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Carroll B. Andrews film of participants and guests at the Sea Wolf premiere
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Pacific Electric Railway Training Film, 1914
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Pacific Electric Railway film made 1913-1914 to instruct trainmen in operating interurban trains. Opening titles read: "The right and wrong procedures are illustrated throughout." Shows an automobile coming to a train crossing, with a train coming, and the "automatic flagman" is not working; trainmen filling out train orders; train approaching a man walking on trestle; people getting on and off train. Shows train at the San Gabriel River; the Glendale line train going down the tracks, other footage. Format of original: Reel
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Photograph showing a film poster for "The Sea Wolf" in the front entrance of the Palace Theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rare Books
This collection consists chiefly of magazines containing the first appearances of works by American author Jack London. The collection includes 130 periodicals with London's short stories, serialized versions of his novels, and essays, with the bulk dating from the late 1890s to the 1910s. In addition, there are 20 pieces of ephemera and miscellaneous printed items about London's work and life, including materials prepared by London enthusiasts through the 1970s. The items were compiled by Donald French, a collector of Jack London materials in Northern California. Periodicals: Most of the periodicals contain the first appearances in print of stories by London, and the earliest item in this collection is the September 1897 issue of The Owl containing the story "Two Gold Bricks," followed by 1899 issues of Overland Monthly and The Black Cat. More than thirty periodical titles are represented including Century,Cosmopolitan, McClure's Magazine,Overland Monthly,The Saturday Evening Post, and the Youth's Companion. There are also essays about socialism by London in The Comrade: An Illustrated Socialist Monthly,The Independent, and The International Socialist Review. In addition, there are some writings about London, including biographical writings by London's second wife Charmian London in The Century (1921) and Rose Wilder Lane in Sunset (1917). Ephemera: The 20 pieces of ephemera include pamphlets and printed material related to London's life and work that were primarily produced by London enthusiasts, dating from 1901 to 1976, including a United Artists movie poster for the 1943 film "Jack London" and some later publications of his work, such as a 1951 comic book version of The Sea Wolf.
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Andrew Johnson, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., appointment of Thomas Murphy, John B. Sanborn, Kit Carson, William W. Bent :
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Appointment of Kit Carson, William W. Bent, Brigadier General J.B. (John Benjamin) Sanborn, and Superintendent for Indian Affairs for the Central Superintendency Thomas Murphy as "Commissioners to negotiate a treaty or treaties, under instructions of the Secretary of Interior, with the Comanche, Kiowa, Arrapahoe [Arapaho] and Apache Indians, who have agreed to meet at Bluff Creek below the mouth of the Little Arkansas River, on the fourth day of October next, to enter into a treaty of peace with the United States." Signed by Andrew Johnson.
mssHM 13238
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Andrew Jackson, Washington, D.C., letter to Rachel Jackson, Nashville, Tennessee :
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Jackson relates that he is glad to hear the church is finished. He discusses his activities in Washington, D.C., with mentions of parties attended, social events, gift received, enemies, and fellow boarders at "the Oneals," including fellow Tennessee senator John Eaton.
mssHM 23058
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Andrew Jackson, Washington, D.C., letter to Rachel Jackson, Nashville, Tennessee :
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Jackson discusses how he spent his birthday and the receiving of the gold medal awarded by Congress in appreciation of victory at New Orleans, February 27, 1815 during the War of 1812. Is sending advice to his son, particularly about his education, the importance of being truthful; he also reports on his health and the weather.
mssHM 23062
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Mira B. Culin Saunders letters to Andrew F. Rolle
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A group of four autograph letters and 1 postcard written by Mira B. Culin Saunders to Andrew F. Rolle. The letters are personal rather than professional and discuss their shared interests in California; eventually Saunders knew Rolle's mother and there is mention of Mrs. Rolle in multiple letters. There is also one photograph (1931) of San Juan Capistrano Mission and Father St. John O'Sullivan.
mssHM 83797