UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

This collection contains illustrations from artist Al Székely.

Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Comprising over 250 early modern printed books bearing handwritten annotations, this collection offers rich evidence for studying the material history of reading. The books collected here range in subject matter (from science and natural history to literature and philosophy), time period (1472–1818), and type of annotation (from scholarly commentary and cross-referencing to printers' notations and polemical criticism). The annotators themselves include translator John Florio, literary critic John Dennis, painter William Hogarth, French bibliophile François-Louis Jamet, English ephemera collector Narcissus Luttrell, avian enthusiast Judith Gowing, York printer Thomas Gent, London lawyer Thomas Turner, country vicar Thomas Austen, and many other identified …

Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

This collection contains complete digital scans of over 300 early modern English bound manuscripts from the Clark Library. Dating primarily from the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries, these handwritten texts comprise a vast range of manuscript genres, including commonplace books, miscellanies, recipe collections, historical treatises, literary manuscripts, sermon notebooks, scientific texts, heraldic manuals, musical collections, travel narratives, legal compilations, and account books. Together, these items offer an expansive research archive for historians and literary critics, with particular strengths in social history, the history of food and medicine, musicology, textual studies, and history of the book. Digitization of these items has been made …

Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Eric Gill was born in 1882 in Brighton. He attended art school before the age of 18, when he went to London to work in an architect's office. The Arts & Crafts movement offered an exciting alternative to the "wage slavery" of the office and instead of studying architecture in the evenings, Gill learned the art of carving inscriptions in stone, attending masonry & lettering courses. By 1904 Gill was self-employed, carving lettering on public buildings as well as tombstones & memorial tablets for private clients. Gill dabbled in socialism, attended meetings of the Fabian Society, and spoke vociferously against …

Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

The Federico Gómez de Orozco collection contains manuscripts and maps dating from 1595-1829 regarding the Spanish settlement and colonization of California, New Mexico, and other portions of what was once New Spain. Most documents here were written by Franciscans and other European officials, and this collection includes detailed accounts of mission expansions in Alta and Baja California, as well as voyages made throughout Mexico in support of Spanish colonial rule and Christianization of native peoples. This collection also includes various descriptions of interactions between Spanish officials and missionaries with local Indigenous communities, such as the Pima, Ute (Yuca), Comanche, Moqui, …

Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library