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Died...The Southern Confederacy

Description: A lithograph printed on heavy paper. Satirical "death certificate" issued for the Southern Confederacy. Mourning border, each line in different typeface, with: Died, Near the South-Side Rail Road, / on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, / The Southern Confederacy, / Aged Four Years, / Conceived in Sin, Born in iniquity, Nurtured by Tyranny, Died of / a Chronic Attack of Punch. / Abraham Lincoln, Attending Physician. / U.S. Grant, Undertaker. / Jeff Davis, Chief Mourner. Below in smaller print an epitaph that ends with: And this one line shall grace your grave-- / Your death gave freedom to the slave.
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Date: c. 1865
Call number: priJLC 003379
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Died, near the south-side railroad, on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, the Southern Confederacy, aged four years

Visual Materials

Image of a handbill with text surrounded by a border with filigree corners designed as a mock death certificate for the Confederate States of America; text includes a poetic epitaph.

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Felix : the twisted tale of the world's most famous cat

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"Handsomely illustrated with over 150 photos and with full-color inserts, Felix is a stylish account of the intrigue behind the creation and marketing of the most popular, well-executed, and lucrative cartoon of the silent era. Based on a combination of "Sammy Johnsin" (a Sambo caricature) and Charlie Chaplin, Felix the Cat was the first cartoon character to exhibit an individual "personality" in moving pictures, preceding Mickey Mouse by a decade. From 1919 to 1933 Felix was internationally celebrated, as popular as Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Felix's producer, Pat Sullivan, a journeyman artist, chronic alcoholic, and convicted rapist, claimed credit for creating and developing Felix. But, as John Canemaker discovered, in truth it was Otto Messmer, Sullivan's brilliant, self-effacing production manager, who conceived, animated, and directed the more than two hundred Felix films during the period of his greatest popularity. And by focusing on Messmer's amazing achievement, Canemaker illuminates the entire world of film animation in the years before Walt Disney."--Publisher description.

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Southern Sierra Power Co

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Southern Sierra Power Co. - Line crew photos - Men overhauling the engine on a line truck in the desert.

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Naksan

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"...Naksan is located on the east coast of the Korean peninsula. The name is taken from a beach overlooking the Sea of Japan (East Sea). This book was conceived during the heavy snow storms of February 2010. The photos are therefore characterized by details of crashing waves on the snow covered seashore. They are also dominated by a blank plane in the lower half of the image. This is where the snow has accumulated on the beach. The snow is then rendered as a singular flat surface devoid of scale or perspective. Accentuating the horizon line that cuts midway through the pictorial plane"--Publisher's description.

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Photograph album of the Pacific Electric Railway, Southern California

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A presentation album with 77 photographs taken along the Pacific Electric Railway lines in Southern California, especially in Los Angeles County and Orange County. The images primarily document street scenes, train stations, and local attractions along the railway lines. Includes the Whittier Line; La Habra Line; Santa Ana-Huntington Beach line; Glendale Line; Pasadena Line; Monrovia Line; Glendora; Covina Line; El Monte; San Gabriel Line; Sierra Madre Line; and many of the Mount Lowe Division. Some of the locations shown are Echo Mountain and Mount Lowe, Rubio Canyon, Covina, and Sierra Madre. Local businesses and attractions that are featured include Echo Park in Los Angeles; the Shorb Ranch in San Marino; Cawston Ostrich Farm in South Pasadena; Casa Verdugo in Glendale; and Busch Gardens in Pasadena. More than a third of the images were taken in and around Mount Lowe, showing the observatory, inclined railway, circular bridge, granite gate, search light, and Ye Alpine Tavern. Two photographs show Mount Lowe with snow and another shows the smoke of a brush fire. There is a view of the moon taken through the Mount Lowe telescope, and a photograph of Dr. Edgar Lucien Larkin, director of the Mount Lowe Observatory, in the observatory room. There are several photographs of orange groves taken from various locations along the railway.

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Borders & initials for Love is enough

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Consists of 16 leaves (including title page) of mounted drawings and proofs, and one folded sheet by William Morris for initials, borders and illustrations for his poem "Love is enough". The title page has an illuminated initial colored in red. The remaining images are pencil or ink on paper. All images are mounted on rectos. Morris was apparently unable to find a complementary typeface for his designs and issued an undecorated book in 1873. In 1898, two years after his death, the Kelmscott Press published an illustrated version utilizing only a portion of the original ornaments. Some pages have ms. inscriptions in pencil, probably by S. C. Cockerell, Morris' secretary.

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