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There are rare volumes from the Mr. and Mrs. Theodore E.Cummings Collection of Hebraica and Judaica. An example from other acquisitions is the commentary on the Pentateuch by Moses ben Nahman (Nahmanides) printed in Lisbon in 1489, a gift of Dr. Felix Guggenheim. Italian Hebraica is in the Ahmanson-Murphy collections, including many titles from the Bomberg, Soncino, and Adelkind printing houses. There is a collection of miscellaneous 19th century pamphlets and one of 20th century pamphlets of organizations, such as the Jewish Defense League. The Rabbi N. Feldman and Rabbi Hayyim Rosenberg collections contain several hundred individual manuscripts from the 15th through the 19th centuries.
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The Abraham Wolf Collection of Spinoza includes a partial reconstruction of titles from Spinoza's library. There are all original editions of his works and those of many of his contemporaries. There is a collection of first and important editions of Descartes, as well as works about him. The Spinoza and Descartes collections are among the most comprehensive extant. The department has the papers of F.C.S. Schiller, providing resources for the study of Schiller and his contemporaries, including Henri Bergson, John Dewey, and Bertrand Russell. The department also has a microfilm collection of select original papers of Leibniz, including all of the philosopher's unpublished and inaccurately published manuscripts and letters.
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There are early books on science and engineering, printed works and material in various California collections on mining and agriculture, and the papers of Alexander Klemin and Elizabeth Hiatt Gregory on aeronautical history. Among scientists' papers are those of physicist Vern O. Knudsen, and of two Nobel laureates, physicist Julian Schwinger & chemist Willard F. Libby. Dr. Stafford L. Warren's papers concern the Manhattan Project and Operation Crossroads.
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There are papers of writers Paul Monette and Michael Nava. Materials relating to Los Angeles writers Christopher Isherwood, Elisabeth Nonas, and John Rechy can be found in the Rudy Thomas Foley and Dan Luckenbill papers. There is an oral history of Harry Hay, founder in Los Angeles of the Mattachine Society, the first long continuing American gay and lesbian organization. In the papers of Rudi Gernreich are a small amount of papers relating to early Mattachine history, including photographs and a diary.
There are recent papers of Los Angeles activist Morris Kight. Papers of UCLA psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Robert Stoller contain research materials and writings about transgendered persons. Recent lesbian writers, many-such as Terri de la Peņa, Pamela Gray, and Eloise Klein Healy-with connections to UCLA, are represented in the Department's book collections.
These enhance the Department's holdings of importance in the social and cultural history of Los Angeles, to include interrelated materials of persons from ethnic, racial, and other minorities. Collections from LGBT persons place their actions and creativity with other Los Angeles history, as well as showing when, particularly during the early years of liberation, LGBT persons themselves created the context for other events and social change.
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Water resources holdings are linked with agriculture and growth of the region. The papers of Phil Swing, congressman and California state official, and of others who served in public office provide materials on the development of water resources, including Boulder Dam and the California State Water Project. There are papers of UCLA faculty members associated with the University of California Water Resources Center. The department holds the papers of Horace M. Albright, co- founder of the National Park Service and its second director, and also houses his library of printed materials relating to the national parks and conservation.
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Material for the study of the history of photography derives from the Albert Boni collection of books and photographs from the origins of photography to the present. It includes examples of such processes as calotype, cyanotype, and daguerreotype and works by Julia Margaret Cameron, Eadweard Muybridge, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Carleton E. Watkins. Recent photographers include Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Will Connell, Burton Holmes, Barbara Morgan, Otto Rothschild, Brett Weston, and Edward Weston. California is represented also in the work of Adelbert Bartlett, Louis Fleckenstein, Charles F. Lummis, C.C. Pierce, Ernest Pratt, and Henry Hebard West.
For documentary sources, the Department has formed an extensive collection of photographs on southern California from the 1880s to the early 1950s. The Department houses the photographic archive of the Los Angeles Times (1918-1990) and the Los Angeles Daily News (1923-54). There are also collections of late 19th and early 20th century Latin American and Near Eastern photographs.
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Printed works include the Maurice Holmes Collection of Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook, the Francis P. Farquhar Collection of Mountaineering Literature, and Yusuf Kamal's Monumenta Cartographica Africae et Aegypti (Cairo: Published by the author, 1926-51). Map collections include the Stuart de Rothesay Collection, 1715-1840, the Richard C. Rudolph Collection of Japanese maps, 1614-1896, and California and Los Angeles area maps, primarily 1870-1930.
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Material for the study of women is included in many sections of this website. Further description of holdings is provided in an unpublished 1982 listing, "Material on Women in the Numbered Collections Catalog," available in the department. Of particular note are the papers of Georgia Bullock, Los Angeles Superior Court judge; Katherine Philips Edson, California state official and social reformer; Max and Rita Lawrence, entrepreneurs of architectural pottery; Anaïs Nin; Frances Noel, labor organizer and proponent of women's rights and welfare; Ruth St. Denis; and Gertrude Stein. Harriet Rochlin's research collection provides a resource on women architects in America.
Other sources include: the Children's Book Collection, part of which illustrates women's cultural roles and daily life; the Sadleir collection, which contains published work of many women writers in the 19th century and which continues to be supplemented with their manuscripts, letters, and diaries; and the Japanese American Research Project, which includes sociological surveys of Issei, Nisei, and Sansei women.
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