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The Denise L. McIver Black Lives Matter Protest Posters Collection consists of posters, notes, a flyer, and a sign that document the Black Lives Matter protests in Hollywood, California, from May to July 2020. Posters were created by multiple protestors and the materials were collected by Denise L. McIver, a research librarian at California African American Museum, during the protests.

Abstract The Mimi Melnick Collection documents the personal and professional life of native Angeleno Miriam (Mimi) Clar Melnick, Jazz critic, Jazz pianist, and patron of Jazz musicians, whose activities played an influential role in the development of Jazz in the Los Angeles region between 1958 and 2010. The Collection also includes materials related to Melnick's family relationships and friendships, educational pursuits, her work as an author and editor, and her...

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The Thomas Middleton China Marines Collection contains a photograph album along with loose photographs and ephemera that document Middleton's service in Peking and Tientsin after World War II.

Abstract Elsa Shelton Miller was born in 1916, and lived in China and Japan until the early 1950s. She worked as a stenographer for a variety of employers, including the U.S. forces in Peiping after World War II, and Time Life International in Tokyo. The collection contains documents from Miller’s life in Asia, including identification and citizenship documents, a travel visa, Chinese Yuan from the late 1940s, postcards with pictures of Shanghai, and documents regarding Miller’s attempts to gain a...

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Ruth Miller was a prominent workers' rights advocate, women’s rights advocate, and union organizer from Los Angeles, California. Miller served as the Education Director of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU). The collection documents Ruth Miller’s professional work during her time at the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU), as well as the library of research materials she amassed on union organizing and related topics.

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The collection consists of promotional materials for an 1879 production of M’Liss, Child of the Sierras, a play based on a short story by American author Bret Harte starring actress Annie Pixley. Items in the collection include a poster advertising a specific performance, and three advertising cards with lithographs depicting scenes from the play.

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John David Morris served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. This collection contains one letter from Morris to his mother, and his military discharge record from 1966.

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This Mother Goose Picture Blocks Set by Gaston Mfg. Co. includes puzzle blocks that form six different images with nursery rhymes when put together. These include "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "Little Boy Blue," "Little Miss Muffet," "Jack and Jill," "The Old Woman in the Shoe," and "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater."

Abstract Catherine Rose Mulholland, granddaughter of William Mulholland, former Chief Superintendent of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, was a historian, writer, civic leader, and public speaker in the San Fernando Valley and the greater Los Angeles area, where she spent much of her life. The Catherine Mulholland Collection documents her personal and professional life, chronicles the life of her grandfather, William Mulholland, and provides a unique...

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The illustrated annual report of the Nansen International Office for Refugees documents the humanitarian aid provided by the Office to Armenian refugees from Turkey settling in Syria and Lebanon from 1926 to 1934.