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Printed poster instructing persons of Japanese ancestry in San Francisco to report to the Civil Control Station at 1530 Buchanan Street. Author: DeWitt, Lt. Gen. J.LPlace Published: San FranciscoPublisher: U.S. ArmyDate Published: May 5, 1942Printed broadside announcement regarding Japanese Internment, 1942. 56x35.5 cm (22x14")."Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry" in "that portion of the City and County San...
The collection consists of three newsprint broadsides promoting Zionism in the United States, dating from 1943 and 1946. Two were produced by the Political Action Committee for Palestine and one by the New Zionist Organization of America, both operating out of New York City. Two of the broadsides feature statements by Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin. The broadsides were originally published as advertisements in the New York Times and the New York Post.
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Civilian Exclusion Order No. 79. San Francisco: May 15, 1942. Broadside (sheet size 56 x 35.5 cm).Broadside notice from the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Wartime Civil Control Administration regarding the 1942 relocation of Japanese Americans, dated May 15, 1942, excluding all persons of Japanese ancestry from a portion of Military Area No. 1 within King County, Washington, with specific boundary streets provided outlining the designated area, and calling for...
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The Edythe Patten Corbin Papers consist of correspondence sent to Edythe Patten Corbin, the wife of General Henry C. Corbin. One of the famous Patten sisters of Washington, D.C., Edythe Patten Corbin was a socialite who corresponded with members of the highest social circles of the nation's capital. Principal correspondents include Philippe Bunau-Varilla, American Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick, General John J. Pershing, Senator Elihu Root, and President William Howard Taft. While...
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An assortment of documents collected by John L. Cecil. The collection includes the following:Legal document on vellum, England, 2 September 1628. A conveyance of lands in the country of York from Emanuel, Earl of Sunderland and Baron Bolton, to four yeoman of the said country in return for a sum in excess of 2,500 pounds. With remnant of original seal.10 manuscript antiphonal leaves on vellum, 14 inches by 20 inches each. Possibly of Spanish origin and dating from the...
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An assortment of documents collected by John L. Cecil. The collection includes the following:Legal document on vellum, England, 2 September 1628. A conveyance of lands in the country of York from Emanuel, Earl of Sunderland and Baron Bolton, to four yeoman of the said country in return for a sum in excess of 2,500 pounds. With remnant of original seal.10 manuscript antiphonal leaves on vellum, 14 inches by 20 inches each. Possibly of Spanish origin and dating from the...
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The collection consists of materials related to Vladimir Nabokov that were collected by Dave Barbor. It includes letters written by Nabokov (1946-1964), his father (1906), and his cousin, Nicolas Nabokov (to Misia Sert, 1932). It also includes letters written by Véra Nabokov to Irving P. Lazar (1971), a letter from Véra Nabokov to Dave Barbor (1986), and a letter written from Dmitri Nabokov to Dave Barbor (1986). It also includes newsclippings (1929-1973), a typescript of a musical version...
Illustrated poster showing a crying child running from a Soviet tank and aircraft amidst the rubble of a destroyed village, printed in color on matte stock. Produced by the Jamiat-e Islami Film Center. 22.5 x 14.5 inches.
8 page calendar, including photographic images in color printed on glossy stock and a timeline of the anti-Soviet struggle in Dari and English. Designed by:A.G. Gudaz. Printed by MANZA for Jamiat-e Islami. in Islamabad, Pakistan. 20 x 14.5 inches.
Illustrated poster showing Afghan mujahedin attacking soviet tanks and aircraft, printed in color on matte stock. Produced by Qarargah-e-Jundullah Welaiat Kabul. 23 x 18 inches.
Illustrated poster showing a child tearing a Soviet banner, printed in color on glossy stock. Produced by the Jamiat-e Islami Afghanistan Film Center. 22.75 x 13.75 inches.
Illustrated image of a smiling Afghan mujahideen fighter against a bright blue ground, printed on glossy stock. Produced by Jamiat-e Islami, cultural Dept., Balkh in Peshawar, Pakistan.
