Visual Materials

Albert Henry Payne prints collection

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Description: Contains two prints, "The Lace Worker" and "The Chocolate Girl," by Albert Henry Payne.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1830s-1850s.
Call number: priPEF 74
Creator: Payne, A.H (1812-1902)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of January 2025.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Robert Vaughan prints collection

Visual Materials

This collection contains 12 prints of Robert Vaughan from the series "The XII Mounthes of the Yeare in the Habits of Severall Nations." Each print decipts two individualas with a zodiac symbol at the top and a short caption below.

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Henry H. Evans collection of botanical prints and ephemera

Visual Materials

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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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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Calendarium Londinense collection

Visual Materials

Two prints from the Calendarium Londinense or the London Almanack for the years 1970 and 1974. The 1970 version contains a print of Kensington Palace and the 1974 version contains a print of Temple Church.

priPEF 85

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Prints from L'École des Beaux Arts

Visual Materials

Contains two prints, Salvator Rosa and Greuze, from the volume L'École des Beaux Arts : Raphael, Poussin, Rembrandt, Lebrun, Greuze, Mignard, Rubens, Lesuer, Salvator Rosa, Teniers, Berghem, J. Vernet.

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Albert Einstein collection

Manuscripts

This small collection of material contains five letters by Albert Einstein (including a copy of a telegram about the "world crisis" related to the "power of the atom"). These letters are written to Bern Dibner and Volta Torrey, Editor, Popular Science Monthly. In the letter to Torrey, Einstein talks about Newton's theory of planetary motion and gravity. There are also several letters between Dibner, Torrey, and E. Weil concerning Einstein acquisitions. Also included are two pieces of math equations (on the verso of one of them is a short note, in German, about Korea and scientific pursuits - with a transcription and English translation of the note). The collection also includes five photographs of Einstein, one engraving, and a photograph album that contains photographs as well as clippings. There is also one folder that includes 31 copies of letters of Einstein that Bern Dibner collected, including two copies of his letter to President Roosevelt regarding the atomic bomb (August 2, 1939). There's also a copy of Einstein's will (March 18, 1950). Also included are copies of 10 articles by and about Einstein and clippings from dealer catalogs.

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