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George and Elenora Adams diaries, letters, and other material
Collection
Identifier: 7086
Abstract
The George and Elenora Adams diaries, letters, and other material contain 39 diaries, four letters, and various personal documents and ephemera kept by George E. Adams and his wife Elenora Martin Learned Adams. Throughout the course of their lives--as documented in their journals--George and Elenora worked as farmers, teachers, and store owners in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine before moving to Duarte near East Los Angeles in 1887. In California, George and Elenora tried their luck...
Dates:
1856 - 1909
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
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
Steve B. collection of personal advertisement responses
Collection
Identifier: 6276
Scope and Contents
A collection of approximately 130 letters from around 90 different women, all written to one southern California man, Steve B., in response to personal ads he placed in the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, and international pen-pal services in the early 1990s. Most of the letters are written in English, but a dozen or so are in Spanish. The majority of correspondents were from California, but women also wrote...
Dates:
1990 - 1994
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Boeckmann Center Iberian and Latin American poster collection
Collection
Identifier: 0580
Scope and Contents
The Boeckmann Center Iberian and Latin American poster collection consists of posters and prints from Argentina, Cuba, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, and the United States acquired by the Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. The posters from Argentina and Cuba are mostly related to cinema, including approximately 100 Cuban posters created by the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC). However, the collection also holds political...
Dates:
1900 - 2015
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
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
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
John Cork collection
Collection
Identifier: 2594
Abstract
The John Cork collection contains a wide variety of both produced and unproduced material related to the James Bond phenomenon. Primarily, the collection focuses on the James Bond films from 1962 (Dr. No) until 2002 (Die Another Day), and their impact on worldwide society and culture. Contents of the collection include scripts, call sheets, photographs, periodicals, clipping files, fan magazine content, merchandise, and other collected material. Much of the material comes from Cork's...
Dates:
1960 - 2010
Found in:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
John Henry Nash brochures, folders, and fine books
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0387
Abstract
This small collection consists of announcements, brochures, pamphlets, greeting cards, poems, sketches, fine books, folders, and engravings by various hands designed and printed by San Francisco fine printer John Henry Nash. Nash was a well-known designer, typesetter and printer working in San Francisco in the first decades of the 20th century. He opened his own shop in 1915 after working for and in partnership with some of the better known printers and publishers in San Francisco; the...
Dates:
1915 - 1939
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Cecile R. Parker letter and liberated woman die-cut
Collection
Identifier: 6183
Abstract
The Cecile R. Parker letter and liberated woman die-cut consists of two items relating to women's history during the American Victorian and Edwardian eras. The first item is an 1874 letter from Cecile R. Parker to Mrs. Evaline Price regarding Parker's marriage, divorce, and her new life after leaving her former husband. The second item is a two-part advertising embossed die-cut portraying a woman wearing bloomers and riding a bicycle. The die-cut was created circa 1900 and includes an...
Dates:
1874, circa 1900
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Product labels and packaging collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6252
Abstract
A collection of 610 product labels and packaging created between 1929 and 1930. The material in this collection had been sent to the United States Patent Office by companies to copyright their artistic and literary creations. After the U.S. Patent office deaccessioned the labels and packaging, they were held in a private collection for over a decade. The labels and packaging in the collection were used for advertising and packaging a wide variety of products, including toilet paper,...
Dates:
1929 - 1930
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Neil Reagan papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2266
Abstract
This collection consists of the papers of American radio station manager, CBS senior producer, and senior vice president of the advertising agency network McCann Erickson, Neil Reagan (1908-1996). Materials include radio scripts for the western "Death Valley Days," as well as video tapes including commercial advertisements.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930s-1960s
Found in:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library