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Margarita Mendez Diaz Scrapbook and Photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SPC-2020-027
Abstract
This collection contains one scrapbook as well as approximately 370 photographs and postcards; nine contracts; one American Guild of Variety Artists membership application; one broadside; and other documents regarding Margarita Mendez Diaz- a Mexican American performer who was known for her dancing and burlesque shows. The scrapbook includes press clippings, advertisements, and press briefs associated with Diaz's performances in Mexico, Alaska, California, Spain, and France. Also included in...
Dates:
1929-1977; undated ; Majority of material found within 1945-1955
Margaret Hooper Hollywood High School Graduation Scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SPC-2024-010
Scope and Contents
Margaret Hooper Hollywood High School Graduation Scrapbook (1918-January 23, 1923) is a memory book with 189 pages that contains hand written letters, news clippings about Hollywood High School, photographs of the Class of 1922, theater programs, name cards, a button pin, tickets, playbills, gradution event invitations, and other ephemeral material attached to the pages of a scrapbook called "Graduation Memories". Also included are event ticket stubs, attendance cards, poems, and...
Dates:
1918-January 23, 1923
Betty Jean Thornton Smith Scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SPC-2020-026
Scope and Contents
The Betty Jean Thornton Smith Scrapbook collection (1949-1978; 2005; undated) contains one scrapbook that details the life of Betty Jean Thornton Smith, an African American model, actress, teacher, and school principal. Many of the pages are inscribed with "mom" making the scrapbook's most likely compiler, Smith's child. This scrapbook contains mostly clippings and other material that relates to Smith's time at Lincoln University- a HBCU in Jefferson City, Missouri, such as reports on plays,...
Dates:
1949-1978; 2005; undated ; Majority of material found within 1950s-1960s
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- Theater 2
- African American models 1
- African American universities and colleges 1
- Burlesque (Theater) 1
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
- Dancers 1
- High school students 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
- Mexican American theater 1
- Photographs 1
- Teachers 1
- Theater programs 1 ∧ less
- Language
- Latin 1
- Names
- Diaz, Margarita Mendez, 1908-1985 1
- Hollywood High School (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
- Lincoln University (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1
- Smith , Betty Jean Thornton 1
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