Abstract The Victorian Sheet Music Covers Collection consists of approximately 840 sheet music covers produced in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era, which depict various aspects of British life and culture at the time, and demonstrate the development of printing techniques including color lithography and embossing. While the majority of the items in the collection are only covers, a few pieces are still attached to their scores. Also included in the collection is a small number of news...

Abstract

This collection consists of trade cards from Great Britain and the United States produced during the 19th century for such products as Heinz tomato soup, Peake, Frean, & Co. Biscuits and Cakes, P.W. Barr & Co.'s Old Calabar Dog Biscuits, Soapine, and Penrose's Fine Teas. They often feature colored images on one side, and information about the business on the other, especially slogans, address information, and endorsements.

Abstract The collection contains newspaper clippings, small booklets and publications, and newsletters and newspapers from the World War II era. Topics include the United Autoworkers Union, opinions for the United States to remain out of WWII, pro-Nazi publications, J. Robert Oppenheimer, United States government security and information commissions, the Socialist Labor Party, and the Council for Civic Unity. A large portion of this collection is the News from...

Abstract

The David and Wendy (Holden) Whiteside Collection is a small collection of San Fernando Valley State College memorabilia including a football program (1956), Homecoming (1958) materials, a campus coed calendar (1961), and a SFVSC freshman beanie (1961).

Abstract

The Richard J. Wiegand Collection was donated by San Fernando State Valley College alum Richard J. Wiegand and consists of two pieces of memorabilia, a freshman ID pin and a registration card.

Abstract The Ron Wilkins Los Angeles Community Alert Patrol Collection contains Wilkins’s published book, original Community Alert Patrol (CAP) materials including a volunteer roster and patrol reports, related news clippings, and Wilkins’s teaching materials and speeches about CAP. Ron Wilkins was the head of the Community Organizing Patrol, founded in June 1966 to "police the police." The materials document police brutality and racism in Los Angeles, California focusing on the time period following...

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.

Abstract

Eliot Wittenberg served in the U.S. military in China at the close of World War II. The Eliot and Hazel Wittenberg Collection documents his work as a control tower operator through photographs and souvenir ephemera he brought back from China.

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.

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...