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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
Jones Family Langston University Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-038
Abstract
This collection contains mostly "The Lion" yearbooks from Langston University, as well as Jones family obituaries, and a memory book belonging to Carold A. Jones that contains photographs of Carold and his family, friends, and high school classmates in front of homes and other buildings, posing in front of cars and outdoors, portraits, and images taken at Langston University including images of students in caps and gowns, and class photographs. Also included in this collection are souvenir...
Dates:
1922-1935; 1953-1959; 1960; 1965; 1970-1973; 1984-1987; undated
Ed Pearl, Ash Grove Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2021-022
Abstract
This collection contains material belonging to Ed Pearl, founder of the Ash Grove venue. The majority of material related to the Ash Grove includes documents regarding efforts to create a new Ash Grove in the 1980s, as well as in the 1990s on the Santa Monica Pier; and material related to Ash Grove produced events, the Ash Grove Foundation, and Ash Grove music archives project. Also included are documents regarding Pearl's career as a producer for San Francisco Mime Troupe, KPFK-FM radio...
Dates:
1947, 1952-2021; undated; Majority of material found within 1980-1999
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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