Collection context
Summary
- Abstract:
- The collection is primarily publicity photographs/stills of American actors, actresses, and other creative talent associated with the motion pictures and television industry.
- Extent:
- 24.0 linear feet (47 boxes and 2 flat boxes) and 7.25 linear feet (4 unprocessed flat boxes)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Portrait File (Collection PASC 204). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Portrait File consists primarily of black and white publicity photographs/stills of American actors, actresses, and other motion picture or television creative talent, dating from the early 1920s to the present. The collection represents more than 3000 individuals and includes portrait/head shots and stills from unidentified production projects that may include more than one cast member in the shot.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Portrait File was collection was originally assembled by the UCLA Theatre Arts Library and comes from a variety of unknown sources.
- Processing information:
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Processed by UCLA Library Performing Arts Special Collections staff.
Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
We are committed to providing ethical, inclusive, and anti-racist description of the materials we steward, and to remediating existing description of our materials that contains language that may be offensive or cause harm. We invite you to submit feedback about how our collections are described, and how they could be described more accurately, by filling out the form located on our website: Report Problematic Content and Description in UCLA's library collections and archives.
- Arrangement:
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The files are arranged alphabetically by individual's last name.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Publicity photographs.
Film stills.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Portrait File (Collection PASC 204). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988