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Castaways in Lilliput

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Description: Three Australian children, adrift on a rubber raft, are cast ashore in a strange land of tiny people.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1961]
Call number: 660833
Creator: Winterfeld, Henry(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Kim Stanley Robinson, August 2025. From the Kim Stanley Robinson Library. With autograph signature on front free endpaper: "Stan April '61".
Dimensions: 21 cm
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"Snag-proof" trademark : Lambertville rubber co. Lambertville, N.J

Visual Materials

Image of three rubber shoes and boots outdoors near a body of water surrounded by caricature little people or brownies of various professions and ethnicities, including an African tribesman, a Frenchman with a bomb, a chef, a musketeer, a fireman, an admiral, an American Indian, a robber with a drill, a lumberjack, a farmer with a pitchfork, a pair of sailors tugging a rope, a soldier with dynamite, and many more attempting to destroy or snag the rubber footwear with no success.

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White Fang

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"Northern Canada a hundred years ago was a savage, demanding land, where the will to survive dominated all the other instincts of both men and beasts. White Fang, one quarter dog, three quarters wolf, was a child of this wilderness; free to wander, to conquer and to kill. Until the day that he met the one species that could rule even him--that strange god called Man!"--Back cover.

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North Lake, Altadena. 1934

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Street view of North Lake near Poppy in Altadena. There has been an accident, and a man stands next to an automobile that has run into a power/telephone pole. Three other people (children?) sit on the other side of the street in the shade.

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Santa Maria replica, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago

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A view of a replica of the Santa Maria at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The ship is docked in a small inlet, with the Casino in the background. There are people boarding the ship from the land side, and a rowboat with three people in white on the water side.

mssLattaS, Box 117, Folder 35, Item 1

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Oblivion

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"The term 'shadowland' that Maisel uses when discussing the Oblivion photographs is appropriate. When you cast a shadow on a fact, you create doubt. When you shadow someone, you follow them invisibly. Shadowland is what the military calls those blacked-out areas where they wish to operate unseen, whether they are testing an experimental aircraft or interrogating people beyond lawful means. It is a land of spies and spooks, a place where ghosts live, and what Los Angeles looks like in Oblivion. The city is almost recognizable in Maisel’s negative prints and yet not quite, as if we are seeing both more of what we know and less"--Publisher's description.

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These certify that ___ was legally admitted a member of the Pilots' Charitable Society

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Image of a blank certificate certifying admittance to the Pilots' Charitable Society; seated motherly female figure in robes embracing three children among clouds at top center; boats and ships sailing with land and a lighthouse visible in the background.

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