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  Specimens

  Rare Books

  A catalog produced by more than 150 designers, printers, papermakers and other participants in ten countries, showing 107 specimens of fine papers on about 200 sheets. All kinds and colors of paper from the best paper mills in the world are shown and in addition, the specimens were designed and printed by the most gifted and distinguished of present day artists

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  Cycas revoluta specimen on the terrace of the Huntington residence with the loggia in the background

  Visual Materials

  The cycas revoluta is also referred to as the sago palm. Label accompanying photographs in album reads "HEH 8 This specimen of Cycas revoluta (sago palm), native of Japan, is 300 years old. Terrace, Huntington Art Gallery. Loggia at left." Another version of this is no. 548 Pictures Archives, box 3, folder 5. MS note on verso reads "HEH 8 Feb 1938." Stamp on verso gives permission for the print to appear in "Exhaust." (?)

  photCL 107 vol13 (8)

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  San Antonio Fruit Exchange records, (bulk 1894-1923)

  Manuscripts

  The San Antonio Fruit Exchange records contains 46 items from 1893 to 1947, including annual reports, minutes, stock books and by-laws. The annual reports from 1894 to 1923 of the exchange contain information on the business practices of the exchange and its members along with comments that refer more generally to the citrus industry as a whole. The minutes from 1894 to 1924 are from Board of Director and stockholder meetings and contain information on the Exchange's day-to-day operations. The stock books from 1893 to 1926 contain information on the group's stockholders, including lists of names and actual stock certificates. The by-laws portion of the collection from 1893 to 1947 contains both the group's original bylaws as well as their subsequent revisions. Issues of prominence within the collection include the history of the California citrus fruit industry; the cooperative marketing of citrus fruits; the California Fruit Growers Exchange; the San Antonio Fruit Exchange; the Southern California Fruit Exchange; and Sunkist Growers, Inc.

  mssSanAnt

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  Merchants' Exchange [sic], San Francisco

  Rare Books

  Image is of the front of the "old," small Merchant's Exchange (a simple Classical Revival building) with several people and a carriage outside of it in the street. There are several signs on the building to the left of the Merchant's Exchange. "Butler. Eastman."--text, below image. There are two short lines of handwriting on the right side of the sheet. Paper color: blue.

  48052:099

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  Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: handwriting specimen, letter and transcript

  Manuscripts

  Handwriting specimen of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, plus accompanying letter and transcript prepared by Blumenbach's son. The five-line handwriting specimen is dated 1834, December 28, and is found on a folded sheet with two pages of writing; two lines of this text are in French and three lines, including Blumenbach's signature, are in German. The specimen is annotated and translated into English by Blumenbach's son and by an unidentified person. The second page of the sheet contains a letter from Blumenbach's son to an unidentified recipient addressed as My dear Sir and dated 1836, April 27, describing the handwriting specimen; this letter is in English. Also contains a one-page undated typed transcription and partial translation of Blumenbach's lines and of the start of the son's letter, as well as biographical information about Blumenbach, prepared by an unidentified person; this page contains annotations in pencil relating to the material's archival location.

  mssHM 83022-83023

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  Lemon Exchange -- fruit sorting equipment

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  Lemon Exchange [fruit sorting equipment - elevator raising lemons entering the facility to the upper levels for processing]

  photCL SCE 07 - 00516