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Percy Burton presents Lowell Thomas (in person) in his world-famous travelogue: : "With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia."
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Percy Burton presents Americas tribute to British valour in the person of Lowell Thomas in his illustrated travelogue of the British campaigns: : "With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia."
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Program for a motion picture and still photography lecture.
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Percy Burton (by arrangement with the Grand Opera Syndicate) presents Lowell Thomas in his illustrated travelogue of the British campaigns : : Americas tribute to British valour : with Allenby in Palestine. Including the capture of Jerusalem and the liberation of holy Arabia
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Program for a motion picture and still photography lecture.
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Crossroads of the World. By Burton Burt
Visual Materials
The collection consists of 3511 photographs, negatives and ephemeral items circa 1850s-1982 covering a wide breadth of subject matter. The collection includes images of Los Angeles streets and city views; neighborhoods (including Olvera Street, the Plaza, and Chinatown); Los Angeles office buildings and blocks, municipal buildings and facilities (including city halls, court houses, federal buildings, and postal facilities); Los Angeles County communities (including Culver City; Beverly Hills; Watts; Compton; the Hollywood/Cahuenga area; Mt. Washington; Redondo Beach; Hermosa Beach; Venice Beach; Santa Monica; San Pedro; Wilmington; Long Beach; Burbank; Glendale and the San Fernando Valley; Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley; Avalon and Santa Catalina Island); San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains; San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Francisco Counties; Los Angeles County homes, residential buildings, and gardens; Los Angeles parks; Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside County schools, colleges and universities; Los Angeles County churches and synagogues; Los Angeles area country clubs; hotels and theaters in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino Counties, and the city of San Francisco; and Los Angeles County department stores, newspaper buildings, storefronts, and restaurants. General subjects represented in the collections include industry and manufacturing (including iron and steelworks; brick and terracotta; the motion picture industry; and the clothing trade); agriculture; mining and other extractive industries; infrastructure (including dams and roads, and photographs taken for Caltrans documenting the construction of the Pasadena Freeway, also known as the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway); water and power (including photographs depicting the irrigation of the San Fernando Valley in the 1910s); transportation; sports and leisure activities (including images depicting the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles); fairs and expositions (including trade and industrial fairs; the Panama Pacific Exposition; the California Pacific International Exposition; the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition; and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition); fiestas and parades (including the Fiesta de Los Angeles, the Fiesta de las Flores, and the Pasadena Tournament of Roses), circuses and circus wagons; missions in California, the Southwest United States, and Mexico; and California adobes and ranchos. Miscellaneous images include national and state parks; the California Gold Rush and mining towns; the armed forces in California; native and indigenous culture; local flora, including trees; unidentified people; unidentified scenery; documents; maps; and a small grouping of ephemera pertaining to the Wilshire Boulevard Miracle Mile. The collection includes photographs produced by 141 identified photographic studios, photographers, and publishers including Blanchard; Cromwell and Westervelt; Frasher's Studio; Garden City Foto; Harold W. Grieve, T.E. Hecht; William Henry Hill; Keystone Photo Service; Luckhaus; Charles F. Lummis; F.H. Maude; Harold Parker; Putnam Studios; F.H. Rogers; Julius Shulman; Spence Airplane Photos; Stagg; A. Sturtevant; Carleton Watkins; and "Dick" Whittington Studio. There are also photographs made by or for companies including American Trona Corporation; Douglas Aircraft; Estelle Mines Corporation; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Paramount Pictures; Selznick International Pictures; Studebaker Corporation; Union Pacific Railroad; and United Artists. Images produced and compiled by the Federal Writers' Project Southern and Northern California branches include photographs by Viroque Baker, Horace Bristol, Burton Burt, Fred William Carter, Fred R. Dapprich, Luckhaus Studios, Julius Shulman, and Art Streib.
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Personal and family papers; family and personal correspondence; Frank D. Baldwin business correspondence
Manuscripts
A collection of professional, personal, and family papers of General Frank D. Baldwin. The collection includes Baldwin's correspondence, military papers, maps, notebooks, diaries, photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera. The correspondence includes both letters by Baldwin and addressed to him from 1869 to 1920, and deals mostly with his promotions, friends, and the men who served under his command. The military papers include Baldwin's military records, orders, reports, and communications, which cover his post-Civil War career, recommendations for promotions, and papers relating to his Medals of Honor. Also included is correspondence from 1914 to 1915 relating to a motion picture about the last battles and surrender of Native Americans to Gen. Nelson A. Miles; an incomplete autobiography that starts with General Baldwin's Civil War service and ends in 1879; a group of facsimiles of letters by John Brown; and a program of the memorial service for Owen Brown. The papers also include an addenda which contains the correspondence between Frank D. Baldwin and his wife Alice Blackwood Baldwin, his daughter Juanita Baldwin Williams-Foote, and other members of the Baldwin family. Also included is Baldwin's professional and personal correspondence, military papers, official correspondence, telegrams, maps, pictures, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, pocket diaries, and appointment books from 1860 to 1923.
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Personal correspondence to members of the Baldwin family
Manuscripts
A collection of professional, personal, and family papers of General Frank D. Baldwin. The collection includes Baldwin's correspondence, military papers, maps, notebooks, diaries, photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera. The correspondence includes both letters by Baldwin and addressed to him from 1869 to 1920, and deals mostly with his promotions, friends, and the men who served under his command. The military papers include Baldwin's military records, orders, reports, and communications, which cover his post-Civil War career, recommendations for promotions, and papers relating to his Medals of Honor. Also included is correspondence from 1914 to 1915 relating to a motion picture about the last battles and surrender of Native Americans to Gen. Nelson A. Miles; an incomplete autobiography that starts with General Baldwin's Civil War service and ends in 1879; a group of facsimiles of letters by John Brown; and a program of the memorial service for Owen Brown. The papers also include an addenda which contains the correspondence between Frank D. Baldwin and his wife Alice Blackwood Baldwin, his daughter Juanita Baldwin Williams-Foote, and other members of the Baldwin family. Also included is Baldwin's professional and personal correspondence, military papers, official correspondence, telegrams, maps, pictures, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, pocket diaries, and appointment books from 1860 to 1923.
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Official and semi-official letters, documents, and articles written by persons other than Frank D. Baldwin and addressed to various other persons
Manuscripts
A collection of professional, personal, and family papers of General Frank D. Baldwin. The collection includes Baldwin's correspondence, military papers, maps, notebooks, diaries, photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera. The correspondence includes both letters by Baldwin and addressed to him from 1869 to 1920, and deals mostly with his promotions, friends, and the men who served under his command. The military papers include Baldwin's military records, orders, reports, and communications, which cover his post-Civil War career, recommendations for promotions, and papers relating to his Medals of Honor. Also included is correspondence from 1914 to 1915 relating to a motion picture about the last battles and surrender of Native Americans to Gen. Nelson A. Miles; an incomplete autobiography that starts with General Baldwin's Civil War service and ends in 1879; a group of facsimiles of letters by John Brown; and a program of the memorial service for Owen Brown. The papers also include an addenda which contains the correspondence between Frank D. Baldwin and his wife Alice Blackwood Baldwin, his daughter Juanita Baldwin Williams-Foote, and other members of the Baldwin family. Also included is Baldwin's professional and personal correspondence, military papers, official correspondence, telegrams, maps, pictures, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, pocket diaries, and appointment books from 1860 to 1923.
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