An “A” List Acquisition: A New Aldine for Library Special Collections
It’s not easy to find an Aldine press book that UCLA doesn’t already hold in its Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection, a world-renowned collection of books printed by Aldus Manutius the Elder (1449?-1515)...
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Save the Date! Jim Tully subject of Bonnie Cashin Lecture on October 11
Jim Tully on MGM sound stage, 1930. Jim Tully Papers, 1883-1952, Collection 250. UCLA Library Special Collections The Bonnie Cashin Lecture featuring Paul Bauer and Mark Dawidziak REDISCOVERING JIM...
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Kesh Temple Hymn
This summer in the CFPRT I processed the Lloyd Cotsen Cuneiform Tablet Collection, focusing primarily on the literary and lexical texts in the collection. This item, the Kesh Temple Hymn (ca. 1900-1600...
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WE DID IT! 10,000 images available online!
More than 10,000 nitrate negative images are now available online through the generous support of Arcadia — photographs that document Southern California history and culture during the city’s early...
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Three New Girls Hit Hollywood
Three of the most attractive girls to hit Hollywood are featured in this MGM Christmas pamphlet. Their names are Queenie, Happy and Sally, and were born in Siam in 1939. They went on to be featured in...
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Phyllis Diller Remembered in New Exhibition
Phyllis Diller, Comedian, Actress, Pioneer, Passes Away But Lives Forever at UCLA Library Special Collections The great comedic legend, Phyllis Diller passed away on Monday, August 20, 2012. She was...
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Curators’ Conversations: The Sacredness of Alameda Street on December 6
UCLA Library Special Collections Curators’ Conversations The Sacredness of Alameda Street: Reflections on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education Records Project Thursday, December...
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GIANTmicrobes at the Biomedical Library
History & Special Collections for the Sciences has purchased each new release of GIANTmicrobes® since 2004 and recently passed the century mark. 108 “plush stuffed-animal microbes [realia]”...
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Holiday Gift Ideas from Library Special Collections
Are you looking for the perfect gift for that special someone? Take a look at these ideas from our Collection of Los Angeles Concert Programs, which is currently in process. For the lady who absolutely...
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2013 = 1889
Need a pocket-, wallet-, desk-, or fridge-calendar for 2013? Download and print our Hoyt’s German Cologne & Rubifoam advertising trade card for 1889, which matches the coming year day-for-day....
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Black Cat Casting Call
This image, Casting call for black cats to star in Roger Corman movie in Los Angeles, Calif., 1961, from the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives (Collection 1429) is a favorite of many staff...
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Drawings by actor and costume designer Frank Baker recently processed
N. S. W. Mounted Police Trooper drawing by Frank Baker for the MGM film “The Bushranger.” Ned Kelly costume drawing by Frank Baker. Frank Baker was an Australian actor and stuntman in Hollywood whose...
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Gordon Wagner Papers Now On View
Selections from the Gordon Wagner Papers (Collection 1594) and the text of an oral history interview done by the Center for Oral History Research are currently exhibited in Library Special Collections...
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Thanks to the generosity of the Ahmanson Foundation, the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) and the UCLA Library Special Collections (LSC) are pleased to announce the new Ahmanson...
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Oscar™ in the Archive
The annual Academy Awards ceremony – now universally known as The Oscars – is first among equals in entertainment awards prestige. Now a late winter affair, the first statuettes were awarded in the...
View Article“I’m a Stranger Here Myself”
UCLA Library is pleased to collaborate with UCLA Center for the Art of Performance’s presentation of Allen Ginsberg’s Kaddish: A Hal Willner Project For Naomi Ginsberg (1894-1956), scheduled for April...
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After checking out the new Renoir film, why not come to Library Special Collections and check out the Jean Renoir Papers. Jean Renoir, film director, screenwriter and producer, was the son of painter,...
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Harriet Quimby, “Girl Aviator”
Harriet Quimby in her flying togs Are you familiar with the name Harriet Quimby? If not, it’s understandable. Her career as an aviator was very brief, but in 1911 she became the first woman in the U....
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Power of Provenance
Exhibit on view April 5 to April 26 The true power of provenance is that it can connect the biographies of individuals from various walks of life through a shared a love of books and reading. This...
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