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John F. Merritt Southern California memorabilia and ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: 7103
Abstract
A collection of Southern California memorabilia and ephemera collected by John F. Merritt, founder of Californians for Preservation Action and its successor organization, California Preservation Foundation (CPF). The collection contains postcards, pamphlets, magazines, produce crate labels, prints, comic books, illustrations, and countercultural political materials created between 1899 and 2005, with the bulk of the collection spanning from 1910 to 1970.
Dates:
1899 - 2005; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1970
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
José Guadalupe Posada prints
Collection
Identifier: 0517
Abstract
The collection contains a total of 506 items printed by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo's press. Among the items are half-sheet and full-sheet broadsides, chapbooks, and games. A majority of the prints were by José Guadalupe Posada, and possibly a few by Manuel Alfonso Manilla, his precursor and mentor. Themes in the collection include: Mexican popular culture, Calaveras, local disasters, supernatural acts, crimes, suicides, moral lessons, social critique, political caricatures, corridos, religious...
Dates:
circa 1890-1915; 1943; 1953
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
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- Agriculture -- California, Southern -- Archival resources 1
- All Souls' Day -- Mexico -- Archival resources 1
- Alternative comics 1
- Art, Mexican -- Archival resources 1
- Broadsides (notices) 1
- Chapbooks 1
- Citrus crate labels -- California, Southern -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
- Comic books 1
- Crate labels 1
- Death in art -- Archival resources 1
- Fruit crate labels -- California, Southern -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
- Graphic artists -- Mexico -- Archival resources 1
- Graphic arts -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 1
- Magazines (periodicals) 1
- Memorabilia 1
- Mexican wit and humor, Pictorial -- Archival resources 1
- Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Pictorial works 1
- Mexico -- Religious life and customs -- Pictorial works 1
- Mexico -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works 1
- Pamphlets 1
- Photographic postcards 1
- Political satire, Mexican -- Archival resources 1
- Postcards 1
- Postcards -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 1
- Postcards -- California -- Pasadena -- Archival resources 1
- Postcards -- California, Southern -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
- Prints, Mexican -- Archival resources 1 ∧ less
- Language
- English 1
- Spanish; Castilian 1
- Names
- Manilla, Manuel 1
- Merritt, John F., 1942-2016 1
- Méndez, Leopoldo, 1902-1969 1
- Posada, José Guadalupe, 1852-1913 1
- Vanegas Arroyo, Antonio, 1852-1917 1
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