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1. About the Artist [Edith Ford] - Biography

   About the Artist [Edith Ford], c. 1970s-1980s. One page artist biography with text and images on the artist Edith Ford. The biogrpahy was attached to the back of the paining "The Rescue" (2021.008.001) and contains an image of Ford standing next to that painting with an award ribbon. Text of the biography reads: "ABOUT THE ARTIST Edith Ford has been a resident of San Mateo for the past 24 years. She is a member of The Thirty and One Artists of...

   Record Type: Archive

   
2. Allied Arts in Menlo Park, February 5, 1966 - Negative

   Allied Arts in Menlo Park, February 5, 1966. Black and white photo of Allied Arts Grounds in Menlo Park. Part of a series. Description provided by the photographer, Norton Pearl, with assistance from project organizer Cynthia Schreurs.

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. Artist Rognas with Statuary, April 2, 1964 - Negative

   Artist Rognas with Statuary, April 2, 1964. Black and white photo negative of Artist Rognas with statuary. Part of a series. Description provided by the photographer, Norton Pearl, with assistance from project organizer Cynthia Schreurs.

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. Assistencia - Painting

   Asistencia by Mary Bresnahan, 1994. Framed and matted watercolor painting depicts Pacifica's Assistencia, a Mission Outpost for Mission Dolores at the current site of the Sanchez Adobe. Depicted on the left is a white U-shaped building with a cross in the center of the yard and on a peak of the rooftop. Also in the yard is a cart filled with fruit and two figures. In the foreground are two oxen, a donkey, three chickens and a carreta. On the rig...

   Record Type: Object

   
5. A Window Into a Changed World - Friedman, Susan

   A Window Into a Changed World by Susan Friedman, 2020. Self-published, Montara, CA. Photography book contains color portraits and writings froms Coastside families during the COVID-19 quarantine. Photography by Susan Friedman. Editing by Jacob Graham and Susan Friedman. 106 pages. Author's summary: "A Window Into a Changed World" is a series of portraits of families facing the world's crisis. This is a unique historical moment in time, a catast...

   Record Type: Library

   
6. Benny Bufuno Sculpture in the Camp Family's Private Collection, April 5, 1963 - Negative

   Benny Bufuno Sculpture in the Camp Family's Private Collection, April 5, 1963. Black and white negative of Benny Bufano art at home of Camp's, 80 Downey Rd., Hillsborough. Part of a series. Description provided by the photographer, Norton Pearl, with assistance from project organizer Cynthia Schreurs.

   Record Type: Photo

   
7. Burlingame Kindergarten Class at McKinley School, September 1949 - Negative

   Burlingame Kindergarten Class at McKinley School, September 1949. Black and white negative shows a kindergarten class at McKinley School in Burlingame, California. The group portrait shows fourteen elementary school students in a classroom with many of the children wearing checkered aprons. Some of the students stand in front of easels holding paintbrushes, two are sitting in small chairs, two are sitting cross-legged on the floor, and the rest a...

   Record Type: Photo

   
8. Chalk Pastel Drawing of Horse - Drawing

   Chalk Pastel Drawing of Horse by Thad Leland is on brown paper, mounted under glass and and off-white colored mat, inside a brown colored wooden frame. Image depicts a brown horse, wit white back feet and a white line extending form its forehead to its node. It has a green colored shadow.

   Record Type: Object

   
9. Crazy Quilt, 1884 - Quilt

   Crazy Quilt, 1884. Multicolor rectangular crazy quilt is 24.5 x 35.5 inches overall. The quilt includes a top pieced layer with embroidery, batting, and calico backing fabric with the wrong side of the stitches showing. There are multiple colors of fabric in the construction of the quilt and the predominant tones are browns, purples, blues, and greens. There is a dark purple rectangular piece of fabric at center that is 5.25 x 8.5 inches. "L A F"...

   Record Type: Object

   
10. Declaration of Independence Kerchief, c. 1840-1860 - Kerchief

    Declaration of Independence Kerchief, c. 1840-1860. Silk kerchief is off-white with brown print and a dark blue outer border. Top two-thirds of scarf depicts an image of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Below image are cartoon drawings of the people represented in the image with numbers corresponding to their signatures below. Entire scarf has been backed with off-white muslin.

    Record Type: Object

    
11. Drawing of Pigeon Point Lighthouse, 2016 - Drawing

    Drawing of Pigeon Point Lighthouse, 2016. Pencil on white paper line drawing, almost certainly by a child, of Pigeon Point Lighthouse. The lighthouse tower stands at an angle in the center of the page, its beacon sending out twin bursts of light. The attached house, with two large chimneys, is in the bottom left of the paper. Behind the house is a cresting ocean wave. Extending downward and to the right of the lighthouse tower, as if in a speech ...

    Record Type: Object

    
12. Etchings of the California Missions - Stern, Alec

    Etchings of the California Missions by Alec Stern, 1960. Published by Alec Stern Studio, San Mateo, CA. Art book with reproductions of original etchings by Alec Stern show images of California missions. Images include: Bell Tower, Mission San Carlos, Carmel; Father Junipero Serra Shrine, Carmel; San Carlos Borromeo Mission, Carmel; Mission San Diego; Mission Santa Cruz; Mission San Juan Capistrano; Mission San Juan Bautista; Mission San Rafael; M...

    Record Type: Library

    
13. Flower Design Sketchbook, 1943-1944 - Sketchbook

    Sketchbook belonging to Yoshiko Yamanouchi. Small spiral-bound sketchbook with 54 ruled leaves and brown cover, hand-numbered in red per illustration (not per page), beginning on the reverse side of leaf 8 as page 1, until page 62. Reads right to left. Pages are filled with sketches by Yamanouchi of floral arrangements in pencil, ink, and watercolor, with notes in Japanese and dates in English - earliest is November 19th, 1943 (on page numbered a...

    Record Type: Archive

    
14. Framed Intaglio Print, "La Comparaison des Petits Pieds", 18th-19th Cenury - Print, Intaglio

    Framed Intaglio Print, "La Comparaison des Petits Pieds", 18th-19th Cenury. Alexandre Chaponnier print after painting by Louis-Léopold Boilly. Color print shows two female figures in an interior room gazing at their feet. The figure on the left sits with her leg bent so that her right foot rests on her left knee. She wears a blue dress and a wide-brimmed hat. The female figure on the right wears a white dress that is open at the neck exposing her...

    Record Type: Object

    
15. Framed Intaglio Print, "Prelude de Nina", 18th-19th Century - Print, Intaglio

    Framed Intaglio Print, "Prelude de Nina", 18th-19th Century. Alexandre Chaponnier print after painting by Louis-Léopold Boilly. Color print shows a male and a female figure near a piano in a bedroom. A woman in a white dress visible at center sits at a light gray piano that fills the lower right side of the image. The man at left wears a white wig, blue jacket, white ruffled shirt and white pants. The woman turns toward a man who in turn leans fo...

    Record Type: Object

    
16. Framed Religious Needlepoint from the Greer Family Estate - Needlepoint

    Framed Religious Needlepoint from the Greer Family Estate. Diagonal stitch yarn needlepoint is mounted under glass beneath a thick off-white mat inside a deep gold-painted wooden frame with a shiny gold geometric inner border consisting of overlapping rectangles. Needlepoint is a kit where the image has been printed onto a screen. Artist has filled in all areas with yarn except except for the flesh areas of the three figures depicted. Image i...

    Record Type: Object

    
17. Gold Rush Era Mural, c. 1930s - Mural

    Gold Rush Era Mural, c. 1935-1943. Paint and canvas mural in the shape of a half circle, with the curved edge forming the top and sides of the piece and the straight edge along the bottom. In the left foreground it depicts three men wearing hats; one of them smokes a cigar and another one holds playing cards. In the right foreground is a Chinese merchant standing behind a table of his wares; he has a scale in front of him and appears to be haggli...

    Record Type: Object

    
18. Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival Poster, 1992 - Poster

    Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival Poster, 1992. Poster print of a painting by January Hooker. Print depicts a white picket fence opening into a colorful garden, with climbing rose bushes on each side of the fence opening, a stretch of green grass, and yellow and lavender flowers with a leafy tree behind and above them. Print has a narrow dark green border, and at the bottom, under a flowering pumpkin vine, is written "HALF MOON BAY ART & PUMPK...

    Record Type: Object

    
19. Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival Poster, 2002 - Poster

    Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival Poster, 2002. Poster print of a painting by January Hooker. Painting is in landscape orientation and depicts a coastal scene, with two brown rocky hills covered in yellow and purple flowers rising on each side and forming a valley in the middle. Through this valley, the viewer sees a sandy beach and dark blue ocean with a cresting wave. At the bottom of the painting, in the foreground, are clusters of pumpkins...

    Record Type: Object

    
20. Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival Poster, 2006 - Poster

    Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival Poster, 2006. Poster print of a painting by January Hooker. Painting is in portrait orientation and depicts Pigeon Point Lighthouse, with the lighthouse itself in the upper right in front of a white, blue, and pink cloudy sky. Below and to the left of the lighthouse, the grassy land tumbles down into a rocky shore to meet the ocean. In the foreground in the bottom right is a grassy hill with clusters of pumpki...

    Record Type: Object

    
21. Happy San Mateo County Day Poster Contest Winners - Poster

    Happy San Mateo County Day Poster Contest Winners, 2023- (ongoing series): 2023 2023.054.001 - First Place (ages 12-18) Automobiles in the 1900s, Alicia Alvarado 2023.054.002 - First Place (ages 11 and under) CA, Allynna B. Soe 2023.054 003 - Second Place (ages 12-18): Edwardian Fashion at San Mateo County, Victoria Cintora 2023.054.004 - Second Place (ages 11 and under): Trees in San Mateo County, Katherine Chen

    Record Type: Archive

    
22. Indian Child with Bedindle Whorl by Lavinia B. Hill, c. 1920-1967 - Painting

    Indian Child with Bedindle Whorl by Lavinia B. Hill, c. 1920-1967. Oil on redwood. Image depicts American Indian woman of a San Diego tribe. She is wearing a long-sleeved red dress with white flecks and is barefoot. She is seated, on the ground with her left knee raised. In her hands she holds a spinning whorl. Image is painted directly onto an oval piece of redwood. A clear layer of varnish covers the entire front.

    Record Type: Object

    
23. Jerome Kirk - Kirk, Jerome

    Paperback photography book of artwork by Jerome Kirk with design and editing by Nori Nisbet and foreward by Peter Selz. A photograph of the sculpture "AURORA" installed at Raychem Corporation heqdquarters in Menlo Park appears on page 16.

    Record Type: Library

    
24. "La Perfidie Demasquee" Framed Engraving, 1835-1935 - Engraving

    "La Perfidie Demasquee" Framed Engraving, 1835-1935. Monochromatic print by C. Venzo after a painting by Giovanni Battista Cipriani. The center of the print has a predominantly black oval background. A female figure wears greek-style robes. Her right hand is holding her chin and her left hand is holding a male mask with white hair and a beard near her waist. She wears a bracelet on her left arm and sandals on her feet. Emerging from the left side...

    Record Type: Object

    
25. Legends of the Coastland - Wolf, Galen

    Legends of the Coastland by Galen Wolf; edited by Shannon Nottestad, 2012. This book is a series of stories and illustations from Galen Wolf "recounting his childhood in San Francisco and Spanishtown (Half Moon Bay)....and other highlights of his life in art" [front book jacket]. Includes a signature and note to both JoAnn and Julie; illustrations and stories of Galen Wolf; a foreword by Shannon Nottestad; introduction; acknowledgement page incl...

    Record Type: Library