Printed ephemera
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 104 Collections and/or Records:
Phi Alpha Theta, Xi Chapter, records
Collection
Identifier: 0338
Abstract
This collection contains evidence of the Phi Alpha Theta, USC Xi Chapter's activities from its founding in 1932 through 2000.
Dates:
1932-2000
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Phrateres, Rho Chapter, scrapbook
Collection — Box 2: [Barcode: 31275056456305]
Identifier: 5207
Abstract
This collection consists of a scrapbook from the sorority Phrateres, Rho Chapter, at the University of Southern California.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930s-1940s
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
Howard Ralston papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 5069
Abstract
Howard Ralston was an alumnus of the University of Southern California (class of 1930) and part of a family acting troupe as a child. Born in Bar Harbor, Maine in 1904, Ralston's family traveled around the country before eventually settling in Hollywood, California, where young Ralston became a featured player for five years. (One of his early film roles (1919) was opposite Mary Pickford in Polyanna.) Ralston graduated from University High School in...
Dates:
1917-1988; Majority of material found in 1920s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Nicolas Remisoff papers
Collection
Identifier: 0199
Abstract
The Nicolas Remisoff papers includes more than 400 original works, consisting of full-size watercolor drawings, some black and white drawings, and numerous oil paintings. The earliest dated drawing is from 1921. The archive covers all aspects of Remisoff's career and shows in detail his strengths as a set designer, costumer, muralist, portrait painter, professional designer, caricaturist, and illustrator. There are also several files of correspondence and photographs related to Remisoff's...
Dates:
1908-1975
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Rexall Drugs Merchandising records
Collection — Box 8: [Barcode: 31275040421779]
Identifier: 0115
Abstract
This collection consists of the files kept by Joseph A. Hailer over the course of his 60-year career with Rexall Drugs. Most of the files are from his later years with the company, when he was in charge of marketing their pharmaceuticals. In addition, a number of Rexall publications are present in the collection.
Dates:
1919 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1966
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Emilie Michel Rifkind collection of H.L. Mencken letters
Collection
Identifier: 6197
Abstract
The collection consists of letters written by H.L. Mencken to Louis Michel, Mrs. Louis Michel, and their daughter Emilie Michel Rifkind. Also included are Mencken's wedding announcement and calling card, a clipping from the Baltimore Sun about a piece by Michel, and letters from Princeton University librarian Julian Boyd to Emilie Rifkind about the letters. H.L. Mencken (1880-1956 was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, and cultural critic. Louis Michel, a German immigrant, met...
Dates:
circa 1905-1946
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Rock concert flyers and handbills collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 7078
Abstract
A collection of 52 flyers and handbills promoting various soft, folk, and alternative rock bands and music venues in California. The material dates from the 1980s to the 1990s and features acts such as 10,000 Maniacs, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Camper Yan Beethoven, The Roches, Red Kross, Terence Trent D'Arby, World Party, Chris Isaak, Lions & Ghosts, Sleestacks, Roller, Wednesday Week, and others. Many of the flyers list event information and pictures of the bands, but a few consist of a...
Dates:
1980s-1990s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Joseph Roos papers
Collection
Identifier: 0313
Abstract
This collection contains papers documenting the activities of Joseph Roos (1905-1999) from his retirement from the Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council in 1969 until his death in 1999. These papers include correspondence, research files, memoranda and publications. Some documentation of Roos's earlier activities investigating the activities of the German Bund in Los Angeles in the 1930s is also present.
Dates:
1921 - 1999
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
SCAMP (USC Alumni Families Camp) records
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 5238
Abstract
Begun in 1984, SCamp (or SCAMP)is a USC program hosted each August by USC students known as Pepsters as well as the USC General Alumni Association. USC students and their families take over the year-round Wonder Valley Resort near Sanger, California for three weeks of Trojan-related programs and activities-- water sports, horseback riding, etc., as well as typical "camp" activities such as sing-a-longs and competitive games.
This small collection of ephemera, brochures,...
Dates:
1998-1999
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections