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Description
Three-ring binder containing 50 pen-and-ink and pencil drawings and sketches by Ralph Rambo as well as one page of black and white photographs. First page reads, "First 16 cartoons - original pen & ink drawings for chapter headings reproduced in book 'Looking Backward 1900' Drawn in 1959. Editing towards paperback." Cartoons titled: Earthquake! Knight of the Bath Amusements Alec Montgomery and the Stump Sucker Last of The Village Blacksmiths Quaker Meeting Outdoor Plumbing Sitting-up with Mister Crawford San Jose Tower & Tall Tales The Winchester Mystery House Characters Transportation Schools Old Fashioned Christmas 1900 Horticulture and Manufacturing Chinese Camp Shopping Center 1900 The Dunham Murder Mystery "Pencil practice" sketches: Cy Attica (from "Gone are the Days") Man with pipe (from "The Good Old Days") Man with hammer (from "Gone are the Days") Woman wearing pearls (from "Good Old Days") "Hymns" Character sketches: Old Doc Perky Captain Josiah Roeboat Angelica Grim Willie B. Hung The Widow Bennett Seraphrim Wailer Tobias Bleary Sophronia P. Snootey Rev. Isaiah Perdition Ezra Dubious Elvira P. Rektul Richard Mortis Postcards: Roberto Adobe Winchester Mystery House in 1900 San Jose First State Capitol San Jose City Hall Built 1889 Market Street Print Shop Pencil drawings: Angora Robe & Glove Co. "Old Valley Transportation" "Mission Santa Clara de Asis" Tiburcio Vasquez Parlor "Path of the Padres" "Pioneers Coming" Assorted untitled sketches One page of black & white snapshots of Santa Clara University grounds
Type
image
Identifier
6B1DF25B-7F52-4F57-939B-348873159272 2004-36-6
Subject
Sketches Cartoonists Cartoons (Working drawings) Illustrations Local history (LCSH) Chinese (LCSH) Caricatures Nineteenth century (LCSH) Santa Clara County (Calif.) Mission Santa Clara (LCSH) Santa Clara University (Calif.)
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