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Proverbs

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Description: "'Proverbs' is an ongoing series of photographs in which the artist focuses on universal truths. Using trained circus animals in many of his images--from gargantuan brown bear to monkeys, dogs, lions and most recently, elephants--in settings absent of artifacts or other cultural information, Maiofis offers visually poignant, strike to the heart-of-the-matter images"--Publisher's description.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [2014]
Call number: 653252
Creator: Maiofis, Gregori (1970-)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 9781590053966; 1590053966
Provenance: Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, August 2020.
Dimensions: 37 cm +

Old proverbs with new pictures

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Thirty-five proverbs in verse and picture. Included are "Pride Goeth Before a Fall," "The Early Bird Catches the Worm," and "Big Head, Little Wit."

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The high sport hand made sour mash whiskey

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Image of a whiskey barrel label depicting a wilderness scene showing a pair of frontiersmen fighting off a bear attack in a forest; one wounded hunter lies prone on the ground with a rifle in his hand while a large brown bear stands over him; the other man holds a hatchet in an upraised hand ready to strike; three hunting dogs snarl and lunge at the bear; image in circular embellished frame with monogram of the intertwined initials " "L," "L," and "& H" at left and right.

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Map of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and adjoining states showing railroads built and projected

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No old shelf mark. Map is untitled. Accompanying note suggests this map was made after 1898 but before 1907, but the layout of the counties suggest a date between 1895 and 1899. In Washington State, Stevens and Okanagon Counties split into Ferry (absent) and Chelan (absent) in 1899; in Oregon, Lincoln County (present) was formed from Benton and Park Counties in 1893, and Wheeler (absent) was formed from Grant in 1899; in Idaho, Logan (absent) and Alturas (absent) were eliminated and Lincoln (present) and Blaine (present) were formed in 1895. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.

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[Theatre] (fragment)

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Printer: H.A. Bacon, Printer With woodcut images of a Native American Indian being attacked by two dogs and a man being attacked by a bear; text features Mr. Simpson in "Cherokees or the Dogs of the Wreck"

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Family photograph album

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This album includes images of George and Edward Dalziel, Edward Dalziel's adult children, and possibly friends or other family; there are no identifications. Images include people at a beach promenade, dogs and cats, men walking dogs, people in a garden. There is a letter pasted in back to "Mr. Dalziel" from Sophia Duberly Delmard, May 4, 1903.

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Cukor, George, portraits

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Images of Mr. Cukor and his dogs, presumably in his home designed by Dolena.

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