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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

Collection on racism and religious intolerance in American advertising

 Collection
Identifier: 6233
Abstract A collection of sixty-one advertisements featuring racist stereotypes of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color -- along with a 1937 booklet advocating against marriages between two individuals of differing faiths and a 1950 flyer promoting the opening of a restaurant. The collection includes a 1950 flyer promoting the opening of the Santa Clara Kitchen, advertising "Home Cooking by a Genuine Colored Cook"; an advertisement for Lautz Bros' & Co's Soaps, in which a man is showing...
Dates: 1880 - 1950; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1900

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

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

Japanese Internment collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0296
Abstract

The collection consists of copies of the Manzanar Free Press, the Information Bulletin published by the Japanese-American Relations Committee of the American Friends Service Committee, and various pamphlets and fliers published and/or distributed by the War Relocation Authority and various private social service agencies. The bulk of the material is sympathetic to the plight of the interned Japanese and their eventual return (resettlement) to their homes.

Dates: 1942-1946

Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities recordings

 Collection
Identifier: 5365
Abstract The Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities (LAIH) was founded in 1998 to stimulate a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas through events both on the USC campus and off-campus for Institute Fellows and their guests. LAIH hosts bimonthly lunches for fellows accompanied by lectures from guests representing a variety of disciplines. Steve Wasserman and Steve Ross served as the initial co-directors of the Institute. Ross initiated the practice of recording the talks given at the luncheons on an...
Dates: 1998 - 2021

Pacifica Views newsletters and records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7143
Abstract A collection of 100 issues of Pacifica Views, a four-page newsletter published at Conscientious Objector (CO) Camp Number 76 in Glendora, California. A group of men, referring to themselves as "Pacifica Associates of Glendora" started the "independent weekly pacifist publication" during World War II. This collection begins with Volume 1, Number 8, issued on July 30, 1943, and ends with Volume 3, Number 43, issued on March 29, 1946. Also...
Dates: 1943 - 1947

Right-wing political pamphlets collection

 Collection
Identifier: 6049
Abstract

A collection of pamphlets, brochures, flyers, magazines, newspapers, and printed ephemera discussing various right-wing political topics, including anti-communist activities, the American Nazi Party and white supremacy, anti-semitism, racism, conservative economic policies, and religion. Also includes a few left wing publications.

Dates: 1917 - 1983

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

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

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Churchill, Winston (Winston Leonard Spencer), 1874-1965 1
Cinema Educational Guild 1
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Civilian Public Service 1
Civilian Public Service. Camp (Glendora, Calif.) 1
Congregational Christian Committee for Work with Japanese Evacuees. Citizens Committee for Resettlement 1
D. Robins & Company 1
Davis, Zachary Paul, 1984- 1
Edmondson, Robert Edward 1
Eulogy (Musical group : Los Angeles, Ca.) 1
Foote, Caleb, 1917-2006 1
Fox, Charles 1
Geiger, Henry, 1908-1989 1
General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches of the United States. Council for Social Action 1
Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris) 1
Granada Relocation Center 1
Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 1
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989 1
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1
Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 1
Institute of Pacific Relations. American Council 1
Japanese American Citizens' League 1
Koch, Edward A. 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
La France Novelties 1
Lord, Daniel A. (Daniel Aloysius), 1888-1955 1
Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities 1
Lunsford's Reno Printing Company 1
Manzanar War Relocation Center 1
McCloy, John J. (John Jay), 1895-1989 1
Meyer, Dillon S. 1
Minutemen (Organization) 1
Moore, Wallace H., Lt. Col. 1
Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 1
National Japanese American Student Relocation Council 1
National Socialist White People's Party 1
Pacifica Associates of Glendora 1
Pharaohs Scooter Club 1
Phinney, Milton C. 1
Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State 1
Reeves, George B. 1
Rockwell, George Lincoln 1
Royer, Keith 1
Smoot, Dan 1
Sons of Liberty (Hollywood, Calif.) 1
Sproul, Robert Gordon, 1891-1975 1
U.S.ENGLISH (Organization) 1
United Community Churches of America 1
United States. War Relocation Authority 1
United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) 1
White Aryan Resistance 1
Wilcher, Denny, 1914-1993 1
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