Fred E. Foster collection | Collections | The Huntington

Fred E. Foster collection | Collections | The Huntington

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[Seven songs from Foster's Melodies]
Rare Books
Group of seven sheet music scores by Stephen Foster, published in the series "Foster's Melodies" by Firth, Pond & Co. between 1851 and 1862.
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Record of a voyage to the Orient in 1918
Manuscripts
Kinney's journal starts the day he leaves California and ends the day he gets back four months later. In it, he includes details about his work on board the ship, the daily inspections, the conditions on the ocean, the meals he has, and the various stops along the route including: Hawaii, Japan, China, the Philippines, and Hong Kong. Kinney gives detailed descriptions of Honolulu, Hawaii; Tokyo and Kobe, Japan; Shanghai, China; Manila, Philippines; and Hong Kong. The typed journal includes photocopies of pages from Kinney's original diary, photographs, maps, advertisements, menus, passenger lists, and various other things he collected during his voyage.
mssHM 75688
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Photograph album of a British expatriate in China
Visual Materials
An album of 210 photographs of China taken sometime after the end of World War I, by an unidentified British expatriate likely working in Shanghai, China. Subjects include Shanghai, Hong Kong, Huangpu River, local residents, Westerners, naval and civil ships, coastal villages, Chinese architecture, and historical landmarks. There is no writing in the album, though one photograph of buildings along a waterfront has "my office" in pencil, with an arrow to a building. Many of the snapshots are of local people: children, fishermen, weavers, a shoe cobbler, workers with building materials, and others.
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Lenora E. Phillips Foster reminiscences
Manuscripts
In this volume, Foster tells her life story beginning with her birth and childhood in Corydon, Iowa. She gives many details such as the death of two of her siblings within a month of each other in 1864, her older brother leaving to go fight in the Civil War, learning music as a child, her marriage to Edward E. Foster in 1875, etc. Throughout the volume are poems, sketches and drawings done by Foster. In the front of the volume is a photograph of Foster taken in 1930.
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Vere Foster's Complete Course of Drawing: Landscape
Visual Materials
One drawing book entitled Vere Foster's Complete Course of Drawing, published by Blackie & Son, Limited, London, Glasgow and Dublin; and F.W. Devoe & Co., New York, ca. 1868. New Edition, 72 pages (only pages 6-8 are numbered) part VI (of XVI). This drawing book provides visual and textual instruction for landscape drawing. The first 8 pages, presumably written by Wimperis and Needham, contain instructional text. The black and white lithographs are signed primarily by J. Needham and F. (Frederick) Jones. The illustrated front cover is printed in blue ink; the back cover is a manufacturers' advertisement for "Vere Foster's Drawing Copy-Books". At the top of the back cover is the statement: "Vere Foster's Drawing Copy-Books have been adopted by the Department of Science and Art, South Kensignton, London; and both Writing and Drawing Copy-Books have been adopted by the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland, by the London and other principal School Boards, and by the Department of Public Instruction of the City of New York." The illustrations within this drawing book include both outline and complete views of English and Welsh landscapes, homes, bridges, and other natural views.
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Fred James Dodge papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists of 2,313 items from 1890 to 1938; it includes letters, documents and 116 photographs related to the activities of Wells, Fargo and Co., special agent Fred James Dodge. Subject matter includes nine criminal investigations in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana from 1893 to 1912. The photographs are of outlaws and others; the collection also includes lists of criminals, and twenty-three letters to and from John P. Clum, 1930 to 1932. There is also a small amount of Dodge's personal and business papers, reports, miscellaneous items and ephemera.
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