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Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MS-0942
Content Description
A collection of material produced by the Chile solidarity movement in the U.S. following the 1973 CIA-backed military coup that replaced Salvador Allende’s Unidad Popular government with a military dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet. The majority of items come from the Washington, DC chapter of Non-Intervention in Chile (NICH) and the National Coordinating Center in Solidarity with Chile. Materials contain flyers, newsletters, pamphlets, and press clippings.
Dates:
1970s
Collection
Identifier: MS-1019
Scope and Contents
This collection contains writings and ephemera related to the HIV/AIDS epidemic dated 1983-2021. The majority of the items were created in the 1980s and 1990s by HIV and AIDS activist and public health organizations in San Francisco. Many items are educational, such as an AIDS education activity book published in collaboration between the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and 18th Street Services, and “Recommended Standards for the Operation of Sex Clubs, Bathhouses, and Commercial Sex...
Dates:
1983 - 2021; Majority of material found within 1989 - 1993
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0725
Abstract
Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress who came to be known in various circles as the "Black Pearl," "Bronze Venus" and even the "Creole Goddess". Baker was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, Zouzou (1934) and to become a world-famous entertainer. The materials span from 1926 to circa 1970 and contain photographs, promotional flyers, and ephemeral books.
Dates:
1926-approximately 1970
Collection
Identifier: MS-MUS-0067
Abstract
The collection was amassed by Marian Walton Anderson, a pianist and teacher. It is particularly strong in song compilations, musical magazines, popular songs, and works published in Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1853-1976 and undated.
Collection — map-case: OF-1
Identifier: MS-0996
Content Description
This collection contains propaganda posters created by the Republican faction during the Spanish Civil War, via the Ministerio de Propaganda and the Quinto Regimiento de Milicias Populares. See item description for more details on the individual posters. Content Warning This finding aid and the archival records it describes include images that may be upsetting or triggering. Specifically, depictions of death and severe injury. This...
Dates:
1937
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0122
Abstract
Walter Summer (1923-2015) was a composer, writer, artist, and art exhibitor. He graduated in 1947 with a Bachelor of Science from Johns Hopkins and a Bachelor of Music and certificate in Harmony from the Peabody Conservatory. Summer wrote music, poetry, and prose throughout his adult life, often under the pen name Walter Summer d'Eté. His works were never published. In the 1990s he created computer-generated visual art and prepared computer-engraved scores of his earlier compositions. The...
Dates:
1940 - 2005
