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Latin American Studies Center Newsletter UA 2.9.3.9
Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: Serial-00409
Latin American Studies Center Research Report UA 2.9.3.9
Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: Serial-00411
Latino Hollywood screenplays collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 373 large
Scope and Contents
This collection of scripts, script drafts and script continuities contains 370 individual scripts from 268 film/television productions that contain Latino characters, and/or characters played by Latino actors, and/or are written or directed by Latino artists. Dating from 1929 to 2000, the collection explores the history of Latinos in American film. This includes Latino characters played by a variety of ethnicities. The practice of Anglo stars and actors of various ethnic backgrounds...
Dates:
1929 - 2000
Latino/Mexican lobby card collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 374 large
Scope and Contents
The Latino/Mexican lobby card collection is comprised of 177 color and black-and-white lobby cards promoting and advertising Mexican American and Latino films spanning the time period from 1937 to 1991. The film topics include mystery, comedy, drama, western, and romance. Each title includes several cards depicting variant action scenes from the film. Key Mexican American and Latina actors in the collection include: Anthony Quinn, Raquel Welch and Rita Moreno. Other actors and directors of...
Dates:
1937-1991
Latinos in baseball card collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 682
Scope and Contents
The Latinos in Baseball card collection consists of over 1000 baseball cards, including teams from both the National League and American League as well as a few minor league teams. Publishers represented include Fleer, Donruss, Topps and Score. Some of the notable names in the collection include Roberto Clemente, Manny Ramirez and Mariano Rivera.
Dates:
1981 - 2003
Latinos in Film collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 286 large
Scope and Contents
The collection is focused primarily on portrayals of Latino/a characters in film and includes materials about major Latino stars, such as Lupe Vélez and Dolores Del Rio (both strongly represented in this collection). However, many of the great Latino movie stars in Hollywood films -- Rita Hayworth, Anthony Quinn, Lupe Vélez, Cesar Romero, for instance -- portrayed many different kinds of roles during their long careers, and this collection reveals some of the diversity of their work....
Dates:
1916-2005
Lawrence Busch papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.286
Scope and Contents
The Lawrence Busch papers consist of completed surveys given to agricultural scientists as well as the master codebook for the surveys. The surveys include questions about research, relationships to organizations, opinions on criteria for publishing, groups that benefit from research, and opinions on goals of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other organizations. The surveys were used to write the book "Science, Agriculture, and the Politics of Research" with William Lacy....
Dates:
1979
Lawrence P. Briggs documents
Collection
Identifier: c-00329
Scope and Contents
An appointment dated April 14, 1914, of Briggs to the consulship in Saigon, signed by William J. Bryan and Woodrow Wilson and Briggs' diplomatic passport, signed by Robert Lansing, December 21, 1917 are included in this collection.
Dates:
1914 - 1917
Leach family papers
Collection
Identifier: c-00440
Scope and Contents
The Leach family papers consist of photocopies of letters, and a ledger/scrapbook belonging to Morgan Leach. The early letters (1810-1827) discuss the hardships of pioneer life, the swift deaths brought on by disease, and the loneliness of separation from families left behind. The later correspondence discuss business and land transactions, teachers' wages, and various aspects of small town life. Clinton's letters to his parents in 1841, when he went from Margaretta, Ohio to Grand Blanc,...
Dates:
1810 - 1863
LeMoyne Snyder papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.97
Scope and Content
The LeMoyne Snyder papers document the professional life of an expert in forensic medicine from his early medical practice in Lansing, Michigan to his later years as a "medicolegal expert" in Paradise, California. The collection covers Snyder's career from 1934 to 1984, with the bulk of the collection dating from the 1950s and 1960s.
The Correspondence series consists of 3.5 cubic feet of Snyder's correspondence which does not directly relate to his activities with the Court of...
Dates:
1917 - 1984