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Rare Books
What should I know when I travel abroad?
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Brief memoir by Mrs. F.A. Tracy of her impressions of California Indians (what she calls "Digger" Indians) from the time of her arrival in California in 1852. Includes anecdotes about her interactions with local Indians, her observations of their customs (including an account of funeral customs), and the negative influence of "the renegade white man." Appears to have been delivered as a speech to a women's club.
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Rare Books
"A 'box for the new millennium,' '00/01' includes an accordion-bound booklet entitled 'Things to Do' and a series of cards featuring a mix of verse and paintings by the Artist. All of this is housed inside a custom-made red acrylic box. Scholder's paintings, which have been exhibited widely and are part of the permanent collection at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, combine the work of Jackson Pollock and other pop artists with Native American art. Born in 1937, Scholder formed the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1965, hoping to break free from the clichés of traditional Indian artwork designed and marketed mostly for tourists"--Publisher's description.
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Manuscripts
The John Janney collection contains correspondence and business records related to mining in the early 20th century American West. Included are files related to John Janney's several properties and interests, most of which were in Lincoln County, Nevada, including the Ely Valley Mines, Mountain View Hotel, Pioche Mines Company, Pioche Power and Light Company, and Tenabo Mining and Smelting Company. This collection exists as an extensive and rich documentation of Nevada mining, especially during the Great Depression and World War II.
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Manuscripts
The Albert R. Hibbs Papers, 1884-2009 (80 boxes) document the personal life and career of Hibbs as a manager and scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the relationships between JPL, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the development of the solar system exploration programs. Hibbs' consulting work for television and radio programs, Biosphere 2, and Morgantown Area Rapid Transit System (MARTS) are also documented. Although the collection arrived at The Huntington in disarray, original order of the materials was maintained when possible and the arrangement reflects Hibbs' general organization by correspondent, subject, or format of materials. The collection is divided into ten series: Audio Visual Materials, Consulting Files, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Notebooks, Personal Files, Photographs and Negatives, Presentations and Speeches, Publications and Writings, Teaching Files, and Oversize. The bulk of collection materials date from 1931 to 1999 and consists of audio and video tapes, clippings, correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs, publications, speeches, and writings. As the collection is arranged by both subject and format of the materials, researchers should be aware that materials are often dispersed through the series. For example, materials related to specific subjects are frequently represented in the JPL and Notebooks Series; similarly, Hibbs' friendship and collaboration with Roy L. Walford is documented in the Correspondence and Aging Research and Writings subseries of the Personal Series, in the Space Bioshpheres Ventures subseries of the Consulting series, as well as in the Audio Visual Materials Series. Correspondence is also dispersed throughout the series.
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Visual Materials
This collection of railroad passes, a subset of the Jay T. Last collection of transportation, contains over 3,000 passes issued primarily by American railroad companies to individuals in the 19th and 20th centuries, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1860 to 1960. The passes provided the pass holder with permission to ride on the railroad, usually through the end of the calendar year, and the passes in the collection bear a variety of titles including annual pass, season ticket, time pass, free ticket, exchange ticket, and complimentary ticket. The decorative details of the passes vary across the collection, though most examples from the late 19th century and early 20th centuries contain engraved or lithographed designs and images. Visual decorations include patterned borders and scrollwork, logos, and vignettes primarily with transportation-related images such as railroad locomotives and trains, as well as buildings, views of landscapes, rivers and bridges, and wilderness scenes, and animals. Some passes have printed maps or pass conditions and rules printed on the card verso. American railroad companies issued the majority of passes primarily for annual travel on commercial passenger lines. Among the anomalies in the collection are passes of interurban electric lines, foreign railroad companies, primarily from Canada and Latin America countries.
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Manuscripts
Bernays wrote this letter to Mr. Miller of Miller & Hayes of Mount Airy Nurseries in Germantown, Philadelphia in 1878. Bernays has sent reports and pamphlets explaining the Society's goals under separate cover. He asked Mr. Miller if he would be willing to exchange "seeds of Queensland for others of America." Bernays was specifically interested in seeds of American deciduous trees, hickories, and minor shrubs. He offers to send items suitable for greenhouses, or to be raised under glass, a quantity of which he opined could be sent to the Southern States of America. Not present, Bernays took the liberty (in an act of good faith) of sending Mr. Miller seeds from Australia. He listed approximately ten plants; their Latin names given. The letter is on Queensland Acclimatisation Society letterhead.
mssHM 82906