Abstract 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 Cutting continued the family vocational tradition by pursuing an acting career of her own in the 1930s and 1940s. The Edwin Booth Family Collection contains ephemera and photographs related to Edwin Booth's acting...

Abstract Esther Brenner was a dedicated community advocate active in many civic and Jewish organizations in Los Angeles, including The "1939" Club—a fraternal organization of Holocaust survivors founded in 1952. During the late twentieth century Brenner served as a member of the Yearbook Editorial Committee on the club's Board of Directors. The Esther Brenner "1939" Club Collection documents aspects of Brenner's...

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Shirley G. Brewer lived and attended school in Shanghai, China during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The collection consists of photographs of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Shanghai, group photographs of students at the Shanghai British School, the Convent of the Sacred Heart and the Holy Trinity Cathedral choir, and a photograph of Brewer and other children on vacation in Hangzhou, China.

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The Fred Bridges Photograph Collection contains photographs documenting street scenes, local events, and individual U.S. Marines stationed in Tanggu and Tientsin, China as part of the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion. A booklet issued to Marines stationed in China provides insight into American perceptions of China immediately following World War II.

Abstract Reginald Smith Brindle was an English composer best known for his works for guitar, but he also wrote works for percussion, orchestras, and electronic instruments, as well as numerous articles and books on modern music, including serialism, composition, and percussion. The Reginald Smith Brindle Collection documents Brindle’s professional life as a composer, arranger, professor, and author. The collection includes original scores, recordings of his music,...

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The George Budaeff Collection consists of correspondence, documents, ephemera and photographs related to George’s life in Russia, China, and San Francisco, California. A number of government documents are included with biographical and immigration information. The collection also includes some material that belonged to George’s brother, Dr. Ivan T. Budaeff (1896-1956).

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Bonnie Bullough was a nursing teacher, administrator, researcher, and author. The Bonnie Bullough Collection 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 to the development and use of a new "improved perineometer" for the treatment of stress incontinence.

Abstract 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 in the field of sexology. Particularly well represented are the subjects of human sexuality, homosexuality, transsexuality, women (biology, gender, politics), and prostitution. The collection also documents Bullough's social, civic, and political advocacy...

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The scrapbook contains photographic postcards, graphic postcards with short correspondence, and a handwritten poem created by and collected by Eldon G. Burdick, Jr. of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Abstract Kenneth C. Burt served as Political Director of the California Federation of Teachers from 1997 to 2018. Burt was a self-published author and historian, writing The Search for a Civic Voice: California Latino Politics and contributing to numerous academic journals and anthologies related to Latinos, labor, coalition politics and the Cold War. This is a collection of interviews and recordings Kenneth Burt conducted between 1980 and 2004 with community leaders,...