheads or plain paper issued by many different physicians. The prescriptions provide information about the doctors, surgeons, pharmacists, druggists, and patients in San Francisco during the latter part of the 19th century; among the drugs prescribed are cocaine, morphine, opium, and literally hundreds of other compounds and simples. There are a number of prescriptions written by women doctors, including Isabel Lowry, who studied medicine in Paris with her twin sister Agnes, and Tey Watanabe, who was a graduate of the University of California, San Francisco, the first Japanese physician licensed in California. With contemporary half morocco and cloth covered boards; the pages in the volume are heavily foxed with considerable oxidation on acid paper. The spine has perished, the rear cover is detached, and the front cover is mostly detached; the pages, however, remain bound and can be easily turned, although the binding is tight in several places.

mssHM 84058

Japanese smallpox manuscript volume, approximately 1860

Manuscripts

Handwritten and illustrated book in Japanese on smallpox. The 29 double pages are mounted to an accordion-style book with stiff pages, and contain 27 hand-colored illustrations, many of which show the disease in three-dimension. The Kanbun text is handwritten. The book is covered in satin brocade with a paper title slip. Housed in a silk folding sleeve, also with paper title slip.

mssHM 82443

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Philetus W. Norris journals

Manuscripts

A manuscript originally bound in three volumes; volume I covers the years 1870 to 1875, volume II 1877 to 1878, and volume III 1876 to 1894. Volume I is made up of Norris' original printed letters to Michigan papers pasted down on paper sheets, with extensive additions, corrections, and notes; Norris was revising this material to publish in book form. Volume II contains another trip to the west in 1877 and volume III contains miscellaneous material which Norris intended to incorporate into his book. The volumes include interesting details and reports of the state of the west at that time, and also mention the battlefield of General George A. Custer and Yellowstone National Park; volume III contains an autograph map of the general area of the park, dated 1894. The pages were removed from the original damaged boards by the Huntington Conservation Department and placed in folders and three boxes; the original boards were retained and kept with the disbound material.

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Abbie Gilbert, Ridgefield Kindergarten, 1905-1906

Visual Materials

One scrapbook of original artwork created by Abbie Gilbert. Written on the front cover, in ms. is Abbie Gilbert, Ridgefield Kindergarten, 1905-1906. The scrapbook is 36 pages in length, and is covered with two pieces of heavy cardboard, and bound with yellow ribbon ties. It contains 8 examples of colored paper weaving, 8 examples of yarn sewing (pictures and designs sewn onto paper), and 13 original crayon drawings, all created by Abbie Gilbert. All of the crayon drawings are either titled or labeled, in ms., in an adult's hand. The first page contains an image of Friedrich Froebel, with a ms. label below, reading: "Friedrich Froebel. Founder of the Kindergarten." The last page contains 3 mounted Perry Pictures images. Accompanying the scrapbook is a postcard image of a kindergarten. The label on the verso reads "Bennington's experimental kindergarten, the brainchild of German educator Friedrich Froebel, uses his blocks and ideas of 'directed play' that revolutionized education. 1896."

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One Japanese pattern book, circa 1898

Visual Materials

One Japanese pattern book, ca.1898, labeled (or titled?) in Japanese on the cover. Approximately 150 pages in length, the small book appears to contain Japanese symbols, patterns and words. The pages are unnumbered. The item is bound in yellow paper overlaying embossed paper. "Owned and Given Compliments of Arthur W. Dow" is said to be written on the pink paper label affixed to the front cover. (per DK). Title supplied by cataloger.

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