Doolittle family collection of prints and ephemera

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  Doolittle family collection of prints and ephemera

  Visual Materials

  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 geneaological material

  Manuscripts

  Geneaological material related to the Doolittle family including an essay entitled "The Geneaology of the Doolittle family" by Edwin Doolittle, excerpts from the autobiography of Edwin Doolittle from the 1890s, notes, and a family tree.

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  Albert Schiller Printing Ephemera collection

  Rare Books

  The collection contains examples of Schiller's printing including bookmarks, cards, greeting cards, and typographic prints.

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  Prints, drawings, and ephemera

  Manuscripts

  The series contains travel guides, miscellaneous brochures, clippings, advertisements, flyers, and other printed materials. Ephemera includes Lynden E. Behymer's bookplates, business cards, stationery, greeting cards, and miscellaneous materials (tickets, photographs, greeting cards, invitations). Also includes clippings of celebrity signatures. Of note are illustrations and prints for various set designs, theatre costumes, and materials by artists Alfred Frueh and Max Reinhardt. Also included are postcard albums containing cards acquired by Behymer during his travels.

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  Nancy and Henry Rosin collection of valentine, friendship, and devotional ephemera

  Visual Materials

  The Nancy and Henry Rosin collection of valentine, friendship, and devotional ephemera contains materials from Europe and North America dating from 1493 to the late 2010s. The bulk of the collection consists of greeting cards exchanged on Valentine's Day, dating from approximately 1840 to 1930. Early handcrafted valentine cards found within the greeting cards subseries demonstrate folk art methods of pinpricking, paper cutting, paper folding, painting, puzzle making, and illustration. Other cards dating from the Victorian era include comic or "vinegar" valentines, paper lace valentines, cobweb valentines, and cards created by various printing, embossing, and assemblage techniques. Many of the late 19th-century cards are dimensional and mechanical paper constructions, made with a combination of die-cut scraps, honeycomb tissue paper, and levers, strings, or wheels that enable the cards to pop-up or move.Also included in the collection are greeting cards exchanged for other holidays and events, friendship cards dating from the Biedermeier era, friendship albums with locks of hair, language of flowers almanacs and booklets, matrimonial documents, sachets, verse writers, religious devotional items, mourning cards, scrapbook albums, and correspondence relating to love and courtship. The collection also contains artifacts and three-dimensional items such as fans, jewelry boxes, shadow boxes, and additional items, some of which include fragile, glass components.Smaller portions of the collection include educational ephemera, such as rewards of merit and bookmarks, and American Civil War ephemera, such as greeting cards and song sheets.Additional materials include artist and organizational files relating to illustrator Catherine "Kate" Greenaway, printer Louis Prang, and 20th-century greeting card companies Rust Craft and Norcross. The last series of this collection contains research materials compiled by valentine scholar Charles Albert Reed and by Nancy Rosin. The materials consist largely of secondary sources, notes, and newspaper clippings.

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  Scrapbooks -- [Printed ephemera], (1965-1966)

  Manuscripts

  Loose material. Included: Award and greeting cards. Please see Box 108 for pages from the scrapbook.

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