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St. Louis Jewish Community Archives : guide to archival collections
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The papers of former Los Angeles County district attorney Gil Garcetti (1941-) includes mainly records that document his managerial and campaign activities in the nation's largest local prosecutorial office. The bulk of the papers contain administrative files created during Garcetti's tenure as district attorney from 1992 to 2000. These files consist of correspondence, budget, statistics, speeches, notes, press releases, schedule and calendars, recommendations, reports, and photographs. Many of these documents reflect Garcetti's focus on prosecution of domestic violence, fraud, gang violence, and child-support violations, as well as on crime prevention initiatives, such as Strategy Against Gang Environments program (SAGE) and SAFE WAY OUT family violence hotline. Another significant part of the Garcetti papers is his campaign files from the Los Angeles County district attorney elections in 1992, 1996, and 2000, which include bills, research, polls, debate notes, ephemera, and press clippings. The papers also contain case files, DDA interview notes, and reports from 1984 to 1991, during which Garcetti served as district attorney Ira Reiner's chief deputy and subsequently head deputy of the Torrance branch. The rest of the papers include audiovisual materials, awards, and memorabilia.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items: memos, letters, clippings related to persons, groups or organizations starting with letter "J." Much of the material here deals with complaints about Paul Conrad cartoons and reaction to them. Most of the protests came from supporters of Israel who believed LAT's coverage and Conrad's cartoons were biased in favor of the Palestinians in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of Gloria Molina, who was a Los Angeles County Supervisor of the First Supervisorial District from 1991 to 2014. This collection is mainly comprised of records created and accumulated during her years on the Board of Supervisors. These materials -- including correspondence, agenda, motions, reports, press clippings, notes, ephemera, site plans, photographs, audiovisual and electronic resources -- document a wide range of activities performed by Molina and her staff, such as project planning, legislation, lawsuits, redistricting, campaigning, and budget planning.
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Visual Materials
The Jay T. Last Collection of Printing and Publishing: Louis Prang Archive contains over 3,650 items dating from 1857 to 1916, with the bulk of the items spanning from 1860 to 1897. This archive chronicles the business history of Boston lithographer Louis Prang through art prints, advertisements, printed volumes, and promotional ephemera produced by L. Prang & Co. and its successor companies: Prang Educational Company and Taber Prang Art Co. The archive also contains catalogs, certificates, price lists, business records and correspondence, personal letters and photographs, news clippings, and original art considered for lithographic reproduction. Materials are broadly divided into two series: printed materials (primarily items produced by or for the business) and manuscript materials (primarily items documenting business operations and the personal life of Louis Prang). Series I is further divided into three subseries: small size prints and ephemera (11 x 14 inches or smaller), large size prints and ephemera (larger than 11 x 14 inches), and hardbound volumes. Small-size items 8 x 10 inches or smaller are described broadly at the series level; large-size items and most small-size items between 8 x 10 inches and 11 x 14 inches in size are fully inventoried with printers, artists, and publishers indexed by name. The collection includes over 260 large-size items comprised mainly of lithographic art prints produced by L. Prang & Co. Small-size items number approximately 3,200 and contain a variety of materials including album cards, trade cards, calendars, booklets, catalogs, greeting cards, proof books, sample books, clippings, and small-format lithographed prints. Hardbound volumes number approximately 40 and include illustrated books with verses, art instruction texts, and children's natural history educational books, as well as Prang's pinnacle achievement, Oriental Ceramic Art, a sumptuously lithographed catalogue in ten volumes featuring Asian ceramics from the collection of Baltimore businessman William T. Walters (1820-1894). Series II contains mainly manuscript business correspondence, as well as memo and stock books, letters patent certificates, personal letters, and a small number of photographs. The bulk of the material is in English, but a small amount of correspondence is written in German. The collection provides a resource for studying the business and output of one of the most influential major lithographic firms in the United States in the 19th century. The images provide information about American tastes and culture as well as the evolution of advertising strategies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the prints offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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Shows all street car lines and site of the Fair. Published with guide book. Street index and guide book. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.
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