Jewish Music in Los Angeles

A collection of over 8,000 images from fashion designer Bonnie Cashin's specific lines and collections, focusing on her extensive, pioneering work in ready-to-wear fashion. Includes press releases, unedited black and white photo proofs from fashion shoots, photographs of her costume designs, her sketches and swatch boards, press clippings, and fashion editorials and brochures, among other materials.

Peggy Hamilton Adams was a costume and fashion designer, editor of the Los Angeles Times rotogravure fashion page (1921-34) and a host for local radio programs (1929-33) that dealt with fashion concerns of the modern woman. The nitrate negative images in this collection document Hamilton’s career as a fashion editor, socialite and official hostess for Los Angeles County (1931-1932)

Photonegatives and photographic prints documenting events and people in Southern California, the U.S., and the world. Materials originate from the Los Angeles Times newspaper and includes glass negatives (ca. 1918-1932), nitrate negatives (ca. 1925-45), and safety negatives (ca. 1935-1990). The collection also includes prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Times Orange County and San Diego bureaus.

American motion picture film stills fron the 1920s on. Includes black and white photographs and some color prints and slides; also includes publicity stills from various studios.

An ongoing open collection of digitized sheet music contributed to by numerous libraries. Data providers have chosen to catalog their sheet music in different ways, but a large proportion of the original sheets in participating collections have been digitized, allowing users direct access to the music itself and in many cases covers and advertisements that offer cultural context in which the songs were published. The collection features many images of famous women on covers.