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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

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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