SCRAPBOOK / PHOTO ALBUM of MAI LAN FONG (aka Christine Fong, Kristin Fong), a longtime SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENT. The photos in the album include professionally taken photographs of her during her years as a SHOWGIRL / FAN DANCER at various CHINATOWN VENUES including FORBIDDEN CITY. There are also snapshots of her at various ages of her life, most taken in San Francisco locations, and various ephemera including letters to and from some of her Chinese-American relatives, including her brother Eddie Fong.

Vinyl Cover scrapbook with 10x12 inch album pages covered with thin plastic for inserting photographs and ephemera, 37 pages (19 leaves) are used and there are some unused leaves at the rear. There are 25 photographs including eight 8x10s of Mai Lan as a Showgirl Dancer, some postcards of her trip to Hawaii, and various handwritten letters, cards, etc. Everything is in VERY GOOD condition.

About MAI LAN FONG "A dancer extraordinaire and friend to many" (from her Obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle):

Mai Lan Fong aka Kristin aka Christine, b.1913 d.2009, was a San Francisco resident since the 1930's. MAI LAN worked as a show girl at various locations in Chinatown including Forbidden City. She also was a pianist and piano teacher. Mai volunteered her magic fingers at various sites. Most notably for the past 20 years she served as the pianist for the Song Fest at the San Francisco Senior Center, Downtown. She was a member of the Musician's Union, Local 6 since 1945. Mai Lan is preceded in death by her parents, Oscar and Cuie Fong, her brothers, Arthur and Eddie Fong and her sister Marjorie Fong.

An interesting look at the life of a Chinese-American Woman who lived and worked in San Francisco since the 1930s.

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CHRISTO : WRAPPED FLOORS IM ARCHITEKTURMUSEUM IN BASEL. Text by Ulrike and Werner Jehle-Schulte Strathaus.

BASEL: Architekturmuseum, 1984. First edition, limited to 999 copies, this being copy number 882.

SIGNED by BOTH CHRISTO and JEANNE-CLAUDE on the title page.

Softcover booklet, 6x7.5 inches (14.5x19 cm), 32 unnumbered pages.

NEAR FINE condition, there is a small label of "Laura L. Carpenter" (aka Laura Carpenter Fine Art) on the upper corner of the title page, and an associated small number label at the bottom of the rear cover, a bit of light shelf rubbing, otherwise tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, lovely copy.

SCARCE Christo Monograph, even more so SIGNED by both CHRISTO and JEANNE-CLAUDE.

An interesting side-note about Laura L. Carpenter/Laura Carpenter Fine Art, the previous owner of this book. Laura Carpenter was a fine arts gallery owner in Santa Fe who became very close friends with a wealthy woman. The wealthy woman poured over $1.5 into Laura's gallery. Things didn't go so well with the Gallery or the friendship. Bankruptcy and lawsuits followed. The curious can search Laura Carpenter Fine Art to read the ugly details. Fortunately this book survived unscathed.

1880s AMERICAN ART DEALER ACCOUNTS LEDGER - CHARLES M. KURTZ, noted art museum curator, art dealer, art critic, and writer on art. Handwritten by Kurtz in his beautiful and completely legible calligraphy. At the top of all the accounting pages Kurtz has written: "Picture Business: in account with" and then signed his name: "Charles M. Kurtz".

Manuscript accounts ledger with double entries on lined ledger pages. Note that only the first 27 pages are used, the remaining pages are blank. The entries consist of art purchases and sales for the years 1884-1896.

Full leather ledger, gilt framing on the front and rear boards, gilt titling and designs on the spine, four raised spine bands, marbled page edges, 5.5x9 inches, 273 pages of which only the first 27 pages are used. There are also 10 loose handmade accounting pages laid-in, some of which are on the backsides of printed notices from the "Department of Fine Arts / World's Columbian Exposition / Chicago, August 1, 1891". One is on the backside of a "National Academy Notes / New York / 188_" which ends with "Yours respectfully / Charles M. Kurtz / 23 Gramercy Park, New York." There is also an article laid-in with a photo of artworks and the caption: "Saint Louis Exposition / Office of the Art Department / Charles M. Kurtz, Director / St. Louis, Mo., October 11, 1897".

Double page entries. The left page has the Artists' Names, Artwork Titles, Size of the Artworks, Amount Paid for the Art, Amount Paid for the Frames, Total Cost. The right page has the Dates Sold, the Names of the Purchasers, Prices Received, and Profits or Losses.

Artists in this accounts book include (selected at random): Charles Melville Dewey, Ralph Albert Blakelock, F. Brissot (Felix-Saturin Brissot de Warville), Childe Hassam (including 'Girl (Lady) in Pink' which was purchased for $32.50), Antoni Piotrowski, Léon Germain Pelouse, Nico Steffelaar, Patty Prather Thum, Cornelius Van Leemputten, George B. Wood, and many others. Many of the artists seem to be American.

GOOD condition: The covers have some leather deterioration at the edges and folds, but are otherwise sturdy and doing their job well. The inner pages are very nice and the handwriting of Charles M. Kurtz would get an A+ in a handwriting class, it is lovely, bright and fully legible. The laid in ephemera is generally GOOD condition, with creases, folds, edgewear and general signs of handling and age.

An intimate look at the buying and selling of art in America in the late 1880s by an Art Dealer and Art Museum Curator who helped shape America's taste in Art.

About CHARLES M. KURTZ (from Wikipedia):

******Charles McMeen Kurtz, b.1855 d.1909, was an American art critic, writer, and museum curator.

He graduated from Washington & Jefferson College in 1876. He then studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City, later earning an M.A. from Washington & Jefferson in 1878.

In 1881 he published the first edition of the National Academy Notes. He married Julia Stephenson in 1885, and they had three daughters.

In 1891 he was appointed as one of Halsey Ives's assistants in the Fine Arts Department of the World's Columbian Exposition, where he introduced American art audiences to Glasgow School, the Danish School, Mihály Munkácsy, Joaquim Sorolla. He also worked as the Assistant Director of Fine Arts for the United States for the Paris Exposition of 1900. He was the art director for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904.

His papers are held at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.******

THE ANNALS OF THE BOHEMIAN CLUB VOLUME IX - MUSIC and MUSICIANS in BOHEMIA The First One Hundred Years [A Symphonic Summary], by Richard P. Buck.

Published by the Bohemian Club, San Francisco, 2007. Limited to 3,000 copies, as stated on the Colophon Page (the last page).

COMPLETE SET - Hardcover book, green cloth covered boards with gilt titling on the spine, 7x9.5 inches, xvii, 187 pages + Three CDs and accompanying booklet in a cd case + Slipcase covered in matching green cloth, with gilt design on the front and gilt titling on the spine

NEAR FINE BOOK, very light rubs to the covers, overall looks and feels unused, tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a VERY GOOD SLIPCASE that has some shelf rubs, overall bright and solid; with CDs that look unused, and an accompanying CD booklet that is in GOOD condition, with some creasing. A wonderful, very presentable set.

1871-1895 FIFTEEN OBSTETRIC and GYNECOLOGY MEDICAL PAMPHLETS Bound Together in Hardcovers, by Dr. Vulliet, Maternity Surgeon, Obstetrical and Gynecological Society of Paris

FIFTEEN MOSTLY OBSTETRIC and GYNECOLOGY PAMPHLETS dated 1871-1895, by Dr. F. VULLIET (Professor of Medicine University of Geneva, Maternity Surgeon, Member of the Obstetrical and Gynecological Society of Paris). The 15 pamphlets are gathered and bound in one book, a sammelband.

The person who gathered the pamphlets and created this sammelband typed a two page Index which is pasted onto two blank front endpapers. The medical pamphlets are complete, with both their front and rear covers. All are professionally bound in hardcovers, 3/4 leather with five raised spine bands, gilt titling on the spine, and marbled endpapers. The book measures 6x9 inches. The pamphlets have various paginations and various publishers; they are bound-in chronologically with dates from 1871 to 1895. The TEXT of the pamphlets and the typed index are in FRENCH, except for two which are in German.

VERY GOOD condition, the covers have some light wear to their corner tips and spine ends but are solid and attractive; the bound in pamphlets are all very nice, age toning to some of the pages, overall tight, bright, clean and clear. A solid, very nice book and bound-in group of medical pamphlets.

The INDEX includes the following pamphlet titles and subject headings (accompanied with Google English translations, with the usual Google translation goofs)::

D' un nouveau moyen de contention de la Matrice. (A new Matrix restraint.)

D'un moyen de Contention de la Matrice et de traitement de prolapsus utérin. (A means of Compression of the Matrix and treatment of uterine prolapse.)

Rapport sur la potabilité des eaux du Rhône. La Fièvre Typhoide. (Report on the potability of the waters of the Rhône. Typhoid fever.)

Apropos du Traitement des ulcerations par le raclag ge et l'excision. (About the treatment of ulcerations by scraping and excision.)

Un cas de grossesse dans un Kyste Tubo-ovarique. (A case of pregnancy in a tubo-ovarian cyst.)

Contribution à l'étude du traitement des Fibro-Myomes utérins intrapariéteaux. (Contribution to the study of the treatment of intraparietal uterine fibro-myomas.)

Un cas de cancer primitif du col de l'utérus, traité selon la méthode du Prof. Vulliet. (A case of primary cancer of the cervix, treated according to the method of Prof. Vulliet.)

Des avantages de la Dilatation dans le traitement curatif et palliatif du cancer de l'utérus. (Advantages of dilation in the curative and palliative treatment of uterine cancer.)

De l'extraction par les voies naturelles de Fibro-Myomes Utérins intra ariéteaux, selon la procédé de Vulliet. (Extraction by natural means of intra-arieteau uterine fibro-myomas, according to the Vulliet process.)

Vingt cas d'affections Gynécologiques, traités par le massage. Mihran Boyadjian. (Twenty cases of gynecological affections, treated by massage. Mihran Boyadjian.)

Le Listérism, son passé, son présent, son futur. Par Granville Bantock. Preface de Dr. Vulliet. (Listerism, its past, its present, its future. By Granville Bantock. Preface by Dr. Vulliet.)

Le Massage en Gynécologie. (Massage in Gynecology.)

Ueber einen Fall von Tube Ovarialcysten Schwangerschaft. (On a case of tube ovarian cysts in pregnancy.)

Discussion sur les Supperations Pelviennes. (Discussion on Pelvic Supperations.)

Ueber die Erweiterung von Verengerungen des Collum uteri auf plastischem Wege. (About the expansion of constrictions of the collum uteri in a plastic way.)

De la suture perdue, dans l'operation de la fistule vésico-vaginale. (Of the lost suture, in the operation of the vesico-vaginal fistula.)

De la Dilitation de l'utérus par le procédé des obturations progressives. (Of the Dilation of the Uterus by the Process of Progressive Fillings.)

PLUS MORE

Congressional Black Caucus, 103rd Congress, 1993-1994 : Members, Committee Assignments, Staff Contacts

The Congressional Black Caucus was formed in 1970 when the 13 Black Members of the U.S. House of Representatives joined together to strengthen their efforts to address the legislative concerns of Black and minority citizens. African American Representatives had increased in number from six in 1966 to nine, following the 1969 elections. Those Members believed that a Black Caucus in Congress, speaking with a single voice, would provide political influence and visibility far beyond their numbers.

Published by the Congressional Black Caucus, A Legislative Service Organization, Washington D.C., 1993. First edition, printed in an unnumbered limited edition for Caucus members and their staff. Illustrated softcovers, side staple bound, 8.5" x 6.75", 88 unnumbered pages including covers, each Caucus member has a two page spread that includes their biography and a black & white photographic portrait. VERY GOOD Condition: light shelfwear and a touch of age, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce, just 2 copies in OCLC collections worldwide.

The African American Legislators in this 1993-94 Congressional Black Caucus compendium are the Honorable: Kweisi Mfume, Cardiss Collins, Alcee L. Hastings, William Jefferson, Barbara-Rose Collins, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Carol Moseley-Braun, John Conyers, William Clay, Louis Stokes, Ronald V. Dellums, Charles B. Rangel, Harold E. Ford, Julian C. Dixon, Major R. Owens, Edolphus Towns, Alan Wheat, Floyd Flake, John Lewis, Donald M. Payne, Craig A. Washington, Gary A. Franks, Eleanor Holmes-Norton, Maxine Waters, Lucien E. Blackwell, Eva Clayton, Sanford D. Bishop, Jr., Corrine Brown, James E. Clyburn, Cleo Fields, Earl F. Hilliard, Cynthia A. McKinney, Carrie Meek, Mel Reynolds, Bobby Rush, Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, Walter R. Tucker III, Melvin L. Watt, Albert Russell Wynn, and Bennie Thompson.

ALL THE BRAVE - DRAWINGS OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR by LUIS QUINTANILLA. With text by Elliot Paul and Jay Allen, and a Preface by ERNEST HEMINGWAY.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by LUIS QUINTANILLA to his friend ERNEST HEMINGWAY, accompanied with two INK DRAWINGS by Quintanilla including an "OLD MAN AND THE SEA" drawing drawn right next to "To Ernest". The inscription to Hemingway and the associated drawings are on a prelim page that contains a printed verse by William Wordsworth.

NEW YORK: Modern Age Books, 1939. First Trade Edition with four original lithographs at the rear as called for: "The following four drawings are original lithographs made by the artist exclusively for the deluxe and first trade editions." (A limited deluxe cased edition and the first trade edition were issued simultaneously.)

Softcovers, 8.5x11 inches (21.5x28 cm), 29 pages of text plus sixty-five drawings and four original lithographs.

Condition: The covers are well worn, the spine covering is scraped and chipped, the edges and corners are worn, and the rear cover has many creases; nonetheless the covers are still doing their job. Internally, the pages are age toned as normal, otherwise they are tight, bright, clean and unmarked. The inscription and drawings are bright and clear.

UNIQUE AND RARE with the INSCRIPTION to and PERSONAL DRAWINGS for ERNEST HEMINGWAY.

About LUIS QUINTANILLA and His Friend ERNEST HEMINGWAY (excerpted from various Internet sites including Quintanilla's Spanish Wikipedia page):

******In 1920 Luis Quintanilla met Ernest Hemingway in Paris and they became close friends. During the Spanish Civil War the art of Quintanilla was championed by Hemingway. The artist completed 140 drawings of the various fronts of the war which were exhibited at New York's Museum of Modern Art, with a catalogue by his friend Hemingway. When Quintanilla was imprisoned by the Spanish Fascists, Hemingway, Dos Passos and Eliot Paul fought for his release. In 1960 Quintanilla met with his friend Hemingway to remember their youthful experiences together. They toured the places where they had been happy when they were young. It was during this meeting that Hemingway said he was suffering from cerebral sclerosis. A year later Hemingway committed suicide.******

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER - AN AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, by Rackham Holt.

SIGNED by GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER and SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the Author, RACKHAM HOLT. Both signatures are on the same blank front endpaper. The author's inscription reads: "For Charlie Marshall / with my best wishes / Rackham Holt".

Published by Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, New York, 1943. First Edition, as stated on the copyright page.

Hardcover book, no dustjacket, 6x9 inches, 342 pages.

GOOD condition: the cover is worn at its corner tips, has some rubs, the spine has a bb-size hole, and the spine lettering is rubbed away, nonetheless the covers are solid and doing their job well; internally, the front free endpaper has a 1 inch closed tear, a creased corner, and a long previous owner's inscription (about how inspirational the life of George W. Carver is), otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean and clear. The author's inscription and the signature of George W. Carver are bright and clear.

NOTE: Prior to his death Carver signed some sheets for this book that were later bound in by the Publisher. (Over the years I have seen a few other copies of this book signed by Carver and each signature was clearly unique.) This book was important to Carver. In the book's Epilogue the author writes: "He (Carver) wanted to see this book published, and to read the record, a record of which he himself did not realize the full magnitude. Dr. Carver wanted to hold this book in his hand, but he could not wait for it. He was very tired, and it was high time he went to rest. As twilight fell on the evening of January 5, 1943, he died, and was buried beside his dear friend, Booker T. Washington..."

THE LITHOGRAPHS OF CHAGALL. VOLUME II, 1957-1962. Designed and Compiled by Fernand MOURLOT.

MONTE CARLO: ANDRE SAURET, 1963. English language edition.

Contains 12 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS (including the lithograph dustjacket), 7 of which are in color.

Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, 10x13 inches (25x33 cm), 208 pages. In addition to the 12 original lithographs the book is illustrated with numerous color and b&w reproductions of Chagall's lithographs from the years 1957-1962.

Condition: FINE book, looks and feels barely used, tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a VERY GOOD dustjacket that is sunned at the spine and has some light creasing at the spine ends, overall solid and bright. A lovely copy, one of the nicer copies I have seen.

From the Colophon page (the last page):

"This book, which was designed and compiled by Fernand Mourlot and Andre Sauret, was finished in September 1963. The reproductions were printed on the presses of Draeger Freres, and the Original Lithographs on the Presses of Mourlot Freres."

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LA BRETAGNE A` L'E?PREUVE, by Alain LE GRAND and Alain LE BERRE. Published by Edition Daoulan, Bannalec, France, 1992. ISBN 2950656501.

FRENCH BOOK on the battles in BRITTANY for the liberation of France in WWII. A comprehensive work. Softcovers, 6.5x9.5 inches (17x23.5 cm), 607 pages. A comprehensive work. Interspersed with b&w photographs.

WARMLY INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR Alain Le Berre on the entire half-title page. The inscription is in French (photograph supplied). My limited French translates it as:

"Paris, 11.18.1994 / General EARNEST was one of the liberators of Brittany in August 1944. It is a great honor and greatly satisfying to be able to give his daughter and grand-daughter a copy of "La Bretagne à l'Épreuve", in remembrance also of our meeting in Audierne on 20 September 1994. // A. Le Berre // Equally in honor of the GI's who died for the liberation of Brittany and France."

VERY GOOD condition, the covers have some shelf wear and rubs, internally tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

The inscription makes this book worth holding close to the heart.

WHAT SHALL WE DO WITHOUT US? The VOICE and VISION of KENNETH PATCHEN, with an afterword by JAMES LAUGHLIN.

SIGNED on the title page by MIRIAM PATCHEN and JAMES LAUGHLIN. Additionally SIGNED on the copyright page by CAROLYN ROBERTSON and (JAMES ROBERTSON?? His signature is always very difficult). Their signatures are next to the printed statement "A YOLLA BOLLY PRESS BOOK". Carolyn and James Robertson founded and ran the Yolla Bolly Press, Covelo, Mendocino County, California. James Robertson died in 2001. I believe Carolyn Robertson is still involved with the Press.

A Yolla Bolly Press Book Published by Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1984. First Edition, so stated at the top of the copyright page (published simultaneously in softcover and hardcover). ISBN: 0871568187.

Softcovers, 8.5x12 inches, ILLUSTRATED with 37 COLOR PLATES sandwiched between a few prelim text pages and the 24 page afterword by Laughlin. Each of the color plates is printed on its own leaf (i.e. blank backsides).

VERY GOOD condition, the covers have some light toning to the spine and margins, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. An attractive, very presentable copy.

SCARCE with the SIGNATURES of Miriam PATCHEN (b.1914 d.2000), James LAUGHLIN (b.1914 d.1997), Carolyn ROBERTSON, and James ROBERTSON (d.2001).

MEXICO FROM THE INSIDE OUT, by ENRIQUE OLVERA.

Published by Phaidon Press, New York and London, 2015. First Edition. ISBN: 9780714869568.

FINE, basically as new condition, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked, with its original wraparound band.

Hardcover Book with Wraparound Band, 8.5x11.5 inches, 280 pages. Illustrated throughout.

From the Publisher:

******Enrique Olvera is the most famous and celebrated Mexican chef working today. Olvera's restaurant Pujol was ranked #1 in Mexico and #20 in the world at the World's 50 Best Restaurant Awards. This is his first book and the first ever high-end chef cookbook in English on Mexican cuisine. It captures and presents a new contemporary Mexican style of food, rooted in tradition but forward thinking in its modern approach. Olvera has pioneered and defined this new way of cooking and belongs to a global group of gourmet influencers that includes Noma's René Redzepi, Dom's Alex Attala, Osteria Francescana's Massimo Bottura and elBulli's legendary Ferran Adrià.

Features: -Over 65 recipes, each with an elegant photograph, from the sophisticated dishes served at Pujol to more accessible casual dishes that he enjoys with his family at home. -More than 100 atmospheric photographs capture the vivid mosaic of the Mexican landscape while tipped-in pages bring the reader up close to Enrique's vision and philosophy about food.******

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POLITICAL & ETHICAL FRAGMENTS of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus and other Ancient Pythagoreans, Preserved by Stobaeusl and also Ethical Fragments of Hierocles, the Celebrated Commentator on the Golden Pythagoric Verses...Translated From The Greek By THOMAS TAYLOR.

CHISWICK: Printed by C. Whittingham, College House, 1822. First Edition.

Hardcovers, paper covered boards, paper title label on the spine, 5.5x9 inches (14x23 cm), xvi+115 pages, plus a 3 page list of other works by Thomas Taylor at the rear.

GOOD condition, the spine covering is cracked and worn along its front and rear fold but holding well, the paper spine label is toned, rubbed and chipped, the front and rear boards are worn along the edges but are doing their job well; internally, there is a label from the Essex Institute on the front pastedown which has been stamped "Released / E. I. 1962", there is an ownership signature dated 1852 at the top of the front free endpaper, a few pages have some dark margin foxing not affecting text; overall the inner pages are surprisingly bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A nice, presentable copy.

RARE FIRST EDITION of this IMPORTANT TRANSLATION of the PYTHAGOREANS.

About THOMAS TAYLOR Translator & Neoplatonist (from Wikipedia):

******Thomas Taylor, b.1758 d.1835, was an English translator and Neoplatonist, the first to translate into English the complete works of Aristotle and of Plato, as well as the Orphic fragments.

Taylor was educated at St. Paul's School, and devoted himself to the study of the classics and of mathematics. He was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Society for the Encouragement of Art (precursor to the Royal Society of Arts), in which capacity he made many influential friends, who furnished the means for publishing his various translations, which besides Plato and Aristotle, include Proclus, Porphyry, Apuleius, Ocellus Lucanus and other Neoplatonists and Pythagoreans. His aim was the translation of all the untranslated writings of the ancient Greek philosophers. So enamored was he of the ancients, that he and his wife talked to one another only in classical Greek.

Taylor's translations were influential on William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth, among others. In American editions they were read by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott, and G. R. S. Mead, secretary to Helena Blavatsky of the Theosophical Society.******

ART OF CHOCOLATE / KUNST MIT SCHOKOLADE. Hardcover, illustrated catalog / book of the exhibition that took place at the Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany, in 2012. Published by the Museum, 2012. First Edition.

Hardcovers, chocolate paper covered boards, gold embossed titling on the front and rear cover and spine, 9.5x9.5 inches (24x24 cm), 144 pages. Illustrated with color reproductions of artwork from the exhibition.

VERY GOOD condition, just lightly used, tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

From the Museum Ritter:

******With this exhibition Museum Ritter is making a small departure from its normal exhibition programme and showing art relating to the subject of chocolate. The reason for this digression is the 100th anniversary of the Ritter company in 2012.

Apart from numerous works made of chocolate, the exhibition also contains a large number of works from a variety of disciplines which revolve around chocolate in the broadest sense. Thus the show with its almost 60 objects, paintings, prints, installations, photographs and videos by almost 40 artists from the 20th and 21st centuries gives insight into art made of chocolate and art done with chocolate as its motif. Historical approaches by artists such as Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys and Dieter Roth are every bit as present as "material pictures" or collages from the 1960s and 1970s, along with outstanding examples of cutting edge art done in chocolate. In short, this art has at least as many facets as there are varieties of chocolate

Artists in the Exhibition: Sonja Alhäuser, Peter Anton, Günter Beier, Joseph Beuys, Corrado Bonomi, Stephen Craig, Paul McCarthy, Marcel Duchamp, Maria Dundakova, Ulrike Flaig, Yang Ah Ham, Richard Hamilton, Al Hansen, Thomas Heger, Dagmar Hugk, Klaus Illi & Bettina Bürkle, Ruth Knecht, Karin Kneffel, Lernert & Sander, Anja Luithle, Guido Münch, David Neat, Mel Ramos, Thomas Rentmeister, Hans Peter Reuter, Dieter Roth, Judith Samen, Karin Sander, Roswitha Schaab, Rolf Schneider, Roswitha Schober, Kurt Schwitters, Timm Ulrichs, Cornelius Völker, Wolf Vostell.******

I grew up on Ritter Kinder Schokolade. Yum.

Album Filled with Candid Snapshots of Movie Stars and Directors On Set. Ann Baxter, Brad Dexter, Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Jeanne Tierney, Robert Stack, Tyrone Power, Bob Adler, Bob Arthur, Robert Mitchum, Clark Gable, Dana Andrews, Caesar Romero, Dean Stockwell, Anne Revere, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Etc. 1940's - 1950's.

88 PHOTOGRAPHS, many with some information handwritten on the bottom edge or sometimes on the photo itself, most measure 3x4 to 3.5x 5 inches, a few smaller. The photos are glued onto the black photo album pages.There are also two loose 8x10 photos.

Condition: The photographs in the album are bright and clear, except for a couple that are age toned. Both of the loose 8x10 photos have creases, one has a stiff crease where it was folded in half and has a coffee stain to its top edge. All the photos have been glued onto the black album pages.

Rare and Unique collection of candid snapshots of Hollywood Stars of the 40s and 50s on set.

THE NEGRO PRESS OF KANSAS by Rashey B. Moten, Jr. Includes "Chronological List of Negro Newspapers In Kansas from 1876 to 1938."

Unpublished Master's Thesis, University of Kansas, written in 1936, approved 1938. Softcover, 8.5" x 11", velo bound document, 130 photocopied pages printed on one side only. NEAR FINE Condition: the vintage photocopied pages have the usual copy machine marks, smudges, and variations in brightness, as well as light signs of age and use, overall tight, bright, clean, and unmarked. Uncommon.

One of the earliest and most thorough studies about Black newspapers. In this study of African American newspapers in Kansas, Mr. Moten identified many factors that affected the development of the newspapers, including politics, the lack of coverage for Black issues and concerns by white newspapers, and the Exodusters Migration (Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late 19th century as part of the Exoduster Movement. It was the first general migration of Black people following the Civil War). He found that the press created political alliances and expanded spheres of influence for Black leaders.

Rashey Burial Moten, Jr. (1913-2000) the first African American to lead a Catholic Charities organization, more specifically as the Executive Director at Catholic Charities Kansas City-Saint Joseph from 1970 to 1981. President Carter placed Mr. Moten on the Advisory Committee of the White House Conference on Families. Mr. Moten also helped launch Head Start in 1965, under the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson.