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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.
Allan Hancock Foundation archive
Albert Bender audiotapes
This collection consists of the audiotapes related to the Max Steiner Music Society and its founder, American author and ufologist Albert K. Bender (1921-2016).
Charles Bickford papers
This collection consists chiefly of materials related to the acting career of American actor Charles Bickford (1891-1967), covering the period 1925 to 1967. Materials include stills, magazine and newspaper clippings and publicity, and programs and ephemera from Bickford's work in plays, film, television, and radio.
Blue Max Motorcycle Club records
Administrative records, slides, photographs, film, video recordings, sound recordings, objects, textiles, buttons, and ephemera from the Blue Max Motorcycle Club, a gay motorcycle club founded in Los Angeles in 1968. The materials document club events such as motorcycle runs, anniversary celebrations, fundraisers, officer ceremonies, gay pride festivities, and other events.
David Boulé interview with Wally G. Shidler
Paul Bowles papers
Correspondence, periodical appearances, tape recordings; typed draft and galleys for Bowles's autobiography, Without Stopping (Putnam, 1972). Also includes 1 large folder of scores, autographed programs, and manuscripts of Paul Bowles materials, donated by pianist Hannetta Clarke, who performed with Bowles on occasion. Some of those performances are documented in the papers.
Irving Brecher recordings
Collection consists of acetate recordings of The Life of Riley radio show, from 1944 to 1951, from screenwriter Irving Brecher (1914-2008).
G. Edward Cassady, M.D. and Margaret Elizabeth Cassady, R.N. Lewis Carroll collection
Manuel Castells papers
This collection consists of the papers of Manuel Castells, University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California (USC). Castells is Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and holds joint appointments in the Department of Sociology; the Sol Price School of Public Policy; and the School of International Relations.