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18th Century Prints collection
This artificial collection consists of 18th century prints that have been mounted on paper. The prints depict images of writers, and actors and actresses, many in costume, including David Garrick, Mrs. Jordan, Charles Bannister, Mrs. Woffington, Mrs. Oldfield, Nancy Dawson, Mrs. Clive, Nell Gwynn, Sarah Siddons, Richard Burbadge, and Samuel Johnson; London theaters, including the Globe and the Drury Lane; and scenes from plays.
19th century California newspapers
A collection of single issues of newspapers from across California, including from San Francisco, Sacramento, Siskiyou, and Oakland. The collection also includes a few newspapers from Boston, New York, and Newport, Rhode Island. The issue of the New York Herald in the collection from April 15, 1865 announces Abraham Lincoln's death on the day that he died.
19th century cowgirl and cowboy postcards
19th century photographs collection
Tintype, ambrotype, daguerreotype, cartes-de-visite, and cabinet card portrait photographs of the Civil War period (soldiers and civilians).
19th century poetry scrapbook
19th century sheet music collection
54 pieces of sheet music, primarily of popular songs published in the United States, with some examples published in England and Belgium, 1850s-1870s.
19th century theatrical photographs album
This photograph album consists of photographs of actors and actresses, many in theatrical costume and posies, as well as photographs of stage sets with actors. The actors, actresses and productions are unidentified.
19th century theatrical programs, newspapers, and broadside collection
20th Century-Fox set stills
This collection contains set still books for the 20th Century-Fox Corporation with photographs of movie sets for 229 films, dating from 1937 to 1954.
78 rpm record collection
This collection contains more than 600 Shellac 78 rpm discs for a variety of American music representing the confluence of popular and jazz-adjacent genres typical of the developing music industry from the first half of the 20th century.