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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
Collection
Identifier: 0127
Abstract
Tintype, ambrotype, daguerreotype, cartes-de-visite, and cabinet card portrait photographs of the Civil War period (soldiers and civilians).
Dates:
circa 1860s-1870s
Collection — Map-case 6, drawer: 2
Identifier: 6028
Abstract
Newspapers, broadsides, theatrical programs and bulletins, and meeting programs, 1859-1890, published primarily in Philadelphia, Boston, New York, and San Francisco. While the majority of the materials are theatrically related, the collection does include an issue of the Daily Stage, a newspaper published in Virginia City, Nevada; the Carnival Record, a publication of Author's Carnival and Fete of Nations; and Acrobats and Mountebanks, a special supplement of the New York Commercial...
Dates:
1859 - 1890
Collection
Identifier: 1013
Abstract
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.
Dates:
approximately 1900s-1950s
Collection
Identifier: 6011
Abstract
Collection of pamphlets from various unions and the United States government about the conflicts and strikes in the first administration of President Harry S. Truman.
Dates:
1947-1952, 1967 (bulk 1952)
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2013-016
Abstract
Sales and store inventory records of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender literature as well as bestseller information from A Different Light Bookstore in West Hollywood. Includes documentation of publishers, wholesalers and distributors as well as retail competitors from 1998-1999.
Dates:
1998-1999
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 7020
Abstract
A limited-run scrapbook produced for individuals such as studio head Jack Warner documenting the production of Max Reinhardt's film adaptation of Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The leather-bound scrapbook contains more than 200 original black-and-white glossy photos from the film along with scene descriptions below each picture, a cast of players, and reviews of the film reproduced from newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1935
Collection
Identifier: Coll2011-014
Abstract
Leroy Aarons was a journalist, author, playwright, and educator. He was known for his founding of the National Lesbian and Gay Jounalists Association (NLGJA), his work at the Washington Post and Oakland Tribune newspapers, his book "Prayers for Bobby", and his teaching career at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. The collection contains documents and records documenting Aarons' tenure as director of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism's Project for the Study of Sexual Orientation...
Dates:
1890-2006
Collection
Identifier: 0464
Abstract
The Academy of Certified Social Workers Competence Certification Board records consist of meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, and reports, that document the activities of this body during the early 1980s. Included is information about the establishment and oversight of certification standards for social workers, and the design of the certification examination administered by the Educational Testing Service. The records also provide some information about general activities carried...
Dates:
1979 - 1982
Collection
Identifier: 2687
Abstract
This collection includes publicity stills and other photographs, slides, and stills for the marketing of motion pictures and theatre productions from the 1910s through the 1990s, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Beverly Hills location.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1910 - 1999