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Letter to "Ben and Sue,"
Manuscripts
In this letter to the otherwise unattributed "Ben and Sue", the author, identified only as "Ed" by signature, writes of mutual acquaintances, and of the failure of his railroading venture. He also criticizes the Vigilance Committee at length, saying it operates "against the interests of the entire country" and that "you probably receive glowing accounts of their movements and most deplorable tales of those of their opponents but you must not believe all that you see in print in regard to the matter." He goes on to say that "a more corrupt, venial, and chameleon like press does not exist in the universe than that of San Francisco."
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Pictorial New York
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Image of a New York State cadastral map published in 1855. The colorful map denotes towns and cities in pink, blue, green, and yellow, with counties outlined in red. The print includes three inset views. One is located beneath the decorative title and is labeled, “View of Niagara Falls from the Canada Side.” There are also two views of New York City, one is located near the lower center of the map and is titled, “Birds-Eye View of New York,” and the third view is towards the bottom center of the page and is titled, “New York from Union Square.” Other insets include the State Seal of New York, and four portraits of Robert Fulton, Philip Schuyler, Peter Stuyvesant and De Witt Clinton. In the lower left and right corners are large inset maps of Buffalo and New York City. Text on the print includes statistical and historical information on rights of married women, the New York population, production of agriculture, religious denominations, government information, and more. The print is framed with a floral decorative border.
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Oliver Doud Byron, across the continent
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Image of an advertisement for Oliver Doud Byron starring in Across the Continent; a man with a mustache wearing tall boots stands at a telegraph machine positioned atop a barrel; he operates the telegraph with one hand and shades his eyes with the other as he keeps a lookout.
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Periodicals - China Pictorial
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Series 1: Business and legal files. The first series consists of business and legal files of William Jack Chow. The files are arranged in alphabetical order by subject. These files concern both Chow's career as a lawyer and a businessman. The folders may contain a combination of business records, case files, correspondence, financial records, legal documents, memoranda, and securities. Chow also frequently traveled to Hong Kong for work. Those files are also found in this series and they span from the 1950s through 1970s. A subject of interest includes the Supreme Court of the United States landmark decision to uphold affirmative action in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. At the end of this series are Chow's books primarily related to business and law. Note: Chow's appointment books and business cards are found in Series 2.
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Pictorials
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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Italia : una visione diversa
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"In this, his third book from Nazraeli Press, Dick Arentz turns his eye toward Italy once again. But it is through a different lens that he now focuses on this country; a country that can both evoke images in the minds of many who have traveled there briefly, and even in those who have never visited, of vineyards, citrus trees, great art, religious monuments, and momentous architecture, and, in large part remains unseen, undocumented, and unknown except by the inhabitants of its many and diverse areas"--From introduction.
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