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ORIGINAL SIGN FROM PAULING'S 1950s CALTECH EXHIBIT PAULING, LINUS CARL. 1901-1994. Hand-lettered sign on board, 435 x 440 mm, in aluminum stand, 1230 mm tall, c. 1953. image 1
ORIGINAL SIGN FROM PAULING'S 1950s CALTECH EXHIBIT PAULING, LINUS CARL. 1901-1994. Hand-lettered sign on board, 435 x 440 mm, in aluminum stand, 1230 mm tall, c. 1953. image 2
Lot 1049

ORIGINAL SIGN FROM PAULING'S 1950s CALTECH EXHIBIT
PAULING, LINUS CARL. 1901-1994.
Hand-lettered sign on board, 435 x 440 mm, in aluminum stand, 1230 mm tall, c. 1953.

25 October 2022, 14:00 EDT
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ORIGINAL SIGN FROM PAULING'S 1950s CALTECH EXHIBIT

PAULING, LINUS CARL. 1901-1994. Hand-lettered sign on board, 435 x 440 mm, in aluminum stand, 1230 mm tall, c. 1953.
Provenance: Professor Emeritus Richard E. Dickerson, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA; Distinguished Professor Emeritus James A. Lake, Molecular and Cellular Developmental Biology, UCLA (letter of provenance and inscribed on the stand back from Dickerson to Lake).

This sign was used by Pauling and his colleague and frequent collaborator Robert Brainard Corey for their exhibition in the early 1950s. The sign is labeled "CHEMICAL LABORATORIES / STRUCTURE OF MOLECULES."

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