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Allan Hancock Foundation archive
Pedro Armendáriz photographs and postcards
This collection consists of a signed headshot of actor Pedro Armendáriz (1912-1963) and a postcard of his character in the movie Juan Charrasqueado (1948).
Cine Mundial Archivo press photographs of Maria Felix
42 black and white press photographs of Mexican actress Maria Felix on the set of various movies, including La Cucaracha, Miercoles de Ceniza, Juana Gallo, En Busca de un Muro, La Bandida, and La Valentina. Felix (1914-2002) starred in 47 films between 1940 and 1971, was one of the most successful figures of Latin American cinema in the 1940s and 1950s, and was wildly popular in Ltin America, and in Spain, France and Italy.
Collection on Dolores del Río
This small artificial collection contains various printed promotional items for Mexican and American productions starring Mexican actor Dolores del Río (1904-1983), chiefly dating from 1928 to 1958.
El Buen Tono, S.A., collection
This small collection contains loose photographs, a photograph album, and lithographed promotional comic book for El Buen Tono cigarette manufacturing company of Mexico City, dating from the early 1900s.
Imperial Valley photograph album
"Photographs of the Imperial Valley, San Diego County, California" consists of 105 photographs depicting the Imperial Valley and its farmlands and towns, circa 1904. The album was a gift from the Emerson Realty Company of Los Angeles to G.A. Parkyns, Freight and Pass Agent of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Payne B. Johnson Latin American photographs
This collection contains 562 photographic slides taken by Payne Johnson during his travels and historical research. The color slides principally document Mesoamerican Mayan sites visited by Johnson primarily from the 1970s to the early 2000s.
Nacho López photographs
This collection consists of about two dozen photographs taken by photo essayist Nacho López (1923-1986).
Mexican and U.S. movie stars photograph album
Album of 31 autographed photographs of Mexican and American movie stars. Includes images of, among others, Cantinflas, Peter Lawford, Lana Turner, Pedro Vargas, Cuates Castillo. The Mexican signatures are all original; some of the signatures of the American stars were done with mechanical pen, others are unsigned. Many of the photographs are inscribed to the former owner of the album, Yolanda Rodriguez.
Barbara G. Myerhoff papers
Papers of Barbara G. Myerhoff, a University of Southern California professor and noted anthropologist, consist of manuscripts, notes, printed material, publications, audiotapes, correspondence, and photographic material related to her teaching, field research, and publishing activities.