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Subject Source: Tgmi

Found in 462 Collections and/or Records:

Roxie Antoinette Williamson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: URB-RAW
Abstract

Roxie Antoinette Williamson (née Martin) was a widowed woman living in Owensmouth, California (later known as Canoga Park) who owned property in Ashland, Alabama and possibly Millerville, Alabama. The collection consists of tax records, correspondence, a 1908 presidential election ballot, and a few small notes and receipts.

Dates: 1901-1945

Robert Curtis Wilson Art Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-RCW
Abstract

Robert Curtis Wilson was an artist, teacher and author who earned his bachelors and masters degrees from San Fernando Valley State College, which later became California State University, Northridge. The collection consists of multiple pen and ink drawings done by Wilson in the 1950s and 1970s.

Dates: circa 1950-1974

Ah Wing Letter

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 30700110374195]
Identifier: SC-AWL
Abstract

Ah Wing was a dry goods and grocery merchant in a Placer County, California mining town. He wrote this letter regarding an overdrafted account to Mr. J. Dixon in 1907 on an invoice form for his General Merchandise Store.

Dates: 1907

Winnetka Women's Club Collection

 Collection
Identifier: URB-WWC
Abstract

The Ladies League of Little Landers was formed in December 1922. The organization later changed its name to the Weeks Community Women's Club, and finally to the Winnetka Women's Club on May 6, 1935. The Winnetka Women’s Club Collection consists of record books which contain minutes from the Executive Board, General Meetings and the Garden Section of the Club proper.

Dates: 1922-1990

Ethel Wohlfert Scrapbook Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-EWS
Abstract

The Ethel Wohlfert Scrapbook Collection consists mostly of correspondence, with some additional news clippings and ephemera from 1938 to 1945. A majority of the correspondence is from Wohlfert’s brother-in-law, Albert Wohlfert, who was a sergeant in the United States Air Force stationed at Hickam Field in Honolulu, Hawaii, before being sent to Europe during World War II.

Dates: 1938-1945

Women Composers Music Manuscripts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-WCMM
Abstract

This collection includes music manuscripts for works composed by women, including Emma Lou Diemer, Cynthia Clark Brown, Melanie Newton Williams, Catherine Parsons Smith, Therese Radic, and Victoria Twigg.

Dates: 1981-1985

Women on the Waterfront Oral History Project Collection

 Collection
Identifier: URB-WOWOH
Abstract The oral history interviews of female ILWU members were conducted between the years 1993 and 1997 as part of the ILWU, Local 13 "Women on the Waterfront" Oral History Project. They were conducted as a continuation of the ILWU Oral History Project which documented the stories of the union's workforce who labored on the docks of the Southern California Waterfront between the 1930s and 1960s. After the "1982 Golden et al. Consent Decree" more and more women came to work on the West Coast docks....
Dates: 1992-2005; Majority of material found within 1992-1997

Women's Suffrage Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-WSU
Abstract The Women's Suffrage Collection consists of pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera documenting debates and events surrounding the late 19th- and early 20th-century women's suffrage movement in the United States. It includes materials arguing both in favor of and against the enfranchisement of women, especially prints of some of Elihu Root's anti-suffrage speeches; two racist, anti-suffrage broadsides from the Brown Printing Company of Montgomery, Alabama; broadsides opposing Woodrow Wilson's...
Dates: circa 1880-1917

Raymund F. Wood Iskandar al-Magribi and the Memoirs of Cherif Soliman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-RFW
Abstract

The collection consists of drafts of Iskandar al-Magribi and the Memoirs of Cherif Soliman, correspondence related to research and publication, and administrative records. It includes a Spanish translation of El Rosal de Las Rosas de Purpura and a photocopy of the French translation from the Arabic of Le Divan d'Amour du Cherif Soliman.

Dates: 1965-1994

World War II Joke and Humor Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-WWJH
Abstract The World War II Joke and Humor Collection consists of jokes, poems, rhymes, letters, cartoons, and other humorous materials read by and exchanged between soldiers serving in World War II. Common topics are sex, women, military life, commanding officers, and Hitler. Most items are hand-written, though some possibly copied out of magazines and other publications as there are multiple copies in different hands. A few items are type written, or small pamphlet...
Dates: ca. 1941-ca. 1945