Couturier dreams | Collections | The Huntington

Couturier dreams | Collections | The Huntington

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Kennedy, Kate. 1 letter (1941) to Lady Agnes Adams, Inverness, Scotland
Manuscripts
She thanks Lady Adams for sending her a copy of Sir John's book. She expresses pride in the people of England.
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Drop of dreams
Rare Books
"The collages Okanoue began creating as a student at Bunka Gakuin College, which she entered to study fashion drawing, fluttered to earth as pure, private 'droplets of dreams' unrelated to artistic ambition ... Toshiko Okanoue's photo collages are, if we are to look at them in terms of where they fit into artistic lineages, unquestionably Surrealist; they instantly call to mind the collages of Max Ernst. Shuzo Takiguchi, who discovered Okanoue, insisted, however, that her work was not derivative ... Okanoue has said that she often went in search of collage materials to the Seishido bookstore, which had stacks of American illustrated magazines such as Life and Vogue out in front ... To Okanoue, whose country had been at war throughout her girlhood, the images with which those American magazines were filled were undoubtedly like dreams from another world--as they would have been to almost any Japanese person at that time. But the dreams that she assembled by quietly cutting out photographs from those illustrated magazine and gluing them together opened doors to transposing and rearranging the dreams that materialistic American civilization so lavishly spun ... With this exhibition, the dream droplets that Toshiko Okanoue sowed in mid twentieth century Japan will gently make their presence felt here at the beginning of a new century. And once again women will without a doubt hear these words in her collages: We are free!"--From introduction.
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Loring, Theodosia (Thackeray). 5 letters (1940-1942) to Lady Agnes Adams, Southsea, England
Manuscripts
She writes of the damage and destruction of buildings in London. She thanks Lady Adams for the gifts of tea and sugar.
mssAdams
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John Adams, Philadelphia, letter to Elbridge Gerry :
Manuscripts
Letter to Gerry, recently appointed to a special diplomatic commission to France, in which Adams lists several objections and opinions previously expressed by others to Gerry's appointment. Adams also expresses his wish for peace with France but also his concerns with fidelity to the public and U.S. self-defense; he also discusses the character of General John Marshall. Letter is endorsed by Gerry.
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Ansel Adams photograph reproduced on a Hills Bros. coffee can
Visual Materials
This collection consists of two items: A Hills Brothers coffee can with a wraparound image of Ansel Adams' "Winter Morning, Yosemite Valley, California" and a flat version of the same image, on tin, before it was shaped into a can. The can has the original plastic lid with the Hills Bros. name and logo. The coffee cans were made in 1969 in a collaboration between Adams and Hills Bros. Coffee Company. The company licensed Adams' photograph "Winter Morning, Yosemite Valley" to reproduce on its three-pound coffee cans, and sold them in a limited edition.
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Hilder, Mary. 1 letter (1941) to Lady Agnes Adams, Maidstone, England
Manuscripts
She works in the sick bay for evacuee children with Dr. Whyte and mentions meeting his wife, a friend of Lady Adams.
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