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Gene Bauer collection of botanical prints and ephemera

Description: A collection of 28 booklets and envelopes created from July 1972 to May 1974 by artist and horticulturist Gene Bauer. The booklets were produced monthly to highlight native California plants and were mailed to members from the California Garden Club, Inc.'s 26 districts. Bauer selected plants by visiting public gardens throughout California and emphasized a plant for each region represented by members of the Club. The booklets in this collection were all addressed to Elaine Conze (1912-2008), member of California Garden Club, Inc., and former president of the Gardeneers Garden Club in Palos Verdes, California. The booklets feature Bauer's screenprints with varying designs and angles of plants on the covers, interior pages, and accompanying envelopes. Bauer originally drew colored pencil sketches of the plants, then hand-screened them. The cover pages of Bauer's booklets are signed and include a screen print on cardstock, with illustrations inside the interior images screen printed on colorful tissue paper. She mailed the envelopes through the United States Postal Office and adorned them with screen print images and pictorial stamps. Some plants, trees, shrubs, and flowers depicted range from unique species of lilies, buckwheat, and maple trees, to poppies, palm trees, fir trees, and other plants all native to California. The versos of the booklets include the edition numbers of printed booklets made, with Elaine Conze often receiving the 18th or 19th edition of the total series. Textually, the booklets include poetry, essays, and messages from Bauer, a state map identifying locations of plant growth, and historical information about the plant species and habitats.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1972 July-1974 May.
Call number: priBauer
Creator: Bauer, Gene (1926-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Linda Adler-Braden in memory of Frederick and Delores Braden, January 2025.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
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Gene Bauer collection of botanical prints and ephemera

Visual Materials

A collection of 28 booklets and envelopes created from July 1972 to May 1974 by artist and horticulturist Gene Bauer. The booklets were produced monthly to highlight native California plants and were mailed to members from the California Garden Club, Inc.'s 26 districts. Bauer selected plants by visiting public gardens throughout California and emphasized a plant for each region represented by members of the Club. The booklets in this collection were all addressed to Elaine Conze (1912-2008), member of California Garden Club, Inc., and former president of the Gardeneers Garden Club in Palos Verdes, California. The booklets feature Bauer's screenprints with varying designs and angles of plants on the covers, interior pages, and accompanying envelopes. Bauer originally drew colored pencil sketches of the plants, then hand-screened them. The cover pages of Bauer's booklets are signed and include a screen print on cardstock, with illustrations inside the interior images screen printed on colorful tissue paper. She mailed the envelopes through the United States Postal Office and adorned them with screen print images and pictorial stamps. Some plants, trees, shrubs, and flowers depicted range from unique species of lilies, buckwheat, and maple trees, to poppies, palm trees, fir trees, and other plants all native to California. The versos of the booklets include the edition numbers of printed booklets made, with Elaine Conze often receiving the 18th or 19th edition of the total series. Textually, the booklets include poetry, essays, and messages from Bauer, a state map identifying locations of plant growth, and historical information about the plant species and habitats.

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Henry H. Evans collection of botanical prints and ephemera

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A collection of botanical prints and ephemera created by artist Henry H. Evans, dating from approximately the 1970s to the 1990s. Materials include linocut prints, calendars, catalogs, price lists, order forms, postcards, correspondence, and other ephemera. The collection contains approximately 150 prints, and all are signed, titled, dated, and editioned in pencil by the creator. A complete unbound print of Henry Evans' California Native Wildflowers (1976 to 1984) is included. Also included is a signed copy of Botanical prints: with excerpts from the artist's notebooks (1977).Botanical subjects depicted in the prints often include: poppies, roses, daffodils, daisies, violets, tulips, pomegranates, irises, bamboo, persimmons, camellias, lilies, and other flowers.

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Foundry-Bauer

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The collection contains material from independent private presses and university presses from around the world, but the majority of the presses represented in the collection are from the United States. Types of materials include annoucements, correspondence, flyers, booklets, and catalogs. The collection also includes material from printing clubs including Grolier, William Morris Society, Moxon Chappel, Rounce and Coffin, Typophiles, and Zamorano.There are also catalogs and material relating to various type foundry companies such as Ludlow, Linotype, Bauer, and American Type Founders (ATF) as well as paper samples from Japan Paper Company, Linweave, and Worthy Paper Company.

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Doolittle family collection of prints and ephemera

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Collection contains greeting cards by artist Harold L. Doolittle and wife, Vestina Doolittle, pen and ink drawings by Harold's father, Samuel H. Doolittle, and poetry by Harold and Vestina's daughter, Ruth Doolittle. Majority of the collection are Christmas greeting cards addressed to Harold's sister, Florence L. Doolittle (1885-1971), and her husband, Edwin E. Tarbox (1869-1928) in South Pasadena, California. The greeting cards are organized by date, ranging from approximately 1914 to 1965. Many of the holiday cards are signed by Harold, and include imagery of trees, lakes, forests, landscapes, and scenery from national parks. Some cards also include their original envelopes with notes from Vestina and Harold.Collection also contains documents relating to the Doolittle family history, including an invitation for Samuel H. Doolittle and Esther K. Metzler's wedding in 1878, correspondence between Ruth and her aunt Florence and uncle Edwin, and a family tree tracing relatives from 1812 to 1922.

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Doolittle family collection of prints and ephemera

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Collection contains greeting cards by artist Harold L. Doolittle and wife, Vestina Doolittle, pen and ink drawings by Harold's father, Samuel H. Doolittle, and poetry by Harold and Vestina's daughter, Ruth Doolittle. Majority of the collection are Christmas greeting cards addressed to Harold's sister, Florence L. Doolittle (1885-1971), and her husband, Edwin E. Tarbox (1869-1928) in South Pasadena, California. The greeting cards are organized by date, ranging from approximately 1914 to 1965. Many of the holiday cards are signed by Harold, and include imagery of trees, lakes, forests, landscapes, and scenery from national parks. Some cards also include their original envelopes with notes from Vestina and Harold. Collection also contains documents relating to the Doolittle family history, including an invitation for Samuel H. Doolittle and Esther K. Metzler's wedding in 1878, correspondence between Ruth and her aunt Florence and uncle Edwin, and a family tree tracing relatives from 1812 to 1922.

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