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The Chinese American family album
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American Album
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Salesman's album containing title-page and 43 leaves, with 172 chromolithograph cards (11 x 7 cm) mounted in cut-outs of 4 per leaf. Includes almost all of Prang's famous early series with depictions of: Crosses with virtues (2); humming birds (12); sets of winter and summer landscapes; 3 sets of American birds (36); scenes of the Hudson River Valley; wood ferns and mosses (24); sets of autumn leaves; flowers; butterflies; fruit blossoms; and sea mosses.
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c. Chinese album: "Tango."
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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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Brockway family album
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Bound photograph album with images depicting the family of Adna F. Brockway and Annie Brockway, their children, Leon Brockway and Elsie Brockway Snyder, and grandchildren, Dorothy and Marjorie. The album documents the family from the late 1880s to the early 1940s and includes scenes, residences, baby pictures, and family portraits, with detailed handwritten captions throughout. The album begins in 1886 with scenes and residences in Orleans, Vermont, and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and proceeds to South Pasadena, California, where the family moved in 1887. Scenes in South Pasadena and surrounding areas include the Brockway residence at 306 N. Raymond Ave., including interior views, the Marengo Hotel in 1888 with "Vermonters celebrating Thanksgiving" gathered on the porch, a schoolhouse, the Arroyo Seco (including Scoville Dam), the San Gabriel Mountain camps, a trip to British Columbia, and scenes of life in Southern California at the beaches, the California Missions, floats from the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, and a dilapidated cabin identified as "A Mexican home." Many of the snapshots document family activities and outings including camping, riding bicycles, and visiting friends and neighbors. There are many excellent tintype and cartes-de-visite portraits of members of the Brockway and Garland families, dating from 1866, with descriptions of the sitter and date. Among the photographs there is a forty-year reunion photograph of women from the Pasadena High School class of 1897, a photograph by A.C. Vroman showing a group of amateur photographers crossing a stream in the Arroyo, ca. 1897, and Dorothy and Marjorie shown at Pomona College in the 1920s.
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b. Chinese album: "Farm Village Music."
Manuscripts
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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Photograph album of Chinese American aviation mechanic students
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A photograph album of 83 snapshot photographs compiled by an unidentified Chinese American graduate of the Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute, an early trade school for aircraft maintenance training in Los Angeles, California. The images document the social and professional lives of young Chinese Americans in Southern California during the 1930s. Images depict groups of Chinese American friends and co-workers, often seen in outings to Redondo Beach, Hollywood, and public gardens. There are also images of aircraft, cars, and students in mechanical workshops. There is no writing in the album, but a few prints have locations and dates written on the back.
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Bell family photograph albums of travel in the American West
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A collection of 10 family photograph albums, 1908-1924, chiefly of trips to tourist sites and national parks in the Western United States, depicting travel by car, mountain camping, natural scenery, and hiking. Little is known about the Bell family, but most of the snapshots have captions identifying locations and dates. One album says photographs by J. O. Downing, and there is a postcard album with postcards sent from all over the country, approximately 1910s. Album contents: Vol. 1. Sierra Club trip, Glacier National Park, 1924 -- Vol. 2. My 1923 Outing: Southern Nevada - Southern Utah - Northern Arizona (with two-page narrative describing an 1,850-mile automobile trip) -- Vol. 3. Construction of Granite Reef Dam, 1908, on the Salt River, Arizona, with workers' encampment and residences. Some snapshots of Native Americans; town of Roosevelt; Roosevelt Power Canal; Tonto Basin -- Vol. 4. Mount Rainier trip, August 1921 -- Vol. 5. Red Rock Canyon (Mojave Desert, Nevada), 1919 -- Vol. 6. Sequoia Park, July 1918 -- Vol. 7. High Sierra, Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1919 -- Vol. 8. Camp High Sierra, 1923 -- Vol. 9. Scenery and people at a log cabin, horseback riding, around Pinecrest, Tuolumne County, California, 1910s? -- Vol. 10. Souvenir postcards sent from various places in the United States, 1910s?.
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