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Shanghai of to-day : a souvenir album of fifty Vandyke gravure prints of "the model settlement"
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History of industrial gravure printing up to 1920
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"Though there are many histories of printing, in all languages, they deal principally with the printed product. The history of the development of modern printing techniques tends to have been neglected by the historians of technology. Very rare are publications on historical investigations into the technical development of printing processes, printing presses or printing surfaces. In this revised and expanded English version of his book, originally published in German, the author, who is Technical Development Manager to the London Daily Telegraph, provides a fascinating account of the early development of one of the three major printing processes, gravure or intaglio -- industrial gravure, that is to say, as distinct from artists' printmaking"--From dust jacket.
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California Missions Souvenir Album
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This souvenir album contains photographs and a few illustrations of California Missions, as well as smaller Catholic churches throughout California. The photographs are typical commercial views, with printed captions, taken by unknown photographer(s). The album was published by Pacific Novelty Co., and may have been created in the 1900s. The cover of the album has a small photograph of a mission bell and an embossed title: "Twenty-four Beautiful Views of the California Missions." It also has paper covers, tied with a cord binding. The back cover is embossed "Published by Pacific Novelty Company, San Francisco" and "Made in Germany." All of the images are photographs, except for the following, which are reproductions of illustrations or paintings: Santa Clara Mission; San Francisco de Asís Mission, Mission Santa Cruz and Mission San Rafael Arcángel (asistencia). Asistencias and Catholic churches included are: San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Church of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels (Plaza Church), and the Royal Presidio Chapel.
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d. Chinese album: "Shanghai Philharmonic; Village Children Dance."
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Subjects of the entire collection include: Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, American dance and dancers, dance instruction and notes, exercises and warm-up routines, various dance types (international as well as American), famous dancers from around the globe, Denishawn dancers, the Ruth St. Denis Center, the Ruth St. Denis Foundation, the Ruth St. Denis Theatre Intime, Jacob's Pillow dance festival, American Dance Film Association, Society of Spiritual Arts Church, the various teachers and pupils at St. Denis' dance studio and school, the Orient trip the Denishawn dancers took in 1926, as well as dance productions and events St. Denis put on throughout her career. There is also much material about St. Denis' effort to have her studio and school become a non-profit entity and her desire to create an artist colony in Hemet, California. More specifically, several dancers show up in the notebooks and photographs, including: Harold Kreutzberg, Peter di Falco, La Meri, Karoun Tootikian, Miriam Schiller, Jean Léon, Gladys Bowen, Antonio Gades, Devi Dja, Doris Humphrey, Mary Wigman, and Martha Graham.
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Album of photographs recording a motorcar journey from Nebraska to central California in 1913
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Fascinating photographic record of an early road trip from Nebraska through Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and into California. A typed slip affixed to the front pastedown reads "'A fine trip with many hard knocks,' From Wausa, Nebr. to Turlock, Cal." There were four vehicles in the caravan, traversing unpaved tracks through the largely undeveloped Southwest, an uncommon feat at the time. The photographs include views of Starvation Peak, N.M.; a New Mexican Village; Springerville, Arizona with the Reagan Hotel; camp near Ft. Apache, Arizona; am automobile "hospital" at Dome City, Arizona; the Roosevelt Dam; a camp near San Diego, Cal.; etc.
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Gravure et Fonderie de C. Derriey : spécimen-album
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Specimen book of the Derriey Foundry, produced for the Great London Exhibition of 1862, and described by Bigmore and Wyman in their Bibliography of printing (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1880-1886) as "one of the most beautiful works ever issued." The album is arranged in eight sections: vignettes, decorative type, pen flourishes, cartouches, ornaments, rules, music, and commercial papers; each section has a decorative title page printed in colors and gold. More than 30 leaves are printed in multiple colors.
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