Desmond's Department Store megaphone
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one megaphone with “Desmond’s” printed on the outside in USC colors.
Dates
- Creation: c. 1970s
Creator
- Desmond's. (Department Store) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Biographical / Historical
Desmond’s was a Los Angeles-based department store which began as a hat shop in 1862 and expanded into multiple locations. The department store went out of business in 1981.
Extent
0.65 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection is made up of one megaphone.
Processing Information
Collection is fully processed.
Subject
- Desmond's. (Department Store) -- Archives (Organization)
- University of Southern California (Organization)
- Title
- Finding aid for the Desmond's Department Store megaphone
- Status
- Minimally Processed
- Author
- Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated
- Date
- 2022 March
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu