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Rare Books
Some of these days : the autobiography of Sophie Tucker
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of a full-length portrait of American actor Ethel Tucker in the woods holding a bouquet of wild flowers; with a fragment of a date sheet presumably for Holmes Standard Museum and Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, pasted at bottom.
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Manuscripts
John Jefferson Cooper's autobiography is 360 pages and the edited transcript, completed by Cooper's granddaughter, is 189 pages. Cooper's autobiography covers his early life in Tennessee, overland journey to California during the Gold Rush, business ventures including the introduction of camels in Nevada, and involvement with the order of Knights of Pythias. Also part of this autobiography is a letter to his son, Frank J. Cooper, regarding the Visalia Water Company, a silhouette cameo, a photograph of Cooper, and a Knights of Pythias insignia.
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Visual Materials
Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of American burlesque performer Sophie Worrell Knight in formal dress and wearing a large hat and framed by an Art Nouveau-style floral border; the poster advertises the musical and burlesque show "Over the Garden Wall" by Scott Marble produced by Knight and her husband, German comedian George S. Knight.
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Manuscripts
This memoir by Jack Vari Berger contains detailed accounts of Berger growing up as a Russian Jewish immigrant in California during the mid-to late-20th century. He reminisced about his family's grocery business in San Francisco and their poultry farm in Petaluma. He also discussed his experiences living in an Orthodox Jewish home and the development of his business as a furrier in San Francisco. Berger recounts when serving in the United States Army during World War II and his experiences with antisemitism in the military. In one entry, he remembered a black sergeant asking for rations to feed him and his men. Berger asked his mess sergeant and was told no. He proceeded to lose his "cool and reminded him, if he would stop feeding his GERMAN girl friends he could spare the food. He reluctantly fed the men." Included is a one-page addendum to Berger's autobiography. Original autobiography possibly typewritten and later scanned into a computer.
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Manuscripts
Typescript of an autobiography begun by David Osborne (also spelled Osborn) in February 1860. Osbourne recounts his childhood in Virginia, his conversion to Mormonism, persecutions against the Mormons, the Osbournes' travels throughout Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa, the deaths of his wife and several of their children, and his life in Utah. The autobiography covers the years from 1807 to 1870. A note written by David A. Osborne records the death of his father in 1893.
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Manuscripts
Microfilm of a typescript autobiography by George Thomas Rogers, written at Joseph City, Arizona, in 1950. Rogers recalls his birth in Utah and childhood in Arizona, including at St. Joseph, Show Low (where he was rescued after falling in a well), Lot Smith's United Order, and Flagstaff. He describes goings on at a log saloon in New Town, Arizona (including a tale of how Flagstaff got its name), living on the San Francisco Mountains in Arizona, spending winters in Utah, working for the Babbitts Brothers grocers in Flagstaff, and being whipped by other children in school for being a Mormon. He later recalls his marriages and the births of his children, as well as mentioning his work on the Hopi Indian mission.
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