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Manuscripts
Scroll documenting Commodore Matthew C. Perry's first expedition to Japan in 1853. The scroll begins with a map showing the Pacific through Uraga Channel to Edo Bay, with the American squadron's route marked out in red. Japanese defense locations are also noted. Detailed notes on the size and types of the foreign ships are given and the number of cannon noted. Following the map are four official reports. "List of fiefdom lords' names who participated in the event of the foreign ships' arrival" is a firsthand account by Matsudaira Ecchu no kami about the first diplomatic encounters with Perry. "Advice to the local commissioners" is dated 12 June 1853 and recounts that four foreign ships were spotted from Otsu village, Miura Ward and Sagami province. The third report is dated 9 June and is written by five of the fiefdom lords reporting their meeting with the Americans. The final report, "A list of fiefdom lords' troop strength" enumerates the number of troops at the disposal of 33 lords, and their responsibilities in the event of an invasion.
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Approx. 15 items, with some duplicates. Transcripts from various broadcast media outlets in L.A. Subjects include: KNBC-tv sports commentator Stu Nahan criticizes LAT sports coverage; KFWB-radio's Gary Franklin interviews Police Chief Ed Davis, who is critical of a report LAT ran on the LAPD; KHJ-tv interviewer with Robert Gottlieb and Irene Wolt, authors of Thinking Big, a book critical of LAT; KHJ-tv interview with Walter Ownbey, Commander of the L.A. Cnty. Sheriff's Department Homicide Division; a "60 Minutes" segment, narrated by Dan Rather, on prostitution and vice in Rock Springs, WY. Bill Stout and Connie Chung report on a busing plan for Los Angeles area schools.
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Visual Materials
Image of a central image of a duel between a fat Dutch man wearing clogs and a sailor, both with pistols; surrounded by three vignettes of the Dutch man being teased by two dancing girls, the Dutch man and a man wearing a bib marked "Liver Pad" sharing a bed labeled "Pat. Folding Bed" while rats scurry on the floor below; and a police officer taking the Dutch man away in handcuffs while another man holds a dancing girl who has fainted; images decorated with flowers, a twig border, and in the lower panel a musical horn and a plate of food with fork and bottle of soda; with a fragment of a Fulton Opera House date sheet pasted at bottom; the poster advertises the comedy "Wrinkles" or "1000 wrinkles" by Dutch comedian Harry Watson.
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A photograph and scrapbook album compiled by serviceman James R. Vial, documenting his time with the U.S. 1123rd Military Police Company in Manila, Philippines, in 1946. The photographs include soldiers at the base, the mess hall and bunks, and images of Filipino residents posed for portraits or in everyday activities. Several images document the Philippines Independence Day parade and ceremony on July 4, 1946, including close-up views of the speakers: Philippines President Manuel Roxas, Vice President Elpidio Quirino, and General Douglas MacArthur. Soldiers are seen returning to the U.S. via the U.S.S. Comet, entering the San Francisco Bay on October 8, 1946. The album also includes some of Vial's military documents, ration cards, newspaper clippings, and Japanese/Philippines currency.
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Rare Books
"...evidently written in considerable haste while on board ship to New York, in 1874, as Hayler was fleeing England and its life-threatening dangers, as evidenced by the last journal entries ... The Hayler journal surfaced at a car-boot sale in a town called Maidenhead ... As I scanned the pages...my excitement began to build. References to photography and sex leapt off the pages. I began reading from the first page, engrossed in 'H. Hayler' and his account of his professional career as a reluctant pornographer ... Later that evening I was rereading the journal, jotting down a list of possible leads to follow and facts to verify, when it occurred to me that the back cover of one volume felt slightly thicker than the front ... It was then that I discovered the pocket in which were nine 4 x 6 inch unmounted albumen prints. All are reproduced in this volume ... Back in the USA I quickly found several items about Hayler in 19th century photographic periodicals, all of which concerned the raid by the police and the Society for the Suppression of Vice on his studio in April 1874, all of which repeated essentially the same facts. One of these news items will be found in Appendix 1 ... The journal remains the only source of information on Hayler and his erotica, except for the news accounts which first reported the raid on his abandoned studio"--From introduction.
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