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Ephemera

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 174 Collections and/or Records:

Phi Kappa Phi records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275053948981]
Identifier: 5328
Abstract

Phi Kappa Phi is an academic honor society that recognizes and promotes academic excellence in all fields of higher education and engages the community of scholars in service to others. This small group of records consists of bylaws, correspondence, rosters, newsletters, meeting minutes, award program information, Daily Trojan clippings, and other ephemera pertaining to USC's chapter of Phi Kappa Phi.

Dates: 1924-2002

Gerhard and Marianne Pinkus papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6122
Abstract Gerhard and Marianne Pinkus emigrated from Germany to Los Angeles in the 1930s and began to collect art in the 1940s. After accumulating a small collection of choice (and sometimes rare) finds, Gerhard and Marianne became a major force in the Los Angeles art world, especially in regard to their primary interest: Marc Chagall. Though they focused mainly on Chagall, the Pinkuses collected drawings, lithographs, and paintings by many other artists from various periods, with some emphasis on...
Dates: 1859-2005; Majority of material found in 1920s-1970s

Poets Garden records

 Collection
Identifier: 0110
Abstract

The Poets Garden records contains publications, letters, diaries, and memorabilia of the literary group created by Los Angeles poet Ruth Le Prade. The collection also contains materials relating to the poet Edwin Markham (1852-1940) and the labor and socialist activist Eugene Debs.

Dates: 1876-1971

Jonathan B. Postel papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0292
Abstract

The archives of the office of Dr. Jonathan B. Postel. Dr. Postel (1943-1998) was director of the Computer Networks division at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California, and director of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.

Dates: 1943 - 1988

Presidential campaign ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 0107
Abstract

Fliers, speeches, buttons, etc. primarily from the 1960 party conventions and the presidential campaigns of Kennedy and Nixon; also contains George C. Wallace campaign materials from 1968. Miscellaneous World War I-era political buttons, including buttons for Herbert Hoover and Charles E. Hughes.

Dates: 1914-1972 (bulk 1960)

Kendall O. Price Los Angeles Riots records

 Collection
Identifier: 7019
Abstract Kendall O. Price, a faculty member of the School of Public Administration at USC in the 1960s, organized with his colleagues a non-profit corporation called Public Executive Development and Research (PEDR) and worked closely with the School of Public Administration. They conducted two seminars and a conference which led to the Critique of the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots. The seminars dealt with issues in the African-American community and included grass roots leaders...
Dates: 1965 - 1967

Robert Radnitz papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2293
Abstract

This collection includes the production records of American motion picture producer Robert Radnitz (1924-2010).

Dates: 1960 - 1991

Mary Sawyer Reed photographs and ephemera

 Collection — Box 1-2
Identifier: 0339
Abstract

Collection mainly consisting of photographs of USC alumna Mary Sawyer Reed (nee Mary Estella Sawyer), Class of 1892, and of her husband Dr. Elgar Reed. Also are included a play program, print of the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and Webster dictionary presented to Miss Sawyer as the "The K. H. Wing Prize ...For Highest Scholarship Freshman Year 1889".

Dates: circa 1880s-1890s

Reich and Hayman family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6047
Abstract This collection contains the personal papers of Dr. Joseph Reich and members of his extended family. It contains photographs and artifacts as well as correspondence, legal documents, and some ephemera, mostly from the period from World War I to World War II. Dr. Joseph (Josef) Paul Reich, M.D. was born 1887 June 16 in Breslau. He studied neurology, and was licensed to practice medicine in Germany in 1911. His father-in-law was Dr. Oskar Kohnstamm, M.D., founder of the Sanatorium Dr....
Dates: 1600 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1914 - 1944

Eric Reissner papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6100
Abstract The Reissner papers consist of more than 200 letters, many of them in German, written to Eric Reissner (1913-1996), a German-born mathematician. Correspondents include Reissner's father, Hans, a prominent German aeronatuical engineer whose avocation was mathematical physics; Bernhard Hermann Neumann, a German-born British-Australian mathematician who was a leading figure in group theory; William Prager, a German expert in the fields of vibrations, plasticity and the theory of...
Dates: 1927-1968; Majority of material found within 1936-1940