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American advertising ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: 6067
Abstract

A collection of advertising fliers, brochures, booklets and catalogs for household appliances and products, all aimed specifically at women, dating from the 1860s to the 1930s. The collection includes trade catalogs for heating sources, stoves, porcelain sinks, vacuums, "wear-ever" cookware, carpet sweepers, irons, wringers, and "ready to eat" food products; fliers for labor-saving laundry soap, and a dryer that dries without a wringer; a commercial laundry price list; and brochures.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Zachary Davis collection of West Coast punk ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 7085
Abstract

The Zachary Davis collection of West Coast punk ephemera consists of concert fliers and tickets, political pamphlets, promotional material for punk music-related merchandise, drawings, and zines documenting the punk subculture on the West Coast (mostly California) of the United States during the 1990s and 2000s. Zachary Davis, a member of the scene in the late 1990s and 2000s, collected the material and also created a small number of items in the collection.

Dates: 1996 - 2012
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Adolph Hitler last will and testament parody flyer

 Item — Pamphlet-Binder: 1
Identifier: 6260
Abstract The Adolph Hitler last will and testament parody flyer is an illustrated parody of Hitler's will. The parody--titled "Last Will and Testament of Adolph Hitler Alias Adolph Schickelgruber"--addresses both individuals and nations, including Benito Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, France, England, and others. The immediate source of this acquisition, along with descriptions of similar flyers held elsewhere,...
Dates: 1940s
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Rock concert flyers and handbills collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7078
Abstract A collection of 52 flyers and handbills promoting various soft, folk, and alternative rock bands and music venues in California. The material dates from the 1980s to the 1990s and features acts such as 10,000 Maniacs, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Camper Yan Beethoven, The Roches, Red Kross, Terence Trent D'Arby, World Party, Chris Isaak, Lions & Ghosts, Sleestacks, Roller, Wednesday Week, and others. Many of the flyers list event information and pictures of the bands, but a few consist of a...
Dates: 1980s-1990s
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Keith Royer collection on Southern California scootering and youth subculture

 Collection
Identifier: 7139
Abstract The Keith Royer collection on Southern California scootering and youth subculture documents several decades of vintage scooter culture and the diverse aspects of the subculture as it relates to music, fashion, politics, and youth communities. Keith Royer has been a scooter rider, collector, and bike mechanic since the mid-1980s and a patched club member of the Pharaohs Scooter Club of San Diego since 1995. The Pharaohs Scooter Cult was formed on December 23, 1993 at Hill Street Coffee House...
Dates: 1985 - 2022
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

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Printed ephemera 4
Alternative rock music -- California -- Archival resources 2
Punk culture and art -- California -- Archival resources 2
Advertisements 1
Advertising -- Electric household appliances -- Archival resources 1
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Advertising -- Soap -- Archival resources 1
Advertising -- United States -- 19th century -- Archival resources 1
Advertising -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
Brochures 1
California, Southern -- Transportation -- Archival resources 1
Comic books 1
Digital images 1
Digital media 1
Ephemera 1
Folk-rock music -- California -- Archival resources 1
Handbills 1
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- Archival resources 1
Magazines (periodicals) 1
Motor scootering -- California, Southern -- Archival resources 1
Motor scooters -- California, Southern -- Archival resources 1
Motor vehicles -- California -- Archival resources 1
Moving images 1
Pamphlets 1
Photograph albums 1
Photographs 1
Postcards 1
Posters 1
Punk rock music -- California -- Archival resources 1
Rock concerts -- California -- Archival resources 1
Rock music -- California -- Archival resources 1
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- Archival resources 1
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
T-shirts 1
Textiles 1
Video recordings (physical artifacts) 1
Videotapes 1
Women in advertising -- United States -- 19th century -- Archival resources 1
Women in advertising -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Archival resources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Caricatures and cartoons 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Parodies, imitations, etc. 1
Youth movements -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 1
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Names
Churchill, Winston (Winston Leonard Spencer), 1874-1965 1
D. Robins & Company 1
Davis, Zachary Paul, 1984- 1
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989 1
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1
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La France Novelties 1
Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 1
Pharaohs Scooter Club 1
Royer, Keith 1
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