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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Things Chinese, or, Notes connected with China
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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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Rare Books
The list is not exhaustive--it does not include the special type forms and techniques of the painting of faces and of such individual plants and flowers as the bamboo, plum and orchid, which have their own disciplines. It does not include the terminology of asethetics or any inquiry into the history of either the terms or the ideas, materials and practices they represent. It is the outgrowth of practical inquiry rather than of systematic literary searching -- Preface.
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Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, manuscripts, maps, clippings and photographs related to California history, especially that of the San Bernardino County region. There are also materials related to Mormon pioneers in the San Bernardino Valley and education in the Philippine Islands. Most of the items in the collection are secondary source materials gathered by the Beatties in the course of their research on California history.
mssBeattie papers
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Rare Books
"This essay was written in the autumn of 1861 for the Atlantic Monthly, and accepted for publication by the editors of that popular Magazine; but the pressure upon its pages has prevented the appearance of an article which is so little in accordance with the tone of the current American literature during the past eventful year. The numerous applications to the author for instructions in the art of Skeletonizing have induced the determination to delay its publication no longer, and to change it from a magazine article to a small practical work, adapted to aid the tyro in attaining a perfect acquaintance with the subject of which it treats. It is hardly necessary to acknowledge the aid derived from numerous friends of both sexes, who have freely imparted the results of their experience in the matter in hand. Of course, all skeletonizers have learned by this time that it is only by communicating what they know that they can expect to receive in turn the ideas of others, and thus promote our beautiful pursuit to its true position among the liberal arts"--From preface.
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Visual Materials
This collection contains approximately 10,000 photographs, negatives and ephemera created or compiled by Grace Nicholson (1877-1948), a collector and dealer of Native American and Asian arts and crafts in Pasadena, California. The bulk of the collection dates from 1903 to the 1920s and includes photograph albums and individual photographs with views of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, California, and the Southwest of North America; pictures documenting Nicholson's basket collecting trips primarily between 1902 and 1912; images of Nicholson's stores and residences in Pasadena, including the building of the "Grace Nicholson Treasure House of Oriental Art" in the mid-1920s; and personal photographs of Nicholson, her family, friends, and associates. Nicholson's personal snapshots and photograph albums provide a valuable resource for studying Native American communities, particularly in Northern California, in the early 20th century. Many of the photographs depict daily life and include images of homes, community events, dances and rituals, families and children, and portraits. Most of these photographs were taken by Grace Nicholson or her assistant, Mr. Carroll S. Hartman, and are often accompanied by Nicholson's handwritten identifications.
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Manuscripts
The notebook includes lecture notes, summaries of experiments performed and their results as well as diagrams and drawings of various apparatus. More specifically, Hetherington references the air pump, and several scientists including Robert Boyle, Otto von Guericke, Francis Hauksbee, and Evangelista Torricelli.
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Visual Materials
One pamphlet (one sheet, folded into sixths)entitled Things to Make with "Milo" Plastic Modeling Material, published by American Crayon Company, Sandusky, Ohio, 1931. The cover depicts a seated girl, sculpting a squirrel from Milo modeling clay, with a box of the clay on the table in front of her. Pages 1-9 consist of projects and ideas for use of Milo modeling clay, and pages 10 and 11 are advertisements for various sizes and colors of the clay. The pamphlet is printed in black and green ink, and is illustrated. Additional locations and offices of the American Crayon Company are listed at the bottom of p. 10: "New York Office, 200 Fifth Avenue, San Francisco, 116 New Montgomery Street, Dallas, Texas, Santa Fe Building".
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