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GC 1115
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Title: Warren C. Shearman City Views Collection
Dates: 1206-1961
Collection Number: GC 1115
Creator/Collector:
Shearman, Warren C.
Extent: (Boxes: 3 letter, 1 ov, 1 flat, 275 items mounted on board,12 mc drawers)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Abstract: Birdseye views and maps, primarily European cities from 16th and 17th centuries. Also covers Asia and North Africa. ca. 1206-1961,
bulk is 1500-1700. Also eight sets of portraits of European rulers. Letter-size boxes contain photographs and negatives
of the collection. Also two notebooks "Pictorial Americana, 1492-1822, An Exhibition" along with correspondence dated 1957-61.
Language of Material: Romance languages
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Warren C. Shearman City Views Collection. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
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Biography/Administrative History
Warren C. Shearman (d. March, 1963) was a professional engraver. He was a noted collector of rare books, maps, and manuscripts.
From "UCLA Librarian" volume 17, number 1, November 15, 1963: "Before coming to the west coast, Shearman had lived and worked
for a period of twenty-five years in Providence, Rhode Island, where he collaborated with Dr. Lawrence Wroth, Curator of the
John Carter Brown Library. Wroth and Shearman traveled together on art-hunting and book-hunting expeditions in Europe and
the Orient. How successful these trips by the author-librarian and the collector-engraver were can be measured, in part, from
the richness of Shearman's personal library."
Scope and Content of Collection
Birdseye views and maps, primarily European cities from 16th and 17th centuries. Also covers Asia and North Africa. ca. 1206-1961,
bulk is 1500-1700. Also eight sets of portraits of European rulers. Letter-size boxes contain photographs and negatives
of the collection. Also two notebooks "Pictorial Americana, 1492-1822, An Exhibition" along with correspondence dated 1957-61.
Maps.
Pictorial maps.