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Visual Materials
Emperor geese
- Description
- Image of emperor geese.
- Date
- 1880-1899
- Call number
- photCL 131 (188)
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
The 282 photographic prints in this collection document voyages of the United States Revenue Cutters "Bear," "Corwin," and "Richard Rush" to Alaska and the Arctic Ocean in the 1880s and 1890s. The images depict the boats, Captain Michael A. Healy, Frank A. Healy (Healy's son), the crewmen of the afore-mentioned revenue cutters; Alaskan natives and their homes; and various views of the Alaskan wilderness and towns. The collection provides insight into the people and events the "Bear" and "Corwin" encountered on their voyages while under the command of Healy. The collection also depicts Alaskan native graves; missionaries; whaling ships; ice fields in the Arctic Ocean; J.B. Vincent, a survivor of the shipwrecked "Napoleon"; Francis "Frank" Fuller, murderer of Archbishop Charles John Seghers; Alaskan native umiaks and various artifacts; and reindeer stations. Photographers who contributed to this collection include H.W. Bradley, Edward DeGroff, Lt. C.D. Kennedy of the USRC Maine, Geoff Knight, William H. Rulofson, and I.W. Taber. See also photCL 97 for related photographs concerning the "Corwin". The photographs were originally part of the Huntington's Manuscripts collection for Papers of Michael A. Healy, 1881-1900, call number mssHM 47577-47618.
photCL 131
Manuscripts
Heavily censored and then refused licence. The play ridicules the Emperor of Morocco, jeopardising political relationships.
mssLA 1037
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Manuscripts
This typescript is a copy of the script for the musical "The Emperor of San Francisco" written by Franklin Lacey in 1981 (the copy is signed by him). It was written for a cast of 22 actors and is about Joshua Abraham Norton, the celebrated citizen of San Francisco who claimed to be the "Emperor of the United States" in 1859.
mssHM 72320
Visual Materials
Image of an advertisement for The True Mother Goose; several geese are shown flying above a waterfront town.
priJLC_ART_003139
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Rare Books
This book presents photographs of the Misasagi, or burial mounds, of all 124 Japanese emperors since the Kofun period, reaching back some 1,600 years. The scenes captured--not of the tombs themselves, but rather the places for worshiping at the tombs, and the surrounding gardens and landscapes--were created by the emperor system, with its claim of an unbroken line of sovereigns, that served as the foundation of the modern nation state of Japan.
653183
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Manuscripts
Valladolid, Spain. Signed for the King by Maximilian II, Emperor of Germany and Maria of Austria, Empress of Germany; also signed by Joan de Samano.
PL 125