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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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Assembled by CSUN Professor Ann Stutts, the collection consists of brochures, posters, printed materials, and ephemera on various Olympic Games from 1936-1990. The bulk of the material dates from the 1970s and 1980s. There is considerable material on the summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, California in 1984.

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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 The Temperance Broadsides Collection consists of broadsides printed by the National Temperance Society and Publication House, some on behalf of the Women's National Christian Temperance Union, all of which argue in favor of alcohol-free living. Broadsides in the collection were all part of numbered series, including "The Pint of Ale" (no. 24 of the Beer Series), "Close the Bars" (no. 22), and "What are You Doing?" (no. 6). They are undated, and consist primarily of text, with some...

Abstract Robert and Eva Tharp were both born in China to missionary parents, and both took on missionary work in China individually and after they married in 1938. After the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, Robert was imprisoned by the Japanese, and after his release 8 months later the Tharps moved to India where they worked as liaisons between Chinese and Indian citizens and for the British government. They returned to China to continue their mission work, but were forced to flee to America in the wake...

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The Theater Playbill Collection includes playbills from local Los Angeles area theaters dated from 1940 to 1970.

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Shayla and Rebecca Thomas, two queer women, married on June 12, 2004. Their wedding program documents the main events of the ceremony and identifies who was in their wedding party. The time of their wedding coincided with the start of the formal recognition of and legal battles surrounding same-sex marriage in California.

Abstract In 1956, Coralie Hewitt Tillack began her 26-year employment with Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank, California. Starting as a telephone switchboard operator and later transferring to Field Operations, Coralie was captivated by the history of the first million-dollar airport constructed in the United States, and gathered material to write a column for the company newspaper. Over the years, Coralie accumulated a large collection of newspaper clippings, magazines, books, and photographs, along...

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The Bianca Todd Collection contains photographs, portraits, pastels, pen and ink drawings, pencil sketches, and art clippings related to Todd's work as an artist in the first half of the 20th century.

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Olaf Torgersen was born in 1885 in Larvik, Norway. He left Norway in 1914 to work as a sea captain in China and Hong Kong, where he captained a number of ships until returning to Oslo, Norway, with his wife in 1951. The collection contains the personal and professional papers of Torgensen, including identification cards and passports, his master's certificates and records related to his service on various ships, and personal correspondence, ephemera, and articles.