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Includes: 38 volumes. Collection of Grove Plays and other Bohemian Club-related publications. See online catalogue. July 2, 1958 notification of election as associate member of The Bohemian Club signed by Holloway Jones, Secretary. The Cremation of Care. 7 pp. mimeograph of the ritual script adapted by Charles K. Field and Palmer Field, dated 06/18/69. Manuscript notes by Jim Jewell for lighting the ceremony. Assorted manuscript correspondence between Jewell and other Bohemians and guests. Plan Layout - Rip Van Winkle - Grove Play, 1960. Large folding pencil drawing on paper by Donald S. Macky. 72x69 cm (28¼x27"). 2 stage prop Greek busts. Folding map of the Bohemian Grove, 1939. 40.8x68.5 cm (16x27"). Folding blueprint of Jim Bravar design for Spring Jinks1990 with manuscript alterations and notes in red sharpie pen presumably by Jewell Collection of 12 photographs from the Bohemian Grove, most dated 1956 in negatives. Several document Grove Play stages, audiences, etc... Large folding plan of the 1989 Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree - Arena Shows/Stage Layout w/ Trees. With rubber stamp marked "Preliminary / Not for Construction". Photograph dated 1940 in negative with a sign reading "A W.P.A. Project Sponsored Production Camp / Supervision of W.P.A. Project No. 000000½" 12½x20 cm (5x8"). 4 postage stamps from the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. With 6 wartime American stamps related to Federal Use Tax on Motor Vehicles. Engraved Bohemian Club soup spoon and assorted ephemera. James Earle Jewell's collection of Bohemian Club ephemera. The collection includes several seldom-seen early Grove plays from San Francisco's famed Bohemian Club whose early members included Jack London, George Sterling, celebrities, politicians, and business magnates. From the Foreword to The Cave Man (1910), "The Grove Play of the Bohemian Club is the outgrowth of [The Cremation of Care] an illuminated spectacle produced annually among redwood trees in California. In The Man in the Forest, at the Midsummer Jinks of 1902, this spectacle first became a play, the text being the work of one author and the music the work of one composer. Since then, the music drama has been steadily elaborated." The elaboration included privately printed books by some of the great masters of West Coast fine press printing including John Henry Nash The Grabhorn brothers, Arion Press and others. According to an obituary notice published by his alma mater, University of the Pacific, James Earle Jewell "was the lighting designer who illuminated notable landmarks such as Hearst Castle, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. Personally, he had a passion for the arts and was a season ticket holder of the San Francisco Opera". Includes: The Triumph of Bohemia: A Forest Play by George Sterling...Being the Thirteenth Annuual Midsummer High Jinks...Bohemian Club, 1907. Saddle-stitched illustrated wrappers. (Wrappers tearing from staples, some chips and tears around edges). The Sons of Baldur: A Forest Music-Drama by Herman Scheffauer...This Being the Thirty-First Annual Midsummer Festival known as the "High Jinks"...1908. Wrappers with color illustrated cover label. Printed at the Press of the Hansen Co., SF. St. Patrick at Tara: A Forest Play by H. Morse Stephens. The Midsummer High Jinks of the Bohemian Club 1909...Being the Thirty-Second Annual Midsummer High Jinks..., [1909]. Pictorial wrappers. (Some sunning, staining, and soil to wrappers). The Cave Man: A Play of the Redwoods by Charles K. Field. Bohemian Club, [1910]. The Thirty-third Midsummer High Jinks. Saddle-stitched wrappers. (Wrappers splitting from spine ends and tearing from staples, small puncture to cover and some staining). The Green Knight: A Vision by Porter Garnett. Bohemian Club, 1911. Vellum-backed boards with inlaid gilt cover medallion. Printed by Taylor, Nash, and Taylor. The Atonement of Pan: A Music Drama by Joseph D. Redding. Bohemian Club, [1912].