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Shanghai of to-day : a souvenir album of fifty Vandyke gravure prints of "the model settlement"

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Description: A fascinating document of 1920s architecture in Shanghai. Most of the city's famous hotels, banks, clubs, churches, trading houses and race courses are recorded, giving a vivid impression of Shanghai's importance as a foreign commercial centre in China... Hawks Pott ... gives a concise introduction to Shanghai's history and briefly discusses the future possibilities of the metropolis in response to demands made by the new Republican Government that the settlement be surrendered to a Chinese administration."-- Seller's printout.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1930.
Call number: 654537
Provenance: From the Hong family library.; Illustrated bookplate of You Chung Hong.
Dimensions: 32 cm
Associated people: Pott, F. L. Hawks (1864-1947,); Hong, You Chung, (1898-1977,)

History of industrial gravure printing up to 1920

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"Though there are many histories of printing, in all languages, they deal principally with the printed product. The history of the development of modern printing techniques tends to have been neglected by the historians of technology. Very rare are publications on historical investigations into the technical development of printing processes, printing presses or printing surfaces. In this revised and expanded English version of his book, originally published in German, the author, who is Technical Development Manager to the London Daily Telegraph, provides a fascinating account of the early development of one of the three major printing processes, gravure or intaglio -- industrial gravure, that is to say, as distinct from artists' printmaking"--From dust jacket.

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Includes A Guide to the East Kaibab Monocline in the Grand Canyon Region by Arthur N. Strahler; Oil Possibilities of the Holbrook Area in Northeast Arizona by Dorsey Hager; and Nankoweap Group of the Grand Canyon Algonkian of Arizona and Contributions to Grand Canyon Geology a bulletin published by the Geological Society of America and Grand Canyon Natural History Association.

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Mount Lowe Railway souvenir album

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A souvenir album of 12 photographs, 3 1/4 x 4 inches each, mounted on paper, dating from approximately 1894 to 1900. The back inside cover is stamped "From Mount Lowe Ry. Photo. Dept., Echo Mountain P. O., Cal." Views show the railway winding up the mountain, a massive searchlight at the top of Echo Mountain, scenic views, and the Echo Mountain House exteriors and interior lobby.

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Mount Lowe Railway souvenir album

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d. Chinese album: "Shanghai Philharmonic; Village Children Dance."

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Subjects of the entire collection include: Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, American dance and dancers, dance instruction and notes, exercises and warm-up routines, various dance types (international as well as American), famous dancers from around the globe, Denishawn dancers, the Ruth St. Denis Center, the Ruth St. Denis Foundation, the Ruth St. Denis Theatre Intime, Jacob's Pillow dance festival, American Dance Film Association, Society of Spiritual Arts Church, the various teachers and pupils at St. Denis' dance studio and school, the Orient trip the Denishawn dancers took in 1926, as well as dance productions and events St. Denis put on throughout her career. There is also much material about St. Denis' effort to have her studio and school become a non-profit entity and her desire to create an artist colony in Hemet, California. More specifically, several dancers show up in the notebooks and photographs, including: Harold Kreutzberg, Peter di Falco, La Meri, Karoun Tootikian, Miriam Schiller, Jean Léon, Gladys Bowen, Antonio Gades, Devi Dja, Doris Humphrey, Mary Wigman, and Martha Graham.

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Album of photographs recording a motorcar journey from Nebraska to central California in 1913

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Fascinating photographic record of an early road trip from Nebraska through Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and into California. A typed slip affixed to the front pastedown reads "'A fine trip with many hard knocks,' From Wausa, Nebr. to Turlock, Cal." There were four vehicles in the caravan, traversing unpaved tracks through the largely undeveloped Southwest, an uncommon feat at the time. The photographs include views of Starvation Peak, N.M.; a New Mexican Village; Springerville, Arizona with the Reagan Hotel; camp near Ft. Apache, Arizona; am automobile "hospital" at Dome City, Arizona; the Roosevelt Dam; a camp near San Diego, Cal.; etc.

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