Tucked away in the George Pepperdine Collection is a gem of a magazine—a single issue of Secrets of Charm, a short-lived, Los Angeles-based women’s monthly magazine from 1924. The magazine’s tagline is “Devoted to the woman who thinks,” and features in this issue include columns on society, health, relationships, child rearing, beauty tips, and a [...]
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Thanksgiving literature display @ WLA
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Have a look at some vaguely yet humorously Thanksgiving themed finds collected by WLA’s Information Studies intern, Caprice Roberson, from the library databases on display at the WLA Campus library. Read about the 1918 legal case filed against the Sterne & Son Company for providing the defendant with inferior quality turkeys. Take the Thanksgiving Quiz [...]
Just in Time for Thanksgiving
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
The Irvine library was notified that a favorite juvenile book was missing from the Payson library: Pardon that Turkey: How Thanksgiving Became a Holiday, by Susan Sloate, illustrated by Christian Slade. [Dewey 394.2649.S634p] After an intensive search, this treasured story about Thanksgiving was discovered to be on our juvenile bookshelf. The book became our acquisition just [...]
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