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American advertising ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: 6067
Abstract

A collection of advertising fliers, brochures, booklets and catalogs for household appliances and products, all aimed specifically at women, dating from the 1860s to the 1930s. The collection includes trade catalogs for heating sources, stoves, porcelain sinks, vacuums, "wear-ever" cookware, carpet sweepers, irons, wringers, and "ready to eat" food products; fliers for labor-saving laundry soap, and a dryer that dries without a wringer; a commercial laundry price list; and brochures.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Yvonne Brathwaite Burke papers: California State Assembly, U.S. Congress, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and California Attorney General campaign

 Collection
Identifier: 0218-1
Abstract

The Yvonne Brathwaite Burke papers contain the records of the political activities of Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, University of Southern California Gould Law School alumna, state and federal legislator, and county official. Included are records from Burke's tenure in the California Assembly (1966-1972), U.S. Congress (1973-1978), and the Los Angeles Angeles County Board of Supervisor (1979-1980). Records also include her campaign for California State Attorney General (1978).

Dates: 1959 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1980
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

California Social Welfare collection of reports, newsletters, and other materials

 Collection
Identifier: 0440
Abstract

This artificial collection consists of various publications issued by California social welfare agencies. The collection was probably created, at least in part, from materials held in the USC School of Social Work Library, which were then transferred to the California Social Welfare Archives.

Dates: 1947 - 1996
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Collection on conscientious objectors

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6270
Abstract A collection of brochures, newsletters, political questionnaires, pamphlets, position papers, and other material published by a variety of American organizations from throughout the country supporting citizens who claim the right to refuse to perform military service on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion. A portion of the collection includes newspapers published by conscientious objectors (COs) held at internment camps set up by the U.S. government during World War...
Dates: 1939 - 1946
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Robert Kaplan political campaign, ballot measure, and fundraising papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6123
Abstract Robert Kaplan is an internationally known campaign, communications and fundraising consultant and advisor who has planned, designed, positioned, directed and executed more than 250 fundraising and capital campaigns, grassroots, voter outreach and other communications programs for a variety of interests. His experience includes more than 30 statewide initiative campaigns. Kaplan has worked with public and private sector groups and clients on a wide range of issues including renewable...
Dates: 1981-2015
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Herbert G. Klein papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0345
Abstract The Herbert G. Klein papers contain detailed records of the day to day activities of Herbert G. Klein, University of Southern California alumnus and trustee, journalist, editor and first White House Director of Communications. Included are records from all phases of Klein's long career: his early career as a journalist with Copley Newspapers in Alhambra and San Diego; his work with Richard Nixon, beginning with the Vice Presidential campaign of 1956; and his subsequent career as a media...
Dates: 15th-17th centuries, 1932-2009 (bulk 1960-1973)
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Los Angeles city planning pamphlets and brochures

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7025
Abstract

A small collection of brochures, pamphlets and booklets on various aspects of city planning in Los Angeles during the 1970s, including energy, city government, Boyle Heights, a history of city planning in Los Angeles, public schools, master planning, and fire protection and prevention.

Dates: ca. 1970s
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

John Henry Nash brochures, folders, and fine books

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0387
Abstract This small collection consists of announcements, brochures, pamphlets, greeting cards, poems, sketches, fine books, folders, and engravings by various hands designed and printed by San Francisco fine printer John Henry Nash. Nash was a well-known designer, typesetter and printer working in San Francisco in the first decades of the 20th century. He opened his own shop in 1915 after working for and in partnership with some of the better known printers and publishers in San Francisco; the...
Dates: 1915 - 1939
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Private Schools & Colleges, Southern California, brochures and pamphlets

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6024
Abstract A bound volume of pamphlets and brochures advertising private schools and colleges in the Los Angeles area for the academic years 1897-1898 and 1898-1899. Included are brochures for St. Agatha's Boarding and Day School for Girls; Classical School for Boys; the Marlborough School; Girls' Collegiate School; University of Southern California; Los Angeles Academy (Military); Throop Polytechnic Institute; St. Vincent's College; and Convent of Immaculate Heart of Mary. Also included is "The...
Dates: 1897 - 1899
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Right-wing political pamphlets collection

 Collection
Identifier: 6049
Abstract

A collection of pamphlets, brochures, flyers, magazines, newspapers, and printed ephemera discussing various right-wing political topics, including anti-communist activities, the American Nazi Party and white supremacy, anti-semitism, racism, conservative economic policies, and religion. Also includes a few left wing publications.

Dates: 1917 - 1983
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

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Atkins, Oliver F. 1
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Brown, Jerry, 1938- 1
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California Free Enterprise Association 1
California. Board of Corrections 1
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Cinema Educational Guild 1
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Congressional Black Caucus 1
Copley Press, inc. 1
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County Supervisors Association of California 1
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Ehrlichman, John 1
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David) 1
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Fox, Charles 1
Haberman, Irving 1
Haldeman, H. R. (Harry R.) 1
Harris & Ewing 1
Hawkins, J. Allen 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio) 1
Jarvis, Roy 1
Kaplan, Robert 1
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1
Kissinger, Henry 1
Klein, Herbert G. (Herbert George) 1
Koch, Edward A. 1
Korean Overseas Information Service. Haeoe Hongbowŏn 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Lew, Mervyn 1
Los Angeles County (Calif.). Board of Supervisors 1
Mattox, Warren 1
Metromedia, Inc 1
Minutemen (Organization) 1
Nash, John Henry, 1871-1947 1
National Service Board for Religious Objectors 1
National Socialist White People's Party 1
New York Fellowship of Reconciliation 1
Nixon, Pat 1
O'Neill, Dev 1
Parker, Buffy 1
Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State 1
Republican National Convention (29th : 1968 : Miami Beach, Fla.) 1
Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich) 1
Rockwell, George Lincoln 1
Romney, George W. 1
Rothschild Photo 1
Safire, William 1
Smith, Merrett T. 1
Smoot, Dan 1
Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi 1
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United Community Churches of America 1
United States. Congress 1
University of Southern California. Youth Studies Center 1
Volpe, John A. 1
War Resisters League 1
White Aryan Resistance 1
Women of the Ku Klux Klan 1
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