Holly Roberts : works 2000 to 2009 | Collections | The Huntington

Holly Roberts : works 2000 to 2009 | Collections | The Huntington

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Holly Roberts : works 1989 to 1999
Rare Books
"Roberts' odyssey with the painted photograph began in the mid-1970s. She found that painting over a slick photographic surface, she was able to manipulate the paint -- scrape it, scratch it, even wipe it away -- with the luxury of never losing the underlying image. A modern pioneer of the method, Roberts ups the ante with an understanding of human dynamics just short of psychic and a technique that appears unstudied, but is in fact, quietly accomplished. The combination results in a deeply resonant imagemaking, both haunting and profound"--Publisher's description.
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John Roberts letters
Manuscripts
The collection consists of ten letters to Roberts and a receipt for payments by Roberts to Sumner Black Coal, an Arapaho. The authors of the letters include Reverend Franklin Spalding, Missionary Bishop of Colorado; Reverend Ethelbert Talbot, Missionary Bishop of Wyoming, and Idaho; Reverend J. B. Funsten; and George H. Sands, a Major in the U.S. Cavalry and commanding officer at Fort Washakie, Wyoming. The correspondence deals with affairs on the reservation, its residents, staff, and finances. More specifically, Reverend Franklin Spalding asks about the progress of Sherman Coolidge, an Arapaho priest and John Roberts' assistant.
mssHM 83982-83992
Pasadena Fire Station, 145 East Holly, Pasadena
Visual Materials
A panoramic street view of the Pasadena Fire Station at 145 East Holly. There are two fire trucks on the street outside of the fire station and a half dozen firemen standing on and around the trucks. City Hall is on the far right, at the end of Holly Street, which is lined with parked automobiles.
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Female aviator Marvel Crosson
Visual Materials
Pilot Marvel Crosson posed painting a number "1" on the side of an airplane. The logo on the plane reads "Unity for Service. National Exchange Club." National Exchange Club was the sponsor of her last race in 1929, which began in Santa Monica, California, and the number "1" was on the side of the airplane she flew.
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Stock label: snowy holiday scene with holly, horse drawn carriage, and an inn
Visual Materials
Image of a holiday scene, holly, silhouette of people in winter clothes with suitcases and horns riding to the Good Cheer Inn in a horse drawn carriage.
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The generation gap in the Japanese-American community is the subject of this novel. The protagonist is Wil, a 20-year-old woman suffering from depression due to a broken love affair and an abortion. As she wallows in her depression, Wil reflects that her problem, diagnosed by doctors in California as bi-polar disorder, would in the days of her grandparents have been called weakness of character.
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