Collection context
Summary
- Extent:
- 58.5 Linear Feet (118 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], United States Ephemera Collection (Collection 609). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of broadsides, clippings, brochures and other ephemeral material relating to the U.S., except for material on California and of the Southwest, which are in two separate collections. Subjects include Alaska, William Cullen Bryant, Richard Henry Dana, Eugene V. Debs, dime novels, Mary Baker Eddy, William Faulkner, Freemasons, Jesse James, Martin Luther King, Mexicans in the US, National Wildlife Foundation, and John Greenleaf Whittier.
- Processing information:
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Processed by by UCLA Library Special Collections staff. Additions processed by Lilace Hatayama, 2011.
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 Potentially Offensive Description in Library Special Collections.
- Arrangement:
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Collection is arranged alphabetically by subject.
- 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:
- Ephemera -- United States.
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], United States Ephemera Collection (Collection 609). 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