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Pamphlets

 Subject
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Found in 97 Collections and/or Records:

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

Mineral King Development records

 Collection
Identifier: 0037
Abstract

The collection consists of environmental reports, correspondence, scrapbooks, and other ephemera pertaining to the controversial 1960s development of a 16,000 acre tract of the Sequoia National Forest in Tulare County, California. The materials were created and collected by conservation activists Jean and Richard Koch.

Dates: 1963-1978
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Willard Morse collection on Ambrose Bierce

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0136
Abstract Book reviews, journal and newspaper articles (originals and photostats) by and about Ambrose Bierce, journalist and author of The Devil's Dictionary and Tales of Soldiers & Civilians (1891). Willard S. Morse (1856-1935) was a mining executive in the West and Mexico. He was later made a director and member of the executive committee of the American Smelter Securities Company, Chilean Exploration Company, and Braden Copper Company. After retiring, Morse devoted much of this time to the...
Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Movimiento Anticomunista Catolico Unido (MACU)

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275059586587]
Identifier: 0507
Abstract

This collection consists of the materials from the non-profit educational organization Comité La Verdad Sobre Cuba, The Truth About Cuba Committee, operating under the name Movimiento Anticomunista Catolico Unido.

Dates: 1964 - 1970
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

L.A. Murillo papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0501
Abstract The L.A. Murillo papers document the life of Louis Andrew Murillo (1922- ), including his service in the Air Force during World War II, his tenure as a professor of Spanish literature and Cervantes scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and his service as a bilingual volunteer for the California Highway Patrol and the Los Angeles Police Department. Also included in this collection are the Spanish, English and bilingual pamphlets and flyers which document Spanish language usage...
Dates: 1932 - 2012
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

North Korean pamphlets

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275058162992]
Identifier: 3386
Abstract

Collection consists of informational pamphlets issued by the North Korean government.

Dates: 1971 - 1993
Found in: USC Libraries East Asian Library

Osborne-Montague family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0190
Abstract The Osborne-Montague family papers contains the papers of multiple generations of the Osborne and Montague families, as well as of the families they married into (primarily the Tingstads and the Caleffs). Rodney Montague moved to Los Angeles in 1853, while Henry Zenas Osborne moved to the area in 1878. Montague was a farmer; Osborne owned the Los Angeles Evening Express and was a Congressman for California's 10th Congressional District from 1917 until his death in 1923. His son, Henry...
Dates: 1847 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1945
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Maurice Ostomel papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 0496
Abstract Maurice Ostomel was the assistant director of the Welfare Planning Council of Metropolitan Los Angeles from 1945 to 1957. While there, he helped form a community committee on the aging and wrote a number of reports on public assistance in California that laid the foundation for state laws. In 1957 he accepted a post as executive director of the Jewish Home for the Aged, where he served until retiring in 1977. During his career, he served on the California State Board of Social Work Examiners...
Dates: 1942 - 1975
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

"Our Colored Citizens" pamphlet

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 6171
Abstract

"Our Colored Citizens: How They Have Been Officially Recognized Both in War and Peace by the Republican Party" is an 8 page pamphlet describing how the Republican Party had been working to enfranchise African-Americans in American government and politics and how the Democratic Party in the South was systematically and purposefully disenfranchising them. Includes a cartoon of Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman preventing an African-American man from voting.

Dates: circa1900
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections
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