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Waiting for Los Angeles
Rare Books
"Take as a starting point the cover of this book; Anthony Hernandez's wonderful photograph of square, colorful ceramic tiles could be almost anything you might imagine it to be. A Mondrian-like painting, a random pattern, a city grid, or perhaps the work of an anonymous tile setter, brightening up the facade of a government building in South Central Los Angeles. With the passage of time, these vibrant squares have been lost beneath a coat of anti-graffiti paint. Anthony Hernandez is a photographer for whom waiting has long been a theme, with his bus stop pictures in the late 1970s, and his fishing photographs in the 1980s. Hernandez's vision is both abstract and documentary, and there is a pattern to his work in every sense of that word -- whether he is focusing on an empty waiting room, a phone hanging in a booth, or random scribbles etched on a sheet of glass. Hernandez skillfully draws attention to the simple geometric beauty that can be found in even the most utilitarian fence, wall, or window. There is not a soul in sight, but there is a strong sense that someone has been here, and there is enough to grip the attention until, perhaps, they return. With a beautifully written and provocative essay by photographer, writer and critic Allan Sekula"--Publisher's description.
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Engert, Cornelius Van Hemert. 1 letter (1929) to Lady Agnes Adams, Caracas, Venezuela
Manuscripts
Mr. Engert writes of his children and where he might school them. He mentions he feels that he and Lady Agnes have many more things in common than they were ever able to explore as they both find they like to read the obituaries in "The Times" and save ones they like.
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The jaws of death, or, In and around the cañons of the Colorado
Rare Books
Three generations of Robert Harold Gordons, the oldest two mining engineers, are on an expedition to explore the Colorado River Basin. The mining engineers are captured by the Mormons. In order to rescue them, members of their expedition must pass through the canyons of the Colorado River south of the union of the Green and Grand Rivers, the area known to their Indian guide as the "Jaws of Death."
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Vermont & Wilshire Blvd
Visual Materials
Black-and-white photograph of an eye-level view of people waiting for the bus at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles, California, with pedestrians and automobile traffic in the background, as well as a Texaco gasoline station and buildings.
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Titus Coan letter to letter to Henry Kinney
Manuscripts
Coan writes of fellow missionaries in Hilo, and describes an eruption of Mauna Loa. He hopes to explore the island further when the opportunity presents itself, and looks forward to hearing news from California.
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John Muir letter to Katharine Putnam Hooker
Manuscripts
In this letter to his friend Katherine Hooker, John Muir responds to the news that she is sick in bed with some surprise as she seems so strong to him. He suggests rest and then "plain pure white love-work" with Marian (Dr, Marian Osgood Hooker) tending to their fellow creatures. Muir is glad that Marian is not with him as yellow fever and malaria are rampant. Muir briefly describes life on the river with him staring and sketching. Muir described a week of beauty and fellowship at Manaos on the Rio Negro tributary. He ends the letter with a surprise find of a copy of Katherine's book, Wayfarers in Italy in a lonely house in the Amazon Basin. He fears telling the story in full as Marian might think he's in a fever dream.
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