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  Audio-Visual Items

  Manuscripts

  9 items. Includes: reel-to-reel interview with Mary Lasker on Person to Person by Edward R. Murrow, 4 VHS tapes of family vacations, one VHS of a Turner Classic Movie program related to Jane Greer, 3 disks with family films and and an interview with Albert D. Lasker, and a Blu-ray copy of Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies

  mssLasker papers

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  Books

  Manuscripts

  6 items. Includes: Taken at the Flood, The Lasker Story, 5 Giants of Advertising, The Man Who Sold America, The Albert D. Lasker Collection, and An Exhibition of Sixty-Nine Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Albert D. Lasker.

  mssLasker papers

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  G -- miscellaneous

  Manuscripts

  [Howard Gates (1); Gordon Gibson (2); Robert Gold (3); Leo Goldberg (3); The Grolier Society, Inc. (Catherine O'Dea) (3); Ole Guldberg (2); V. Guth (1)]

  mssHumason papers

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  Residential Projects by Project Title

  Visual Materials

  The Residential Projects by Project Title subseries consist of 8,023 black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, black-and-white prints; and 7 presentation albums, 1938-1972 and undated, created by Maynard L. Parker, and documenting residential projects for which there is no identifiable client. Among the residences Parker photographed are those of entertainers Fanny Brice, Billie Burke, Eddie Cantor, Leo Carrillo, Hoagy Carmichael, Bing Crosby, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Dvorak, Joan Fontaine, Judy Garland, Betty Grable, Corinne Griffith, Bob Hope, Al Jolson, Hedy Lamarr, Merle Oberon, Ronald Reagan, and Barbara Stanwyck; directors Michael Curtiz, Alfred Hitchcock, Douglas Sirk, and Billy Wilder; developer Fritz Burns; writers Edgar Rice Burroughs and Louella Parsons; House Beautiful editor Elizabeth Gordon; and businessmen Gordon Guiberson, Ernest A. Kaiser, and Hyatt Robert von Dehn. Parker also photographed model homes and housing developments, including La Veta Woods in Orange, CA; a Kaiser Community Homes development; Lakewood Plaza in Long Beach, CA; Marlow-Burns & Company developments; and Olivewood Housing Project in National City, CA.

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  Big Blue Book collection

  Rare Books

  This collection contains 81 booklets from the Big Blue Book series edited by American social reformer and writer E. Haldeman-Julius and published by the Haldeman-Julius Company of Girard, Kansas. The collection includes booklets dating from 1927 to 1951, with the bulk from 1947 to 1951. The titles in the collection are primarily on topics related to free thought, superstition, humanism, religion, sex, psychology, health, relationships, self-improvement, and history. More than thirty different authors are represented, including a number by sexologist Dr. David O. Cauldwell and freethought writer Joseph McCabe. The booklets are 8.5 x 5.5 inches, with colored paper wrappers; many have the name "Leo Rosenthal" stamped on the inside front cover. Entries for each imprint in the contents list contain the following information (when known): publisher's number; title; date; and author(s).

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  [Vallejo Mining Company (?)]. Account book

  Manuscripts

  Includes a list of witnesses in an 1874 land case. The volume is in poor condition.

  mssEl Dorado County