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Title : AIDS Poster Collection Browse By : Agent Coverage Language Subject Type Description : Collection of over 1000 posters from nearly 50 countries. They illustrate attempts by a variety of organizations to educate and warn their citizens about AIDS and offer advice and information in visual form about the still deadly autoimmune disease. These public health posters reach out to various at-risk groups as well as the general public. Some are more blunt and graphic than others, and they come in many styles. -
Title : Armenian Manuscripts Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : Armenian manuscripts, gifted to the UCLA Library in 1968 by Dr. Garo Owen Minasian of Isfahan, Iran. The collection includes manuscripts of ecclesiastical character such as gospels, psalters, menologia, and ritual books, as well as theological and philosophical works, medical treatises, and anthologies of poetry. -
Title : Art Department Digital Image Collection Browse By : Name Type Description : Images from the UCLA Department of Art. -
Title : Bennett (Walter E.) Photographic Collection Browse By : Name Subject Type Description : Walter E. Bennett (1921-1995) was the first salaried photographer for Time, where he worked from 1952 to 1982. The collection consists of photographic materials such as prints, negatives and slides. It also includes miscellaneous manuscripts and ephemera related to Bennett's life and career. -
Title : Bound Manuscripts Collection. Collection 170 Browse By : Coverage Language Name Subject Type Description : Collection consists of bound manuscripts of varying contents most notable for its early material which includes a papyrus fragment from the 7th century, a vellum Breviary (French, 15th century), a North French or Flemish Book of hours (late 15th or early 16th century), Persian and Arabic manuscripts, manuscript books from the 16th through 18th century, commonplace books, Friendship albums, and personal journals. -
Title : Bunche (Ralph J.) Papers. Collection 2051 Browse By : Coverage Language Name Subject Type Description : Collection consists of correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, articles, publications, and photographs related to the life and career of Ralph J. Bunche. Includes materials related to his teaching and research, his affiliations with various organizations and conferences, and his participation in The Negro in America project spearheaded by Gunnar Myrdal. Includes materials on Africa: photographs, field notes, US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) reports, and Institute of Pacific Relations documents. Also materials related to Bunche’s involvement with the United Nations , including UN records and materials dealing with his appointment as undersecretary of the UN in 1954. There are two boxes of materials on Bunche’s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, and material from Joan Bunche and Brian Urquhart’s notes from the biography he wrote, Ralph Bunche : an American life. -
Title : Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design Browse By : Name Subject Type Description : The collection contains Bonnie Cashin's personal archive documenting her design career. The collection includes Cashin's design illustrations, writings on design, contractual paperwork, photographs of her clothing designs, and press materials including press releases and editorial coverage of her work. Personal photographs and letters to Cashin are also included. -
Title : Connexxus/Centro de Mujeres Collection Browse By : Coverage Language Name Subject Type Description : The Connexxus/Centro de Mujeres Collection contains the administrative records of Connexxus / Centro de Mujeres, one of the first Los Angeles non-profit organizations that catered and provided services to lesbians. -
Title : Conoximent de las Orines Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : A treatise on urines is followed by some 200 prescriptions for a wide variety of conditions and diseases. The urine treatise discusses the relation of urine to illness, diagnosis, and treatment. It names 27 different kinds of urine, defining them and offering remedies and advice. It is notable as being an early detailed and exhaustive study of urine, and also as one of the earliest medical treatises written in a vernacular language (Catalan) rather than Latin (Dealer note by Thomas Heller laid in book). -
Title : Cruikshank (Margaret) Collection Browse By : Coverage Language Name Subject Type Description : The Cruikshank papers consists of the following: book reviews and publicity materials relating to Lesbian Studies and lesbian and women's publishing; Cruikshank's original proposal for Lesbian Studies; publicity materials related to Cruikshank's hiring and firing at USF; book reviews, correspondence and materials regarding Lesbian Path; New Lesbian Writing publicity announcements, press releases, and book reviews; correspondence and publicity relating to Lesbian-Feminist Study Clearing House; interviews with Cruikshank; book reviews authored by Cruikshank. -
Title : Dissertation on the Voluntary Eating of Blood Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : An 18th-century justification of the eating of meat. -
Title : Ethiopic Manuscripts Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : Ethiopic manuscripts, consisting of sixty-four items, including fifty-four bound volumes and ten scrolls, primarily on vellum, with some paper. The manuscripts range in date from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, with bulk dates in the 1700s and 1800s. The codices are primarily service books of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and also include a few rare Jewish manuscripts written in Ge’ez and Agaw, and fourteen magical prayers. Languages included are Ge’ez and Amharic. -
Title : Ethnomusicology Archive: D. K. Wilgus Collection Browse By : Name Subject Type Description : The D.K. Wilgus Folksong Collection consists of approximately 8,000 commercially recorded albums of traditional music, song, and narrative as well as 1,000 field-recorded tapes. -
Title : Faderman (Lillian) Collection Browse By : Coverage Language Name Subject Type Description : Faderman's papers consist of drafts of her published papers and book reviews and manuscript and typescript versions of three of her books: Surpassing the Love of Men (1981); Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers (1991) and Chloe Plus Olivia (1994). The papers also include background research for her various publications; correspondence relating to her publications and speaking engagements; publicity materials and lesbian, gay and women's publications produced by now defunct small presses and various organizations. -
Title : Frontera Collection Browse By : Language Name Publisher Subject Type Description : Over twenty thousand 78 rpm recordings of Mexican vernacular music recorded between ca. 1905 and 1955, documenting many types of popular lyric songs, including the first recordings of corridos (narrative ballads on topics of the day), canciones, boleros, rancheras, and sones, as well as many types of instrumental music, including the first recordings of norteño and conjunto music, and many spoken performances, such as patriotic speeches and vernacular comedy skits. Also ca. fourteen thousand 45 rpm recordings from ca. 1955 to the 1990s. These include recordings by a wide range of small regional firms created to serve the musical interests of the growing immigrant population in the United States, especially along the border. -
Title : Index of Medieval Medical Images Browse By : Name Subject Type Description : The Index of Medieval Medical Images project began in 1988 and aimed to describe and index the content of all medieval manuscript images (up to the year 1500) with medical components held in North American collections. The goal of this 2001 pilot project was to make a substantial sample of the images and descriptions available via a searchable database on the Web. -
Title : Lee (S. Charles) Papers Browse By : AltTitle Language Name Subject Type Description : Drawings, renderings, blueprints, photographs, and surveys relating to the professional career of architect S. Charles Lee. Most of the collection reflects his work as a developer and the most prolific architect of art deco movie palaces in Los Angeles. -
Title : Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive Browse By : Coverage Name Publisher Subject Type Description : Collection consists of photonegatives documenting events and people in So. CA and photographic prints documenting events and people in So. CA, the US, and the world. The material originates from the Los Angeles Times newspaper and includes glass negatives (ca. 1918-1932), nitrate negatives (ca. 1925-45), and safety negatives (ca. 1935-1990). Also includes prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Times Orange County and San Diego bureaus. -
Title : Los Angeles Urban League Records, 1933-1945 Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : Collection consists of correspondence and papers relating to African Americans, immigrant labor and problems of social planning in Los Angeles. Correspondents include Ralph Bunche, and papers include Carey McWilliams' Report on importation of Negro labor to California. Also contains forms related to the Carnegie-Myrdal study. -
Title : Maps Showing Distribution of Racial and National Groups in Los Angeles, according to the 1940 United States Census Browse By : Coverage Language Name Subject Type Description : The maps in this collection show distribution of racial and national groups in Los Angeles, using data from the 1940 U.S. Census. -
Title : Maps of Los Angeles, California, the United States and the World Browse By : Coverage Language Name Subject Type Description : Collection consists of maps of Los Angeles, other parts of the United States, and various places in the world. Includes maps of California, California Geological Survey maps, tract maps of the San Francisco Bay area, beach cities of Southern California, New Mexico oil fields, maps from the 1860s concerning the American Civil War, railroad map of California, California gold fields, the Ranchos of Los Angeles, California city street maps, Mexico, South America, Caribbean, Russia, Australia, Pacific islands, Africa, India, Asia Minor, Middle East, Orient, Great Britain and Ireland, Western Europe, and world maps. -
Title : Marshall & Co., Leeds, Papers Browse By : Name Subject Description : Business papers of Marshall & Co., one of the largest textile firms in 19th-century Leeds, England. A cooperative project with the Unversity of Leeds Library, where the papers are held. -
Title : McAfee (Byron) Papers. Collection 339 Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : Byron McAfee's research papers and original manuscripts from Mexico's colonial period. The research papers contain drafts of translations and essays by McAfee and his major collaborator, John Hubert Cornyn, on a variety of subjects including colonial codices, Spanish-Nahuatl dictionaries and vocabularies, and Nahua history and culture. The papers also include printed instructional and linguistic materials on Nahuatl, such as an 1887 Nahuatl grammar from Mexico; full transcriptions of important 16th century works by friars Bernardino de Sahagún, Alonso de Molina and Andres de Olmos; translations and linguistic studies of Nahuatl dramas; and material extracted from Mexican political and social movements related to Nahua studies. -
Title : Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : Manuscripts and manuscript leaves, in scripts of the Latin alphabet, ranging from Carolingian minuscule to Burgundian letter and humanist script, written across Europe before 1600 and representing the Latin, Italian, German, Netherlandish, Italian, English, French, Spanish, and Czech languages. Types of manuscripts include liturgical works, collections of sermons and the florilegia used for sermon composition, confessionals and penitentials for pastoral care, vernacular literature such as romances and verse, business and administrative records, including Italian and French land records—charters, cartularies, terriers, and rent rolls dating from the late thirteenth century to the seventeenth. -
Title : Minasian (Caro) Collection of Persian and Arabic Manuscripts Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : The Minasian Collection of Arabic and Persian manuscripts is one of the most extensive post-classical Islamic manuscript collections in the United States. The collection primarily consists of works related to the studies of theologians and scholars at centers of learning in Iran during the 17th and 18th centuries, and is especially notable for works of Shiite theology, Arabic and Persian language and literature, and Islamic science and philosophy. The digital collection includes over 320 manuscripts (almost 100,000 pages). -
Title : Orsini Family Papers. Collection 902 Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : The Orsini are one of most important families in Italian history. At the height of their influence, in the late Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, the Orsini were crucial players in Italian politics; they were closely allied to the Medici, with whom they were tied by several high-level marriages. The family produced three popes, about thirty cardinals and 62 senators of Rome, as well as several electors of Saxony and Brandenburg, and grand masters of the Knights of Malta. They were related to a number of royal houses of Europe. The papers consist mainly of material relating to the administration of property (including records of sales, leases, mortgages, loans, proxies, accounting, inventories and plans) and the administration of the family (including dowries and marriage contracts, donations, divisions of property, wills and fideicommissums). There is also a substantial amount of legal material, mostly produced by the many law-suits in which the family was involved, and correspondence, largely dating from the 18th century. -
Title : Patent Medicine Cards Browse By : Coverage Language Name Subject Type Description : A collection of 247 patent medicine trade cards. Patent medicines were medical compounds sold under a variety of names and labels, though they were for the most part actually trademarked medicines, not patented. The trade cards are small, colorfully illustrated advertising cards touting a particular medicine and its many cures. The era of patent medicine began to unravel in the U.S. with the passage of the first Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. -
Title : Phonetics Laboratory Archive Browse By : Name Type Description : The UCLA Phonetics Laboratory collects recordings of languages from around the world, providing source materials for phonetic and phonological research, of value to scholars, speakers of the languages, and language learners alike. The materials comprise audio recordings illustrating phonetic structures from over 200 languages with phonetic transcriptions, with scans of original field notes where relevant. -
Title : Rat Spinal Cord Image Archive Browse By : Name Subject Type Description : Digitized microscope images used in a Neuropsychology module taught at UCLA. The module allows for 1) an exploration of the effects of hormones on neural development, 2) the demonstration of sex differences in the nervous system, 3) the production of robust and statistically significant data by novice undergraduates, 4) the discussion of sophisticated statistical analyses (ANOVAs with significant main effects and an interaction), and 5) the understanding of at least some of the neuroanatomy of the spinal cord. -
Title : Solinus (C. Iulius) De situ orbis terrarum Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : An annotated copy of De situ orbis terrarum ... [Polyhistor] by the 3rd or 4th century grammarian and compiler, C. Julius Solinus. This 1512 edition has been extensively annotated by Camillo Capilupi. -
Title : Southern California Women for Understanding (SCWU) Collection Browse By : Coverage Language Name Subject Type Description : The Southern California Women for Understanding Collection contains the operational records of Southern California Women for Understanding (SCWU), one of the earliest lesbian non-profit educational organizations in Los Angeles, California. -
Title : St Gall Manuscripts Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : The monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland was founded in 719 and still exists today. This collection is a group of manuscripts known to have been held in the St. Gall Library in the ninth century. Also included in this collection are manuscripts from the same period held in the nearby monastery of Reichenau. Analysis of extant monastic library catalogues and study of the hands of known scribes has made it possible to identify approximately seventy extant manuscripts that can be placed with certainty at these two monasteries in the course of the ninth century. By selecting one of the St. Gallen or Reichenau manuscripts from the list you can examine digital images of these manuscripts, codicological descriptions, bibliographies, as well as the texts that they contain. Currently, several manuscripts are available and more are being added continuously. -
Title : Thomas (Grace M.) Collection about Ralph Bunche Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : Collection consists of newspaper clippings relating to the career and death of Dr. Ralph J. Bunche and a black and white photographic print of the members of his junior high school class, including Bunche. -
Title : Tract Maps and Cadastral Maps of Southern California, 1868-1937 Browse By : Coverage Language Name Subject Type Description : The tract and cadastral maps in this collection are of real estate developments located in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and Ventura counties. The maps are listed by location using the Thomas Brothers Maps' Los Angeles County Popular Street Atlas, 1931 and Orange County, 1981. A few maps fall outside of this territory, and for these, relevant leaves of the Thomas ... Riverside County, 1978, and Ventura County, 1979, have been included. -
Title : Urquhart (Brian) Collection of Material about Ralph Bunche, ca. 1932-1972 Browse By : Coverage Language Name Subject Type Description : Sir Brian Urquhart (b.1919) was active in the organization and direction of the United Nations (UN) Emergency Force in Middle East (1956) and responsible for the organization and direction of UN peace-keeping operations and special political assignments. Ralph Bunche (1904-1971) was the undersecretary for special political affairs at the UN (1958-67) and undersecretary general (1968). He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950. The collection consists of papers of, about, and collected by Ralph J. Bunche and later used by Brian Urquhart to write Ralph Bunche: an American Life (1993). -
Title : Weber (Mark) Collection Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : The collection consists of photographs taken by Mark Weber relating to the experimental jazz musicians during the 1970's-1990's, with predominant focus on photos taken in Los Angeles from 1976-1985. -
Title : West (Andrew) Photographs of the Guelaguetza. Collection 1713 Browse By : AltTitle Language Name Subject Type Description : Andrew West (1954- ) has worked as a photographer's assistant and as an annual report photographer. His photography of Guatemalan costumes appears in the exhibition catalog, Threads of identity, published by the Fowler Museum at UCLA (1992). The collection is composed of photographic materials including color slides, color prints, and a CD-R disk containing color images from La Guelaguetza and Saints Day Celebration festivals held in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1982 and 1985. Also included is documentation about the materials and Andrew West. -
Title : Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW) Collection Browse By : Coverage Language Name Subject Type Description : The Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW) Collection is a mixture of papers and organizational records, publications, ephemera and audio-visual materials collected by organization member Dani Adams (national office in Los Angeles). Of particular interest are the internal memos and complete run of national newsletters produced by the Los Angeles Chapter for national chapter distribution and slides and scripts from the WAVAW slide show, the presentation that chapter members showed to audiences nationwide. There is also extensive coverage of WAVAW's actions against the film "Snuff" and the Rolling Stones' "Black and Blue" advertising campaign and national boycott of Warner Communications, Inc. (WCI).