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Steve B. collection of personal advertisement responses
Collection
Identifier: 6276
Scope and Contents
A collection of approximately 130 letters from around 90 different women, all written to one southern California man, Steve B., in response to personal ads he placed in the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, and international pen-pal services in the early 1990s. Most of the letters are written in English, but a dozen or so are in Spanish. The majority of correspondents were from California, but women also wrote...
Dates:
1990 - 1994
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Cecile R. Parker letter and liberated woman die-cut
Collection
Identifier: 6183
Abstract
The Cecile R. Parker letter and liberated woman die-cut consists of two items relating to women's history during the American Victorian and Edwardian eras. The first item is an 1874 letter from Cecile R. Parker to Mrs. Evaline Price regarding Parker's marriage, divorce, and her new life after leaving her former husband. The second item is a two-part advertising embossed die-cut portraying a woman wearing bloomers and riding a bicycle. The die-cut was created circa 1900 and includes an...
Dates:
1874, circa 1900
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections