Manuscripts

Alice Flood seaweed album

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Description: A collection of sixty-eight seaweed, algae, and bryozoan samples, many of which have culinary uses; the majority of the samples are labeled with both common English names and Latin names. The majority of the samples were collected along the English coast, but two samples have a given location of "Point de Galles" in Sri Lanka. Each sample is attached to the paper with tiny stitches of thread; the leaves are loose and housed in a contemporary green cloth drop-sided box. The box also contains a poem on the recto of one folded leaf about the beauty of seaweed. The seaweed samples are extremely fragile and must be handled with care.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1890.
Call number: mssHM 84138
Creator: Flood, Alice (-1946)

British Seaweeds

Manuscripts

A Victorian volume of seaweed and algae specimens gathered by an unidentified collector from the southern coast of England. The twelve specimens are mounted on cards and then on pages bound into the volume. The specimens are carefully pressed and labeled with their Latin names and where they were found, including the Isle of Wight, Devon, and Cornwall. The volume is contemporary half calf over pebbled cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the front cover.

mssHM 84127

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G. E. Dyke-Poore seaweed specimen album

Manuscripts

A Victorian album of seaweed and algae specimens collected and preserved by G. E. Dyke-Poore. The album contains twenty-three seaweed specimens mounted on cards and then mounted on pages bound in the album; there are also four additional specimens mounted onto loose pages laid into the back of the album. The specimens are carefully pressed onto each card and labeled with their Latin names; the specimens seem to have been gathered in Jersey, with one specimen from The Heads, Tasmania. The album is bound in contemporary pink and gilt illustrated paper covers (possibly homemade), with the remainder of green silk ties. Mounted onto the verso of the front cover is a little green card which says "Collected, Arranged, and Mounted by Miss G. E. Dyke-Poore, Jersey" and there is also a short poem inscribed by Miss Dyke-Poore at the beginning of the album.

mssHM 84128

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Album of pressed seaweed and sea moss specimens

Manuscripts

A Victorian album of seaweed and sea moss specimens gathered by an unidentified female collector in England. The album consists of 80 pressed specimens of red, green, and brown seaweed and sea mosses, some of which are artfully arranged into crosses, a laurel wreath, an anchor, and the word "love." Tipped onto the first blank page is an eight-line manuscript poem adapted from "Flowers of the Sea." The album is bound in contemporary roan, with spine compartments tooled in gilt, the front cover lettered "Sea Mosses" in gilt and handmade textured endpapers printed with crescent moons in red and accented with gilt stars.

mssHM 84529

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Alice S. Arikawa photograph album

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A photograph and scrapbook album compiled by Alice S. Arikawa, a young Japanese American woman in Los Angeles, California, that chronicles her youth from 1934 to 1942, just before the Japanese American internment during World War II. Snapshot photographs are pasted on black paper pages, with captions by Arikawa written in white pencil. Images depict Arikawa and friends at Lafayette Junior High School, then Jefferson High School (both in central Los Angeles), and participating in a wide range of social and school activities in and around the Los Angeles area. She and a diverse group of friends are seen on beach outings, going to Santa Anita Park, the Huntington Library gardens (four images), attending a formal dance, and horseback riding. Other subjects are her family, a business correspondence class in 1936, and activities with the Kalifans, a Y.W.C.A. social group. The album's last images are dated March 1942, just before Arikawa's incarceration at the Manzanar War Relocation Center. The album contains a graduation class portrait taken inside Manzanar, but it does not appear that Arikawa is part of this group (she graduated from high school in 1937). Ephemeral items include school programs, and an identification card belonging to Arikawa's brother, John, age 15.

photCL 637

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Park, Alice, 1861-1961

Manuscripts

Note: 2 page typewritten list of names of authors and addressees represented in the collection

PK 337

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[Album of commerical views of California]

Visual Materials

A photograph album with commerical photographic prints of various locations in California including: Santa Barbara, an orange grove in Riverside, Coronado Beach, Pasadena, a petrified forests in Napa Valley, San Luis Obispo, various locations in San Francisco including the Japanese Garden, and views of Yosemite. The location names are handwritten above the images. Several hotels in the various locations are also depicted. May have been compiled by an English tourist to the area as the album has a stamp: "Brough & Son, Commercial stationers, 6 Cannon Row, Westminster".

photCL 316

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