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19th century cowgirl and cowboy postcards
Collection — Pamphlet-binder 1: [Barcode: 31275058603441]
Identifier: 7148
Scope and Contents
Six embossed chromolithograph postcards depicting cowgirls on horseback firing guns, lassoing, and galloping. One of the six postcards depicts a cowboy with a lasso. The postcards are vibrantly colored and show a cowgirl with long hair and a skirt, donning bandoliers, rifles, and pistols. Wild horses and cattle are featured in the background. One postcard features a cowgirl firing her revolver with a muzzle flash emitting from the pistol as the horse rears back. Embossed chromolithographs...
Dates:
circa 1890s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Dr. Benjamin Bennett Briggs family papers
Collection
Identifier: 0394
Abstract
Dr. Benjamin Bennett Briggs was a horticulturist and medical doctor who originally came to California from Ohio during the Gold Rush but returned to Ohio where he married and established a medical practice. He later returned to California to continue with horticultural pursuits and was one of the founders of La Crescenta, where he hoped to establish a health resort. Though he died before he could accomplish all his dreams, today's Crescenta-Canada valley was home to many sanitariums and...
Dates:
1836 - 2020; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1920
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Buffalo Soldiers photographs
Collection — Pamphlet-binder 1: [Barcode: 31275058603458]
Identifier: 7150
Scope and Contents
A collection of five photographs of African American Buffalo soldiers. One of the frequent assignments of Buffalo Soldiers was to assist the early frontiers of the Western United States. These African American soldiers contributed greatly to pathfinding, road and trail construction, building telegraph lines, and mapping out much of the frontier for homesteaders. The collection includes a photographic postcard depicting Buffalo Soldiers alongside white soldiers escorting a wagon train; a...
Dates:
1890 - 1910
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Death Valley Scotty photograph album
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275058047334]
Identifier: 7146
Scope and Contents
A bound leather album containing fifty five black and white photographs of a location in Death Valley, California, known as Scotty's Castle. Scotty's Castle was named after Walter Scott (1872-1954), better known as Death Valley Scotty, who was one of the area's best known and most colorful characters. The album includes both exterior and interior shots of Scotty's Castle (including shots of Scotty's personal living quarters -- his bed, a wall of his hats, the photographs on his walls); views...
Dates:
circa 1930s-1940s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Dick Jones Picture Co. Charles M. Russell prints
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275053948247]
Identifier: 6152
Abstract
11 prints of paintilgs by Charles M. Russell: The Strenuous Life; The Mad Cow; Cowboy Sport; The Cinch Ring; A Serious Predicament; Capturing the Grizzly; A Bronc to Breakfast; The SLick Ear; Jerked Down; Sagebrush Sport; Heads or Tails. Of the 11, 9 include attribution to the Dick Jones Picture Company. Charles M. Russell (1864-1926) was, along with Frederick Remington, the best-known painter of the American West during the late 19th-early 20th centuries. The Dick Jones Picture Company...
Dates:
circa 1930s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Doheny family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5370
Abstract
The collection consists of clippings, photographs and photograph albums, legal documents and correspondence, created by and about various members of the Doheny family, including Lucy Estelle Doheny and her husband, Van Cott Niven; and legal documents, including copies of Lucy Estelle Doheny's birth certificate (box 1). Also included are color photographs of the Doheny chapel in Camarillo; photographs of various members of the Doheny family, including Ned Doheny; a copy of the New York Herald...
Dates:
1892-2005
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
William C. Herbert papers
Collection
Identifier: 0398
Abstract
The William C. Herbert papers was brought to USC during the 1990s via Associate Dean for Development and Law School Historian John (Tom) Tomlinson whose expertise includes the history of USC. Though the collection's focus is the correspondence between Herbert and his mother during World War II when he was overseas, at some point later, Herbert studied and graduated from USC with a B.S. in Social Studies. His graduation photo is in the 1957 edition of USC's El Rodeo
Dates:
1930s-1990s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Abraham Z. Hoffman papers
Collection
Identifier: 7090
Content Description
Dr. Hoffman's papers include many historical organization journals and books, many including essays by Hoffman; his research materials, much literature related to the society E Clampus Vitus, newsletters and ephemera pertaining to Hollywood's Magic Castle, and a small trove of underground comic books ("comix"). There are also some materials pertaining to the Los Angeles Corral of Westerners, of which Dr. Hoffman is a prominent member.
Dates:
1960 - 2019
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
William Henry Jackson photograph of Arkansas River at Royal Gorge
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275058047417]
Identifier: 7149
Scope and Contents
An 1886 albumen photograph of the Arkansas River at the Royal Gorge in Colorado. The photograph was taken by William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), American photographer, Civil War veteran, painter, and an explorer famous for his images of the American West. The sepia-toned photograph shows railroad tacks running along the riverbank, high rock walls on either side with steel beams between them in the distance. The landscape appears treacherous and the appearance of the railway, the human labor...
Dates:
1886
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Los Angeles Corral of Westerners records
Collection
Identifier: 0117
Abstract
The Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners was founded in 1946 and promotes the study and understanding of Western history through publications and events. This collection contains correspondence, financial and publication records, photographs, artifacts, scrapbooks and drafts of articles documenting the history of the Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners.
Dates:
1946 - 2019
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections