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Robert and Eva Tharp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OCH-RNT
Abstract Robert and Eva Tharp were both born in China to missionary parents, and both took on missionary work in China individually and after they married in 1938. After the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, Robert was imprisoned by the Japanese, and after his release 8 months later the Tharps moved to India where they worked as liaisons between Chinese and Indian citizens and for the British government. They returned to China to continue their mission work, but were forced to flee to America in the wake...
Dates: 1902-2004

Theater Playbill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: URB-TPB
Abstract

The Theater Playbill Collection includes playbills from local Los Angeles area theaters dated from 1940 to 1970.

Dates: 1940-1970

Theatrical Promotion Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-TPC
Abstract

The Theatrical Promotion Collection 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.

Dates: 1801-1936; Majority of material found within 1820-1836

Coralie Hewitt Tillack Collection

 Collection
Identifier: URB-CHT
Abstract In 1956, Coralie Hewitt Tillack began her 26-year employment with Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank, California. Starting as a telephone switchboard operator and later transferring to Field Operations, Coralie was captivated by the history of the first million-dollar airport constructed in the United States, and gathered material to write a column for the company newspaper. Over the years, Coralie accumulated a large collection of newspaper clippings, magazines, books, and photographs, along...
Dates: 1930-1987

Bianca Todd Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-BTC
Abstract

The Bianca Todd Collection contains photographs, portraits, pastels, pen and ink drawings, pencil sketches, and art clippings related to Todd's work as an artist in the first half of the 20th century.

Dates: ca. 1920-1948

Olaf Torgersen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OCH-OTC
Abstract

Olaf Torgersen was born in 1885 in Larvik, Norway. He left Norway in 1914 to work as a sea captain in China and Hong Kong, where he captained a number of ships until returning to Oslo, Norway, with his wife in 1951. The collection contains the personal and professional papers of Torgensen, including identification cards and passports, his master's certificates and records related to his service on various ships, and personal correspondence, ephemera, and articles.

Dates: 1907-1957

Transgender Resources Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-TRC
Abstract 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 Francisco, handbooks for police officers and spiritual advisors on how to interact with or counsel transgender individuals, materials about gay bullying and Gay-Straight Alliances (GSA) in schools, and brochures...
Dates: 2000-2014; Majority of material found within 2010-2014

Helen Traubel Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-PPHT
Abstract

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 him, two photographs of Helen Traubel, and one photograph of Helen Traubel with her husband.

Dates: 1915-1953

Travel Scrapbook Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-ICC
Abstract

This collection of two scrapbooks, created by an unknown individual, consists of travel photographs and picture postcards of Canada and Asia taken in 1919.

Dates: 1919

David Trutt Gilbert and Sullivan Ephemera Collection

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Identifier: SC-TGS
Abstract

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 trade cards, souvenir items, and other ephemeral items document the popularity and continued performances of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Dates: 1871-2010

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