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La Crescenta Crest. 1930
Visual Materials
Scene of a largely vacant area, La Crecenta Crest, with a small house and a town far in the background. The town in the distance might be Montrose.
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Practical Drawing, Art Education Edition. Book 5
Visual Materials
One drawing book entitled Practical Drawing, Art Education Edition, Book 5 by Practical Drawing Company of Chicago and Dallas, copyright 1925. The book contains both black and white and color illustrations, some of which are meant to be copied in the space provided (the facing page); others are studies in color, image, composition or proportion. The front cover features a color illustration of two young girls in mid-19th century dress playing with a stick and hoop on the front steps of a home. The back cover features the logo of the Practical Drawing Company. The insides of the front and back covers are decorated with a pale orange geometric pattern. The contents of this drawing book include a mixture drawing lessons, craft projects and picture studies of both old and modern paintings, posters, and illustrations. Instructions to students for further creative work accompany many of the illustrations and images. "50 [cents symbol]" is written in ms., in blue pencil, on the upper right hand corner of the first leaf inside the front cover.
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Alaska views and Tlingit crest poles
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Contents: Post Office (Sitka, Alaska); Kaasx'agweidi Chief Kadashan (Leader of the Tlingit Raven Clan) home depicting the Kootéeya (totem or crest pole); Tlingit village of Ḵaachx̱ana.áakʼw Sun House with Kootéeya (totem or crest pole):Sheldon Jackson Museum & Library (wooden building); The SS City of Puebla at dock in Victoria, Canada); "Steamer Queen at Wharf, Juneau, Alaska"; "Log Cabin Presbyterian Church Juneau, Alaska"; "Totem Pole at Honoo Alaska," Tlingit Kootéeya at Xunaa or Hoonah; Steamer Queen in ice Takou Inlet Alaska. The photographs cite "Hardy, 1945" which may refer to the original Grahame Hardy collection acquired in 1945.
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Home Painting Book
Visual Materials
One painting book entitled Home Painting Book, published by McLoughlin Bros., Springfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1930. The book is comprised of a series of double illustrations; for each set, one image is printed in color, the other is printed in outline form. The outline image was meant to be painted. On the front cover is a color illustration of two children picking flowers. A collage of colored chalk against a black background borders the principal illustration. "McLoughlin Bros. Inc., Springfield, Mass." is printed in the lower left-hand corner of the front cover; "2044, made in USA" is printed in the right-hand corner. The back cover is blank. The endpapers are illustrated with geometric designs. Directions for using the book and mixing paint colors are on the recto of the first page. The illustrations are printed on one side of each leaf. Some of the images within the book include scenes of playing children, animals, flowers and food. Few of the images have been filled in.
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Pacific Crest Trail Conference, 1935-1939
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Correspondence and other papers of Warren Lee Rogers and Clinton Clarke dealing with the Pacific Crest Trail. Included are Clarke's publications, the Y-Relays correspondence, photographs, radio scripts, participants' surveys and transcribed portions of the log book; the PCT registers and hikers' correspondence, maps, visitor guides and brochures of national forests and parks in Washington, Oregon, California and elsewhere. Correspondents include Ansel Adams, Hanson W. Baldwin, Devereux Butcher, Oscar L. Chapman, Ernest A. Dench, Newton Bishop Drury, Roland C. Geist, Francis P. Farquar.
Series 3: PCT Governing Bodies
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Pacific Crest Trail Conference, 1983-1991
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Correspondence and other papers of Warren Lee Rogers and Clinton Clarke dealing with the Pacific Crest Trail. Included are Clarke's publications, the Y-Relays correspondence, photographs, radio scripts, participants' surveys and transcribed portions of the log book; the PCT registers and hikers' correspondence, maps, visitor guides and brochures of national forests and parks in Washington, Oregon, California and elsewhere. Correspondents include Ansel Adams, Hanson W. Baldwin, Devereux Butcher, Oscar L. Chapman, Ernest A. Dench, Newton Bishop Drury, Roland C. Geist, Francis P. Farquar.
Series 3: PCT Governing Bodies