Rare Books
The Rural annual and horticultural directory for the year 1856-
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Bryner
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Contains six blueprints featuring planting and garden plans by Yoch and Council. One drawing, a revised planting plan for Mrs. Bryner, was featured in the exhibition "Personal Edens."
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California Institute of Technology, Casa Abrego Club, Doud
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Contains six drawings, including California Institute of Technology: landscape plan for grounds (photocopy, nearly illegible); Casa Abrego Club/Monterey Foundation, Abrego Adobe: garden plan (original pencil drawing); and Doud residence: three original pencil drawings of arbor, planting plan, and suggested garden design, and one copy of the latter drawing.
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Hotchkis residence, San Marino, Calif
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Contains two gelatin silver prints by William M. Clarke depicting the house and landscape, plus a photocopy of a 22-page typed set of garden instructions, "Garden Maintenance Directions for Mrs. Preston Hotchkis," by Yoch and Council.
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Gladwin, Hoffman, Honeyman
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Contains nine drawings, including one print of garden steps (Gladwin); four photocopies of garden plans and rendering of house (Hoffman), and three original pencil drawings of pool design, planting plan, and pebble pattern (Honeyman, Rancho Los Cerritos); also includes copy of the latter drawing.
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Notebooks on Plants and Planting
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Four notebooks containing articles and clippings, handwritten and typed notes, plant lists, and other information on plants and planting; titles are from spines or were devised by cataloger. Some of the material from the notebooks was found missing. Notebooks include: Bulbs - Cosper and Lime (approximately 1936), a 3-ring binder referencing Cosper, a horticultural consultant and soil analyst who co-wrote a book, Gardens for Victory, about victory gardens with Jean-Marie Putnam in 1942. Planting instructions and notes on Lloyd Cosper (approximately 1962, title devised), a 3-ring binder containing directions concerning various plant varieties, pest and other treatment instructions, and troubleshooting; includes "Directions for Red Aggregate Paving for Mrs. Hancock Banning Cottage at Laguna." Check List of local flora, Los Angeles (undated), an 18-page typed list of plants in alphabetical order by plant name; names are in Latin. Miscellaneous (approximately 1936; title on spine: "Misc."), a 3-ring binder containing articles on floral decoration and on various geographic areas, including Florida and the Colorado Rockies in the United States, Mexico, and New Zealand.
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Jay T. Last Collection of Horticulture Prints and Ephemera
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Horticulture Prints and Ephemera contains approximately 1,425 printed items from 1840 to 1933, with the majority of material dating from 1865 to 1920. The collection consists of advertising prints and ephemera promoting businesses whose products and services relate to growing flowers, fruits, and vegetables. This includes the tools, equipment, and supplies used for planting and cultivating gardens, orchards, and lawns for commercial and noncommercial purposes by nurseries, florists, fruit growers, and home gardeners. Seed companies are most prominently represented. Materials are arranged in two series: small-size items (11 x 14 inches or less) and large-size items (bigger than 11 x 14 inches). Small-size items are described broadly at the series level; large-size items and selected small-size items between 8 x 10 inches and 11 x 14 inches are fully inventoried, and all printers, artists, and publishers are indexed by name. The collection has more than 50 large-size items comprised mainly of lithographs and engravings, including seed advertisements, decorative floral prints, and promotional materials related to fruit, vegetable, and floral products. Small-size items in the collection number almost 1,400 items and are comprised mainly of trade cards, stationery, handbills, and seed packets from various businesses. Approximately 285 ephemeral items featuring images of anthropomorphic fruit, vegetables, flowers, and other plants are also contained here, even though the products they promote do not always relate to horticulture. The collection's prints and ephemera are primarily promotional in nature and provide information about American fruit, vegetable, seed, and flower-related industries, as well as the evolution of advertising strategies employed by these businesses in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Materials in this collection also provide a perspective on American aesthetic sensibilities during this period, as many of these prints were offered as decorative items as well as advertisements. As graphic materials, the items offer evidence of printmaking techniques and trends, as well as information about the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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