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Collection
Identifier: 2444
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of American actress Virginia Mayo (1920-2005). Materials include personal and business correspondence, telegrams, fan letters, theater and motion picture programs, scrapbooks, and clippings, stills, photographs, fan magazines, publicity, pressbooks, and awards and trophies.
Dates:
1930s-1976
Collection
Identifier: 6200
Abstract
The Virgil Mirano 3D photography collection comprises the library of Virgil Mirano (1937-2018), the cinematographer and visual effects specialist best known for his work on Die Hard (1988), Blade Runner (1982), and Masters of the Universe (1987). The collection contains books, magazines, and promotional material that incorporate 3D images; 3D photography viewers and glasses; 3D comic books;...
Dates:
1935 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2000
Collection
Identifier: 6120
Abstract
Richard M. Mosk was a California Court of Appeal Justice who over more than three decades of public service investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, chaired the Motion Picture Classification and Rating Administration that provides the parental ratings for motion pictures, and sat on the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal at The Hague, where he served as a judge from 1981 to 1984 and 1997 to 2001. The Warren Commission was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson on November 29,...
Dates:
1963-2015
Collection
Identifier: 3315
Abstract
Edward Paik was a Korean American food service equipment sales supervisor, Kitchen Specialist, and U.S. Air Force Surplus Property Disposal Specialist. This collection comprises primarily photographs and printed materials created and collected by Edward Paik. It also contains ephemera in the form of service medals, a wool cap, and Army patches, as well as personal papers in the form of correspondence, letters, and yearbooks.
Dates:
1931 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1994
Collection
Identifier: 0537
Abstract
The Revista Crisis collection comprises nearly a full run of the Argentine magazine, Crisis. The collection also contains approximately 20 letters written by prominent literary figures to the editors of Crisis regarding their contributions to the magazine. Authors of the collection's correspondence include Pablo Neruda, Juan Laurentino Ortiz, Ernesto Cardenal, Ernesto Sábato, Julio Cortázar, Rafael Alberti, and Jorge Amado....
Dates:
1958; 1973 - 1990
Collection
Identifier: 0388
Abstract
The Ralph Rodgers and Percy Turner Circus Collection documents the collective interests of a circus model builder/ miniature circus owner and a real circus owner who became friends and whose circus memorabilia ended up with a mutual friend who donated them to USC. The collection contains ephemera, correspondence, photographs, books, records, costumes, and a large amount of circus model plans and drawings kept by Ralph Rodgers. A portion of the collection represents the history of the...
Dates:
1930s-1980s
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2149
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of English film historian and writer Anthony Slide (born 1944). Materials include interviews and correspondence with various silent film personalities, taped interviews, stills, the early manuscript of “The Griffith Actresses” by Slide, early film magazines, and material relating to Vitagraph.
Dates:
1911 - 1974
Collection
Identifier: 0241
Abstract
The collection includes files accumulated by Gregory Freemen Stone during his investigation into the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Dates:
1944 - 1992
Collection
Identifier: 3023
Abstract
Sonia Shinn Sunoo was a Korean American teacher, researcher, and writer. This small collection consists primarily of Sunoo's oral history interview transcripts with early Korean immigrant picture brides (mail order brides). The collection also contains research materials regarding this topic in the form of correspondence, clippings, and notes.
Dates:
1971 - 1998
Collection
Identifier: 0579
Abstract
The Miguel L. Talleda papers consist of correspondence, essays, photographs, research files, collected publications, and other material collected and/or created by Miguel Luis Talleda (1919-2017). Talleda was born in Cruces, Las Villas, Cuba on June 14, 1919. In 1962, Talleda arrived in the United States as a political refugee with his family. Talleda authored the book Alpha 66 y su Histórica Tarea on the anti-communist organization, Alpha 66, formed by...
Dates:
1962 - 2017