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Lucy Woodruff Smith correspondence, April 1910
No full textLucy Woodruff Smith correspondence, April 1910. Letters received while Lucy and George Smith were at Saint George, including letters from Lucy\u27s brother, Elias S. Woodruff at Salt Lake City; Heber J. Grant at Salt Lake City; "Mother," probably her mother-in-law, Sarah Farr Smith, at Salt Lake City; from Ann D. Watson at Salt Lake City; Lucy\u27s father-in-law, John Henry Smith, at Salt Lake City; "Aunt Lizzie" at Salt Lake City; Aunt Ellen M. Libbey at Littleton, New Hampshire; Alice Louise Reynolds at Provo, Utah; W. Avery Chapman at Palmyra, New Yor
Author Pearl S. Buck, 1965-66 Artist Lecture Series, Chapman College, Orange, California
No full textAuthor Pearl S. Buck, 1965-66 Artist Lecture Series, Chapman College, Orange, California, October 10, 1965. Winner of both Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes in Literature.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cu_events/1035/thumbnail.jp
Chapman College Founders Day Banquet, Anaheim, California, 1968
No full textChapman College Founders Day Banquet, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, 1968. Left to right: Myron Cole, Mrs. C. C. Chapman, and Arlene Reasnor Sayres [author of Chapman Remembers].https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/chapman_family/1031/thumbnail.jp
Commencement, Chapman College, Orange, May 29, 1983
No full textCommencement speaker Author Hughes, Memorial Hall, Chapman College, Orange, May 29, 1983.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cu_events/1069/thumbnail.jp
Henri Temianka Correspondence; (lucy barnes)
Get PDFThis collection contains material pertaining to the life, career, and activities of Henri Temianka, violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher, and author. Materials include correspondence, concert programs and flyers, music scores, photographs, and books.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/temianka_correspondence/1130/thumbnail.jp
The role and function of “tokens” and sealing practices in the neolithic of the Near East: The question of early recording systems, symbolic storage, precursors to writing, gaming, or monitoring devices in the world’s first villages.
Get PDFThe Neolithic in the Near East was a crucial transitional period, evidencing the appearance of the world’s first permanent farming villages, alongside significant changes in social structure, subsistence and artistic expression. This thesis focuses on an enigmatic artefact type; small, geometric clay objects, or “tokens”. “Tokens” appear in the 10th millennium BC, and by the late Neolithic they are present in abundance at large numbers of sites across the region, yet absent at others. The timing of the appearance of “tokens” is significant; however, until recently, the potential importance of these objects was often unrecognised. Schmandt-Besserat’s research (1992a, 1992b, 1996) represents the only comprehensive study on the subject. She claims “tokens” are mnemonic recording devices, appearing to meet the administrative needs of the first sedentary farming communities, eventually developing into the world’s earliest known written script. Though her interpretation is widely accepted, her evidence hails entirely from sites distant in space and time from where these objects initially appeared, and there is no solid evidence supporting the notion that Neolithic “tokens” formed a unified agricultural administrative framework.
This thesis considers the classification, form and function of “tokens”, as well as their temporal and spatial distribution across sites, their find contexts and the relationship between them, sealings and stamp seals. It re-evaluates the validity of Schmandt-Besserat’s theory alongside alternative interpretations, including children’s toys, gaming pieces, administrative counting aids, and more complex accounting tools. Almost 3,000 “tokens” from three well documented case-study sites (Boncuklu Höyük, Çatalhöyük, Tell Sabi Abyad) and twenty less complete assemblages were studied in detail, recording their shape, dimensions, manufacture, use-wear, the find contexts, associated objects and the characteristics of the sites where they are found. This was complimented by a broader level survey charting the presence, number or absence of “tokens” at fifty-six additional sites.
This study has shown that there is no correlation between “token” distribution according to region, time period, site size, or on-site activities. The range of shapes, degree of standardization and assemblage composition varies greatly from site to site, with little regional, temporal or other correlation. Variability is also evidenced in the nature of sites yielding “tokens”, and the immediate contexts in which they are found (e.g. refuse contexts, domestic contexts, administrative contexts, possible ritual contexts). Their generally large numbers when present, variability of deposition, high proportion found in disposal contexts, their simple shape and often crude appearance proves “tokens” were quickly and easily made, and disposed of as readily. All evidence supports the interpretation of “tokens” as multi-functional artefacts, fulfilling a variety of uses within and across settlements. Though sometimes used in accounting, they were not created to administer agricultural produce and were not part of a unified symbolic system. As objects they operated with fluidity of function and interpretation, with imbued value and meaning
William F. Buckley, Jr., 1964-65 Artist Lecture Series, Chapman College, Orange
No full textPublicity photograph of American conservative author and commentator William F. Buckley, Jr., 1964-65 Artist Lecture Series, Chapman College, Orange, California, December 6, 1964. Author and as editor of the National Review, led a a team of conservative writers.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cu_events/1033/thumbnail.jp
Secret Sharing and Secret Keeping: Lucy Steele’s Triumph in Speculation
Get PDFBy analyzing Lucy\u27s character as a commodity on the marriage market, we can better understand Jane Austen\u27s take on value: what might be perceived as valuable in the marketplace might not have real or intrinsic value. Lucy knows that her value is based on mere perception; in a consumer economy the skill of speculation may be necessary
Yunnan (China), men with the cow caravan
No full textA cow caravan.Image is part of research conducted by Roy Chapman Andrews for the article: Traveling in China's Southland
Author(s): Roy Chapman Andrews
Source: Geographical Review, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Aug., 1918), pp. 133-146
Published by: American Geographical Society
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/207476http://www.jstor.org/stable/207476Grayscal
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