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William P. Wreden, rare books, manuscripts, San Francisco : the 19th ILAB Congress

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Description: "Amor librorum nos unit"--alt title above the image; Latin text which translates as Love of books unites us. Poster commissioned and published by William P. Wreden for 19th Congress of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers in San Francisco and Los Angeles, 15-20 September, 1967. Text of poster in English with the letters morphing with the images. "Jim Blashfield ©1967"--artist's signature, lower margin, right corner. Clipped to the poster is a notice explaining the poster; notice is on the letterhead of William P. Wreden Rare Books, Manuscripts; clipped with a lottery ticket from 1967. Printer information from the attached notice.
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Date: c1967
Call number: priJHK 00124
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William P. Wreden, rare books, manuscripts, San Francisco : the 19th ILAB Congress

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Artists: Blashfield, Jim Printers: [Neal, Stratford and Kerr] Publishers: William P. Wreden

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Manuscript & Rare Book Dealers: William P. Wreden Books & Manuscripts: correspondence & invoices, 6 pieces, (1976-1989)

Manuscripts

The collection consists of manuscripts (by and about Lawrence), correspondence (including over 150 letters by Lawrence), photographs, drawings, reproductions and ephemera. Also included in the collection is research material of various Lawrence collectors and scholars. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Tom W. Beaumont, Brian Carter, Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Doubleday and Company, Inc.,Theodora Duncan, David Garnett, Robert Graves, H. Montgomery Hyde, Augustus John, Jonathan Cape (Firm), Phillip Knightley, Pat T. Knowles, A.W. Lawrence, Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, John Mack, Edwards H. Metcalf, Jeffrey Meyers, Robert Payne, Raymond Savage, Bernard Shaw, Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend Shaw, Clare Sydney Smith, Sir Ronald Storrs, Lowell Thomas, and Jeremy Wilson.

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Coleman's California Line for San Francisco : clipper of Saturday, December 25th, the first class clipper ship Derby, Samuel Hutchinson, Jr., Commander, in now rapidly loading at Pier 15 East River

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"From original poster in the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts. Copyright 1971 by the Peabody Museum of Salem"--text in lower left corner, very small type. "Reproduced by the Meriden Gravure Company"--text in lower right corner, very small type. Focus of item: Derby.

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Frisco line, St. Louis & San Francisco Ry

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Image of a poster with a wood-engraved map of the railroad route of the Frisco Line of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway, between St. Louis, Missouri, and Halstead, Kansas, centered, with promotional text about the line.

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California: San Francisco P-R, by company

Visual Materials

The Jonathan D. Bulkley collection of illustrated billheads and letterheads contains about 36,000 billheads, letterheads, flyers, and other ephemera relating to commerce and industry in the United States from 1758 to 1952, with the bulk of the items dating from 1840 to 1910. While most of the items document products or services manufactured by American companies, countries such as Cuba, France, Great Britain, Germany, and Mexico are represented as well. Imagery and text on the materials pertain to the history of production, finance, consumerism, and advertising. Many of the items include graphic logos, decorative images of views of storefronts and factories, and detailed representations of the various products manufactured for sale. Typography on the materials also include visual motifs of varying text styles and printing techniques. The collection contains items that are both engraved, as well as lithographed. Some of the recurrent printers and lithographers of items in the collection include: Baldwin & Gleason Co.; Geo. D. Barnard & Co.; Britton & Rey; J.H. Bufford's Sons; Calvert Lithography Co.; Clay & Richmond; Cosack & Company; H.S. Crocker & Co.; George F. Frauenberger; Fuchs & Lang Manufacturing Co.; A. Gast & Co.; Gies & Co.; Gillies Lithographing and Printing Co.; Heinecke-Fiegel Lithographing Co.; Henderson Lithographing Co.; A. Hoen & Co.; Krebs Lithographing Co.; Charles Magnus & Co.; Mayer & Merkel; W.J. Morgan & Co.; J. Ottmann Lithographing Co.; Henry Seibert & Brothers; Sage, Sons & Co.; and Sarony, Major & Knapp.

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Rare books, autographs, manuscripts from Henry E. Huntington and William K. Bixby

Manuscripts

The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay (Henry E. Huntington's sister Caroline married Edmund Burke Holladay), and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. There is a series about Henry E. Huntington and his family that includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and physical objects. There is material related to the Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and the Pacific Electric Railway Company as well as other businesses in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley, California. This material includes business records, account books, annual reports, correspondence, maps, tracts, balance sheets, and others. There is also material related to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens including auction catalogs, invoices, receipts, and bills for art and rare books, and information regarding a lawsuit about Huntington's estate tax after his death, and the passing of Proposition 15, in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. There is also material related to Collis P. Huntington and his business interests and Arabella Huntington. The largest series contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning approximately 1790 to 1950. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.

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