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British Isles

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Description: "Dick Arentz has made over twenty photographic expeditions to the British Isles, since 1977 to the present, traveling from his home in Flagstaff, Arizona...All the negatives are made specifically for the late 19th-century platinum/palladium process, at which Dick is an acknowledged master. The appeal of these images, apart from their resolute craftsmanship and gentle quietness, is that they are courageous"--From introduction.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [2002]
Call number: 653056
Creator: Arentz, Dick(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 1590050185; 9781590050187

The grand tour

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"The photographs Dick Arentz has made, on his numerous trips throughout Europe, follow Talbot in the tradition of enlightenment through travel by making a "Grand Tour" of great cities and monuments of European and classical cultures"--From introduction.

653055

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Italia : una visione diversa

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"In this, his third book from Nazraeli Press, Dick Arentz turns his eye toward Italy once again. But it is through a different lens that he now focuses on this country; a country that can both evoke images in the minds of many who have traveled there briefly, and even in those who have never visited, of vineyards, citrus trees, great art, religious monuments, and momentous architecture, and, in large part remains unseen, undocumented, and unknown except by the inhabitants of its many and diverse areas"--From introduction.

653057

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Photographs of California Botanic Garden, Santa Monica Mountains

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This collection consists of 63 photographic prints and 87 black-and-white transparencies documenting the California Botanic Garden in approximately 1928, the year it opened to the public in Los Angeles County. The prints are 8 x 10 inches and are stamped with the credit of the "Dick" Whittington Studio, and depict overviews of the garden, walking paths, a waterfall, and a variety of plantings throughout the canyon, along with administrative offices, visitors, and a portrait of president Elmer D. Merrill. The film transparencies appear to show opening day festivities, 1928, with tree plantings, speakers and guests, and students with posters promoting the garden. The actress Mary Pickford, a supporter, poses in a few images. Contact prints of the transparencies were made by the Library and are available to view in Box 1.

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Film transparencies

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photCL 208

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Photographs; contact prints of film transparencies

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photCL 208

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George Mifflin Dallas papers

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Letters, many marked "Private" and "Confidential," received by George Dallas during his term as the American minister to Great Britain from the Secretary of State William Learned Marcy, American Senator Lewis Cass, as well as George Villers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, British Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and his office. The correspondence deals primarily with the Dallas-Clarendon Convention. There are also drafts of the treaty and other preparatory materials, including a printed text with revisions made in the Senate, March 1857, and Dallas's notes on Jay's Treaty. Some letters also discuss the reception of the HMS Resolute, privateering and the right of search and seizure, political consequences of the 1856 elections, and other matters.

mssHM 16236-16280

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