The Henry Miller Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, printed materials, film, audio recordings, and artwork that document Henry Miller's life and career as a writer and painter. The collection contains a large body of correspondence, primarily from Miller's friends, fans, and members of his artistic and literary circles, including Brassaï, Blaise Cendrars, Lawrence Durrell, Alfred Perle's, Abraham Rattner, Anaïs Nin, Bezalel Schatz, and Jean Verame. Of particular interest are the original manuscripts for many of Miller's books, essays, articles, and reviews that span the whole of his career as a writer, including several early, unpublished manuscripts dating from the late 1920s. The collection also includes a large selection of original watercolors by Miller and artwork given to Miller by friends and prominent artists, including Man Ray, Abram Krol and Gyula Zilzer. Other significant materials include legal documents related to court proceedings involving the publication of Tropic of Cancer, ephemera documenting Miller's publications and art exhibitions, copies of films of or related to Miller, sound recordings of Miller reading from various works including Tropic of Capricorn, and photographs of Miller and his art.
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.
The KTLA Newsfilm Collection held at the UCLA Film & Television Archive represents a significant resource for researchers interested in Los Angeles news and local coverage of national events. KTLA has been a prominent independent television station in the Los Angeles area for more than 60 years, with the scope of the KTLA Newsfilm Collection at UCLA primarly encompassing the period of the late 1960s through the end of the 1970s. Despite the growing prominence of television news during this era, many local broadcasters did not fully recognize the long-term historical value of their newsfilm collections, and the industry discarded much local TV news footage, making the surviving KTLA newsfilm collection at UCLA a unique and vital moving image resource for research.<br/><br/>
This curated collection of 65 KTLA newfilm holdings documents a selection of people, places, and issues relevant to marginalized communities in Los Angeles between 1970 and 1980. Marked by the international trauma of the devastating war in Vietnam and the national political upheaval of Watergate, this period saw great strides in social movements for equality for marginalized communities and continued legacies of institutionalized oppression, discrimination, and prejudice. The news segments selected for the Diverse Communities of Los Angeles (1970-1980) KTLA Television Newsfilm project are intended to help illuminate the challenges facing marginalized communities and related public policies during this critical period in Los Angeles history.
The collection consists of diaries, correspondence, manuscripts, cassette and reel-to-reel tapes of lectures and speeches, film appearances, printed items and memorabilia related to diarist and writer Anaïs Nin. Many of the diaries include letters, photographs, theatre programs, clippings, ephemera and memorabilia tipped and laid in. Some of the correspondents include Hugh Guiler, Rupert Pole, Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller, Gore Vidal, James Leo Herlihy, Felix Pollak and Alan Swallow.
Ruth St. Denis (1879-1968) was a modern dance pioneer who combined spirituality and dance. Throughout her career, St. Denis's dances were greatly influenced by eastern culture and religion. In the later years of her career, Christian themes were also explored and depicted in her works. Her papers include handwritten journals, personal and professional correspondence, essays, poems, lectures, choreographic notes, musical scores, dance programs and ephemera, photographic prints, reel-to-reel audio recordings, books from her personal library, and business materials. The collection spans the majority of her life, though the bulk of collection derives from the 1920s to her death in 1968.
Collection consists of Hebrew manuscripts, including Kabala (mysticism), prayer books, poetry, synagogue records from the Jewish community of Ancona, Italy, printed official documents relating to the Jews of Ancona, and about 50 Italian manuscripts.
W. Graham (Walford Graham) Robertson (1866-1948) was a dramatic author, and author/illustrator of several books, including: Pinkie and the fairies (1908), A masque of May morning, Gold, Frankincense and myrrh, The slippers of Cinderella, and The town of the Ford. The collection contains scrapbooks of clippings about Robertson's work, and photographs of Robertson and actors and actresses such as George Alexander, Ellen Terry, and Mrs. Patrick Campbell.
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.
Paul Rotha (1907-1984) was a film critic, documentary filmmaker, and movie director. The collection consists of materials related to Rotha's documentary and feature films and Rotha's books on the cinema.
Collection consists of posters issued chiefly by the Jewish National Fund to encourage diaspora Jews to travel to Israel and to support Israel financially and politically. The posters cover topics such as agriculture, land reclamation and settlement, holidays and celebrations, and campaigns. They are in full color with texts in Hebrew, English, French, and Spanish.
