This collection consists of publicity materials for Adohr Milk Farms. Box 1 contains 27 photographs of Adohr Farms dairy operations in Reseda and Buttonwillow, California, that have been mounted on black board and captioned. Box 2 consists of 8 digitized...
The Album Cartes Postales contains French art postcards from 1908-1911, along with several portrait prints of prominent individuals.
The collection consists of photographs relating to cross-dressing and transsexuals published in advertising literature, periodical articles, and brochures.
World War I photo album taken with the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, including six aerial views. The album includes images depicting citizens with their goats, monkeys, and donkey carts; soldiers and pilots; a set of photographs taken "1918 Thanksgiving...
The Anna Karenina Breakdown Sheets Collection consists exclusively of a single document, breakdown sheets for the TV movie directed by Simon Langton and starring Christopher Reeve and Jacqueline Bisset.
The Art and Print Collection was created by Special Collections and Archives staff and contains a variety of drawings, paintings, prints and other artwork donated to the library.
Carl Barks started drawing for Walt Disney in 1935. In 1943, he began drawing Disney stories for Western Printing and Lithography which produced the Dell and Gold Key comic books. Barks retired from the Disney Studio in 1966, but continued...
The Alfons Büchler World War II Correspondence Collection contains a small number of letters sent to and from Alfons Büchler. Letters are in German, and were sent via Feldpost, the German military mail service.
The contains 24 color slides and photographs of Beale's Cut, located in the Newhall area of Los Angeles.
The documents Berkowitz's musical and academic career during his tenure at California State University, Northridge, from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s. The collection includes musical scores and audio recordings composed and produced by Berkowitz, as well as works by...
Married couple Betty and Martin kept this journal on road trips around Southern California to such locations as San Jacinto, Arroyo Seco Canyon, Big Pines, Mission San Fernando, Palmdale, Riverside, and other areas.
The Black Legion Movie Stills collection consists of black and white photographs and half-sheet movie posters from the 1937 film Black Legion starring Humphrey Bogart.
Block was a visual effects artist, matte artist, painter, illustrator and educator who worked as an artist in the film industry and later taught at California State University, Northridge. The collection consists of visual artwork and personal papers including film...
The consists of approximately 45 bookplates including duplicates. Noteable names in the collection include the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles, Rev. John Casebow Barrett of Massacchuttes, and the Parascandolo family crest.
Edwin Booth was a 19th century American actor from a well-known acting family that also included his thespian brothers Junius Brutus Jr. and John Wilkes Booth. Booth made his stage debut in 1849, and his great granddaughter Edwina Booth Waterbury...
The Brawley, California Weather Station Logbook journals the administrative records of the station located at the corner of 3rd and H Street in Brawley. These include notes on deliveries, purchases, inspections, and of course weather conditions for the period October...
The Gwen Brewer Papers (1965-2004) is a small collection consisting of some of Dr. Brewer's working files as a member of the California State University, Northridge English department faculty, including course materials, correspondence, research, and information regarding her own promotion...
Gwen Bristow, an author and journalist, wrote the best-selling novel published in 1938, as the second work in her Plantation Trilogy. The collection consists of a scrapbook, primarily comprised of newspaper clippings, compiled about publication and success of the .
The collection consists of documents related to the process of acquiring patents in the United Kingdom in 19 century. Items include a patent specification written by Alfred Vincent Newton in 1853 for an "Improved Sewing Machine," and a copy of...
The Craig L. Brown Notebook contains a "Nurse's Pocket Notebook" printed in 1963. The owner of this notebook seems to have been Craig L. Brown from Austin, Texas, who was a United States Marine stationed in Vietnam. The book has...
John Brown was an abolitionist who moved with his family to Kansas Territory in 1855 so he could participate in the fight to keep Kansas from becoming a slave state. In this letter, he discusses his move to Kansas with...
Richard H. Bryant served in the US Army in the Pacific theater during World War II, and was awarded the Bronze Star. While serving overseas, he corresponded via V-mail and regular post with his sisters Wava and Beverly in Florence,...
The Bugs Bunny Original Art Collection consists of a single animation cell and inked sketch.
Loris Bulla lived in Los Angeles in the late 1910s, and began writing this diary days after she became engaged to her boyfriend Bill. Bill was a college graduate working at Standard Oil Company's plant in El Segundo. Shortly after...
Bonnie Bullough was a nursing teacher, administrator, researcher, and author. The documents her work in those fields, particularly her investigation of job worth (attaching value to nursing jobs) and cross dressing. There is also a significant amount of material related...
Dr. Vern Bullough was an historian, sexologist, nursing researcher, author, and teacher, as well as a husband and father. While this collection touches on all of these facets of the man, its focus is primarily on his research and writing...
The Hans Burkhardt Collection consists of items produced by or related to the artist Hans Burkhardt, including multiple exhibition posters, an article on a 1975 Burkhardt exhibit held at CSUN, and an original linoleum print by Burkhardt.
George Burlingame was a local businessman who resided in the Westwood area of Los Angeles from 1931 until 1954. The include records from the Loomis family, Cecilia Burlingame's family name. The correspondence, business records, and California road maps and guides...
Letters discussing business and travel in California during the gold rush from various goldminers to family and friends written between 1853 and 1863.
The California Historic Photographs Collection consists of a number of photographs taken in California during the 19 and early 20 centuries, including photographs of buildings and landscapes in various locations throughout the state as well as photographs related to public...
Tourism and real estate promotion have been longtime means of encouraging people to vacation and settle in California. The includes county, regional, and statewide promotional literature used to promote tourism and real estate development across the state of California.
Cartes de visite are a small type of photograph patented in Paris, France in the 1850s, made when a photograph printed on thin paper is mounted onto a thicker piece of paper. Cartes de visite were printed in a standard...
E. Chappell, from North Barnsley, Yorkshire, volunteered to serve with British forces during World War II on May 26, 1941, and was called to serve with the Royal Air Force (RAF) on June 30, 1941. He served in the RAF...
The Child Survivors of the Jewish Holocaust Collection consists of oral history interviews conducted by Sarah Traister Moskovitz as part of her research on the experience of childhood during the Holocaust. The testimonies consist of video recordings documenting experiences in...
A photograph depicting members of the Chinese Alliance Society from the Chin-Lang residence of the Chich-Kung Tong, headquartered in San Francisco (probably Grand Ave.) celebrating the establishment of the Republic of China, 1911-1912.
The collection includes photographic negatives of Chinese and Chinese Americans around 1900. Photographs were taken in San Francisco and Monterey in California, and in Portland, Oregon.
The Chinese and Vietnamese Coin Collection includes six cards mounted with coins. Four cards are labeled "Chinese Moneys" and are indicated as coming from the "Dynasty Chou," more commonly referred to as the Zhou dynasty. These coins are labeled as...
Zaruhy "Sara" Chitjian was an educator, immigrant, and daughter to survivors of the Armenian genocide. The Zaruhy "Sara" Chitjian Collection was created to preserve the material content of the Harry and Ovsanna Chitjian Family Foundation, which works to increase awareness...
E.R. Chumley was in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was aboard the USS . The diary documents Chumley's locations and activities with chronological entries beginning when he was sworn into the Navy on December 3, 1943 and...
W.F. Clingman, a United States Coast Guard officer, kept this handwritten journal from September 22 to October 3, 1945 while assisting in minesweeping operations in the Kii Channel (Kii Suido) in Japan after the end of World War II. In...
In this letter Irvin Cobb of Santa Monica, CA asks Edwin Shallant whether a float representing African Americans could be included in the upcoming Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena on behalf of Claude Honeybuss, who is seeking sponsorship for...
The collection consists of a bond issued by the Confederacy during the Civil War. The bond, issued on May 1 1861, is in the amount of 100 dollars and has 16 coupons attached.
The collection consists of two scripts for United Nations Radio Dramas written by American writer Norman Corwin during the Golden Age of Radio. The first script, "Could Be," which was also produced by Corwin, first aired in September of 1949...
This collection consists of three booklets of handwritten notes in French taken from a course on political economies during the 19th century.
W. Chase Craig (1910-2002) illustrated, wrote and produced comic books from the mid-1930s until his retirement from Western Printing and Lithography in 1975. Craig wrote and drew the first issues of Bugs Bunny, Looney Tunes, and Merrie Melodies for Western...
This collection consists of newsletters issued by local chapters of Tri-Ess (an educational and support group for heterosexual cross dressers) in the United States, and independent groups in the US and abroad. The newsletters report local activities, discuss current topical...
The includes product advertising literature, government and non-profit organization pamphlets, brochures on food preparation and cooking equipment, and independently written recipe booklets. Most were published in the United States.
David W. Cunningham kept a daily diary from 1883-1900. In them he recorded a variety of details describing daily life. Nine such diaries make up the collection. Entries are brief, taking about half of a page in the pocket diary.
Jan Daily, a sex researcher and author, corresponded with Dr. John Money, sex researcher and co-founder of the Gender Identity Clinic at Johns Hopkins, for 17 years. The correspondence begins with Jan Dailey, who lived near Los Angeles International Airport,...
Entries in this diary, a 1925 Daily Reminder Book, start in 1936, when the author was a young girl. She initially wrote about attending various social funct ions, going to church, and a part-time job. Other entries cover single days,...
The Araunah Daman Blacksmith Ledger is an account book for work performed by Araunah Daman, a blacksmith in Maine. Entries are arranged by customer's name.
James F. Dargan served as a Union solder in the US Civil War. Between September 17, 1862 and August 27, 1863 he kept a diary which includes descriptions of his enlistment, camp life, gossip about fellow soldiers, military discipline, and...
L. Clarice "Cal" Davis was an art book dealer in Sherman Oaks, California. The collection consists of correspondence and sale records for "Derriere le Miroir," a collection of birthday cards sent to William Randolph Hearst by King Features Syndicate comic...
The Deaf Women's History Project Collection contains video interviews conducted by Evelyn L. Preston and Caroline Preston Bass as part of a grant-funded project to film deaf women about their lives during World War II.
The collection consists of photographs of the Mayne R. Denman family of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Denman worked for the Smith Premier Typewriter Company in eastern Ohio and West Virginia. There is a Los Angeles address on one of the photographs.
This bound volume dates from 1675 to 1726, and contains various records generated by members of the Diocese of Rochester, including copies of leases, indentures, marriages, and bills of sale.
The E. Oren Donnell Correspondence Collection documents the experiences of Donnell as he worked as an aircraft mechanic at the US Naval Station in Corpus Christi, Texas in the United States Navy during World War II. Letters include descriptions of...
A novelist, editor, and political activist, Theodore Dreiser was born in Indiana in 1871, and died in Hollywood, California in 1945. In 1939, while living on Hayworth Avenue in Los Angeles, he wrote to columnist Rob Wagner granting him permission...
The (1885-1904) consists of transcripts of court cases in Los Angeles, California from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The collection contains some transcripts of trials, but the majority of documents are transcripts of the testimony for preliminary examinations....
The Early Manuscripts and Engravings Collection was created by Special Collections and Archives staff and contains leaves from manuscripts and engraved prints from the 17 18 and 19 centuries.
Black and white photograph of Thomas Edison, dated 1912. Matting is inscribed, "To TC Brown, Thomas A. Edison."
Richard "Dickie" Embleton Lived in Hicksville, NY. His father, also Richard Embleton, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. His mother's name was Mary. At some point Dickie lived with his Aunt Laura, Uncle John, and cousin Patty....
Mahala E. Emler, of Coshocton and Cambridge, Ohio, kept a diary from 1943 to 1967 in which she describes her daily routines, events, marriages, births, her local community, and events of national significance including the conclusion of World War II...
Len Evans (1943-2003) was an historian and collector who wrote several articles and chronologies discussing the history of homosexuality in the United States and in Mexico. The collection helps to document that history within the United States and consists of...
The P.J. Farrell World War I Photograph Album documents the experiences of American nurses and soldiers during World War I. The majority of photos were taken at Camp Albert Mills on Long Island and on the home front more generally...
The Fine Press Prints and Broadsides Collection consists of broadsides, book prospectuses and other printed ephemera sent to the library from various fine art printing presses and printers in the United States.
The consists of pamphlets, paperbacks, periodicals, and photographs on spanking, caning, and whipping. Some titles have prices penciled on the cover or flyleaf.
Alton L. Flanders served in the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines infantry battalion during World War I. The collection consists of four letters he sent to his cousin Mrs. Jason Coppernoll in Johnstown, NY, in which he documents his experiences at...
Stanley Fleishman (1920-1999) is a lawyer known primarily for trying First Amendment obscenity cases. He was also very active advocating on behalf of the legal rights of the disabled community. Prior to his work, the wheelchair-bound were not permitted to...
Raymond Fleming enlisted in the US Army on January 29, 1942 on Christmas Island, where he worked as an Assistant Engineer. He served in the Pacific Theater as an Army Engineer throughout 1942.The collection documents his experiences on Christmas Island...
The collection consists of items related to the attempted resignation of Union Soldier Stiles E. Forsha from his position as the Regimental Quartermaster of the 7 Regiment, Iowa Infantry in 1862. Materials in the collection include Forsha's letter of resignation,...
This collection consists of a handwritten letter from Peren Fox to his wife, Ida, regarding the delay of his return to Mariposa due to business matters, and the envelope for the letter, which includes a cancellation mark dated March 12,...
This collection consists of five affidavits sworn to before the Justice of the Peace in Frederick County, Maryland between 1817 and 1857. The affidavits affirm that five African-Americans were persons who were either free born, claiming deeds of manumission, or...
The Nathalie Furst Gittelman Travel Ephemera is primarily comprised of publications created by tourism bureaus in various European countries, including road and metro maps, booklets, brochures advertising specific sites, and tickets collected by Nathalie while on an organized student trip...
The collection consists of two handwritten diaries written by Canadian Private Whitfield T. Ganong from 1918-1919, which document the daily experiences of his battalion in Europe during World War I. Also included is Ganong's pay book, which states his rate...
The Gaspar Family Travel Scrapbook includes diary entries, photographs, and ephemera that document a family trip to Mexico from February 12 to March 23, 1942.
This collection consists of 33 gay Christmas and Valentine greeting cards.
Milton Geiger wrote radio and television scripts as well as motion picture plays, theater plays, and short stories, some of which were performed or directed by Orson Welles, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Edward G. Robinson, Lorne Greene, and Richard Dreyfuss....
Account book for an unamed general store in Strawberry Valley, Yuba County, California for the period of June 1 through October 31, 1860. Detailed entries include customer names, items, and quantities purchased.
Peggy Gilbert was a saxophonist and band leader. From the 1930s through 1996 she led several all-girl orchestras and bands. An advocate for women musicians, she arranged for bookings and contracts. She was an active member in Local 47 of...
The collection consists of 19 letters sent between Raymond Gleason, his mother (T.M. Gleason), future wife (Ida Gravenow), and friend (Z. Bojanie), while serving overseas in the US Navy during World War I. The correspondence begins in 1916 with the...
The Lieutenant Commander Herbert Goebert World War II Collection includes a diary and other items from Goebert's time as a United States Naval Reserve surgeon on active duty from 1943 to 1944.
Donald Gordon was an American who lived in Japan with his parents when he was a child. On March 31, 1889 his mother gifted him a journal. He filled his journals with daily entries of varying lengths. The first was...
Agnes Gunirlle lived in Mondamin, Iowa. In 1938 she and her husband, Winston, moved to the Los Angeles area of California. This "Line-A-Day" five-year diary documents Agnes Gunirlle's daily life from 1938 to 1941. The title page shows Gunirlle's intention...
Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1888-1951) moved to Girard, Kansas in 1915 to begin writing for a leading socialist newspaper in pre-World War I America. In 1919, he purchased a partnership with Louis Kopelin in the newspaper and its printing facility with money...
Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, a newspaper publisher, opened a publishing house in Girard, Kansas, where he published small, inexpensive paperback books, including classic works of literature and essays on myriad topics, for the working and middle classes. The publications in the are...
The consists of a small number of business records, the personal records of Jack Botwin, the printing plates for one title, and articles about the Haldeman-Julius Collection at the Leonard H. Axe Library (formerly the Porter Library) at Pittsburg State...
R. H. B. Hammond-Chambers served on the H.M.S. Royal Arthur, H.M.S. Plyades, H.M.S. Blake, and H.M.S. Duke of Wellington in the region of Australia and New Zealand in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He kept these logbooks, dated...
Anna Jane Hardy lived in Dorset, Vermont and worked at the United Service Organization (USO). The collection consists of 15 letters Jane Hardy received between 1944-1946, and a 1944 newsletter titled which mentions a going away party for Jane.
The documents the efforts of Alvin S. Harris, an amateur erotic photographer, and Richard "Dick" Oliver Wheeler, an enthusiast, to collect, share, and sell cross-dressing and sexual fetish materials, including literature, photographs, periodicals, catalogs, and other types of sexually explicit...
This collection consists of a scrapbook which includes newspaper and periodical clippings from the late 19th century, as well as a Thanksgiving dinner menu dated November 30, 1893.
The Heart Mountain Relocation Center was built during the summer of 1942 and received its first contingent of Japanese Americans on August 12, 1942. It is located in Park County, northwestern Wyoming. The collection contains Community Camp Council meeting minutes,...
The Walter H. Himmelberger World War II Diary documents the experiences of a United States Army ambulance medic in Italy in the final two years of World War II.
The Hirstel Family Collection consists of a photo album which contains snapshots taken while the Hirstel family was on vacation, primarily of camp grounds and other outdoor locations in California, Washington, and Oregon; correspondence exchanged between Harold Hirstel and his...
The Homosexual Information Center (HIC) is a nonprofit organization committed to gathering and disseminating information and data to the public regarding all aspects of homosexuality. It was founded in the late 1960s by the Tangent Group, which in 1965 formally...
The Homosexual Information Center (HIC), is a nonprofit organization committed to gathering and disseminating information and data to the public regarding all aspects of homosexuality. It was founded in the late 1960s by the Tangent Group, which in 1965 formally...
The Captain Forrest G. Houlehan Scrapbook contains photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, typed letters and other ephemera that document Houlehan's life from World War I up until the beginning of World War II in 1941. Many materials in the scrapbook relate...
Bound household recipe book that includes handwritten recipes for food, including "French Pot au Feu" and "a Pickle," and other household supplies, including "Marking Ink" and "blacking," among other things.
The Inyo Canal Company Records consist of receipts, financial records, correspondence, and stock agreements related to water rights and associated land transactions and stock agreements in Inyo County, California. The Nevada-based company was organized to transport Owens River water for...
Frank A. Irvin was a First Lieutenant in the 7th Iowa Infantry during the US Civil War. He was assigned to the US Signal Corps, and served as Aide-de-Camp to General Franklin's Staff. He participated in the Vicksburg (May 19-July...
The Japanese American Soldier Photograph Album was compiled by an unknown Japanese American United States Army soldier, noted as "Robert" in a handwritten title on the cover of the album, post World War II. The book contains photographs of his...
The Japanese-American internment camps during World War II were administered by the War Relocation Authority. Camp inmates independently wrote and distributed many of their own documents associated with the camp newspapers, camp stores, school publications, and other camp activities. This...
During the internment of the Japanese-Americans from 1942-1945, newspapers recording camp activities and providing news of events outside the camps were issued by the internees from the beginning of their confinement in temporary assembly centers and permanent relocation centers. This...
Scrapbooks in the collection primarily consist of advertisements clipped from periodicals and newspapers, as well as photographs. Each volume has a theme, and was created between 1950 and 1996.
Walter Jerome lived on a ranch in Zelzah, California (now Northridge) with his wife Helen and his children in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He kept a diary from November 27, 1927 to January 15, 1930, in which he...
The collection consists of loose photographs taken during a 1922 vacation to Echo Lake, California. It includes captioned photos of the Johnson family picnicking, swimming, hiking, and raising a flag, as well as images of their cabin. Also included are...
The collection consists of photographs of Victoria Lynn Johnson and Bob Guccione, a news release, and other materials.
The collection consists of four letters concerning cross dressing and Christine Jorgensen, one of the first people in the United States to speak publicly about having sex reassignment surgery. One letter is from Eddie Emory, another is from Stephen G....
This is a handwritten travel diary of a young Englishwoman's first visit to the United States. It dates from April to June of 1895 and begins with her voyage on the "Teutonic" to New York. The journal includes her train...
Joseph Ariadne "Ari" Kane-Demaios is the founder of the Outreach Institute for Gender Studies. Originally named Joseph DeMaios, he officially came out as Ariadne "Ari" Kane in 1971. The contains various documents, audio and video tapes, photographs, and awards. These...
Laura Kelly's travel diary includes entries made during a trip from San Francisco, overland to New York, and across the Atlantic to Europe from April 22, 1905 to August 12, 1905, as well as a motor trip to several Southern...
The Tom Killion Prints Collection consists of eight woodcut prints of the United States, Europe, and Africa by the artist Tom Killion, which were among the sixty-five prints used to illustrate his fine press book, . Also included in the...
William A. Kistler established a printing business in Los Angeles in 1910. After World War I he purchased a lithography firm where both he and his son practiced lithography for several years. The collection contains the commercial work of Kistler...
Violet Atkins Klein wrote novels, short fiction, and scripts for radio and television. The collection documents the writing process, including research materials and drafts. The legal materials document Klein's interaction with the publishing industry, and her efforts to have script...
William Hogarth was a famous English painter, printmaker, satirist and editorial cartoonist who lived during the early 18 century. The collection consists of a number of engravings by or in the style of Hogarth.
John Thomas Milligan raised white Leghorn chickens on his Oakgrove farm near Stithton, Kentucky. He migrated to the San Fernando Valley in 1922 and started The California White Leghorn Breeding Farm in the Lankershim area of the Valley (now North...
During the 1910s, the Klan, which had been defunct since the concluding decades of the 19 century, was revived in Atlanta, Georgia and spread across the country within a decade. The Klan's revival was due in part to urbanization and...
The consists of an original color advertisement for White Rock Mineral Water produced in 1907 and published in and correspondence between Kuehn, the and the Coca Cola Bottling Company of Los Angeles regarding the advertisement.
This collection consists of a dozen black and white photographic prints taken of various locations in Mexico by the La Rochester photography agency in the early 20th century. It includes interior and exterior shots of Tepozotlan, an interior shot of...
This photo album includes snapshots of Lake Tahoe, its surroundings, and some vacationers, taken in 1902.
Thomas G. Lambert traveled to California during the gold rush. He wrote a letter to his "Dear Parents" in a Cooke & Le Count's California Letter Book. In it he gives them a "confidential" account of his friends and acquaintances...
Harvey and Connie Lapin's son Shawn was diagnosed with severe autism as a child. In the 1970s, they became activists in advocating for autistic children and adults, and Shawn became national poster child for the National Society for Autistic Children...
Aristide Joseph "A.J." Laurent was a U.S. Airman, writer, publisher, printer, and pioneer activist for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) communities. He clandestinely co-founded —the oldest and largest LGBT publication in the United States—in the basement studios of ABC...
The collection consists of a fieri facias writ of execution issued in Lawrence County, Alabama in 1860, which commands any state sheriff to seize the sum of two thousand dollars in court ordered damages from a number of debtors. The...
Barbara Le Lièvre kept a diary while living in Washington D.C. and Paris, France in 1945, during the final days of World War II. Early entries in the diary highlight Le Lièvre's daily activities in Washington D.C. and New York,...
Purchased by the library in the late 1970s, this collection consists of bills of sale, bonds, writs, promissory notes, summons, wills of slave owners, and inventories of slaves. It also includes some criminal cases involving slaves and an anonymously authored...
Sidney Lens was born in 1912 in New Jersey to Charles and Sophie Okun, Russian Jewish immigrants who came to the United States in 1907. His birth name was Sidney Okun. Lens married Shirley Ruben, a Chicago public school teacher,...
The Library of the Institute for the Study of Women in Music was established in the Music Department by Jeannie Poole, Head of the Music Library and Professor Beverly Grigsby in 1985 to collect the music of women composers. The...
Joyce Linden lived with her family on a 15 acre ranch in Northridge, California in the late 1940s and 1950s. The collection consists of items collected by Linden related to the history of the San Fernando Valley and her family's...
The Lisowski Family World War II Postcard Collection consists of 24 postcards and 2 accordion-style foldout letters containing military information and graphic illustrations about Camp Rucker in Alabama and the "Military Activities of the U.S. Army." The postcards are written...
Major William J. Lodge served as a Statistical Officer in the VIII Fighter Command, 417th Night Fighter Squadron, of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. After the war, he settled in the San Fernando Valley area of...
The Horatio Walter Lonsdale Photograph Album contains portrait photographs of Lonsdale family members, primarily taken in Britain in the 19th century.
Dated 1854, this book was written and signed by the first elected Assessor of Los Angeles, Antonio Franco Coronel. Titled in English on its spine and Spanish on its title page (Duplicado del Libro de Avaluos), it consists of an...
The consists of publications produced by the Los Angeles Board of Health between 1909 and 1943. The collection consists of bulletins, booklets, reports, and flyers intended to disseminate public health information to the residents of Los Angeles.
The collection primarily consists of photographs taken of building and freeway damage caused by the San Fernando earthquake in February of 1971. Included are slides of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and Olive View Medical Center.
This collection consists of three articles from 1933 published in the as part of a series written by Rodney Dutcher called "Heroes of Health." In the series, Dutcher sought to illuminate the efforts of the United States Public Health Service...
This collection consists of six photographs of fire hazards in slum neighborhoods in Los Angeles, California during the 1940s.
The Los Angeles Weather Station Logbooks journal the administrative records of the station. These include names and schedules of meteorologist and observers, equipment, inspections, and of course weather conditions for the period October 21, 1905 to June 20, 1938.
The collection consists of sales brochures, aerial photographs, newsletters, and other documents obtained by Douglas and Eunice Goodan during the course of their real estate work in the Los Feliz and Silverlake areas of Los Angeles. They operated Hoover Real...
Millicent Farrington Lowry, also known as Mrs. R.B. Lowry, lived in Niagara Falls, New York. This diary documents her life on the homefront from 1943 through 1947. Lowry recorded daily activities covering rationing, comments on the war, meals, errands, the...
These press kits from the 1990s and 2000-2001 were issued by movie studios to publicize upcoming and newly released motion pictures. Some are devoted to a single film; other kits cover a studio's seasonal or annual releases. They contain production...
This collection of training materials from Fort Benning during World War II was created by an unnamed enlisted man in the United States Army. It consists of combat training pamphlets, Conference Course Training Bulletins, and other materials, including maps and...
Charles Magnus was a print publisher and lithographer from New York City who sold letter sheets, maps, song sheets, envelopes and other prints from 1850 to 1899, and was especially popular during the Civil War. The collection consists of two...
The Manuscript Cookbook was written by an unknown individual from the Scranton, Pennsylvania area. The Cookbook consists of handwritten recipes, recipes clipped from newspapers, and several medicinal recipes contained in a small daily diary dated 1935. Clipped recipes are pasted...
The collection consists of materials from Marks' sex research, including a questionnaire, essays and notes about sex-related themes in classical literature.
Raymond Marshall was an African-American US Army Air Corps Corporal who served in World War II, before military service branches in the US were desegregated. Marshall was assigned to an Air Base Security Battalion unit comprised of black enlisted men...
Ray Martin (1918-1988) was a composer, arranger, and conductor for BBC-TV, Columbia Records, RCA, and motion pictures. The collection contains the original manuscript scores in the composer's hand, and are numbered 1 through 342. There are nearly 600 pieces, including...
The consists primarily of reproductions of secondary source material used by Dr. Martinson in his research regarding the family and the development of sexuality in children.
Lee Mayo enlisted in the US Army in October of 1941, just before Pearl Harbor Day. He kept a diary, titled "My Life in the Service" between July 23, 1944 and December 18, 1945, while moving around the South Pacific....
The Donald H. McGill Collection consists of just a few of Mr. McGill's keepsakes which include a letter written by McGill and posted from France in March of 1945, a sheet of head shots, and his Presidential Commission in the...
In this letter to Horatio McPherson, Mrs. Isaac Vanbert McPherson describes family life in Los Angeles in 1870.
This collection consists of a handwritten letter dated August 10, 1925, from a Miss M. Simpson to Miss Griffith, confirming a reservation made by Miss Griffith for two single bedrooms and a sitting room for five days at a hotel...
The collection consists of promotional materials for an 1879 production of , a play based on a short story by American author Bret Harte starring actress Annie Pixley. Items in the collection include a poster advertising a specific performance, and...
John David Morris served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. This collection contains one letter from Morris to his mother, and his military discharge record from 1966.
Daily reports of cases assigned and daily activities submitted by Officer E. B. Mortensen to Police Captain George K. Home.
Dr. Robert E. Mueller practiced psychophysical therapy in Los Angeles. He opened a massage therapy private practice in 1979 where he offered a "Release & Reorientation" program. He sometimes incorporated alternative methods into his body therapy practice, and would occasionally...
Eddie S. Muraoka was interned during the Second World War at Manzanar Internment Camp in Manzanar, CA. The collection includes scrapbooks filled with news clippings on Japanese-American internment, dated 1942-1980s. It also includes loose issues of and (Centennial Edition).
The collection consists of snapshots and studio photographs of well known figures in the entertainment industry, including several photographs from the film and photographs of Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Placido Domingo, Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Danny...
This collection consists of tintypes, ambrotypes, and cartes de visite of unrelated individuals, probably photographed in the United States from the 1860s through the 1890s. The cartes de visite are photographs of Civil War soldiers, mostly officers. There is one...
The Corporal Joseph Nykiel World War II Correspondence Collection is comprised of handwritten letters, v-mail, and greeting cards, primarily from Nykiel to his mother in Hudson, Pennsylvania. Corporal Joseph Nykiel served in the U.S. Marines Corps in Company C, 4th...
The Olive View Hospital Earthquake Damage Collection consists of photographs of earthquake damage to the Olive View Hospital in 1971.
Lois Margaret "Peg" Oliver served in the 746th Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II at Perrin Field in Sherman, Texas. The Lois M. Oliver World War II Correspondence Collection consists primarily of letters written to Lois from friends,...
Thomas O'Loughlin served in the US Navy during World War I as a member of the crew on the hospital ship USS Mercy. He left for France in May 1918 and with his shipmates provided medical and other support for...
Dr. Leonard Osborne, fleet surgeon in the US Navy during the War of 1812, kept this journal from 1809 to 1815. In it, he describes medical lectures he attended, some medical treatments, and his experiences during the war, including the...
William Hogarth was a famous English painter, printmaker, satirist and editorial cartoonist who lived during the early 18 century. The collection consists of 19 prints of engravings by or in the style of Hogarth, including the full series,
Two scrapbooks of news clippings, broadsides, and correspondence about Pasadena, California and its citizens, dated between 1900 and 1945.
The Roy A. Penn Etchings and Photoengravings Collection includes etchings and engraved prints collected by Penn. Both American and British engravers are represented in the collection, along with a smaller number of French and German works. The collection includes the...
During the US Civil War, Charles H. Peterson participated in the Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, and Petersburg campaigns. He kept these diaries from 1863 to 1865. He tucked notes, correspondence, currency, and newspaper clippings between the pages.
This scrapbook was created by the Los Angeles Bureau of Housing and Sanitation, under director M. S. Siegel, to document poor and slum housing conditions in Los Angeles during 1938. It consists of black and white photographs and negatives, some...
The consists of photographic negatives and photographic plates of American Indians in the southwestern United States, taken by Calista Potter Thresher around 1900.
Virginia Prince established, edited, and wrote for the magazine As editor and writer for Prince collected newspaper clippings, magazine articles, cartoons, and photographs on cross dressing that appeared in other print media outlets. The clippings date from the 1930s to...
Scrapbook of newspapers, leaflets, and other items regarding the Psychological Warfare Branch for US Pacific forces during the Second World War.
The Cartoons Collection consists of full color cartoons published in magazine, which was a weekly humor magazine published from 1871 until 1918. Items in the collection have been removed or reprinted from issues of the magazine, and include centerfold, cover,...
Many non-governmental groups sought redress for Japanese Americans interned during World War II. This collection contains reports, correspondence, publicity, and other documents issued by the Committee on Resettlement of Japanese Americans, National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, Pacific Coast Committee...
The Ren and Stimpy Show was an animated television series created by animator John Kricfalusi. The show aired on Nickelodeon, an American cable and satellite television network, and ran for five seasons (1991-1996). "The Last Temptation" episode, which did not...
The Frank Layne Phares Rhorabough St. John's Military Academy Scrapbook consists of a single scrapbook containing clippings and ephemera from Rhorabough's time as a student at St. John's Military Academy.
This collection includes 169 route maps and 22 sheet maps issued by the Automobile Club of Southern California (ACSC). Some of the card maps identify gas stations and rest stops along the highways.
The collection consists of four typed letters from the World War I and the Great Depression eras. The first document is a Special Order containing Halle D. Robb's military assignment from 1917. The next two letters are addressed to Sergeant...
The Roman Prints Collection consists of 4 graphic prints done in 1974 and signed by the artist, Roman, and donated to the CSUN University Library.
The Zamorano Club is Southern California's oldest organization of bibliophiles and manuscript collectors. The Roxburghe Club was formed in San Francisco on April 3, 1928 and was named in honor of the original Roxburghe Club of England. The purpose of...
Captain William Royal was a local official in southeast Georgia from the mid-1860s to mid-1880s. He kept a journal and account book in which he detailed his work with the African-American and white communities in the immediate aftermath of the...
This handwritten volume dates from 1826 to 1830 and includes records of sales and notes payable for an unknown store probably located in Massachusetts. Customers hailed from Provincetown, Kingston, Boston, Charlestown, Plymouth, and other areas in Massachusetts. Entries are organized...
This collection includes photographs of damage caused by the 1971 Sylmar earthquake.
The San Fernando Valley Bus and Train Time Tables Collections consists primarily of Pacific Electric Railway Pocket Time Tables and a single Rapid Transit District bus schedule for service between Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley from 1925-1965.
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was a contemporary American poet, author, musician, well-known Abraham Lincoln scholar, and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes. The materials in the collection primarily document events featuring or celebrating Carl Sandburg's career, including correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings,...
The Martha Schellhaas Dickoff Travel Diary documents the journey of a Swiss-born American woman to visit family in her hometown in Switzerland. She describes traveling on train across the United States, on the Queen Mary to Paris, her train journey...
The Lee C. Schlegel World War II Collection documents the experiences of United States Army soldier, Lee Cyrus Schegel, whose enlistment period spanned the first three years of United States involvement in World War II. The collection consists of approximately...
The James Sefton World War II Correspondence Collection contains materials collected by Dr. James E. Sefton that document the lived experiences of American military servicepeople in the first half of the 20th century. Correspondence, photographs, and ephemera document the everyday...
John M. Sell of Erie, Pennsylvania enlisted in the 83rd Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers July 29, 1861. He was commissioned First Lieutenant on August 27 and promoted to Captain on September 4 the following year. Captain Sell was struck...
The collection consists of three letters exchanged between L.E. Sissman and Professor Charles Kaplan in the English Department of California State University, Northridge after he reviewed Sissman's "War Requiem."
The S.L. Mitchell Account Book is that of Mr. Mitchell's General Store of Jonesville, New York from 1850-1851. Entries include customer name, items, and quantites sold.
Stanley S. Slotkin was a successful Los Angeles businessman who owned the medical and party supply rental company Abbey Rents. He was also an avid collector of antique bibles and other rare books, amassing hundreds of thousands of books which...
Professor Wilfred Cantwell Smith was the foremost Canadian scholar on Islam and comparative religion. He founded the Institute for Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal in 1951, helped establish the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard,...
Tri-Ess is a non-profit educational, social, and support group for heterosexual cross-dressers, their partners or spouses, and their families. The collection contains the records of Tri-Ess and its chapters since its inception in 1973 through 2006. It includes correspondence, directories,...
Photo album includes snapshots of Southern California. Views of Catalina, Coronado, Pasadena, Redlands, Riverside, Mexico, the Sweet Water Dam, Hollywood, the San Gabriel Mission, West Lake Park, Hotel Green, and Redondo Beach are included.
Ann Stanford, born in 1916, was an American poet and professor at California State University, Northridge. The Stanford Collection consists of three pieces of correspondence regarding publication of some of her poetry, and an offprint of dated between 1971 and...
Nelson Stauffer enlisted in Co. A, 63rd Regiment, Illinois Infantry during the US Civil War. He kept a diary from 1862-1865. In it, he writes of his enlistment, training, troop movements, interactions with other soldiers, daily work assignments, patrolling, and...
Glen W. Stevenson was assistant to Frank W. Bireley, founder and head of Bireley's, Inc., producers of Bireley's non-carbonated sodas. Bireley's Inc. is credited with the design and construction of the first automated juice extractor. The collection consists primarily of...
The Elbert Emerson Stickels Korean War Diary contains a single diary recording Stickels' experiences in 1951, while he served as a Captain in the United States Army during the Korean War. The diary entries were kept in a calendar published...
Donald Hiram Stilwell served in the Navy from 1908-1912 as an enlisted man and was posted in Asia for most of his enlistment. From 1912-1917, he worked in a naval shipyard in Maryland. In 1917 he rejoined the Navy, serving...
The collection contains the research notes, news clippings, interviews, and photographs for Albert Knight's manuscript and documentation for the creation of a historical district in that area.
Assembled by CSUN Professor Ann Stutts, the collection consists of brochures, posters, printed materials, and ephemera on various Olympic Games from 1936-1990. The bulk of the material dates from the 1970s and 1980s. There is considerable material on the summer...
This photograph album documents the experiences of a British submariner aboard the HMS L4 between 1922 and 1923. The album contains nearly 150 photographs with handwritten descriptions, including more than fifty images of Hong Kong,with a sequence of photographs depicting...
Active from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s, Libby Tanner was a clinical social worker and sex therapist who lived and worked in south Florida. The is a small group of records consisting of subject files used in her work.
The consist of photographs, postcards, and other materials created during the Taylor's two trips to California in 1904 and 1910/11. The latter trip was the couple's honeymoon.
The Temperance Broadsides Collection consists of broadsides printed by the National Temperance Society and Publication House, some on behalf of the Women's National Christian Temperance Union, all of which argue in favor of alcohol-free living. Broadsides in the collection were...
The Temperance Scrapbook is a scrapbook compiled by an unknown person in San Diego, California. The book contains newspaper articles, editorials, and other writings on the temperance movement and women's suffrage in the United States, religion, famous women, and world...
The primarily consists of broadsides advertising theatrical events at major and minor English theaters, but also includes a small number of American, Scottish, and French broadsides, theater programs, directories, newspapers, and other literature relevant to the theater industry.
The Transgender Resources Collection consists of materials related to the transgender experience in the United States, particularly California. Items in the collection include fliers and brochures for transgender events in Los Angeles, materials from the Transgender Law Center in San...
Helen Traubel was an American opera singer, best known for her Wagnerian roles. This small collection consists of a letter from the office of Pope Pius XII to Helen Traubel thanking her for a phonograph record that she presented to...
This collection of two scrapbooks, created by an unknown individual, consists of travel photographs and picture postcards of Canada and Asia taken in 1919.
The David Trutt Gilbert and Sullivan Ephemera Collection contains promotional ephemera for the late 19th century comic opera works created by dramatist William Schwenck Gilbert and composer Arthur Seymour Sullivan between 1871 and 1896. The playbills, posters, music scores, advertising...
The photo album was compiled by an unknown creator and contains 58 linen-backed black and white silver gelatin 5" x 7" photographs. The album is titled "Engineer Combat Battalion Equipment, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1940" and contains photographs documenting...
This small collection consists of a scrapbook containing clippings from local newspapers, articles by health officer George Parrish, and issues of the California State Department of Public Health's .
Greeting cards, often sent as part of holiday celebrations, became popular in Great Britain and the United States in the 19th century. They gradually replaced letters due to improvements in printing technology and the mail service in both countries. These...
The Victorian Sheet Music Covers Collection consists of approximately 840 sheet music covers produced in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era, which depict various aspects of British life and culture at the time, and demonstrate the development of printing...
This collection consists of trade cards from Great Britain and the United States produced during the 19th century for such products as Heinz tomato soup, Peake, Frean, & Co. Biscuits and Cakes, P.W. Barr & Co.'s Old Calabar Dog Biscuits,...
The War Relocation Authority (WRA) was created on March 18, 1942, by Executive Order of the President, No. 9102. This new civilian agency was to be responsible for "the relocation (of evacuees) in appropriate places, providing for their needs in...
The collection consists of a scrapbook by an unknown creator, which contains news clippings, programs and other announcements about Harriet Ware, her music, and her performances. It also includes a phonograph recording and correspondence from Leila Sherman concerning the donation...
Francis Gilbert Webb (1853-1941) was a well-known English music critic and musicologist writing from the turn of the 19th century until 1932 as 'Lancelot" of . The collection consists of the correspondence files of Mr. Webb and the correspondence of...
The Fritz Weinman Papers document the life of Jewish German emigre, Fritz (Fred) Weinman and his family through correspondence, vital documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera. The archival materials document his efforts to leave Nazi Germany and the places he...
The Westland School is a private elementary school founded in 1949 by Lory Titelman, and Marie H. Briehl. The guiding philosophy of the School is based on the concepts of John Dewey and Progressive education, a pedagogical movement that began...
This collection consists of letters, diaries, and other materials compiled by Carl Wheat while researching Captain Leonard W. Noyes, with an introduction and explanatory notes by Wheat.
Robert Curtis Wilson was an artist, teacher and author who earned his bachelors and masters degrees from San Fernando Valley State College, which later became California State University, Northridge. The collection consists of multiple pen and ink drawings done by...
Ah Wing was a dry goods and grocery merchant in a Placer County, California mining town. He wrote this letter regarding an overdrafted account to Mr. J. Dixon in 1907 on an invoice form for his General Merchandise Store.
The consists mostly of correspondence, with some additional news clippings and ephemera from 1938 to 1945. A majority of the correspondence is from Wohlfert's brother-in-law, Albert Wohlfert, who was a sergeant in the United States Air Force stationed at Hickam...
This collection includes music manuscripts for works composed by women, including Emma Lou Diemer, Cynthia Clark Brown, Melanie Newton Williams, Catherine Parsons Smith, Therese Radic, and Victoria Twigg.
The Women's Suffrage Collection consists of pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera documenting debates and events surrounding the late 19th- and early 20th-century women's suffrage movement in the United States. It includes materials arguing both in favor of and against the enfranchisement...
The collection consists of drafts of correspondence related to research and publication, and administrative records. It includes a Spanish translation of and a photocopy of the French translation from the Arabic of
The consists of jokes, poems, rhymes, letters, cartoons, and other humorous materials read by and exchanged between soldiers serving in World War II. Common topics are sex, women, military life, commanding officers, and Hitler. Most items are hand-written, though some...
In 1942, the U.S. government's Office of Price Administration (OPA) established a system of rationing intended to control supply and demand by regulating the amount of consumer goods available to Americans. Each American citizen was issued a series of ration...
The World War II Soldier Photograph Album documents the non-combat life of an unidentified soldier. Most images feature fellow soldiers and include handwritten notes on the front and back of some of the photos. The photo album includes snapshots of...
The collection consists of 12 V-mail letters written to and collected by George "Geo" Hennessey between 1943 and 1944. The letters are written to both Geo and his wife, Peg, who were living in Brooklyn, New York at the time....
The Ralph J. Wyatt California Missions Lantern Slides contains lantern slides of California Missions taken by Pasadena photographer Ralph J. Wyatt, and used as educational aids in Santa Monica City Schools.
Ruth Shaw Wylie was a flautist, pianist, professor, and composer. During her career she composed over 50 pieces of music including ballet, chamber, piano, choral, and orchestral works. The collection consists of working drafts, master sheets, and performance scores of...
Amos C. Young, a resident of Portland, Maine, was a relative of Civil War Veteran George H. Young. His journals and account book date from 1856-1869. The collection also includes advertising materials.
George H. Young was a U.S. Civil War volunteer, and relative of Amos C. Young. Following the war, he migrated to and settled in Yuba County, California. The diaries he authored document his time fighting in the Civil War, and...
This is the page-a-day diary of a young school-age woman. She kept entries from Sunday June 27, 1937 to Sunday October 10, 1937. Based on the mention of the cities of Concord, Laconia, Camptom and Tilton she likely lived in...
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), a British author best known for his novel immigrated to the United States in 1937, where he remained until his death. He began working with Jacob Zeitlin shortly after coming to the US, and corresponded with him...