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EDITOR Gary F. Kurutz 2 �� Footprints: The Legacy of Harold J. Adler in Photographs� EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Kathleen Correia & Marta Knight By M. Patricia Morris

COPY EDITOR 8 �� Lawrence Clark Powell and Books West Southwest. � M. Patricia Morris Dr. Powell’s Reflections on Books and Book � BOARD OF DIRECTORS Collecting in His Lively Forewords to the Sale � Kenneth B. Noack, Jr. Catalogs from His Personal Library � President Introduction and Afterword By Gary E. Strong George Basye Vice-President 14 �� Progress or Pilfer: Two Views of the Los Angeles � Thomas E. Vinson Aqueduct in the California History Room � Treasurer By Marta Knight Donald J. Hagerty Secretary 24 �� From Lyon to Leipzig: Have Guide Dog Will Travel� By Michael Marlin Greg Lucas State Librarian of California 27 �� Foundation Notes Two New Board Members Elected: Gary Noy & Angelo A. Williams � JoAnn Levy Sue T. Noack Marilyn Snider Phillip L. Isenberg By Gary F. Kurutz Thomas W. Stallard Mead B. Kibbey Phyllis Smith Sandra Swafford Spotlight on New Acquisitions� Gary Noy Angelo A. Williams By Gary F. Kurutz Jeff Volberg Joe D’Ambrosio: The Book as an Art Form and the Inspiration for � Gary F. Kurutz Marta Knight the Floor Design in the Rotunda of the Library Annex Building� Executive Director Foundation By Gary F. Kurutz Administrator Shelley Ford A Night at the State Library: The 14th Annual � Bookkeeper Juneteenth Celebration of Freedom� By Deborah Lynch The California State Library Foundation Bulletin is published when we are able. © 2004-2015. 32 �� Recent Contributors Opinions of the authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of their institutions, the California State Library or the Foundation. Front Cover: Harold Adler as a young man. The Bulletin is included as a membership benefit Back Cover. This full-color chromolithograph served as the eye-catching cover for the to Foundation members and those individuals Sunset Seed & Plant Catalog. To read more about it, see “New Acquisitions Spotlighted” contributing $40.00 or more annually to Foundation Programs. Membership rates are: on page 29. Illustrations / Photos: pp. 2-6 courtesy of Harold Adler; pp. 9-13 courtesy of Gary E. Associate: $40-$99 Contributor: $100-249 Strong; pp. 14-23 California History Special Collections, California State Library; Sponsor: $250-$499 pp. 24-26 courtesy of Mike Marlin and Debra Scott; pp. 27-30 California History Section; Patron: $500-$999 p. 31 Public Information Office, California State Library. Institutional: $500 Corporate: $750 Design: Angela Tannehill, Tannehill Design Lifetime Member: $1,000 California State Library Foundation Pioneer: $5,000 1225 8th Street, Suite 345, Sacramento, CA 95814 Subscription to Libraries: $30/year tel: 916.447.6331 | web: www.cslfdn.org | email: [email protected]

bulletin 113 1 The Legacy of Harold Adler � Footprints in Photographs By M. Patricia Morris

Harold Adler is seen here as a young man in the mid-1960s. He doesn’t look so very different today.

In the summer of 1970, the most renowned of all Beat poets, Allen Ginsberg is seen here, the central figure among four musicians who are performing in San Francisco’s Union Square to help free actors imprisoned in Brazil.

During the People’s Park riots stones were thrown intentionally through some windows like the Bank of America and car dealerships. Adler believes the rock that went through this flower shop window was a mistake. The owner’s poetic message reflects the desires of park advocates to create a place of beauty.

EDITOR’S NOTE M. Patricia Morris is the Foundation’s outstanding copy editor, frequent contributor to the Bulletin, and expert on California history.

2 California State Library Foundation The Legacy of Harold Adler � ome books we read influence us in a personal way and impart By M. Patricia Morris in Photographs ideas that stay with us. For Har- old Adler, a book by actor Peter Coyote called Sleeping Where I Fall has had that effect. It is a memoir of Coyote’s counterculture journey during the ‘60s. In it, Mr. Adler said, “he talks about footprints, the footprints we leave behind.” During a varied career, Harold Adler has been a radio producer, theatrical agency owner, and is currently director of Art House Gallery and Cultural Center in Berkeley. But it is in his work as a photographer that Adler’s own footprints are most notable: photographs of the pro- Harold Adler photographed the devastation from the October 1991 East Bay firestorm test movements in Oakland, Berkeley, and as seen in the charred hulk of this Cadillac. It was a poignant experience for the San Francisco in the ‘60s and ‘70s; the photographer who loved the Oakland Hills and had hiked in the area in his youth. aftermath of the Oakland firestorm in 1991; and most recently a humanitarian project in Nicaragua. As a means of preserving the culture and history he has recorded on film, he intends to will his photograph collection to the California State Library. Adler’s association with the Califor- nia State Library goes back many years. The plan to bequeath his collection to the Library was actually formalized in 1994. Gary Kurutz, director of the State Library’s California History Special Collections at the time, said about the acquisition, “The photographs taken and archived by Harold Adler concerning this volatile era form one of the proudest collections in the Califor- A crowd gathers in August 1970 for the funeral nia History Section of the California State of two young Black Panther members killed in a Library. Because of their critical historical shootout the week before. While the Black Panther Party advocated the use of violence to achieve its goals, content, these brilliant images deserve to be it earned sympathy in the Bay Area African American seen by as wide an audience as possible.” community for the social services it provided. While the collection is physically at the Library now, it will not be available for view- staff rooms surrounded by his photo- room when she was a young girl. When ing until it is officially acquired according to graphs and other memorabilia. they were on family vacations and he asked stipulations of the bequest. However some Early in the conversation, I asked Adler to take pictures, his father showed him of the photographs have been released, and how he got his start in photography. how to use a camera and a light meter. His may be seen by Library users upon request. When he was a young boy, he recalled, uncle Harry gave him a Bower X camera, On April 1, 2015, I interviewed Harold he collected stamps and rocks, but these and his mother showed him how to use Adler to learn more about the generous pastimes faded. What he really liked to a darkroom. When he was about ten, he gift that will eventually become part of the do was take pictures. His father, he said, won a prize for a photo he took of a water- Library’s collection. We spent more than was a good amateur photographer, and fall behind a bridge. By the time he was an hour in the California History Section his mother had learned how to use a dark- eleven or twelve, he was processing prints

bulletin 113 3 in the basement bathroom of his home with the enlarger on top of the toilet bowl and the chemicals in trays on the floor. Then, in the ‘60s, he hung out with other photographers who taught him techniques for processing images and improving the quality of prints. “I never went to school for photography at all. I just learned by basically doing it, by taking a lot of film, taking some good shots and blowing a few. But to this day, I am still learning,” Adler said. As a young man attending Oakland City College, he was positioned in a time and a location that would see more than a decade of protests against Amer- ican involvement in a war in Asia and social injustices of many kinds. I asked

Many groups participated in the April 1971 peace march in San Francisco, including him how he got started taking photo- Vietnam veterans, as is evidenced in this photograph. The banner next to them reads graphs of protest movements. He said “The GI’s Are Still Dying to Come Home - Vets say: U. S. Out of S. E. Asia Now.” that, although he was a good student and got good grades, he was bored with school. On April 24, 1971, Anti-Vietnam War demonstrators in San When his friends would tell him there was Francisco made their way down Geary Street. It was the largest march of its kind Adler remembers seeing. going to be a march, protest, or demon- stration, he wanted to hang out with them and take pictures. He thought his partici- pation in these events was important. “I didn’t have any idea about how important it was going to be in retrospect,” he said. One of those events was the People’s Park riots. The University of California at Berkeley had purchased land and houses on property near the campus with the intention of building student dormitories. The houses were torn down and budget cutbacks brought the project to a halt. The block sat empty over the next year or so, and the site became as Adler described it, “a muddy parking lot.” “People parked their cars there.” Adler said. “And then some people in Berkeley decided ‘let’s make this into a beautiful park.’” The idea for converting the land to a “user-developed” park originated with Michael Delacour, who lived directly across from the eyesore. Student and activ- ist, Wendy Schlesinger and a group of others agreed with him. The concept gained

4 California State Library Foundation momentum with support from a diverse group of people in the community, including local merchants. Wendy Schlesinger and others raised money for tools, flowers, and grass. On April 20, 1969, without University approval, hundreds of people showed up ready to work, to create a park. Without listing the whole chain of events, on May 15, 1969, the University put up a fence. Riots ensued. At one point, 2,700 National Guard Troops were brought in. The Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies used shotguns to control the crowds. In the confrontations with police and troops, many people were injured, and one stu- Adler took many pictures on April 24, 1971 in San Francisco. Shown here are military police (MPs) guarding dent was killed. the Presidio. Marchers laid a wreath at their feet to honor the soldiers who had died in Vietnam. Adler said, “They put up the fence. We tore the fence down. They put up the fence. was released from jail on August 5, 1970, Adler replied, “Oh, that’s cool. I’d like to We tore the fence down. Back and forth.” after his acquittal on charges of murder- go.” For two days, he photographed the Among the pictures he took during the ing a police officer. When Newton emerged most renowned Beat poet of all, Allen Gins- days of turmoil, some were of students tear- from the courthouse, Adler was so excited, berg, on the streets of San Francisco, along ing the fence down. He shot a picture of a because he knew it was going to be a pivotal with others, including poet, playwright, man running from tear gas on Telegraph shot, he forgot to set his exposure. To his songwriter Michael McClure, as well as Avenue. He took a photo of a the sign in chagrin, the picture was overexposed and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, painter, and a florist’s shop with boards across the win- not usable. He also took photographs at the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers and dows with the message, “Forgiveness is the funeral of Black Panthers Jonathan Jackson Publishers in San Francisco. They had fragrance of a flower when trampled upon.” and William Christmas on August 15, 1970. come together to raise money to free The The day I interviewed Adler, he brought The two were killed in a shootout with Living Theatre actors who had been jailed with him several books including one enti- police in a failed attempt to free two prison- in Brazil on drug charges. tled People’s Park Still Blooming 1969–2009 ers on trial in a Marin County courtroom. The Living Theatre was an experimen- and On in which some of his photographs How was Adler able to place himself at tal theatre company based in New York, of the park’s turbulent beginnings appear. the right place at the right time to cover whose members had gone to Brazil to per- Today visitors to Berkeley find that the Peo- situations involving sometimes hundreds form at Carnival. The great fear was that ple’s Park remains open to the public. and thousands of people? He confided to the imprisoned actors would be tortured. In the tumultuous ‘60s and ‘70s, Adler me that he was “fast on his feet.” He was Adler not only took photographs, but he also covered protests against the Vietnam a jogger and able to move quickly to get met with Ginsberg and volunteered to War. We looked at his photos in a book into position and sometimes avoid injury. organize a fundraiser to get the actors out called What’s Going On?: California and the However, he did tell me a story about an of jail. He put together a reading featur- Vietnam Era. One of them is of a Latino con- unfortunate and painful encounter with a ing Ginsberg, McClure, Ferlinghetti, and tingent at an antiwar rally in San Francisco canister of tear gas. another Beat Generation poet Diane Di in 1970. Another is of the “Stop our Ship Many of Adler’s photographs were pub- Prima. On August 19, 1971, the reading March” down Geary Street in San Francisco lished in the Berkeley Barb, an underground took place in Pauley Ballroom in UC Berke- in 1971. Shot in black and white, Adler’s weekly, in existence from 1965–1980. On ley’s student union building, which holds preferred choice of film, these images of the desk in front of us, Adler showed me 500 people. It was packed, Adler told me, people coming together to express in one a photo of Max Scherr, the Berkeley Barb’s and they had to turn away as many people voice their opposition to a perceived wrong burly, bearded founder and editor. One as there were seated in the room. “That’s are powerful and dramatic. day in 1971, Scherr said to Adler, “Allen the biggest benefit I ever produced,” Adler Adler was present the day Huey P. New- Ginsberg is going to be in San Francisco said proudly. They raised $2,000 which ton, co-founder the Black Panther Party, protesting something in Union Square.” went to The Living Theatre’s legal defense

bulletin 113 5 accomplishments. The other was when he covered the aftermath of the firestorm in the East Bay in 1991. What had been a small hillside grass fire on October 19, 1991, re-ignited and turned into a conflagration the next day. Twenty- five people died, and more than 3,000 homes were destroyed. Among the several books Adler brought to the interview was one titled Firestorm: The Story of the 1991 East Bay Fire in Berkeley by Margaret Sullivan. In her introduction, the author described the aftermath of the fire which had crossed the city borders between Oak- land and Berkeley. “What was left,” she said, “was an incinerated landscape devoid of familiar forms.” That is what the Oakland Hills looked like when Adler came to take pictures three weeks after the fire was extinguished. He explained how no one could enter the fire area unless they owned a house there or were working for someone who owned a house. He obtained a pass through a friend whose home had been spared. With a light

meter, his Roloflex 2 1/4, and a tripod, he shot pictures of the devastation. Although nearly twenty-five years have gone by, it Harold Adler was responsible for bringing together the twenty writers who was apparent in Adler’s voice what strong contributed essays and the twenty-nine photographers whose pictures appear in this extraordinary book. It accompanied an exhibit by the same title, which he curated. emotions the photos evoked for him. As a kid he used to hike with his friends in the fund to get them out of jail. jacket summarizes the contents: “The col- Oakland Hills. “I love the Oakland Hills,” Harold Adler’s involvement with film lection features the Black Panthers, the he said. “The day I took these pictures, it extends beyond taking pictures himself. Free-Speech and anti-war movements, was quiet as a mouse. There were no birds. Over the years, he has been a coordinator, feminism, disability rights, environmental There were no animals. There was no life.” consultant, or curator of numerous exhib- activism, the struggle for gay rights, Cesar As we looked at the photos, he had names its. He served as co-curator and coordina- Chavez and the United Farm Workers, the for some of them. One he pointed to was tor of an exhibition entitled “The Whole American Indian occupation of Alcatraz, called “The Edge of Hell.” World’s Watching: Peace and Social Jus- and the cultural milieu of the era.” Har- His photos of the fire’s aftermath have tice Movements of the 1960s & 1970s,” old Adler was responsible for bringing been on display in many exhibits and displayed at the Berkeley Art Center from together the twenty writers, comprised of have been published in a variety of media, September 16–December 16, 2001. After witnesses, participants, and scholars, who including the book The Story of the 1991 East its run at the Berkeley Art Center, it trav- contributed essays in the book, as well as Bay Fire in Berkeley. The magazine Califor- eled widely. An extraordinary book with the twenty-nine photographers who took nia Geology featured his fire photos on the the same title accompanied the exhibition. the amazing images that appear in it. It front and back covers of its November/ It provides the reader with a sense of the took Adler a year and a half “to get the best December 1993 issue. The Bancroft Library breadth of issues that stirred people to writers and powerful photographers” for at UC Berkeley has an archive of them. speak out and to march during this period. the project. The Whole World’s Watching More recently, Adler’s prowess with a A description on the inside of the front stands out for him as one of his two main camera took him far away from the East

6 California State Library Foundation Bay. In 2005, he assumed the role of a photojournalist to travel to Nicaragua where he had been hired by Natasha Rob- inson, the daughter of a friend, to shoot her environmental project there. “The focus of the project,” he explained, “was to teach women how to cook without burn- ing wood. What they did is go to the coffee processing plants and get sacks of coffee shells, and then give them or sell the coffee shells at a very, very low price.” What he showed me though, were not pictures of the project at all. They were beautiful pictures in black and white of the people and children of Nicaragua. He was moved to take these images solely for himself. It was “another world and very, very poor,” he said. “What they have is love, family, community, and church, and that’s In May 1969, this surveillance crew of police officers stationed itself directly across the street from People’s how they survive.” Park in Berkeley. Ironically, in this scene, they were taking photos of Adler, as he was taking a photo of them. There were many manuscript boxes of his on the shelves near the cubicle in which we were sitting. It would have been impossible to look at everything, but there smoking, LSD-dropping, Haight-Asbury- were two items Adler made a special point hanging, sexually-flagrant rock ‘n’ roll SOURCES of showing me. One was a thick portfolio hippies who protested any-and-everything This list contains full citations for all of the containing thank you letters for his work, — the government, the police (duly des- book titles mentioned in the article. In addi- as well as letters of support for his proj- ignated “the pigs), and of course their tion to the transcript of my interview with Harold Adler, I relied upon these sources for ects from historians, mayors, museum parents. This sex/drugs/rock ‘n’ roll real- additional details and dates for some of the directors, and others. The other was a 16 ity, in fact, formed but a small part of the events discussed. x 20 inch poster of Martin Luther King, Jr. big picture. In the 1960s and through the Berkeley Art Center Association. The Whole photographed on May 17, 1967, in front of 1970s, people young and old were rebel- World’s Watching: Peace and Social Justice Sproul Hall. Dr. King, looking strong and ling against the status quo. Their dissent Movements of the 1960s and 1970s. This book vibrant, was speaking at UC Berkeley that had its roots in the civil rights movement accompanied “The Whole World’s Watch- day on “America’s Great Moral Dilemma” in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but ing,” an exhibition of photographs at the — the war in Vietnam. The photo was when the Vietnam War escalated in 1964, Berkeley Art Center. September 16–Decem- taken by Helen Nester, a woman photog- everything changed. Activism was con- ber 16, 2001. Berkeley, California. 2001. rapher, who Adler said was confined to a stant. Activists frequently took over (“occu- Compost, Terri (editor). People’s Park Still wheelchair. Adler was the one who pro- pied”) targeted government and university Blooming 1969–2009 and On. Berkeley: duced the striking poster. buildings with “sit-ins” and “sleep-ins” Slingshot Collective, 2009. As we came to the conclusion of our con- Marches of sometimes a quarter of a mil- Coyote, Peter. Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chron- versation that April afternoon, the subject lion young people were common headline icle. Washington D.C.: Counterpoint, 1998. returned to legacy, to “the footprints one fare. Driven by passion — fierce opposi- Eymann, Marcia, and Charles Wollenberg. leaves behind.” “I know how I want to close” tion to the war and the military draft, fer- What’s Going On?: California and the Vietnam Adler said, and he read this paragraph vent belief in civil rights, righteous love of Era. Oakland: Oakland Museum of Califor- from his essay “A Legacy of Activism” that their own civil liberties — they saw it their nia. 2004 appeared in The Whole World’s Watching: destiny to make a better world. Sullivan, Margaret. Firestorm: The Story of the There is a myth about the sixties: that “That’s it,” Adler said. “To make a better 1991 East Bay Fire in Berkeley. City of Berke- it solely comprised a bunch of marijuana- world. And to some degree we did.”  ley. 1993

bulletin 113 7 Dr. Powell’s Reflections on Books � Lawrence Clark and Book Collecting in His Lively Forewords to the Sale Catalogs � Powell and Books from His Personal Library West Southwest With an Introduction and Afterword By Gary E. Strong

comment by Norman Pow- Larry had included a talk of his given at the knew that the State Library, because of bud- ell, son of the revered uni- annual conference of the California Library get restraints, had not been buying Califor- versity librarian and author Association that I had published at the nia fiction in any exhaustive way since I was Lawrence Clark Powell, during one of our California State Library Foundation. Later I state librarian from 1980 to 1994. Most of visits piqued my interest.1 He mentioned would read Larry’s article “Navigating Aca- my collection was acquired from the mid- that Larry had written forewords for the demic Waters: the Art of Administration” 1970s to my retirement in 2013. I was catalogs issued by Books West Southwest as I would follow in his footsteps as UCLA pleased that the State Library decided to for the sale of part of his personal library in University Librarian. And so my intellec- keep the collection intact, shelved together, the 1990s. He felt Larry’s words gave a look tual affair with Larry would continue. I and with dust jackets left on. at his perspective as he began to dispose of would concentrate on continuing to build After Norman’s comment to me, I his books. I was also interested because the the research collections at UCLA, expose began to think about Larry again and what comment helped me recall my wife Caro- the many hidden and unprocessed collec- insight I might gain from his words. But lyn’s and my visit with Larry in February tions, including its unique and outstanding I didn’t think I had the catalogs. A move 1994. (This was our second visit to Tucson Southern California and Los Angeles his- does wonderful things in that you discover and in the late 1980s. Larry’s wife, Fay, also tory collections. what you didn’t remember you had. I have joined us.) He took great pride in showing During the drive back to his home, Larry saved booksellers catalogs since the early us the vacated book shelves and loaded us talked of disposing of his collected books– 1970s. Sure enough in one of the boxes I into his jeep after lunch for a harrowing to Occidental College, UCLA, The Hun- unpacked was the series of catalogs issued ride to Books West Southwest for an onsite tington, and other places where he felt by Books West Southwest of LCP’s books. visit. Larry went often to this Tucson, Ari- they belonged. His working library would As I transcribed Larry’s words, so many zona, bookstore where he had befriended go to Books West Southwest. Being in the memories flooded my mind. I realized the owner, W. David Lair, who like himself process of building my own collections, some of his rationale was indeed my own was a former university librarian. I had never considered what I might do motivation with my own books. I wanted During this visit Larry inscribed for me to dispose of the things I had spent time others to read them. his new books published by the Books and energy acquiring. Our motives were But alas, I am not ready to part with every- West Southwest: Eucalyptus Fair; a mem- indeed different as I was not creating bibli- thing yet. The mysteries are gone to a new oir in the form of a novel (1992) and Mys- ographies and checklists, nor writing com- home, but the rest–artist’s books, fine press, terious Transformation, or when does history mentary and history of California and the Californiana, Pacific Northwest history, become literature and other uncollected essays Southwest. I was learning about books! printing, binding, marbling, librarianship, and addresses on landscape, literature, his- And I was reading what I liked to read, but and my own writing–are still awaiting their tory and morality (1993). Both were deluxe was not moved to write about them in the future. I am still cataloging the collection editions, boxed, signed, and numbered. fashion of Lawrence Clark Powell (LCP). now numbering more than 2,500 items. It Larry inscribed both with “for Gary Strong As I prepared to retire and leave UCLA, is a great adventure within retirement. at the Books West Southwest February 1, I was faced with what to do with my books. I am sharing Larry’s words here because 1994 ever fondly from his friend Lawrence The decision was made to give my mystery I feel his words continue to tell his story Clark Powell a.k.a. Larry.” book collection, numbering over 1,400 and give a unique insight into his thinking In Mysterious Transformation, I found that volumes, to the California State Library. I as his books find new readers.

8 California State Library Foundation Ex Libris: Lawrence Clark Powell’s Catalog � Forewords for Books West Southwest.

CATALOG ONE: SELECTED VOLUMES (A-H) FROM THE LIBRARY OF LCP. WITH A FOREWORD BY DR. POWELL. EDITOR’S NOTE s Time accelerates so does my need [William C.] Holden and [Richard] Sum- Gary E. Strong is UCLA University Librar- Ato lighten the load. Whoever thought mers. In addition to the presentation copy ian Emeritus, founder of the California State I’d live until books became a burden? of Garrard, there is a bowdlerized high Library Foundation, and frequent contributor Now I must unload some. Most have been school edition, and the beautiful Grabhorn to the Bulletin. He is a passionate collector of acquired in the twenty years I have lived in (Jean Hersholt’s copy) and its facsimile, fine press books and regional history. Arizona. They were to support my writing lacking a dozen pages left beginning with Southwest Classics (1974), unset by a dozing typesetter. and later books on Arizona. I no longer Southwest Classics contained need them nearby. the first notice of this defect, Fay and I kept from being crowded out which actually makes the only by giving books away as more were book even more collectible! added. They were never seen as furnishings Proceeds from this sale or status symbols. Our college library at go to Books West South- Occidental College, where we first met has west to wish its owner well been our chief beneficiary. Others include in his debut as a bookseller. UCLA and the University of Arizona, David Laird and I have been Scripps College and Marlborough School. linked by books for nearly Upon relinquishing my UCLA office thirty years, first when he in 1974, most of the books used in writ- was a student employee in ing California Classics (1971) went to Occi- the UCLA library, later a dental. Four years later fire relieved us of member of my last class as our Malibu home and contents, includ- Dean of the UCLA library ing most of Fay’s books not yet removed school. Even then, in 1966 to Arizona. Among the enemies of books he was undertaking in a class described by William Blades, and wick- taught by Betty Rosenberg edly supplemented by Randolph Adams in what became his definitive adding librarians, fire is the most deadly. Hopi Bibliography, published We also learned that fire turns to dust tile in 1977 by the University roofs and stone sculptures. of Arizona Press. When I The books cataloged here by Books West asked him where he wanted Southwest were never acquired for their to make his career, he replied market value, although time and inflation “in one of three states – Utah, have increased their worth. Such are the New Mexico or Arizona.” Mary Austins, Laura Gilpins, Frank Dobies, By 1972 he had worked and the lot relating to [Lewis Hector] Gar- in Utah for nearly five years rard’s Wah-to-Yah; and such high spots as and the other two states were Lawrence Clark Powell enjoying himself at Ward Ritchie’s 80th [Frank] Waters, [Will Levington] Comfort, coming up on the horizon. birthday party. Note the “I [Heart] W [Ward] R [Ritchie] button.

bulletin 113 9 He chose Arizona, and for the next eigh- Although my gift of these books is also Now David Laird and I have reversed teen years he made library history in what in appreciation for what the University of the routes we travelled. Though him was already the strongest research institu- Arizona has done for me as a writer, it is to his customers these books will go to tion between Texas and UCLA. With the intended to acknowledge my debt to the enrich others as they have my life and support of then president John P. Schaefer antiquarian book trade. It was the bridge work. I wish their new readers some of and a dedicated staff, Laird guided Arizo- over which I crossed from unemployment what they have done for me. Habent sua na’s library to top-twenty national ranking in the Depression to a better life in library fata libelli wrote the Roman poet Ter- before opting for his new career. service and education. ence. What better fate can a book have?

CATALOG TWO: SELECTED VOLUMES (A-L) FROM THE LIBRARY OF LCP. WITH A FOREWORD BY DR. POWELL. 1991.

on’t you miss them? Was the ques- reaching hand. The writing done and the est triste, he’las, et j’ai lu tous les livres. The Dtion when the first lot of my books work published, those books were dead meaning, if not the translation is to me were cataloged by Books West Southwest? weight, their blood gone into my work. “how sad when all the books have been Sentimentally, yes; practically, no. They had It is true, I do miss their appearance, read.” Not quite yet! served their purpose: to support my writing the rows of colorful backs I was wont to Most of the first catalog has been sold, and to make me less dependent on libraries. gaze upon. Other needs require other David Laird tells me. Which means that While I was actively writing on the books and fewer as my life as a bookman my books have come ashore again, at least Southwest my books were very much alive winds down. May I never reach that state until their new owners do as I have done and fairly jumped off the shelves to my wherein the poet complained, La chair and launch them to unknown destinations.

CATALOG THREE: SELECTED VOLUMES FROM THE LIBRARY OF LCP, INCLUDING A SPECIAL SECTION OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND CHECKLISTS WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY DR. POWELL. SPRING 1992.

irst of all, some remarks on the nature lists) I have compiled my practice was to see enlargement of Phil Townsend Hanna’s Fand practice of the bibliography, a kind and to read every book described, seeking Libros Californianos, published in 1958 by of sport whose demand is for accuracy. The accuracy in description and fair evaluation Jake Zeitlin. Along with Dobie, Jake was weapon needed by a bibliographer in bag- of contents. It meant the examining of many one of my few mentors. It has become a ging a book is rifle not shotgun. Checklists and the choice of few. I have often referred scarce book, even the first edition offered are not bibliographies. A friend of mind to J. Frank Dobie as the best Southwesterner here, although a thousand copies were pub- compiles checklists of a certain field of of them all, a role model for me as a just lished, all autographed by me in a marathon study which include items he feels, though evaluator, not a detailed describer. Even as signing when Betty Rosenberg went around never seen by him, probably belong in the Emerson before him, Dobie was Olympian the long table ahead of me, laying out the category. This is helpful to a point which in his evaluations and a man to be trusted. open copies. Both of us ended pretty inky! requires a search be made. By whom? A No one in the Southwest do I miss more. Not included is my Land of Fiction, a user demands certainty. Only thus does a The books offered here are what remains checklist of 32 novels set in Southern Cali- checklist become a bibliography. of a large collection of working tools. Of fornia, from Ramona to The Loved One, Quite a few years ago a foundation sub- A Southwestern Century and Heart of the first published in 1952 by Dawson’s Book sidized two southwestern bibliographies, Southwest, two of my works that gave me Shop. It has now become as scarce as one of lands east of the Rio Grande, the joy in compiling, these are my own penul- Libros Californianos, and was republished other west. Both turned out to be shotgun timate copies. There remains a master set last year, with a new afterword, by the His- works, compiled by scholars not bibliogra- of all that I have written in book form, des- torical Society of Southern California and phers, helpful short of certainty. tined (defer the day) to the UCLA Library. is still in print. After completing that 1952 In the several bibliographies (and check- That set includes my only copy of my project, I got my first pair of glasses.2

10 California State Library Foundation CATALOG FOUR: SELECTED VOLUMES FROM THE LIBRARY OF LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL, WITH A FOREWORD BY DR. POWELL AND A SPECIAL SECTION OF BOOKS BY AND ABOUT HIM. SUMMER 1992.

his continuing reduction of my work- Before long I’ll be free on a sea of my Ting library is nearing the point where own creation. All that I choose to retain I can see uses for more than Books West will be a few childhood books, assorted Southwest. If it keeps up it means that I belles lettres, and some basic reference can dispose of a section of the wall shelv- books on my native and adopted countries, ing. This will allow the return of what was England and France. originally there, i.e., a couch whereon I What I’m saving as a “foreword” for Cat- was wont to nap. Yet, if shelving goes and alog Five et seq is why I won’t and can’t use the couch returns, I may no longer need it. computerized libraries. And so, dear read- Too decrepit? Nay, too lively! ers (and buyers*), stay with me as I move Reading through this list of books toward a new century. Am a bit shakier— brings back the joy I felt in using them to who isn’t?—and taking a bit dimmer view support my writing of what this arid land of the printed pages, and yet still of good had come to mean to me. It tells me also cheer of what life continues to yield. I wish that I have written all I have to write about as much for you.3 that land. I am not about to join the revi- sionists who are turning over the ground A page from one of the Powell catalogs listing four with new shovels and seeing the landscape *The staff of Books West Southwest hopes different editions of Lewis H. Garrard’s classic of Western Americana, Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail through different colored glasses. these categories are not mutually exclusive. first published in 1850.

CATALOG FIVE: SELECTED VOLUMES FROM THE LIBRARY OF LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL, WITH A FOREWORD BY DR. POWELL, AND A SPECIAL SECTION OF BOOKS BY AND ABOUT HIM. SUMMER 1993.

y ambivalent feelings about the There is for me another problem which which stretches back to Gutenberg and Mcomputer come from the habits not even a flight of Good Angels could upon which our civilization rests. and restrictions of my age, going on 87 solve. That is the computerizing of the card I have trouble using a computerized and still reading and writing, if no longer catalog. I recognize the need to do this, as catalog because of my distance from collecting books. a public catalog in large libraries has grown the screen, and I have a lifelong depen- The computer has served me well in to enormous size, devouring space and dence on the 3 by 5 card and used to going getting into print what Scripto and Olivetti budgets. Because of the cost of changing rapidly through a thick file of cards in have wrought. I once had to type and retype the nature of the catalog, collection devel- search of the gold that lies there. Have I and type again what took days to write. By opment can be slowed or halted. reached the age of the Od Rocking Chair? the time the word processor came along, This troubles me. Research and pub- Looks like it. it was too late for me to master it. Then a lication wait not for technical or finan- Some good fortune is that I no longer Good Angel freed me from my drudgery. cial problems. Growth of the collections depend upon libraries of any size. This is The trouble is my fading eyesight. I can should not suffer when so many books Catalog Five of my working library, and I now see only well enough to type an early go out of print so fast. Research requires still have too many books. I intend to keep draft. It takes me a long time to reach a unbroken growth of the collections, as only a few reference books and such belles final draft. English has many nuances. Am well as the acquisition of older materi- lettres as I have lived with since childhood I being fussy? No only demanding that my als. No library will ever have everything. and youth. Sometime down the line there words say what I mean. Or mean what I When a policy is to collect only recent might be a posthumous catalog: “These I say. Which? Both! books, isolation occurs from the past have Loved”.4

bulletin 113 11 CATALOG SIX: SELECTED VOLUMES CONCERNING ARIZONA & SONORA FROM THE LIBRARY OF LCP, WITH ADDITIONAL VOLUMES FROM THE RESERVE STOCK OF BOOKS WEST SOUTHWEST, WITH A FOREWORD BY DR. POWELL AND A SPECIAL SECTION OF BOOKS BY AND ABOUT HIM. FALL 1993.

ow I Feel About Information – I’m Hfor it, of course, who isn’t? Don’t I have a dictionary, encyclopedia, and phone book? What I am disposing of are other ways of seeing eht Southwest, other visions and angles of vision. Not giving them to be sold down the river. Larry McMurtry’s book of essays led me to re-examine my view of the man I called the best South- westerner of them all, J. Frank Dobie. No change. I’m somewhere between [Wallace] Stegner and [Edward] Abbey, neither mod- erate nor extreme. Offered here in Catalog 6 are books that were useful to me in writing Southwest Clas- sics (1974) and Arizona, a Bicentennial His- tory (1976), as well as the bibliographies of regional fiction and non-fiction. My working library for California Classics (1971) was given to the library of Occidental College, my alma mater, when I left seacoast for des-

The title page for Powell’s novel Eucalyptus Fair published by Books West ert and never moved back. I did retain a few Southwest in 1992. Appropriately Ward Ritchie designed this elegant volume. indispensables such as [William Henry] Dana, [Carey] McWilliams, and [Franklin] Walker whose Literary History of Southern California broke ground for Kevin Starr’s multi-volume cultural history of the entire state, still in progress. Now I take delight in knowing that others will gain nourishment from these books even as I have. I see them launched by Books West Southwest on the great river of readers, like the boats of R.L.S., to be brought ashore downstream by people at places and times unknown to me. Good reading be theirs, as once for me.5

To the best of my knowledge there was no Catalog Seven. However, Catalog 8 is noted Three giants of the book world (left) Jake Zeitlin, Ward Ritchie, and Lawrence Clark Powell gathered at the home of Charles Monnell in Los Angeles to celebrate Ritchie’s birthday. as Part VII.

12 California State Library Foundation CATALOG EIGHT: SELECTED VOLUMES CONCERNING ARIZONA SONORA & THE SOUTHWEST. An Afterword PART VII FROM THE LIBRARY OF LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL, WITH A FOREWORD BY I have come to realize that these catalogs DR. POWELL, AND A SPECIAL SECTION OF BOOKS BY AND ABOUT HIM. SUMMER 1995. offer a real opportunity for further reflec- he Last Foreword: Let’s hope that it tributed to which goes back even farther. tion and study. The some 2,000 volumes Tis. But what if the few unsold books And finally there are a few of my- favor listed represent an insight into Larry’s col- in the previous catalogs were enough for ites, books of my childhood and youth I lecting strategies and just how broad his another catalog, wouldn’t that call for couldn’t bear to part with. interests ran. His curiosity into all fields another foreword? What’s left to say that The giving has become more meaning- of thought and study brought together hasn’t already been said! Yet our language ful than the getting. Books are not always an eclectic selection across many fields. has never been exhausted, even by Shake- dead things. New readers, new meaning, I have always been curious about what speare. So … the who, when and where unknown. A motivates a collector of books. As a work- The first foreword I ever wrote was for part of me goes with each book. Look for ing library, one can see how these contrib- an anecdote about Steinbeck before he was me reader! uted to Larry’s writing, his speeches, and famous. It was such a meager pamphlet This catalog also includes, “Not the Last his thinking. The catalogs make for the that only an epigraph seemed right. With Word” by W.D.L. [Laird]. “These seven cat- core of a most interesting master’s thesis my southwestern books gone, friends ask alogs will have listed nearly 2000 books at least.  if the empty shelves don’t bother me. No, I donated from the private library of LCP to say, I still have other collections headed for the store with at least two motives in mind: the libraries of Occidental and UCLA. The to put them back into the hands of loving, Jeffers collection goes clear back to 1932 needing users, and to benefit a struggling when my book about him appeared. There bookstore with income it could not have ENDNOTES is also one of books I have written or con- produced in any other way.” 1. Lawrence Clark Powell was born in Wash- ington, D.C. September 6, 1906 and died in Tucson on March 14, 2001. 2. At the end of this catalog is an announce- CATALOG NINE: THE CATALOG. A LIST OF ment of the publication by Books West BOOKS, ESSAYS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER ITEMS Southwest of Eucalyptus Fair, a new novel, BY AND ABOUT L.C.P. SPRING 1996. by Lawrence Clark Powell. Written forty years ago, Eucalyptus Fair is a story of Cali- rue to form, Larry did not write a fore- fornia, a passion, of ideas, of romantic love in the most traditional sense. Readers who word for this catalog, but included T know Dr. Powell and the late Fay Ellen a full page ad for Powell’s A Foreword for Powell will see the young hero and hero- Ward: An Afterword After Ward. Privately ine trace elements of the two as college-age 6 published in 1996. young people drawn magnetically together, separated, then finding each other again. Larry signed all of his forewords “L.C.P. Bajada This is Powell’s first “full-length” novel. (I of the Santa Catalinas, Tucson, Arizona.” purchased one of the deluxe editions for my own collection.). 3. This catalog includes a short piece “Last Words: The Imperial Bookseller” by W. David Laird. 4. This catalog also includes Laird’s “Last Words: the Imperial Bookseller.” 5. The Catalog also includes “Last Words: Setting the Record Straight about Gener- osity,” by W. David Laird. The front cover of W. David Laird’s Books West Southwest catalog featuring the 6. Powell is referring to his good friend and distinguished library of Lawrence Clark Powell. fine printer Ward Ritchie.

bulletin 113 13 This panorama photograph, stretching over the top of pages 14-19, shows the San Fernando Valley and the Mulholland town site. Land agents were sure the picturesque orchards and vineyards, and an industrial rock crusher, would attract new businesses to the area. The Mulholland townsite was behind and to the right of the crusher visible on page 16. Photo circa 1905. “Mulholland: Pay Roll Town,” California State library, California History Special Collections, p.9.

alifornia’s history is intrinsically linked to the story of water: the Progress or Pilfer bounty or lack of it, the misery caused by it, and attempts at mastery over it. Regional factions fight bitterly over its supply, quality, and intended use, and it can dictate the success or failure Two Views of the � of the state’s economy on multiple levels. Historian Marc Reisner cited stories of Los Angeles Aqueduct � “chicanery, subterfuge . . . and a strategy in the California � of lies” in his 1986 water history of the west, Cadillac Desert.1 There are also great History Room � feats of technology that made California By Marta Knight

EDITOR’S NOTE Before coming to the Foundation, Marta Knight worked in litigation support research- ing water rights and land-use history. She holds an MA in Public History from Califor- nia State University, Sacramento.

14 California State Library Foundation the premier agricultural powerhouse it is today. The year 2013 marked the 100th anniversary of the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and just two years later a record drought has everyone in the state, with the possible exception of cactus growers, wringing their hands and debating new policies. Two particular collections in the State Library’s Califor- nia History Special Collections provide a snapshot in time of the complicated historical perspectives on the state’s water policy. 2 While one perspective is captured in a single photo album, the other view is meticulously documented in an engineer’s manuscript and map collection. One of the most contentious periods in the state’s water history is referred to Bird’s eye view of Mulholland (now Pacoima) c. 1905. “Mulholland: Pay Roll Town,” as the “Owens Valley Water Wars” of the California State Library, California History Special Collections. early 20th century. The Owens River once flowed freely from Mono through Inyo

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counties, through the Long and Owens valley watersheds, ending in Owens Lake.3 As the population of Los Angeles started to swell, the city’s main source of water proved insufficient. The Los Angeles River was too small, and the Colorado too far. Angelinos and San Fernando Valley farmers and developers eyed the Owens River as a solution. On the other side, Owens Valley farmers and ranchers, faced with drought and dwindling water supplies, viewed LA’s water grab with alarm.

MULHOLLAND: THE PAY ROLL TOWN OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY A simple photo album showing the development of the town of Mulholland, California, illustrates the giddy boosterism of San Fer- “View of the Famous Owens River Aqueduct Dam construction.” The promoters’ caption continues, nando Valley land and agricultural develop- “the size and importance of this dam can be appreciated when it is known that only one dam in the entire world exceeds this one in size, namely the Gatun Dam in the Panama Canal.” “Mulholland: ers at the turn of the century. “Mulholland: Pay Roll Town,” California State Library, California History Special Collections, p. 18. The Pay Roll Town of the San Fernando Valley” came to the State Library with no known provenance or exact date, but what is

16 California State Library Foundation known is that the town was indeed named after William Mulholland, in honor of his innovative solution to the water problem: the Los Angeles Aqueduct.4 The library’s photography experts estimate the album was produced between 1905 and 1912. The development of Los Angeles and its environs owes much to the contribution of Mulholland, this tenacious Irish immi- grant, who started out as a ditch digger before then-mayor Frederick Eaton hired him to head the newly established Los Angeles Water Department. Mulholland and Eaton were the first to suggest using the natural gravity of the flow from the Owens River as the solution to the city’s municipal water problem. Eaton systematically and covertly bought up land and water rights in the Owens Val- Excursions by horse-drawn carriages and then by train brought the curious to Mulholland. Here visitors celebrate the completion of the dam. From the “Mulholland: Pay Roll Town,” California State Library, ley, thwarting a proposed irrigation plan California History Special Collections, P. 17. between the Bureau of Reclamation and Owens Valley farmers. In spite of cries of conflict of interest and subterfuge, Eaton

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A view of the mouth of the Aqueduct as it terminated at the San Fernando Dam. The image’s caption gushes that the sheer “volume of water this mammoth pipe will discharge is held in figures so large is it almost impossible for any other than an engineer’s mind to grasp its full significance.” “Mulholland: Pay Roll Town,” California State Library, California History Special Collections, p. 21.

18 California State Library Foundation and Mulholland prevailed, helped by their The photo album differs from other tribute to the engineering genius of Wil- local political connections and financial technical, and highly critical, historical liam Mulholland . . . the size and impor- edge. Even President Theodore Roosevelt collections about the Aqueduct. It reveals tance of this dam can be appreciated when weighed in on the side of the municipality: the impassioned promotional tactics of it is known that only one dam in the entire “It is a hundred or a thousand-fold more early Los Angeles land developers circa world exceeds this one in size, namely the important to the state and more valuable the 1910s and 1920s. It is a precursor Gatun Dam in the Panama Canal.”7 Under to the people as a whole if used by the city to elaborate sales brochures for modern a panoramic view of a sparsely populated than if used by the people of the Owens developments. Black and white photos valley dotted with citrus groves taken from Valley.”5 Many farmers willingly took the with typewritten captions tout the virtues atop the Pacoima Hills, an earnest writer cash and abandoned their lands, paving of expansion into the San Fernando Val- proclaims that “in three months [there will the way for the aqueduct. In 1905, voters ley, primarily in potential “payroll” terms. be a] town site dotted with new buildings, passed a bond issue for construction of the The name of real estate sales agents Lenz business blocks and other evidences of aqueduct, which began in earnest in 1907 and Widney, who probably produced the commercial activity.” The writer also men- and was completed in 1913. album, is stamped on the album’s front tions another local rock crusher “with a An awed public witnessed the release cover; however, no specific author or pho- payroll of over $5,000.00 a month.” Other of the first water to come down through tographer is otherwise identified.6 Inside photos show developer-sponsored excur- the San Fernando Valley while the aque- are photos of existing rock and cement sions to Mulholland in which hordes of duct’s mastermind allegedly cried, “There industries (with large payrolls), enormous potential buyers were transported to this it is! Take it!” After that, Los Angeles and and tidy citrus groves and vineyards (also unspoiled and productive paradise by car- the San Fernando Valley grew like gang- with large payrolls), and the construction riage and train.8 A photo of a grand house busters, while the LA water powers contin- of the Owens River Aqueduct Dam. “This in Mulholland, complete with brand new ued to snap up additional water rights in dam,” reads the caption, “together with the landscaping of baby trees and shrubs, and the eastern Sierra. celebrated $23,000,000 Aqueduct . . . is a a porte cochere, could be the inspiration for

bulletin 113 19 modern designs. The caption reads “A rich named Ernest Bulpitt. Bulpitt, a fellow soil, a perfect climate, a location which is Owens Valley landowner and rancher, also attracting hundreds of thousands of dollars happened to be a civil engineer who helped of the most wealthy investors.” The photos craft early twentieth century California and captions show how the Aqueduct was water policy. He developed hydroelectric considered by Angelinos as synonymous facilities for Inyo and Mono counties, was with the virtue of economic progress.9 instrumental in establishing the Chandler Decree, and was involved with the Hillside 11 Among the many technical maps of the Owens THE EARNEST BULPITT COLLECTION OF INYO / Water Company. No stranger to water poli- River Valley in the Ernest Bulpitt Collection are a MONO WATER WARS AND MEMORABILIA tics, Bulpitt’s manuscript collection of the few township maps, some annotated by hand in colored pencil, that give names to the hundreds Most Owens Valley residents did not agree. Inyo and Mono county water wars high- of individual landowners caught up in the war Even though the Aqueduct was a done deal, lights the intersection of natural resources, over water for Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. Ernest Bulpitt Collection, California State Owens Valley farmers and ranchers contin- business, politics, and human drama with Library, California History Section. ued to fight for their water rights.10 In the sources ranging from mundane handwrit- 1930s, they enlisted the aid of a neighbor ten water diversion reports and maps, to

20 California State Library Foundation bulletin 113 21 Two men show off their San Fernando Valley vineyard’s bounty. The original caption reads, “this is one of the many profitable and prolific bearing vineyards in this vicinity. The abundance with which the vines bear in the section is almost beyond belief.” “Mulholland: Pay Roll Town,” California State Library, California History Special Collections, p. 28. state agency correspondence, legal docu- tural development of the [San Fernando] collection, or visit the Online Archive of ments, and meticulous analyses of Owens valley [as quickly as] possible.”14 Bulpitt’s California and use keywords such as “water, Valley land holdings.12 papers include correspondence with an irrigation, dams, and rivers.”15  Letters in the collection contain salvos of extensive list of political players including accusations and outrage fired between the Senators Frank Flint, Sylvester Smith, Gif- two factions in the ongoing “war.” Bulpitt’s ford Pinchot, and Ethan Hitchcock. While REFERENCES Carl, David. Water and the California Dream: own voice is quiet. His job was to acquire devoid of photographic illustrations, hand- Choices for the New Millenium. Berkeley: copious data in support of the Owens Val- written and annotated collections of maps Counterpoint, 2003. ley contingent. Two letters stand out: one, a and plats put real names to the family farm- Hundley, Norris, Jr. The Great Thirst: Califor- letter accusing a supposed “impartial” com- ers and ranchers that were so drastically nians and Water, A History. Berkeley: Univer- mittee of three land valuators as duplici- impacted by the Aqueduct. sity of California Press, 2001. tous “agents” for the City of Los Angeles, The Mulholland photo album, and the Outland, Charles F. Man-made disaster: The and two, the pro-aqueduct Special Owens Ernest Bulpitt collection in the California story of St. Francis Dam, its place in Southern Valley Committee condemning the “repre- History Room are just two examples of the California’s water system, its failure and the hensible acts” of sabotage of the Aqueduct vast resources the California State Library tragedy of March 12 and 13, 1928 in the Santa in the 1920s. On May 27, 1927, a group of offers regarding the state’s hydrologic his- Clara River Valley. Glendale, Calif.: A. H. enraged Owens Valley residents blew up tory. For more water-related information Clark, 1963. 13 400 feet of Aqueduct pipeline. That action anyone can search the State Library’s online Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American only spurred LA’s water power brokers to catalog for documents in Government Pub- West and Its Disappearing Water. New York: step up their efforts to “[expand] agricul- lications, the Law library, and circulating Penguin Books, 1993.

22 California State Library Foundation An awed public witnessed the release of the first water to come down through

the San Fernando Valley while the aqueduct’s mastermind allegedly cried,

“There it is! Take it!”

ENDNOTES

1. Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The Ameri- mately cleared of charges, Mulholland 10. Knudsen, Tom. “Outrage in Owens Valley can West and Its Disappearing Water. New was shamed into resigning, and the town a century after L.A. began taking its water.” York: Penguin Books, p. 62.; Davis-Wil- that first carried the name of Mulholland Sacramento Bee, January 5, 2014. http:// liams, Daniel. “Museum Tells Story of was renamed Pacoima. http://articles. www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/ Water Conflict” Sacramento Bee, July 5, latimes.com/2013/nov/03/opinion/la- the-public-eye/article2588151.html. 2015, p. 3A. oe-kahrl-los-angeles-aqueduct-water-pol- Accessed July 30, 2015. 2. The California State Law Library at 914 icy-20131103. Accessed July 28, 2015. 11. Bulpitt collected data during a landmark Capitol Mall in Sacramento boasts another 5. Although he supported the aqueduct to water rights case in 1922 regarding Bishop valuable Owens Valley water collection. supply the city of Los Angeles, President Creek flows into the Owens River. The case The Owens Valley Groundwater Basin Roosevelt placed a limitation on selling resulted in the Chandler Decree, which was the subject of numerous California Owens Valley water outside of the city lim- defined “beneficial use” when applied to lawsuits that spanned two decades (1976– its. Mulholland and his fellow industrial- agriculture, municipal, and hydrologic 1997). The Law Library recently curated a ist investors effectively ignored the presi- power cases. Finding Aid, Earnest Bulpitt display of these documents. dent and proceeded to divert most of the Collection of Inyo/Mono Water Wars and 3. A steamboat ferry once operated on water to the San Fernando Valley. Kahrl, Memorabilia. California State Library, Cal- Owens Lake, which enabled passengers William. “The Long Shadow of William ifornia History manuscript collection. and goods to traverse the lake in only Mulholland,” Los Angeles Times, November 12. Bulpitt raised cattle on his Aberlon Ranch hours, rather than the usual three days it 3, 2013. http://articles.latimes.com/2013/ (present-day Millpond Recreation Area took to go around it. http://www.owens- nov/03/opinion/la-oe-kahrl-los-angeles- just north of Bishop). valleyhistory.com/stories3/chronological_ aqueduct-water-policy-20131103 Accessed July 30, 2015. 13. Subsequent attempts to dynamite the history_ov.pdf. Accessed July 31, 2015. aqueduct occurred in 1931 and 1976. Mal- 4. Later in his career, Mulholland’s accom- 6. Walter M. Lenz and Robert J. Widney were nic, Erik. “The Aqueduct: DWP Smoothes plishments were marred by his own sales agents for the Mulholland Develop- Out Rough Edges on 74-Year-Old Engi- hubris when he was implicated in the ment Company. The development site was neering Marvel.” Los Angeles Times, tragic failure of the St. Francis Dam. officially opened to the public on Nov. 10, October 18, 1987. http://articles.latimes. Although he was a trained engineer, Mul- 1912. Finding aid, Mulholland, The Pay Roll com/1987-10-18/local/me-15046_1_los- holland’s expertise was not in dam-build- Town of the San Fernando Valley. California angeles-river. Accessed July 29, 2015. ing or geology. Nevertheless, he insisted State Library, California History manuscript collection. 14. Letter to Board of Directors Los Angeles on designing the St. Francis Dam. Due to County Chamber of Commerce. “Report of geological instability and poor design, the 7. “Mulholland: The Pay Roll Town of the Special Owens Valley Committee, August dam burst just before midnight on March San Fernando Valley” photo album, p. 19. 30, 1927.” Ernest Bulpitt Collection, Cali- 12, 1928, sending billions of gallons of California State Library, California History fornia State Library, manuscript box 2794. water from the dam’s reservoir into sev- manuscript collection. 15. Digitized images from the Mulholland eral communities, drowning 450 people 8. “Mulholland…” photo album, p. 10. and causing over seven million dollars in photo album are also available online damage. Survivors of the St. Francis trag- 9. “We want the whole world to see just through the California State Library’s pic- edy rebuilt their towns, and the aqueduct how progress is spelled.” Display ad ture catalog. http://catalog.library.ca.gov/ survived, ultimately extending to Mono 130, Los Angeles Times February 20, 1913. F?RN=482696284; http://www.oac.cdlib. Basin in the 1940s. Although he was ulti- Section 2, p. 12 org/institutions/California+State+Library.

bulletin 113 23 From Lyon to Leipzig

Have Guide Dog Will Travel By Michael L. Marlin

n June 2013, I was appointed for decades, but the other major English by the American Library language countries--Canada, Australia, Association to serve as its and Great Britain--have been only inter- representative to the International Fed- mittently present over the years. In generation of Library Associations (IFLA) eral, European countries have maintained Libraries Serving Persons with Print strong and lasting representation, includ- Disabilities (LPD) standing committee. ing the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, This canine mascot sits at the bottom of the This appointment is a great honor and it Norway, France, Germany, and Sweden. DZB stairwell to remind entrants to please support has afforded me the opportunity to meet Other countries able to participate over the German Library for the Blind with donations to help defray programming and project expenses. peers from around the world and discuss the last several years have included South Vivaldi, the author’s service dog, thought it was issues salient to libraries and other insti- Africa, Russia, and Japan. The next slate of important to have this photo snapped with his inanimate counterpart. tutions who serve blind or otherwise print standing committee members represent, disabled users. Although I was unable in addition to the aforementioned, Egypt, to attend the August 2013 IFLA World Croatia, and Sri Lanka. Library and Information Congress (WLIC) The February 2015 LPD Mid-Year meet- held in Singapore, I did manage to make ing was hosted by LPD Standing Commit- the February 2014 LPD mid-year meeting tee Member Thomas Kahlisch, Director in Washington, D.C., the 2014 WLIC in of DZB (Deutsche Zentralbücherei für Lyon, France, and most recently the LPD Blinde), the German Central Library for mid-year meeting in Leipzig, Germany. the Blind, and coordinated by Kahlisch With a little luck from the travel gods, and his staff at the DZB. The itinerary I plan to attend the 2015 WLIC in Cape consisted of two full days of committee Town, South Africa, in August. For the meetings and a third day devoted to a Sym- sake of brevity, I will concentrate mainly posium on Barrier Free Access to Digital on my trip to Leipzig (in former East Ger- Information. The following is a summary many) accompanied by Vivaldi, my four- of our business meetings, in addition to year-old yellow lab guide dog and secret procedural and housekeeping items. Dis- admirer of bratwurst. cussion items included: The LPD Standing Committee is comprised of up to twenty international 1) An update of the Accessible Books librarians serving four-year terms, and, Consortium (ABC) implementation of therefore, different countries are repre- cross border, alternate book file sharing EDITOR’S NOTE sented at various intervals depending on in preparation for the eventual ratifica- Michael L. Marlin is Director of the Braille the capacity of each participating (usually tion of the 2013 Marrakesh Treaty to and Talking Book section of the California national) library. The U.S., through the Facilitate Access to Published Works State Library. Photos by Michael Marlin and National Library Service for the Blind and for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually his wife Debra Scott. Physically Handicapped, has participated Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled.

24 California State Library Foundation 2) The committee’s 2015-16 strategic plan, including formulating the process for revising New Guidelines for Library Service to Persons with Print Two examples of tactile pages for an alphabet book, featuring a crocodile Disabilities (last updated in the pre- and a monkey, produced by the DZB Tactile Graphics Department. digital 1980s). 3) Development of a worldwide survey to gather relevant statistics from libraries about service for the print-disabled. 4) Planning a program for attendees at the Cape Town conference entitled “The Inclusive Library: How to Render Inclusive Library Services to Blind and Visually Impaired People.” 5) A presentation from a special guest from the University of Marburg on braille music notation. 6) A tour of the DZB braille press and tactile graphics department.

Building on the post Lyon Congress 2014 satellite conference we co-sponsored in Paris—“eBooks for Everyone! An Oppor- tunity For More Inclusive Libraries”—the Cape Town program planning in Leipzig yielded the following papers which will be presented to our IFLA colleagues in August:

1) “Audio Books with Human Voice or Text to Speech: Many Solutions for a Better Access to Reading” (Luc Maumet, Asso- ciation Valentin Hauy, Paris, France. 2) “Finnish Accessibility Guidelines for Public Libraries” (Kirsi Ylänne, Celia Library, Helsinki, Finland). 3) “Possibilities for Establishing a Volunteer Braille Transcription Program” (Karen This industrial sized braille embosser feeder illustrates the sheer volume of braille books produced at DZB.

bulletin 113 25 Keninger, National Library Service for MEDIBUS (a consortium of libraries the Blind and Physically Handicapped, for the print disabled in German-speak- Washington, D.C., United States). ing countries), legislation and advocacy 4) “The Best Thing the Blind World Has being conducted by the European Blind Ever Seen! Writing Camp for Visually Union, access to information for blind Impaired Young People” (Eli Frisvold, students at Humboldt University Berlin, Norwegian Library of Talking Books a discussion of EPUB 3 mark-up lan- and Braille, Oslo, Norway). guage for making electronic content, par- 5) “Bringing Library and Information Ser- ticularly nonfiction and scholarly works, vices to the Visually Impaired Person: accessible, the state of tactile graphics for The Experience of the South African visually impaired students presented by Library for the Blind” (Neli Kaunda a Dresden University of Technology pro- South African Library for the Blind, fessor, and a case study in Switzerland Grahamstown, South Africa). regarding a download platform for audio- 6) “The Work and Impact of the Acces- books and e-books especially designed for sible Book Consortium: Bringing children with dyslexia. Books to People with Print Disabili- I spent my final time in Germany as an ties” (Accessible Books Consortium, inquisitive tourist, visiting Berlin via train Geneva, Switzerland). on my own to experience the remains of the Berlin Wall, including Checkpoint In addition to productive business meet- Charlie, as well as several museums. My ings, I was delighted to accompany my last day was spent with a wonderful tour peers on a tour of DZB in which we viewed guide exploring Leipzig, including the The result of heat mold production process from this plate is a colorful tactile elephant for their robust braille production facilities Stasi Museum, Nikolai Church with its blind and low vision readers to experience. and most especially the Tactile Graphics incredible pipe organ, St. Thomas Church The spine of a braille book to be assembled Department which produces maps, books, where J.S. Bach is supposedly buried, the in book production. calendars, and other ephemera containing Bach Museum, Mendelssohn House and colorful tactile graphics. The production the Modern Art Museum. I capped it all process involves the use of heated stencilled off at the Leipzig Opera where Vivaldi steel or brass plates and various dyes to cre- and I enjoyed a wonderful ballet featuring ate tactile representations of objects such a mini version of the Leipzig Symphony as animals, building shapes, etc., accom- Orchestra and pieces by many of my favor- panied by braille signifiers or descriptions. ite twentieth century composers. Hopefully, the photos I snapped depicted in What can I say about Leipzig? Well, this article will give you an idea of this cre- besides being ground zero for the 1989 ative and adaptive, not to mention reason- Peaceful Revolution that led to the fall of able, accommodation art form. the Berlin Wall, the food is delicious, the I received further education at the “Sym- people warm and welcoming, the streets posium on Barrier Free Access to Digital clean and free of canine temptations, the Information.” The symposium featured intellectual environment stimulating, and welcoming remarks from the minister of a climate very respectful of people with science and the arts in the German state print disabilities. I look forward to further of Saxony. In addition, there were lectures Germanic explorations of both my ances- about the following topics: try and bibliographic pursuits.

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TWO NEW BOARD MEMBERS ELECTED NEW ACQUISITIONS At its June board meeting, the Founda- ANGELO A. WILLIAMS SPOTLIGHTED tion’s Board of Directors enthusiastically oundation Board President Kenneth By Gary F. Kurutz, Executive Director and elected two new members to the board: FNoack, Jr. and his close friend and Curator Emeritus of Special Collections Gary Noy and Angelo A. Williams. noted Sacramento construction magnate Fred Teichert recommended a fellow hrough donations and fees generated by publishing State Library images, GARY NOY Rotarian to the board. Teichert had the T ary Noy recently retired as a full-time pleasure of meeting Dr. Angelo A. Wil- the Foundation continues to purchase Ginstructor at Sierra Community Col- liams through one of the Rotary Club’s genealogy books, historical photographs, lege in Rocklin but continues in an emeri- programs known as the Nehemiah Emerg- manuscripts, maps, and ephemera. The tus capacity and maintains a heavy schedule ing Leaders Program (NELP). The pur- Larson Fund enables the Sutro Library in of teaching, writing, and making presenta- pose of NELP is to help emerging African San Francisco to continue adding to its tions to community groups. The board is American business and professional lead- genealogy and local history collections. The excited to have his historical expertise and ers get better connected to the commu- Sutro Library has the largest family history experience with nonprofit organizations. nity. Williams turned out to be one of this collection west of the Family History Center From 2002 to 2012, he served as the founder year’s NELP fellows. In addition he has a in Salt Lake City. Recently, for example, the and director of the Center for Sierra Nevada keen interest in the State Library. By join- Sutro Library obtained a very rare collection Studies at Sierra Community College where ing the board, the Foundation gains a very of New York directories dating back to the he founded the Archives of Sierra Commu- well-connected educator. 1810s and a number of county and local nity College History. In addition, Noy served Dr. Williams currently serves as the leg- histories from various states and Canada. as editor-in-chief of the Sierra College Press islative director for the California Student The Library’s California History Section and as executive director of the Sierra Com- Aid Commission (CSAC), the principal makes available an immense collection munity College Foundation. state agency responsible for disseminat- of ephemera, that is booklets, pamphlets, Noy has had a lifelong love affair with the ing $1.8 billion in Cal Grant funds annu- travel brochures, event flyers and post- history of the High Sierra. This has resulted ally to students seeking financial aid for ers, tickets, fruit crate labels, political in many outstanding publications includ- higher education in California. Previously, campaign buttons and bumper stickers, ing such well-received books as Sierra Sto- he served in a number of executive leader- commercial catalogs, and menus, just to ries: Tales of Schemers, Dreamers, Bigots and ship positions including his tenure as the name a few categories. The vast majority Rogues (2014) and The Illuminated Land- assistant executive director of policy and of these were originally meant for adver- scape: A Sierra Nevada Anthology (2010). programs at the California School Boards tising and were then discarded when Both were co-published by Heyday Press Association and Foundation. Williams has out-of-date. Librarians and historians, and Sierra College Press. Noy is presently also served as state director at the California however, have long recognized the his- writing a book devoted to Gold Rush stories Community College Chancellor’s Office, a torical value of these ephemeral items. related to the Sierra and has been making gubernatorial appointment; interim dean Many of them were beautifully designed extensive use of the State Library’s Califor- of student services and enrollment man- and contain important documentation nia History Section. Related to his writing, agement at Cosumnes River College; and on communities, businesses, social and he has given more than 225 presentations as a program officer at the W. K. Kellogg political events, and movements. Perhaps to historical societies, libraries, and other Foundation in Michigan. Combined with not surprisingly, private collectors are also public institutions on Sierra Nevada history this busy schedule, Williams has been an interested and antiquarian book dealers and literature including a wonderful talk adjunct faculty member in the Los Rios have long recognized the market value of given at the State Library. In recognition Community College District and serves on ephemera. Through the Foundation, the of his many contributions, Noy has been several boards. This dynamic educator is California History Section regularly adds named Educator of the Year by the Oregon- an avid baseball fan and a published poet. to its ephemera collection and the next five California Trails Association and Instructor His most recent work appeared in the Sac- entries describe several examples. of the Year at Sierra Community College. ramento Poetry Center’s Tule Review.

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DOCUMENTING STEVENSON’S NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS BUILDING THE MT. WILSON TOLL ROAD hile at an ephemera show my eye This represented a “must have” purchase Wwas caught by a tiny pamphlet since Stevenson was our founding donor. ne of the most famous peaks in Los with the words “Survivors of Colonel Ste- The pamphlet itself consists of a list of OAngeles County is Mt. Wilson. Named venson’s Regiment.” I asked the dealer names and addresses of surviving regi- for the pioneer Benjamin D. Wilson and if he could take it out of his exhibit case, mental members as of August 28, 1888. located high above Pasadena and the San and he kindly handed it to me. Colonel Not surprisingly, the vast majority lived Gabriel Valley, its peak and adjacent area is Stevenson was none other than Jona- in California. Additionally, it did include dotted with communication towers. How- than Drake Stevenson who led the First the names of deceased members. The ever, it is best known for its observatory and Regiment of New York Volunteers to society of the survivors was founded on 100-inch reflecting telescope. Getting to the California at the conclusion of the Mexi- October 24, 1883. In the introductory 5,710-foot high mountain was a challenge can War of 1847–48. Consisting of 917 matter, Secretary John Evans wrote: “It back in the late nineteenth and early twenti- members, the regiment arrived too late is a gratification to announce the contin- eth centuries. The Foundation has obtained for military service but helped American- ual good health of our old Colonel, now the account book of the Mount Wilson Toll ize California. Even more important for eighty-eight years old, and for the past Road Company documenting the construc- our institutional history, on January 22, forty years a resident of San Francisco.” tion of a road to the summit. Covering the 1849, Colonel Stevenson donated a series The Library’s California History Section years 1891 to 1906, the account book reveals of volumes to the new state government also has the 1895 roster of survivors and that the company cleared a trail suitable for of California to found the State Library. deceased members. horses, mules, and hikers. In 1905, the company purchased 640 acres of the mountain top and entered into a long-term lease with THE SALE OF THE BIDWELL RANCH the Carnegie Institution to locate a new observatory, known today as the Mount mong the California History Section’s titled Bidwell Orchards and promoted the Wilson Observatory. Also in 1905, the com- Amost important and famous collec- sale of the Bidwell ranch in small subdivi- pany opened a hotel to accommodate the tions are the papers of John and Annie sions. The ranch was administered by the heavy public traffic that ascended the moun- Bidwell. John Bidwell led the famous Annie E. K. Bidwell Orchards, Inc. which tain. The ledger book details expenses for Bidwell-Bartleson overland emigration was offering the “cream” of the property. building the trail, construction of the hotel, party to California in 1841. He worked for Illustrated with many photographs of the purchase of real estate, furniture, and other John Sutter and later found gold at Bidwell’s ranch, the oblong publication shows its expenses. In addition it listed the names of Bar, and with his fortune established a large lush peach, prune, and almond orchards; visitors who purchased passes for the toll ranch in the present-day Chico area and attractive creek; park; and grounds; and road and the number in their respective founded the town of Chico. He was elected buildings in the Chico area including parties. Scanning these lists reveals then to Congress and married Annie Ellicott Ken- the Normal School. To further entice prominent figures such as Governor H. nedy in 1868. Annie Bidwell was dedicated prospective buyers the company made H. Markham; authors John Muir, Charles to several social causes including temper- the ranch sound like paradise on earth. F. Lummis, and George Wharton James; ance, women’s suffrage, and protecting the While giving many statistics, it included Professor T. S. C. Lowe, builder of the resort rights of Native Americans. They donated the following: “There is positively no and incline railway above Altadena known the land that became the Chico State Nor- land in California as rich as that of Butte as Mt. Lowe; and Pasadena area hotel build- mal School which later became the state county, no land in Butte county as rich as ers Walter Raymond (Raymond Hotel) and university. The Bidwell Mansion in Chico that around Chico, no land in Chico so Colonel G. G. Green (Green Hotel). serves as a beautiful monument to their rich as the Bidwell lands, and none of rich legacy. Amazingly, a dealer brought the Bidwell lands equal to those orchards into my officer a pamphlet that he said we which the Annie E. K. Bidwell Orchards, did not have and he was right. We had to Inc. is now subdividing into small divi- acquire it. The thirty-two page pamphlet is sions of five, ten and fifteen acres.”

28 California State Library Foundation The front wrapper of Whitman’s record jaunt across the continent in his durable Reo. The motoring enthusiast had already made three transcontinental trips, the earliest was in 1903.

A VINTAGE SEED CATALOG

n the same group of material came Ia California seed catalog published in 1894 by the Sunset Seed and Plant Company of San Francisco. The company’s seed farm and nurseries were located in the Menlo Park area of San Mateo County. The Library’s California His- MOTORING COAST TO COAST IN 1910 tory Section makes available an extensive group of seed catalogs many of which date hrough another loyal dealer a wonderful collection of from the late nineteenth and early twen- Tbooklets, pamphlets, and decals documenting early auto- tieth centuries. Published by Luther Bur- mobile travel came into the Library. This was at a time when bank’s Experimental Farms, C. C. Morse, motoring was much more of a daring sport rather than a vital Theodore Payne and others, they offer a form of transportation. It was also at a time when automobile delightful picture of an important com- companies wanted to prove to the general public that the car represented a safe and reliable ponent of agriculture as many are illus- means of travel. A highlight in the collection is a tall, twenty-two page booklet called Coast trated with engravings and lithographs of to Coast in a Reo by transcontinental motoring enthusiast L. L. Whitman. Written in a highly lush California grown flowers, vegetables, entertaining manner, the booklet tells of Whitman’s 1910 adventures driving a four-cylinder plants, and trees. What also makes this touring car manufactured by the Reo Motor Car Company from New York to San Francisco. particular catalog of interest is that it was His open-air vehicle was modified to carry an extra thirty-gallon gas tank, spare water and printed following the Panic (depression) oil tanks, tires, and a nice supply of tools, compasses, goggles, clothing, and food and drink. of 1893. Many Americans lost their sav- In an era before the Far West enjoyed regular paved roads and bridges and conveniently ings and jobs. In the introductory matter, located gas stations, and motels, Whitman, accompanied by “co-pilot” E. I. Hammond and a it included the following practical advice: small support crew, made the trek in the record time of ten days, fifteen hours, and thirteen “We hear on all sides the cry, ‘hard minutes. They averaged a grueling 400 to 450 miles a day. Crossing the bay by ferry, the Reo times,’ but a careful perusal of the suc- with its smiling crew arrived in San Francisco on August 18 at 3:13 p.m. where a crowd of ceeding pages may suggest to the reader enthusiastic motorists and a brass band greeted them. To give visual impact to his journey, that vegetables are cheaper than meat, Whitman illustrated his narrative with photographs of the Reo blowing through corn and flowers more ennobling than fine rai- wheat fields and the dusty desert floor of Nevada. Each photograph included a map showing ment, hedges less costly than fences and their route and hours elapsed since leaving New York. Mindful of the wear and tear on his creation in the garden more conducive to trusty Reo, Whitman wrote: “Our intentions are good, but our blunders many. May the Reo health and happiness than doctor’s visits. forgive us the unmerciful driving and hard bumps we gave it.” Amazingly, this motoring A little garden practice will also convince pioneer had previously set three coast-to-coast records. Whitman’s first transcontinental trip the most skeptical that flowers blossom took place in 1903. For this, he drove an Oldsmobile and it took seventy-one days. In his last as sweetly, vegetables are so crisp and the outing, it was his goal to surpass his 1906 fifteen-day, two-hour record when he drove a more shade of trees as refreshing as in even the expensive and powerful six-cylinder Franklin. most prosperous years.”

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JOE D’AMBROSIO: THE BOOK AS AN ART FORM

n display in the rotunda of the State ranging from feathers to dyed crumbled OLibrary Annex is an exhibit devoted paper. Trained as an engineer in Chicago, to the noted book artist Joe D’Ambrosio. the artist used these skills for producing The late Mr. D’Ambrosio was a man of highly imaginative but complex structures many talents and gifted with a remark- for his books. Other than using an antique able ingenuity when it came to creating printing press, all of his books under the books. D’Ambrosio’s largest and most imprint of “D’Ambrosio” were handmade. noteworthy project, though, was not a Consequently, they were issued in limited book but the design of the rotunda floor editions of ten to fifty copies. in the Annex. With the construction of D’Ambrosio began designing books in the building underway in 1992, then State 1969. He explained his biblio-philoso- Librarian Gary E. Strong wanted to com- phy in this way: “My goal was to create a mission an artwork of distinction for the visual environment for the written word.” entrance rotunda in keeping with the mis- He relocated in southern California in sion of the Library. Impressed by the work 1979 and then moved to Phoenix follow- of the Southern California artist, Strong ing the frightening San Fernando Earth- asked him for ideas. D’Ambrosio showed quake of 1989. He died on September 18, him a striking serigraph poster that he had 2009. From 1969 to 2009, this talented Vincent Beiderbecke of the State Library designed created for a miniature book, Daisies Never man produced over ninety books (several this beautiful poster for the D’Ambrosio exhibit. Tell (1982), in which random concentric were written by him), a variety of posters, The illustration reproduces the brilliant image D’Ambrosio designed for his book Daisies Don’t letters surrounded a daisy flower in the bookplates, and special projects like the Tell. This celebration of the letter forms provided center. Strong enthusiastically approved Library’s rotunda floor. the inspiration for the spectacular terrazzo floor in the rotunda of the Library Annex Building. the concept with one modification: the Over the years, this gentle, smiling art- initial letters of the Library (CSL) were to ist consistently donated examples of his be substituted for the flower. Despite what work to the Library including preliminary tunity to meet some fascinating people. many people say, the concentric circles of drawings, trial proofs, and samples of He was invited, for instance, to a garden letters, however, spell no words. Rather, the materials that he employed in mak- party hosted by actress Gloria Stuart in they joyously celebrate the Roman alpha- ing his books. For example, his charming Brentwood. Stuart had last starred as the bet. The floor is made of terrazzo, created A Nest of Robins (1999) features a series senior lady in the movie Titanic and had by embedding colored marble chips into of four boxes nesting in progressively enjoyed a long Hollywood career before colored concrete. D’Ambrosio’s brilliant smaller boxes. When the last clamshell retiring to become an artist and fine design included six colors. The base of the box is opened, the delighted reader then printer. D’Ambrosio was so inspired by floor is three-inch thick concrete mixed beholds a tiny leather-bound book with a her bonsai garden that he created a fantas- with sand. Following D’Ambrosio’s deco- glass beaded circle mounted on its cover. tic book, The Small Garden of Gloria Stuart rative pattern, the Consolidated Terrazzo The book itself measures a minuscule 1 (1986). Through D’Ambrosio, the Library 3 Company of Azusa installed the floor in inch by /4 of an inch. Found in the dis- obtained not only the finished edition of 1993. On display are several photographs play are three different trial states in which the book with its distinctive cast-paper and showing the installation of the floor, the D’Ambrosio experimented with various kid leather binding but also the book’s artist’s design, and the original poster that designs and materials before he settled on original typescript, trial drawings and served as the inspiration. the final production. The spine of the first proofs, and samples of the material used The exhibition also features many of the box ingeniously features a tiny sculpture in creating the fifty copies. whimsical and eye-popping books designed, of a robin nesting in a tree! The exhibit was curated by Gary Kurutz, printed, and bound by D’Ambrosio. He Living in Sherman Oaks in the San Fer- Special Collections with the able assistance used a variety of materials in his books nando Valley afforded the artist the oppor- of Dan Flanagan of the Preservation Office.

30 California State Library Foundation A NIGHT AT THE STATE LIBRARY: THE 14TH ANNUAL JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION By Deborah Lynch

n Thursday June 18, 2015, A Night published in San Francisco in 1881. Until Oat the State Library presented Sacra- recently, it was thought to be the first mento’s 14th Annual Juneteenth Celebra- African-American cookbook published in tion of Freedom. The event was held at the America. That distinction was taken by Library Annex Building at 900 N Street, “The Domestic Cookbook” by Malinda Rus- Sacramento in both the Fragrance Garden sell, published in 1866. However, Abby and the First Floor Rotunda. Fisher’s work is still the first such cook- Sponsored by the California State book published in California. Library Foundation, the California State Karina Robinson, a special assistant to Library, Sacramento Juneteenth, Inc., and the state librarian and an expert genealogist, the Sacramento Juneteenth Black Chefs delivered a lively genealogy presentation. Chef Ernesto Hayles delights a happy event participant with his tasty dish. Collaborative, the event featured a Chefs’ She researched Sacramento Juneteenth Challenge Cooking Contest and a gene- Executive Director Gary Simon’s family alogy presentation by the State Library’s tree and was able to find ancestors going Karina Robinson. back six generations. The Chefs’ Challenge featured three Gary Kurutz curated the exhibit in the chefs from the Sacramento Juneteenth Annex Rotunda featuring African-Ameri- Black Chefs Collaborative who cooked can items from our collection. The exhibit recipes from the State Library’s culinary included California’s copy of the Emanci- collection. Guests were asked to vote on pation Proclamation, memorabilia from their favorite. The chefs in this year’s the Civil Rights era, and of course, Mrs. competition were Ernesto Hayles, Booker Fisher’s cookbook. T. Pannell, and Andrea O’Neal. The This partnership is one the State Library winner this year was Booker T. Pannell, hopes to continue long into the future. who prepared Chicken Croquettes from

“What Mrs. Fisher Knows about Old South- Deborah Lynch is a public information officer Gary Simon with Chefs Challenge ern Cooking,” by Abby Fisher, printed and at the State Library. winner Booker T. Pannell

bulletin 113 31 Recent Contributors

ASSOCIATE BRAILLE & TALKING BOOK LIBRARY Ms. Marlynn R. Dykstra, Oakland Mr. David Ballard, Carmichael Marvin and Yolande Adelson Family Trust, Glenn J. Farris, Davis Dr. Gerald E. Benston, Rancho Mirage Newport Beach Jim W. Faulkinbury, Sacramento Kenneth Burt, Carmichael Mr. & Mrs. Frank Bodegraven, Paradise JoAnn Fujikawa, Montara EBSCO, Birmingham, AL Mr. Peter Corchero, Paradise Ronald Helm, El Dorado Hills Lynn Kataoka, Sacramento Friends of Bellflower Library, Bellflower Lee Hollingsworth, Old Hangtown Carolyn Martin, Sacramento Alice T. Grayweski, Napa Informa UK, Ltd. Ms. M. Kay Mowery, Clio, MI Constance V. Hall, Los Altos Suzanne Jacobs, Sacramento James Randlett, Sacramento Barbara R. Russell, Arnold Kimberly Johnston-Dodds, Sacramento Ms. Shirley Schiffrin, Santa Cruz MacMillan Higher Education, New York, NY Marilyn Sherrard, Clio CONTRIBUTOR Benjamin Madley, Los Angeles James B. Snyder, Davis Judith M. Auth, Riverside Ms. Cindy Mediavilla, Culver City Geraldine Soderlund, Graeagle Mr. Forrest E. Boomer, Carmichael Alice Murphey, Fair Oaks Marilyn C. Stoops, Walnut Creek Boys Republic, Chino Hills Nevada County Genealogical Society, Nancy S. Young, Citrus Heights Cedar Ridge Mr. Bayford Butler, Penryn In Memory of Ruth Champagne Merry Ovnick, Northridge Carolyn & Steven Conner, Chula Vista Ms. Bonnie Gratch-Lindauer, Daly City The Permissions Group, Glenview, IL Jody Feldman, Sacramento In Memory of Eleanor Fitzsimmons Sacramento Public Library, Sacramento Ms. Charlotte Harriss, Danville Camille Fitzsimmons, Houston, TX Sierra State Parks Foundation, Tahoma Ms. Mary Jane Jagodzinski, Encinitas Carol S. Mohrman, Houston, TX Ms. Claudia J. Skelton, Seattle, WA Michael Otten, Auburn Camille D. Simpson, Houston, TX Mr. Jan Stevens, Loomis Suzanne Vinson Royce, Piedmont In Memory of Colette “Coco” Lazenby Ms. Suzanne Grimshaw, Woodland Mr. Davis Von Aspern, Sacramento Michael R. Smith, Elk Grove In Memory of AnnaBella Piccolo Herman Zittel, Susanville Mrs. Phyllis M. Smith, Granite Bay Paul and Eleanor Creger, Santa Clara In Memory of Val Zemitis Mr. James B. Snyder, Davis In Honor of Roy A. Smith Mrs. Sibylle Zemitis, Davis United Way, California Capital Region, Mrs. Virginia Smith, San Jose Oregon California Trails Association Sacramento Rodi A. Lee, El Dorado Hills Bill and Karen Mitchell, Grass Valley SPONSOR CALIFORNIA HISTORY Mr. John A. Winner, Placerville Les & Mary DeWall, Davis Mr. John E. Allen, Sacramento Mimi & Burnett Miller, Sacramento Mr. Michael Bernick, San Francisco SUTRO LIBRARY Blue Bear Films, Annapolis, MD Mr. Lloyd De Llamas, Covina Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento LIFETIME Mrs. Nancy Ehlers, Sacramento William J. Coffill, Sonora Swinerton Family Fund, San Francisco Moria P. Gardner, Santa Rosa Ms. Anne Curran, Oakland Lifetime Gift Membership for Michael Shepard Priscilla J. Royal, Crockett Maryellen Dabaghian, Sacramento Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Livingston, Sacramento Ms. Winifred L. Swanson, Santa Rosa Robert K. White, San Rafael

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