Manuscripts

Kurt Jooss – Lea Luboshutz

Description: Includes portraits of Hizi Koyke, soprano, by Toyo Miyatake of Los Angeles.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1850-1998.
Call number: mssBehymer
Creator: Behymer, Lynden Ellsworth(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Lynden E. Behymer (Minetta Sparks), December 1948.; Gift of Mrs. Lynden E. Behymer (Minetta Sparks), June 1952.; Gift of California State University, Northridge, May 1976.; Gift of Music Center Operating Company, September 1993.; Gift of Arvonne Behymer Degenfelder, March 2015.

Portraits

Manuscripts

Primarily professional matted portraits in various sizes of individual family members and family events, especially weddings. Also funerals, school and group portraits, and studio-taken images of the Roscoe ranch and gardens. Family friends portraits are mostly weddings. Bulk taken in Los Angeles, many by the Toyo Miyatake Studio, with a few from Japan.

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Sheet music

Manuscripts

Includes music titled: Our Los Angeles, a song of the southland by Dick Dixon and Shelley Roane Vier; and Los Angeles, 1932 Olympic March Song. Also includes a small piece of leather signed by John Philip Sousa in 1911 with hand drawn musical notes.

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California Federation of Women's Clubs: Los Angeles, press clippings

Manuscripts

Includes clippings and photographs promoting women in Los Angeles County. Program glued to painted decorative album cover reads, "California Federation of Women's Clubs. By Mrs. Leiland A. Irish, Oress Chairman. Los Angeles District. Twenty-Third Annual Convention. Glendale, California, April 8, 9, and 10, 1924." Includes folder of loose items from album.

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California history

Manuscripts

Includes: Californiana bibliography by John Newbegin, notes on California theatre by Max Saunders, writing on Montgomery and Mullin Labor Company by William F. Montgomery, and Reminiscences of the early bar of Los Angeles by J.A. Graves.

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Los Angeles Theatres: Shrine Civic Auditorium and Olympic Auditorium

Manuscripts

Item is fragile and contains red rot. Volume of bound programs of Chicago Grand Opera events in Los Angeles. Includes: Shrine Auditorium, and other Los Angeles theatres.

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Scrapbook: Personal press clippings, comments, photographs, and history

Manuscripts

Scrapbook with pasted newspaper clippings (chiefly the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Herald) and photographs. Includes a program for Behymer's 85th birthday.

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Kurt Jooss – Lea Luboshutz

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