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Sound of summer running
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A clearing
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"Following up his richly emotive debut collection, Ray Meeks expands the range of his vision with equally stunning technique, suggesting visual rhymes between the sentient and the inanimate, between stratigraphic lines and telephone wires, between a bulldozer’s tread marks and a boy’s ribcage. Whereas his earlier book, Sound of Summer Running, invited us inward, into the expressive interiors of family and place, a Clearing presents us with a world that averts its face, a world we haven’t yet learned to read, where meaning still seems to be gathering itself, where verticality is a sign of defiance. Figures in the landscape appear so isolated, they take on mythic force. The sky is resistant as eyes turned back in a head. Meeks’s camera records the naked geological and human assertion of presence against the flattening insistence of time, erosion, and poverty. In a Clearing, the world speaks itself in a language of origins: stone and child and woman and man cry out from elemental silence, Look, I am here. The first printing of this gorgeously-produced artist’s book is limited to 500 numbered and signed copies, each with an original print on the back cover"--Publisher's description.
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Courses for Teachers, Summer Session, 1930
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Cover for a brochure entitled Courses for Teachers, Summer Session, 1930, published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1930. This item consists of the front and back covers only, with pages two and eleven represented on the insides of those covers. An alphabetical list of instructors begins on page 2, and General Information is given on page 11. The front and back covers are photographic images of the MIT campus.
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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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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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Letters to Seid Back Jr
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Three letters from students thanking Chinese-American businessman Seid Back Jr. for hosting them on a summer boat trip from San Francisco, as well as a letter to Back from police Detective Sergeant H.H. Hawley in Portland, Oregon. The three student letters to Back, all dated 1916, include one from K. Young, who notes "I haven't seen any of our Chinese friends and merchants to [sic] treated our boys as you"; one from K.H. Chiu of the Chinese Students' Christian Association who notes that many of the students Back hosted have already gone back to work or summer school, and asks him to keep a university pennant as a memento of "your Christian brother Chiu and 'California'"; and one from Stephen Mark, who writes from onboard the S.S. "T.C. Walker" that the summer class session has emptied his savings and "I am dead broke, knowing hardly [if] I am to return to college...as each year comes I find it much more difficult to work and study at the same time," and notes that several Chinese students are leaving Berkeley but will probably be replaced with others, although "the requirements are so strict here that many a one finds it necessary to transfer to some other university in order to graduate in due time." The letter from Sergeant Hawley is dated 1913 and asks Back for a contribution toward a dinner for the "poor unfortunate girls" in the Home of the Good Sheppard.
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Matson's 2 special South Seas summer cruises 1969
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"Lit 232 4-69-50"--back cover, top. "Pomona travel agency... Pomona, Calif."--back cover, stamped, blue ink. "MAY 1 1969"--front cover, stamped, blue ink. Advertisement for two special summer cruises to the South Pacific, Bastille Day cruise and the great barrier reef cruise ; including cruise descriptions. Focus of item: Monterey.
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