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San Fernando Valley History Digital Library
An image database of historically significant documents, manuscripts, photographs and related graphic materials from public and private collections in the San Fernando Valley. It provides full, open and equal access to materials demonstrating the socio-economic changes and cultural evolution of the San Fernando Valley from the early 19th century through the end of the 20th century.
IGRA Discography
The International Guitar Research Archive sound recordings collection contains 2,423 78 rpm and 33⅓ rpm phonograph recordings of acoustic guitar performances. The collection was assembled from gifts from the Joseph Smith estate, the Vahdah Olcott-Bickford estate, the Laurindo Almeida estate, John Tanno, and Ronald Purcell. New donations continue to be added. The IGRA discography indexes the composers, performers, album tracks, album titles, record companies, and other publication information for the recordings. The album cover and liner notes are displayed. This project was supported with funds from the Augustine Foundation a non-profit organization devoted to promoting the study and performance of classical guitar.
IGRA Easley Scores Collection
The Easley Collection is unique to the decades of the late1920s up to1950, in California. This time period limited many musical events in public offerings and music education due to the Depression and World War Two. Musicians throughout the world at this time made an inadequate living in teaching, performing and producing music publications. Clarence Easley was one of these musicians.
The Easley Microfilm Collection, donated by Saint Mary’s College of California has forty-three reels (35 mm). With the technical assistance of Dr. Mary Woodley, Collection Development Coordinator, IGRA created an image database that both describes and shows the music in this collection.
C. C. Easley was born in Utica, Nebraska, September 13th, 1885, at 9:00 AM, and christened, Charles Clarence Easley. He moved to San Francisco, California in 1920 to take a job as Court Reporter to the Judicial System. His fascination with the guitar began in 1910 but became more involved when he ordered a Martin guitar directly from the Martin Factory. In an exchange of letters with C.F. Martin, he located the American Guitar Society and Vahdah Olcott-Bickford (VOB). A barrage of letters was exchanged between the two and a friendship was formed that lasted almost 30 years. Clarence, as he was usually called, passed away on October 27, 1960.
Tseng Family Collection of Chinese Antiquities
A collection of Chinese antiquities gifted by Roland Tseng, a Chinese-American entrepreneur, to California State University, Northridge for public display and academic study.
- Guidelines and Standards
- Controlled Vocabulary
- Copyright
- Search the Tseng Family Collection of Chinese Antiquities
In Our Own Backyard: Resisting Nazi Propaganda in Southern California, 1933-1945
A collection based on the 1989 CSUN Urban Archives Center exhibit of the same name. The original exibition was co-sponsored by The Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, the Martyrs Memorial & Museum of the Holocaust, and the CSUN Bibliographic Society. It includes materials contributed by Joseph Roos, UCLA Special Collections, and the California State Archives.
- Guidelines and Standards
- Controlled Vocabulary
- Copyright
- Visit the Online Exhibition
Last updated:
12-Nov-2008
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Northridge 2008
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