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The 4-Ven-39 (La Robleda) Archives results from excavations intermittently conducted from 1966 to 1969 at the headwaters of Medea Creek in Oak Park, Ventura County, California by James N. Hill and the graduate students of the UCLA Department of Anthropology field school. At the La Robleda excavation site, Hill directed randomly sampled digs in 10-centimeter increments that today form the largest sample size taken in California using these methods. It has become an extremely important research tool because of the unbiased nature of its collection. This area was possibly a seasonal Chumash hunting/butchering site, with evidence of occupation as early …

Institution: UCLA, Fowler Museum of Cultural History

Peggy Hamilton Adams was a costume and fashion designer, editor of the Los Angeles Times rotogravure fashion page (1921-34) and a host for local radio programs (1929-33) that dealt with fashion concerns of the modern woman. The nitrate negative images in this collection document Hamilton’s career as a fashion editor, socialite and official hostess for Los Angeles County (1931-1932). Most of the images show her modeling high fashion clothing for her Los Angeles Times fotogravure feature “Fashions” from about 1927 to through 1933. Many of the photographs are by film studio photographers and feature clothing by film industry costume designers. …

Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

The UCLA Library has a robust collection of Aldine press imprints. The collection, numbering approximately 1500 titles, includes the imprints of the press of the Venetian scholar-printer Aldo Manuzio (1449 or 1450-1515), his son Paolo Manuzio (1512-1574), his grandson Aldo Manuzio the Younger (1547-1597), as well as those of associates and imitators. Our digital collection includes one exemplar. For more information, see https://guides.library.ucla.edu/c.php?g=180922&p=1187196.

Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

AIDS posters from 44 countries. Demonstrates the efforts taken by various countries to promote AIDS awareness and modify risk behaviors. The physical collection was originally acquired by the History and Special Collections division of the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library in 2005, and has been expanded through later acquisitions.

Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science

Collection consists of digitized photographs and negatives, as well as sound recordings, from the Aldous and Laura Huxley papers.

Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

This collection includes a promotional photograph and poster for United Airlines' unveiling of the "Mainliner" aircraft. Alexander Klemin was born in London, May 15, 1888; BS, London Univ, 1907; immigrated to the US, 1914; MS, MIT, 1915; became a US citizen while head of the Aeronautics Dept. at MIT, 1917; Officer-in-charge of the Research Dept, Army Air Service, at McCook Field, Dayton, OH during WWI; head, Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at NYU College of Engineering, 1925-45; author of Textbook of aeronautical engineering, If you want to fly, Simplified aerodynamics, and Airplane stress analysis; technical editor, Aviation magazine, 1915-1917; member, Royal …

Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

Maud Allan (1883-1956) was a interpretive dancer. She made her performing debut in Vienna (1903) and was best known for her solo performance in The vision of Salome (1908). She toured India (1913), Southeast Asia (1913 and 1923), South America (1919-1920), and the U.S. The collection contains manuscripts, photographs, postcard albums, books, ephemera, and a scrapbook related to Allan's life and career.

Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

This collection includes architectural renderings of developments proposed between 1924-1925 by the Allied Architects Association of Los Angeles Records, an architectural firm founded in 1921 to design Los Angeles-area buildings paid for by the proceeds of public tax money. Notable members included Octavius Morgan, Reginald Johnson, Edwin Bergstrom, David C. Allison, Myron Hunt, Elmer Grey, Sumner Hunt, and Sumner Spaulding. Some of its major projects include downtown's Hall of Justice, the Bob Hope Patriotic Hall, and the Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center.

Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

Papers of Daniel Ammen (1820-1898), a former U.S. Navy Commander (during the Civil War), Chief of the Bureau of Navigation (post-war), and an author on international shipping and ship canals. This digital collection includes a photograph of U.S. Major General Cadwalader and an original document noting Ammen's commission as Naval Commander in 1863.

Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

Andrew Jackson Hamilton was born on April 18, 1911 in Riverside, California; BA, UCLA, 1935; became a reporter and feature writer for two years with the Los Angeles times; U.S. Navy public information officer on the West Coast and in the Pacific on the staff of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz during World War II; public information manager (1946-60) and Public Affairs Officer (1960-75) UCLA; helped to organize Naval Reserve Public Relations Company 11-2 in 1949; wrote more than a thousand articles for some 75 magazines, including Saturday evening post, Collier's, and Science digest; co-authored UCLA on the move (1969) with …

Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library