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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 20 items: LAT copies, news clips, feature stories and editorials, on the Chinese community and their interaction with other citizens of Los Angeles; complete issue, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Quarterly, Fall 1967, including article, "The Chinese in Los Angeles"; 2-pp. copied from L.A. City Historical Society Newsletter, 3/1988, "Bing cherries, Pebble Beach and Lotus"; tear sheet, (L.A.) Downtown News, 6/6/1988, cover story on Chinatown.
mssLAT
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Rare Books
An old woman falls in love with a man who could be her grandson. She is Sarah Durham, 65, a widow working in the theater in England and she develops a passion for a young actor. A look at love in the golden age by the author of The Golden Notebook.
633851
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Manuscripts
Photographs, clippings, artifacts, and other items related to Los Angeles Chinatown and its history, including the demolition of Old Chinatown, and the Chinese community in Los Angeles. Some materials related to San Francisco Chinatown, and the larger Chinese community in the United States.
mssLeong
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Manuscripts
The collection contains twenty-seven binders of research materials about the Golden Cockerel Press accumulated by Roderick Cave for the book History of the Golden Cockerel Press. The binders contain a detailed bibliography of the publications of the Press including photographs of bindings, facsimile pages, publication costs, income & other information from the Press files. There is extensive correspondence and transcripts of interviews with Christopher Sandford, Owen Rutter and other authors and artists connected with the Press as well as prospectuses, press cuttings, photographs and other ephemera relating to the Golden Cockerel Press, its authors and illustrators.
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Visual Materials
Image of a seated Chinese woman dressed in Han Chinese clothing holding a fan with table and objects beside her; title letter "C" in dragon lantern at upper left.
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Rare Books
Introduction to Chinese shadow puppetry for American audiences. Contains the synopsis of several popular shadow plays, including "Elephant gay", "The monkey stealing the peaches", "The temple of the golden mountain", "The white fox spirit" and others.
654664