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Fan : A bill of fare for a wedding dinner

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Description: Engraved fan comprising one large oval and two crescent-shaped compartments, containing circles, ovals, etc., arranged as dishes on a table, each bearing an inscription in riddle form, for example "Melancholy Soup with Crooked Sauce", "Part of the Zodiac Butterd", "Pride Reversed in a Pye", "The Divine Part of a Man Boiled", etc., above a scroll with title inscription, on either side a cupid in a medallion, with doves, flowers, etc. Folding paper fan, mounted on wooden sticks.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: Dec. 9, 1794
Call number: 644640
Provenance: Purchased from Dominic Winter auction, Lot 358, November 12, 2014.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Fragile. Cannot be paged, imaged or reproduced without curatorial review. Use of original may require special handling instructions and extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions: Guard: 25 cm (10 in.)
Associated people: Hixon, Robert, (active 1794-1817,)
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Fan : Oracle

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Folding paper fan, mounted on wooden sticks. Fan etched and hand-colored with a wheel of fortune in center, above which are two winged figures in the clouds; a series of panels in floral frames containing questions and examples as to foretelling the future; on the verso, symbols of the different deities and verses illustrating the various rings of fortune.

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Fan with illustration of four Lewes children [realia]

Visual Materials

A folding fan made of fabric and mounted on wooden sticks. Fan includes hand-painted details illustrating a scene of four children walking hand-in-hand. The fan is layered with black fabric on both recto and verso; the recto's top layer of black fabric was cut out into outlines of the children's profiles, revealing a silk layer of fabric underneath that was then hand-painted with varying colors and details. The first child is shown in profile, holding a reticule in hand while leading the other three children who follow. Provenance from the donor suggests that the children depicted are George Henry Lewes's children with his wife Agnes Jervis; based on the family history, however, the children depicted are likely that of Agnes Jervis's with later-partner Thornton Leigh Hunt, as George Henry Lewes did not have any daughters. The approximate date of the item is based on the birth dates of the children.

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Fan [realia] : Vive la bagatelle

Rare Books

A "conundrum fan," featuring scrolls with riddles in English and French, harp, branches, cup and squirrel on small-scale decorative background; decorative border with swags across top; lettercases with days of week to sides; stipple engraved medallion of owl ("Grave Wisdom") reading book ("Logic"), with other books behind.

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L.A.C.B.A.: President'a Dinner, - in re

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The Ely Collection consists of the papers of United States Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Justice Walter R. Ely, Jr., past President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and prominent Los Angeles attorney. Roughly one-third of the collection consists of over 2000 U.S. Circuit Court case files for the period 1971-1984, including private internal memoranda between Ely and such prominent fellow justices as Anthony Kennedy (now on the Supreme Court) and Shirley Hufstedler. Included are many cases with both local significance and larger regional or national impact, with a random check finding topics such as offshore drilling, censorship ("The Beard"), race relations and education (Los Angeles NAACP vs. California Department of Education), immigration (numerous INS cases), labor relations (Teamsters; NLRB cases), feminism (NOW), and financial fraud (Equity Funding; Bernard Cornfeld), with private comments by the justices not only on the cases but also on Supreme Court behavior, personnel, etc. In addition, there is material on the Committee on Standards of Judicial Administration, the Criminal Justice Act of 1964, and the Bankruptcy Appeals Panel in the early 1980s. Before being appointed to the bench, Walter Ely was a prominent and politically active lawyer in Los Angeles. There is extensive documentation of his involvement with the Los Angeles County Bar Association, of which he was president in 1962, the California Conference of State Bar Delegates, and the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, not to mention his own personal practice. He was also an active Democrat, and there is material on California politics for 1956-1964, especially the election campaigns of Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, Attorney General Stanley Mosk, Richard Richards, and others in 1962.

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Ely, W.R. - Metropolitan Dinner Club

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