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SCA Blog posts tagged with: ephemera

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Miniature Magic: 19th Century English Toy Theatres

August 26, 2025

Detail of a father's signature from the Richard Embleton Correspondence Collection

Fathers in the Archives

June 10, 2025

Anatomy of a flowering plant, from high school herbarium

“Study nature, not books:” Maybelle Shaffner’s Southern California Herbaria

April 8, 2025

Chinese Government Railways Chief Engineers Office Envelope, Collins Family Collection

The Role of the Rail: Traveling to and Through China in the late 19th and early 20th century

March 28, 2025

Detail from “La Noche Del Mariachi” invitation, 1995, Comisión Femenil San Fernando Valley Collection

Mariachi

February 11, 2025

Paper Doll 2, The History of Little Fanny

The History of Little Fanny

October 15, 2024

Source of Information Chart, The Eighth Annual Report to the Governor of the State of California, Board of Prison Terms and Paroles, July 1, 1938 to June 30 1939

Loudon and Latham: Records of the California Institution for Women at Tehachapi in the 1930s

September 24, 2024

Governor Goodwin Knight and "Miss New Horizons" of the 1959 Union Products and Services Show

Los Angeles County Federation of Labor's Union Label Council

August 6, 2024

Detail from Molina for Supervisor 1990-1991 campaign mailer, Frank del Olmo Collection, Box 148 Folder 18

Gloria Molina

March 12, 2024

Detail from “AIDS: The Facts” pamphlet distributed in New York, 1987. Vern L. Bullough Papers

HIV & AIDS, the early years in the United States

February 6, 2024

Detail from a Trans-Canada AirLines Plane Ticket, 1949

"Passport to Peace": European Travel After World War II

January 30, 2024

Strike against pay cuts sign, Paul J. Goldener United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Local 645 Collection

Historic Strikes Across Los Angeles

January 23, 2024

Fabric pattern including with the book/kit, Chicks on speed : it's a project. N6497 .M87 2004

Chicks on Speed, a Book in a Bag

March 28, 2023

Soochow, “Last Rites for Soochow,” Leatherneck, October 1948, Fred M. Greguras Papers

A Servicemember’s Best Friend

February 14, 2023

Liberated civilians during World War II

Allied Propaganda in the Lodge Collection

January 24, 2023

A Collection of Confection and Other Receipts, page 44. TX705 .C735 1700z

What is this place?

February 1, 2022

Week of the Young Child promotional ephemera, 1971, California Association for the Education of Young Children Collection

Early Childhood Educator Associations

September 21, 2021

football players

Matador Football

September 14, 2021

Victorian valentine

Victorian and Edwardian Greeting Cards

August 31, 2021

Postcard, residence, Northridge, 1918

Northridge: the Early Years

March 30, 2021

Rose Parade Queen, Brenda English, 1963

Beauties in the Archives

December 8, 2020

President James Cleary and Chinese Delegation Sign Educational Exchange Agreement, 1981. Photograph by Rick Childs

CSUN’s China Connection

November 24, 2020

CSUN Matadors Alumni Pin

The CSUN Matador

October 27, 2020

Little Buttercup, from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera "H.M.S. Pinafore." HF 5851 G44_04_04

Women in Trade Cards

October 13, 2020

Cover, REM Gospel: Gospel According to Massmann, 1900z

What is this place?

December 16, 2019

London Jingles and Country Tales, for Young People

Chapbook Collection

December 4, 2018

Portrait of a boy

John M. Sell Civil War Collection

October 9, 2018

Santa Monica Mountains' and Seashore fundraising postcard

The Susan B. Nelson Collection

June 26, 2018

View-Master viewer and reels included with Atlas of External Diseases of the Eye

Window to the World

April 27, 2018

Van Norman Reservoir following the Sylmar Earthquake, ca. 1971

A Look Back at the Sylmar Earthquake

February 6, 2018

"Loteria: Tabla Llena" by Carmen Lomas Garza taken from El Calendario Chicano 1975. Rodolfo F. Acuña Collection

Quirky and Curious Calendars

January 30, 2018

Cover and first page of The Jazz Review, featuring Mimi Clar's article, "The Negro Church: Its Influence on Modern Jazz," November 1958

The Mimi Melnick Collection

October 31, 2017

Postcard for America First rally

America First: Variations on a Theme

September 5, 2017

Image from Pirates of Penzance advertising card

The David Trutt Gilbert and Sullivan Advertising Cards Digital Collection

June 27, 2017

Tales of the Dark Knight

BOFF! THWACK! KAPOW!

March 7, 2017

Drink Cultura, image from cover of Chicanismo by José Antonio Burciaga

Celebrating Culture Clash

November 1, 2016

Strike against pay cuts sign

On Strike!

April 12, 2016

Cropped image, front cover of the Association of Far Eastern Jews’ Silver Jubilee booklet, 1979

Old China Hands Archives Update

March 29, 2016

woman with floating head

Lauretta, the Little Savoyard

March 1, 2016

blindfold, stiletto heel, whip

The Study of Bondage

February 10, 2015

Starbound, 1938

YWCA Hollywood Studio Club

December 9, 2014

Pirates of Penzance Jack in the Box

Curiosities, Rarities, and Ephemera in Special Collections and Archives

August 12, 2014

Vice President Hubert Humphrey addressing student protesters

The Campus Unrest Collections

April 29, 2014

The Painter and His Pug

William Hogarth: Painter, Printmaker, and Satirist

April 1, 2014

The game of Shanghai Millionaire, free parking spot

The Bell Family Collection

March 25, 2014

Richard Bruland Bebop Records Art Posters Collection

October 8, 2013

Maj. James C. Magee (front row center) poses with his battalion staff at British Embassy compound billet, Peking 1945

China Marines

September 24, 2013

La Fiesta de Los Angeles

California Tourism and Promotional Literature Collection

April 9, 2013

Dragon

William Gaddis Collection

January 22, 2013