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"This chronicle of the Forbidden City, a blend of biographical portraits, narrative, history and illustrations, guides readers through 500 years of China. Much of the material used was collected after access to the historical archives in Beijing."--Publisher's description,
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Perhaps the most famous and admired pictorial map of California ever made. Jo Mora surrounded his map with vignettes and figures depicting the history and fantasy of California. This 1927 prohibition era shows bootleggers offshore Monterey, and Owens Valley residents kicking holes in the new Los Angeles aqueduct. A tour de force of boosterism seldom equaled, never bested. Many vignettes in the surround and characters on the map itself. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.
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The Eugene Swarzwald Pictorial California and the Pacific Collection consists of 9,674 black and white photographs, negatives, a photograph album, magazine mock-ups, letters, and ephemera, dated 1909-ca. 1968. Eugene Swarzwald and the Swarzwald family collected the material for use in the magazine "Pictorial California and the Pacific." Images depict California and the West with some coverage of the rest of the United States and international destinations. The collection contains photographs depicting general city views of communities in California, scenic views of wilderness areas, images of parks, schools and universities, museums, and points of historic interest (including California mining towns and missions). The collection is strong in subjects related to leisure and social and recreational activities. Many of the photographs are by the Keystone Photo Service. Other photographers include Chuck Abbott, Adelbert Bartlett, Lionel T. Berryhill, Lil and Al Bloom, Hal Boucher, Campbell-Ricco-Mazzuchi Photography, Caroll Photo Service, Garth Chandler, Walter J. Collinge, Fairchild Aerial Surveys, George O. Fales, Frasher's, J. P. Graham, Dean Hesketh Company, Charles M. Hiller, Pat and G. E. Kirkpatrick, Don Knight, Albert J. Kopec, Ward Linton, Lothers and Young, Hubert A. Lowman, David M. Mills, Don Milton, Gabriel Moulin Studios, Karl Obert, Earle O'Day, Pacific Air Industries Aerial Photography, Dave Packwood, Padilla Studios, Maynard L. Parker, Jack W. Patterson, Julius Shulman, Spence Air Photos, H. W. Steward, Thiem, Harry Vroman, Whithurse Aerial Photos, and Steven H. Willard.
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This small collection contains 9 items on 22 pages, and includes correspondence, four drafts of petitions for amendments to the U.S. Constitution and drawings and notes, most along the theme of perpetual motion, with illustrations. One drawing is titled "Perhaps a perpetual motion" and its long description begins "Invented to a state of probability on the evening of the 2nd of March 1812, after going to bed, and after going on the same evening after some milk and butter to Mr. William Martindale and coming home without obtaining any of either." Also included is a one-page attendance log from his school.
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"Octavia E. Butler is one of the most important figures in speculative fiction history; a pioneering African-American author who won multiple awards and changed the very foundation of the genre. 'Kindred' is perhaps her most iconic novel, a ground-breaking time-travel thriller that plunges its heroine into pre-Civil War America, challenging the reader to witness the horrors of slavery. For this edition, celebrated artist James E. Ransome was commissioned to provide a series of emotive illustrations and a beautifully simple binding design. In her exclusive introduction, author and journalist Tananarive Due draws on interviews with Butler to take a deeper look at this essential novel, and the questions it raises about history, guilt and survival"--From Folio Society's description.
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The Los Angeles Railway (LARy) Corporation collection provides a broad pictorial overview of the development of the railway systems in Los Angeles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as information on the physical development of the city itself. The collection was compiled by Edwin L. Lewis, a LARy employee for 51 years, as background information for a proposed, unpublished, two-volume history of the Los Angeles railway systems.
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