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The European Photograph Album contains a single album with black and white photograph prints of city scenes and landscapes in Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, and France from the late 19th century.

Abstract 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 during World War I, though at least one was taken in Germany and features a solder in a German uniform and helmet. Most images feature nurses and soldiers in uniform posed outside hospitals, tents, houses, and other structures, though a few include children, adults...

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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.

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British Parliamentary proceedings, petitions, and bills.

Abstract Fred M. Greguras served as a United States Marine in Vietnam in 1970 with Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, before entering the field of law and becoming a partner at a law firm in California. The Fred M. Greguras California Military Places Collection reflects his research interest in the history of the U.S. Marines and American military sites through research materials, photographs, documents, and collected ephemera that focus on United...

Abstract The Harris-Wheeler Collection 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 content. Notable figures represented in the collection include Irving Claw, John Willie, Louise Lawrence, and Christine Jorgensen....

Abstract 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 parents; and loose photographs. It includes photographs of various locations including Lagunitas; Bear Valley; Phoenix Lake; a YMCA camp; Strawberry Lake; numerous spots in Yosemite including Half Dome, Bridal Veil...

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Manuscript journal by Foster H. Jenkins of a voyage from Boston to San Francisco aboard the barque Orion in 1849.

Abstract The Jensen Family Collection documents the lives of Manley Charles Jensen, his wife Sara Ludavica Haug, and the early years of their children Johan Waldemar Haug Jensen and Manley Charles Jensen, Junior. Manley C. Jensen, Senior was an American born in San Francisco, but his career took him initially to the Philippines and then to Dairen and Shanghai, China. He worked for Standard Oil for a number of years, before returning to the United States in the early...

Abstract 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 Advocate—the oldest and largest LGBT publication in the United States—in the basement studios of ABC Television in 1967, two years prior to the infamous Stonewall Riots of NYC which marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement in America. Consisting...