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Samuel John Sterrett autograph album

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Description: This autograph album contains autographs, caricatures, cartoons, musical scores, pencil drawings, pen and ink drawings, poems, and watercolors; a few of the autographs are in Japanese. It appears, from the varying page sizes, this album is made up of several different albums collected over many decades, possibly by multiple members of the Sterrett family; also, each section contains overlapping spans of dates. For conservation purposes the pages have been removed from the damaged leather cover and placed into envelopes.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1845-1916.
Call number: mssHM 82920 (1-6)
Creator: Sterrett, Samuel John(Opens in new tab)

William Hugh Sibbald autograph album and ephemera

Manuscripts

The autograph album contains autographs, caricatures, cartoons and drawings. The autographs in the album include U.S. presidents Theodore Roosevelt (1911 March 21) and William H. Taft (1911 October 16), politicians, cartoonists, actors, aviators, athletes and musicians; it appears many of the autographs were from guests staying the hotels managed by W.H. Sibbald. There is also a leather case with snap closure and one folder of printed ephemera with clippings, obituary, and a copy of a 1950 Los Angeles city resolution (5 pieces).

mssHM 82921

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Autograph album of Hartman Hotel

Manuscripts

This album includes autographs, short notes, and some sketches by over 100 visitors to Hotel Hartman, many of whom were famous. They include actors, both stage and screen, opera singers, performers, artists, and dancers. Some notable people are: American dancer Ruth St. Denis; comic strip writer and creator of Buster Brown, Richard F. Outcault; American actor Tyrone Power; musician John Philip Sousa; and Italian tenor Enrico Caruso; among many others. With the volume are two photographs of unidentified men and a typed list of all of the autographs.

mssHM 76512

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Album of drawings depicting a tobacco factory in Spain

Manuscripts

An album of 15 watercolored drawings featuring stages of processing the tobacco plant into powdered tobacco, or snuff, within an eighteenth-century industrial complex, most likely the Royal Tobacco Factory at Seville. The album is bound in green morocco leather and stamped in gilt with the arms of the King of Spain, Charles III. Each drawing is captioned.

mssHM 84085

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Album of works for Jack London's "Children of the Frost,"

Manuscripts

Album of original watercolors and charcoal sketches for the French edition of Jack London's "Children of the Frost." The drawings are primarily vibrant and expressionistic portraits of Eskimos, reminiscent of the work by Georges Rouault. Some of the illustrations depict a progression with the final image at the beginning. For instance, following the "final" watercolor for "In the Forest of the North", there are at least 7 preliminary illustrations in charcoal and black watercolor showing different angles and variations. All eight illustrations found in the French edition of Jack London's "Children of the Frost" are represented in this volume.

mssHM 80824

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John Kenyon Autograph Album

Manuscripts

The majority of the collection consists of manuscripts and letters written by leading British Victorian political, scientific, and literary figures; there is also a small amount of material by American, French, German, and Polish writers. The manuscripts include poems by Daniel Webester, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Helen Maria Williams. The political correspondents include John Bright, Hugh McCalmont Cairns (Earl Cairns), George William Villiers (Earl of Clarendon), Frances Power Cobbe, Richard Cobden, William Ewart Gladstone, George Cornewall Lewis, Henry Temple (Viscount Palmerston), and George Frederick Robinson (Marquess of Ripon). The artist, scientific, and literary correspondents include Charles Babbage, Sara Coleridge, Charles Eastlake, Maria Edgeworth, Robert Fitzroy, John Forster, Elizabeth Gaskell, Grace Greenwood, Felicia Hemans, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton), Edwin Landseer, William Macready, Harriet Martineau, Roderick Impey Murchison, Caroline Norton, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick.

mssHM 69273-69383

Ann Jordan album; or selections from many authors; interspersed with drawings and poetry, 1828-approximately 1885

Manuscripts

An illustrated commonplace album with transcribed verses, watercolors, and drawings; the album was a gift to Ann Jordan from her brother W. P. Jordan in 1828. The album contains 27 watercolor illustrations including flowers and butterflies (the latter usually cut and pasted to various leaves), and nine pencil sketches. Also included are poems by Thomas H. Bayly, Mary Ann Browne, Lady Byron, Lord Byron, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Goldsmith, Peter Pindar (whose real name was John Wolcot), Ann Radcliffe, and George R. Sims. The album contains a number of blank pages and is bound in contemporary red half morocco; the corners and spine are worn and damaged.

mssHM 84113

Samuel John Sterrett autograph album

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