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Fae Lenaire Sutton papers (Collection)
Collection
Identifier: LH-2016-06
Scope and Contents
The Fae Lenaire Sutton Collection is composed mostly of documents regarding the ownership, transfer, and sale of property in Southern California. This collection also includes personal family photos, and
family documents that trace back to the late 19th century. Items include deeds, contracts, legal correspondence, and photographs. The strength of this collection is found within the real estate
documents, and highlights the complexity of managing property in the 20th century. On...
Dates:
1880 - 1990
Fairfax Proudfit Walkup Theatre (Collection)
Collection
Identifier: SC-10
Scope and Contents note
Dr. Fairfax Proudfit Walkup was a professor in the Theater Department at California State University, Fullerton. She was a former Director and Dean of Instruction of the Pasadena Playhouse. Her expertise was in costume and set design and she also was a playwright. Originally from a prominent family in Tennessee she attended Vassar College class of 1908. After W.W. I she and her son came to California. The collection consists of books, periodicals, manuscripts, correspondence, teaching...
Dates:
1887-1976; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1976
Fine Arts Press Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-47
Scope and Contents note
Fine Arts Press in Santa Ana California at the Santa Ana High School and later Santa Ana Junior College print shop under the direction of Mr. Thomas Williams the press advisor circa 1930-1950s. This press was the only fine printing effort in Orange County during this time period. Contains 67 volumes.
For a complete list use OPAC to find [Local collection] Fine Arts Press Collection (Special Collections).
Dates:
1931-1948
FIVB (Federation Internationale de Volleyball) poster: France contre Tchecoslovaquie (France vs. Czechoslovakia)
Item — Flat file drawer: A-20
Identifier: SC-2022-09
Foothill Groves, Inc. records (Collection)
Collection
Identifier: LH-CA-5
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents pertaining to Foothill Groves, Inc. operations, two meeting minute books that cover the years 1914-1929.The strength of this collection lies in its documents, particularly ones regarding agreements Foothill Groves made with other companies. Especially noteworthy are agreements with the Pacific Electric Railway, and with the Yorba Linda Co-op Fruit Association, both of which shed light on regular business practices in the citrus industry during...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1914 - 1929
Foreign Trade Bindings Books Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-11
Scope and Contents Note
The Foreign Trade Bindings Books Collection consists of books published in countries other than the United States circa mid-19th Century through 1940 which have highly decorated, illustrated cloth bindings.
Dates:
1870-1940; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1940
Willis E. McNelly Science Fiction Collection: Frank Herbert papers (Collection)
Collection
Identifier: SC-06-FH
Abstract
The Willis E. McNelly Science Fiction Collection: Frank Herbert papers (1950-1986) consists of 91 boxes of materials documenting the life and work of science fiction author Frank Herbert. Best known for his Dune series, Herbert was also a journalist, photographer, and educator whose interests in ecology, politics, and human adaptation to environmental challenges deeply influenced his fiction. This comprehensive collection contains manuscripts and working papers for his short stories, novels,...
Dates:
1950 - 1986
Archives of Popular Culture: Fred Guiol screenplays (Collection)
Collection
Identifier: APC-2022-11
Scope and Contents note
The Fred Guiol Screenplay Collection is composed of screenplays that Mr. Guiol wrote and co-wrote during a long career at Hal Roach Studio and RKO Studio. They ranged from Laurel and Hardy silent films to Giant, and the 1959 film, Diary of Anne Frank. The collection contains a small number of paperback books on which the films were based.
Dates:
1920-1960; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1945
Frederick and Patricia Shroyer Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Collection.
Collection
Identifier: SC-15
Scope and Contents note
The Frederick and Patricia Shroyer Science Fiction, and Fantasy Book Collection consists of late 19th Century to 20th Century genre fiction, 1890 to 1950 and thirty-one periodical titles from 1897 to 1909. Dr. Fredrick Shroyer was a professor at California State University, Los Angeles who donated his collection in 1981. He collected all significant authors from 1890 to 1950 in both genres. A separate gift at a later date was 360 short stories from the 1920s and 1930s in the form of...
Dates:
1890-1950; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1950
Frederick Faust Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-70
Scope and Contents note
The Frederick Faust Collection consists of published pulp novels by the author best known by the pen name of "Max Brand". The author lived from 1892-1944. In addition to the Western genre Mr. Faust wrote the Dr. Kildare medical series which were made into films in the late 1930s and early-mid 1940s at MGM Studios and in the early 1960s was a television series with Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey. There are 161 volumes in this collection and they are fully cataloged on the...
Dates:
1919-1979; Majority of material found within 1919 - 1979