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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, scrapbooks, personal and press photographs, record albums, autographed memorabilia and ephemera, and writings by and about Carl Sandburg.

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Two-sided lithographic stone by Seifert and Lawton, with images of a woman with an American flag and the Chamber of Commerce Building, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and four lithographs.

Abstract Zoya Shlakis was born in Mukden, China in 1927, to Stayses and Alexandra Shlakis. Her father was of Lithuanian descent and her mother a White Russian. The Shlakis family fled Russia for China, eventually settling in Shanghai in 1936. In 1948, as Communist forces advanced across China, the Shlakis family relocated to Taipei, Taiwan. In Taipei, Zoya acquired a visa under the 1948 Displaced Persons Act, which allowed her legal entry into the U.S. The collection consists of records documenting...

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The materials are the personal and professional family papers of Norman Jonathan Sipe, his wife Isabel Sipe (née Deines), and their son Gregory F. Sipe. The materials include identification papers, correspondence, photographs, and journals. Topics include personal family history, the United States Army, the Vietnam War, and architecture teachings.

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Millie Moser Smith devoted much of her time to social causes, especially those involving farm workers, which she came into contact with through her church membership. The collection consists of articles, booklets, correspondence, ephemera, fliers, journals, membership directories, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, posters, reports, and videocassettes from the National Farm Workers Ministry and related groups that worked on behalf of farm workers.

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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, corporate documents, flyers, ephemera, newsletters, and photographs. There is considerable documentation on the initial organization of Tri-Ess and numerous publications about cross-dressing.

Abstract The Southern California Journalism Oral History Project Collection began in the mid-1970s. CSUN journalism professor Dr. Tom Reilly organized the project to preserve the day-to-day experiences of working journalists, particularly people who were not likely to write books about or maintain extensive diaries or other records of their careers. In 2020, the collection was expanded to include interviews with retired members of local media conducted by students of CSUN journalism professor...

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The Harry Stone Dickens Collection contains the scholarly work of Dr. Harry Stone and his collection of Charles Dickens related ephemera and memorabilia.

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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 Libby Tanner Collection is a small group of records consisting of subject files used in her work.

Abstract This collection of oral histories tells the story of a grassroots Chicano theater group, Teatro Cometa, which was active during 1970s and early 1980s in and around Fullerton, California. During their approximately dozen year span, Teatro Cometa embodied elements of the rasquache ethic as well as formal theatrical productions with varying levels of municipal and private support. This collection of oral histories gives voice to...