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Man reads a book while sitting with a dog on the steps of the Santa Monica Unemployed Citizens' League library, 1930s

Description:
Man reads a book while sitting with a dog on the library steps at the Unemployed Citizens' League of Santa Monica (a localized group of self-sustaining and self-respecting people). Many cooperatives like this one emerged in California during the 1930s, specifically in the Los Angeles - Orange County area
Date:
[1930s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Man reads a book while sitting with a dog on the steps of the Santa Monica Unemployed Citizens' League library, 1930s

Man takes a book from a bookshelf at the Unemployed Citizens' League of Santa Monica, 1930s

Description:
Man takes a copy of "Tom Brown at Oxford" by Thomas Hughes from a bookshelf at the Unemployed Citizens' League of Santa Monica, a localized group of self-sustaining and self-respecting people. Many cooperatives like this one emerged in California during the 1930s, specifically in the Los Angeles - Orange County area
Date:
[1930s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Man takes a book from a bookshelf at the Unemployed Citizens' League of Santa Monica, 1930s

Book Launch: Stronger, Surer, Bolder: Ruth Nita Barrow, Social Change and International Development

Description:
Invitation to the launch of Stronger, Surer,Bolder:Ruth Nita Barrow -Social Change and International Development held at the Grande Salle, Frank Collymore Hall. Presented by the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies. Editors: Eudine Barriteau and Alan Cobley. Ruth Nita Barrow, the sister of Barbados first prime minister, Errol Barrow, was Barbados' first female governor general, serving in this post between 1990 and 1995. This book examines how Dame Nita Barrow developed her leadership strategies to contribute to social change and development policy on regional, national, and international levels.
Date:
November 14, 2001
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
Book Launch: Stronger, Surer, Bolder: Ruth Nita Barrow, Social Change and International Development

Official Launch of Mr. Ragga Ragga and the Red Collection Vols. 1 & 2 Map

Description:
Map to the University of the West Indies for to the launch of "Mr. Ragga Ragga," an annotated discography of the musical works of Red Plastic Bag and "The Red Collection Vols. 1 & 2." Stedson Wiltshire, also known as Red Plastic Bag or Mr. Ragga Ragga, is a well known calypsonian in Barbados who has won the Barbados calypso monarch competition (known as Pic o' de Crop Competition) numerous times. Wilthshire combined the sounds of reggae and soca music to form a new Caribbean genre of music known as ragga soca.
Date:
November 19, 2005
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
Official Launch of Mr. Ragga Ragga and the Red Collection Vols. 1 & 2 Map

Slave Society in the City Book Launch Invitation

Description:
Invitation to the book launch of Slave Society in the City: Bridgetown, Barbados 1680-1834 by Dr. Pedro L.V. Welch, held at the Arts Lecture Theatre University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. This book seeks to explain the way slave societies functioned in the Caribbean. The book provides a comparison between urban and rural slave societies, an analysis of several areas of urban social formation, demographic issues, trade and commerce, gender issues, and social and economic issues in the free coloured communities.
Date:
September 2, 2003
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
Slave Society in the City Book Launch Invitation

Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender Book Launch Invitation

Description:
Card accompanying a copy of the book Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender, gifted to the Archives Department by the Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies Campus. This book explores masculinity as a gender construct and its manifestation in the Caribbean. It explores the interaction of power and sexuality in the creation of masculine identities in the Caribbean region.
Date:
February 28, 2004
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender Book Launch Invitation

Launch Invitation: White Rebel: The Life & Times of TT Lewis

Description:
Invitation to the launch of White Rebel: the Life & Times of TT Lewis by Gary Lewis. Event held at the Lecture Theatre 2 New teaching Complex , the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. Gary Lewis was the great nephew of Atholl Edwin Seymour (T.T.) Lewis. His book covers the life of T.T. Lewis, a white working class Barbadian who sought to better the conditions of all working class Barbadians. T.T. Lewis was elected to the Barbados Parliament in 1942 as an independent and later served under the Barbados Labour Party from 1948-1955.
Date:
September 1, 1999
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
Launch Invitation: White Rebel: The Life & Times of TT Lewis

Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender Book Launch Programme

Description:
Program of events for the launch of Confronting Power Theorizing Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the Caribbean by the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Centre for Gender and Development Studies held at the Grande Salle, Frank Collymore Hall. This book explores masculinity as a gender construct and its manifestation in the Caribbean. It explores the interaction of power and sexuality in the creation of masculine identities in the Caribbean region.
Date:
February 28, 2004
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender Book Launch Programme

I Speak for the People: The Memoirs of Wynter Crawford Book Launch Invitation

Description:
Invitation from the Nation Publishing Co. Ltd for the launching of the book I Speak for the People: The Memoirs of Wynter Crawford held at the Grande Salle, Central Bank Barbados. Wynter Crawford (1910-1993) was the publisher and editor of the "Barbados Observer" newspaper, but was more known for his involvement in politics. He was the founder and leader of the West Indies National Congress Party and spent 26 years in Parliament. The memoirs offers insight to the personality of Crawford and information on his career.
Date:
April 14, 2003
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
I Speak for the People: The Memoirs of Wynter Crawford Book Launch Invitation

Official Launch of Mr. Ragga Ragga and the Red Collection Vols. 1 & 2 Programme

Description:
Program launch of "Mr. Ragga Ragga," an annotated discography of the musical works of Red Plastic Bag and "The Red Collection Vols. 1 & 2." Stedson Wiltshire, also known as Red Plastic Bag or Mr. Ragga Ragga, is a well known calypsonian in Barbados who has won the Barbados calypso monarch competition (known as Pic o' de Crop Competition) numerous times. Wilthshire combined the sounds of reggae and soca music to form a new Caribbean genre of music known as ragga soca.
Date:
November 19, 2005
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
Official Launch of Mr. Ragga Ragga and the Red Collection Vols. 1 & 2 Programme

Barbadian Short Stories: Alfred Pragnell Reads Timothy Callender and Recalls Joe Tudor

Description:
Invitation to the launch of the audio cassette "Barbadian Short Stories," held on 20 July 1993 at the Courtyard of the Island Inn Hotel, Aquatic Gap. "Alfred Pragnell reads Timothy Callender and recalls Joe Tudor." Alfred Pragnell is a well known story-teller who has been telling stories on Barbadian radio stations from the 1950s. He has also been involved in the field of broadcasting and acting.
Date:
July 20, 1993
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
Barbadian Short Stories: Alfred Pragnell Reads Timothy Callender and Recalls Joe Tudor

Official Launch of Mr. Ragga Ragga and the Red Collection Vols. 1 & 2 Invitation

Description:
Invitation by Elizabeth Watson (UWI Campus Librarian) and Stedson Wiltshire in collaboration with the National Cultural Foundation to the launch of "Mr. Ragga Ragga," an annotated discography of the musical works of Red Plastic Bag and "The Red Collection Vols. 1 & 2." The event was held at the Arts Lecture Theatre, UWI. Stedson Wiltshire, also known as Red Plastic Bag or Mr. Ragga Ragga, is a well known calypsonian in Barbados who has won the Barbados calypso monarch competition (known as Pic o' de Crop Competition) numerous times. Wilthshire combined the sounds of reggae and soca music to form a new Caribbean genre of music known as ragga soca.
Date:
November 19, 2005
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
Official Launch of Mr. Ragga Ragga and the Red Collection Vols. 1 & 2 Invitation

Slave Society in the City Book Launch

Description:
Program for book launch Slave Society in the City by Dr. Pedro L.V. Welch held at the Arts Lecture Theatre UWI, Cave Hill Campus. This book compares life in the urban slave society with that of the rural plantation. It also analyzes various areas of urban social formation, examines demographic issues, trade and commerce, gender issues, social and economic issues in the white and free coloured communities.
Date:
September 3, 2003
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
Slave Society in the City Book Launch

I Speak for the People: The Memoirs of Wynter Crawford Book Launch Programme

Description:
Program for I Speak for the People: The Memoirs of Wynter Crawford held at the Grande Salle, Central Bank Barbados. Wynter Crawford (1910-1993) was the publisher and editor of the Barbados Observer newspaper but was more known for his involvement in politics. He was the founder and leader of the West Indies Nationl Congress Party and spent 26 years in Parliament. The memoirs offer insight to the personality of Crawford and information on his career.
Date:
April 14, 2003
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
I Speak for the People: The Memoirs of Wynter Crawford Book Launch Programme

When Ground Doves Fly Book Launch

Description:
Invitation for Ms. Christine Roachford by Ian Randle Publishers for the celebration of the publication of When Ground Doves Fly by Esther Phillips. Event held at the Grande Salle of Barbados Central Bank. Esther Phillips is a literary icon in Barbados who became the island's first ever poet laureate. When Ground Doves Fly is her first full length collection of poems.
Date:
April 11, 2003
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
When Ground Doves Fly Book Launch

Programme of the Launch of The Slave Societies of the Caribbean (volume III of The General History of the Caribbean)

Description:
Launch of volume III of The Slave Societies of the Caribbean held at the Elsie Payne Complex, Constitution Road. Topics covered in this book include European settler colonies, the sugar revolutions, forms of resistance, the influence of creolization and religious beliefs, and the place of the Maroon communities.
Date:
May 6, 1998
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
Programme of the Launch of The Slave Societies of the Caribbean (volume III of The General History of the Caribbean)

John Wesley 300: Pioneers, Preachers and PractitionersBook Launch

Description:
Invitation from the Superintendent Minister of The Bethel Circuit of the Methodist Church for Ms. Christine Mathhews to the launching of John Wesley 300, a collection of biographical sketches of pioneers, preachers and practioners of Methodism by Francis ''Woodie'' Blackman, held at the Hawthorn Memorial Church.
Date:
September 24, 2003
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
John Wesley 300: Pioneers, Preachers and PractitionersBook Launch

West Indies Accounts (ed. R. McDonald) and Inside Slavery (ed. H. Beckles) Book Launch

Description:
Launch of two books: Roderick A. McDonald's (ed.) West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan & Hilary McD. Beckles' (ed.) Inside Slavery: Process and Legacy in the Caribbean Experience. Event held at UWI.
Date:
Between 1996 and 1997
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
West Indies Accounts (ed. R. McDonald) and Inside Slavery (ed. H. Beckles) Book Launch

Programme of the Launch of White Rebel: The Life & Times of TT Lewis

Description:
Program of the launch of White Rebel: the Life & Times of TT Lewis held at the Lecture Theatre 2 New teaching Complex , the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. Gary Lewis was the great nephew of Atholl Edwin Seymour (T.T.) Lewis. His book covers the life of T.T. Lewis, a white working class Barbadian who sought to better the conditions of all working class Barbadians. T.T. Lewis was elected to the Barbados Parliament in 1942 as an independent and later served under the Barbados Labour Party from 1948-1955.
Date:
September 1, 1999
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
Programme of the Launch of White Rebel: The Life & Times of TT Lewis

The Brininstool family, missionaries to China, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Left to right: Grace, Betty, Keith, and Merrill O. Brininstool. Betty and Merrill are holding their children in their arms. Behind the family, many framed pictures hang on the wall, and on a wooden bookcase with books--a pot made by American Indians, a small figure, a statue of a buffalo. Grace wears a shapeless dotted dress. Betty wears a dotted dress with striped collar and round glasses. Keith wears short pants and a shirt. Merrill wears a striped button-down shirt, tie, and belted slacks.
Date:
July 30, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
The Brininstool family, missionaries to China, Los Angeles, 1935

Ronald Mansbridge shows display case of rare books at Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Photograph of Ronald Mansbridge, representative of the Cambridge University Press, with the Rare Book Exhibition at the downtown Central Library of the Los Angeles Public Library. In the display case there are some photos of old portraits, some rare books, and two informational signs in English. The small paper on the top reads, “Four centuries of printing, An exhibition of books printed at the University Press, Cambridge, England,” and the large panel underneath reads, “Cambridge University Press, In Past Centuries, Books by Erasmus, Newton, Harvey, Donne, Gray, Milton, King Hames I. In recent times, Kelvin, Jebb, ‘Q’, Jeans, Eddington, Rutherford, Whitehead. 1521-1931”.
Date:
July 9, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Ronald Mansbridge shows display case of rare books at Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, 1935