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Mother Goose Picture Blocks Toy Set
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SC-MGP
Abstract
This Mother Goose Picture Blocks Set by Gaston Mfg. Co. includes puzzle blocks that form six different images with nursery rhymes when put together. These include "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "Little Boy Blue," "Little Miss Muffet," "Jack and Jill," "The Old Woman in the Shoe," and "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater."
Dates:
1951
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Guild, Local 839 Collection
Collection
Identifier: URB-SCG
Abstract
The Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Guild was a professional guild and labor union of cartoonists and animators. The Guild, then known as the Hollywood Screen Cartoonists, held their first union meeting in 1937. Throughout its existence the Guild represented animators at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the Walter Lantz Studios, Walt Disney Studios, and Terrytoon, Inc. The Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Guild Collection contains historical records relating to the...
Dates:
1937-1951
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Robert E. Mueller Scrapbook Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-REM
Abstract
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 integrate various forms of media to be used during sessions by his clientele. The collection consists of nineteen scrapbooks. Each contains images of women or sexual activity between men and women. Scrapbooks...
Dates:
Circa 1960-Circa 1989
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Catherine Mulholland Collection
Collection
Identifier: URB-CM
Abstract
Catherine Rose Mulholland, granddaughter of William Mulholland, former Chief Superintendent of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, was a historian, writer, civic leader, and public speaker in the San Fernando Valley and the greater Los Angeles area, where she spent much of her life. The Catherine Mulholland Collection documents her personal and professional life, chronicles the life of her grandfather, William Mulholland, and provides a unique...
Dates:
1812-2011
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
William Mulholland Scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SC-WMS
Abstract
Scrapbook presented to William Mulholland by his camping companions following a trip to the High Sierra in 1910.
Dates:
1910 August
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Eddie S. Muraoka Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-ESM
Abstract
Eddie S. Muraoka was incarcerated at Manzanar incarceration camp in California's Owens Valley from 1942-1945. The collection includes three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings documenting Japanese American incarceration during World War II. The collection also contains a selection of full issues of Japanese American and Asian Pacific American newspapers.
Dates:
1942-2005
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Musicians, Singers, and Actors Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MSA
Abstract
The collection consists of snapshots and studio photographs of well known figures in the entertainment industry, including several photographs from the film Guys and Dolls and photographs of Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Placido Domingo, Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Danny Kaye, Bing Crosby, Fred Lowery, Caterina Valente, Guy Mitchell, Marie Osmond, Sammy Davis Jr., Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee, Doris Day, Joan Crawford, Martha Hyer,...
Dates:
1930-1980
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Nansen International Office for Refugees Illustrated Annual Report
Collection
Identifier: SC-OIN
Abstract
The illustrated annual report of the Nansen International Office for Refugees documents the humanitarian aid provided by the Office to Armenian refugees from Turkey settling in Syria and Lebanon from 1926 to 1934.
Dates:
1934
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Julian Nava Collection
Collection
Identifier: URB-JNC
Abstract
Julian Nava was born and raised in East Los Angeles, was one of the first Mexican-American graduates of Pomona College, and one of the first Mexican-American doctoral students at Harvard University. He had a distinguished career as a professor of history at California State University, Northridge, served as a member of the Los Angeles Board of Education, and as United States Ambassador to Mexico from 1980 to 1981. Nava's collection documents his wide personal and professional interests in...
Dates:
1804-1993
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Julian Nava Los Angeles Olympics, Spanish Olympic Committee Collection
Collection
Identifier: URB-JNL
Abstract
Julian Nava served as the Envoy (Attache España) of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (LAOOC) to the Spanish Olympic Committee (Comité Olímpico Español - COE) for the 1984 Summer Olympics and preceding 10-week-long adjunct Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival. The Spanish Olympic Committee was founded in 1912 to develop, promote, and protect the Olympic Movement in their country and support Spanish athletic participation in the Olympics. The collection documents the 1984 Los Angeles...
Dates:
1980-1985
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives