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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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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).