This collection consists of glass photonegatives, glass positive transparencies, and black & white photographic prints of the photographer C.C. Pierce (1861-1946). The subject matter primarily covers Los Angeles and the surrounding vicinity.
This collection contains motion picture stills and key book photographs created by Columbia Pictures mostly from 1932 to 1959. Included are portrait photos, publicity photos, fashion stills, movie stills, and off-camera photographs showing various aspects of production filming. The subjects of the portrait images include actors, writers, directors, producers, composers, lyricists and others engaged in film production. The images are taken from nitrate negatives and corresponding photographic prints, with front and reverse views. The reverse sides of many prints bear date stamps, A.A.C. (Advertising Advisory Council) stamps, press tags, and handwritten notes including names of people involved in publicity and titles of film fan magazines.
This digital collection includes a few items from the larger physical collection. The full physical collection contains materials generated by the Committee for Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts relating to the effort to save the Towers, a selected bibliography of articles about the Towers, photographs and pictures, legal documents, audiotapes, films, slides, videotape, transcripts of interviews with Simon Rodia and others, and material regarding the Watts riots and the community response to the Towers.
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Copyright has been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Correspondence, clippings, photographs, certificates, awards, letters of citation and related printed material concerning the activities of Taylor as Director General of El Salvador Agriculture and developer of rubber in the United States. Also included are 14 scrapbooks, reports, etc. with manuscripts and memorabilia kept by Taylor as Superintendent of Horticulture and Director of Concessions at the Buffalo Exposition, 1901. This is arranged under such headings as: annals, McKinley assassination, horticulture, concessions reports, foods and their accessories, and reports of the agricultural and horticultural division.
Henry Fitzgerald Heard (October 6, 1889-August 14, 1971) was interested in parapsychology, Vedanta, philosophy, and religion. He took honors in history at Cambridge, 1911, where he also did his postgraduate work in philosophy of religions. He lectured at Oxford University and on the radio and wrote Ascent of Humanity. He later founded Trabuco College as a center for spiritual studies. As Gerald Heard, he wrote philosophical works such as The Emergence of Man and The Creed of Christ. Under the name H.F. Heard, he wrote mysteries. The collection consists of Heard's manuscripts of published and unpublished books, correspondence, tape recordings of Heard's lectures, lecture notes, articles, books from Heard's library, photographs, and ephemera. It also includes manuscripts by others as well as an oil painting of Heard by Aldous Huxley (1933).
Harry French Blaney was a civil engineer who worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) (1917-1962), was a research associate in the Department of Irrigation Research and Soil Science at UCLA (1962-1965) and served in the Department of Engineering and Water Resource Center (1965-1973). He authored many publications on the consumptive use of water, irrigation, evaporation and water supply.
Hugo Ballin (1879-1956) was born in New York City. He began his Hollywood career creating motion picture sets for Samuel Goldwyn and later worked as a director and producer. He ultimately gave up his film career to focus on art and writing. The collection consists of original paintings and drawings by Ballin, correspondence, literary manuscripts, books, clippings, and photographs.