Colophon

Windbags of America, published by PM Magazine on November 3,...

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:30:35 -0700

Windbags of America, published by PM Magazine on November 3, 1941, Dr. Seuss Collection, MSS 230

Santa Catalina Island, circa 1910 Catalog record

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:30:33 -0700

Santa Catalina Island, circa 1910

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Summer days on California shores / Southern Pacific,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:30:20 -0700

Summer days on California shores / Southern Pacific, 1902

Catalog Record

UCSD Commencement Exercises, 1967, Robert Glasheen Photograph...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:06:11 -0700

UCSD Commencement Exercises, 1967, Robert Glasheen Photograph Collection, MSS 154

Report of the Water Committee to the Board of Directors of the...

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:30:23 -0700

Report of the Water Committee to the Board of Directors of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, May 15, 1916 : subject : water resources of San Diego County

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Mémoire justificatif sur les evénemens arrivés à Nismes les 16,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:30:30 -0700

Mémoire justificatif sur les evénemens arrivés à Nismes les 16, 17 juillet 1815 et jours suivans / présenté à Sa Majesté Louis XVIII par MM. les officiers de la Garde royale et des troupes composant la garnison de la ville de Nismes

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Flit advertisement, between 1930 and 1940, Dr. Seuss Collection,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:30:31 -0700

Flit advertisement, between 1930 and 1940, Dr. Seuss Collection, MSS 230

Boleo Mining Company mill in Santa Rosalía, Mexico, February,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:30:18 -0700

Boleo Mining Company mill in Santa Rosalía, Mexico, February, 1967, Harry Crosby Collection, MSS 333

Ensenada, Mexico, March 1, 1958, Howard E. Gulick Papers, MSS 91

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:30:21 -0700

Ensenada, Mexico, March 1, 1958, Howard E. Gulick Papers, MSS 91

Young boy carrying goat at Rancho Represito, March, 1967, Harry...

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:30:29 -0700

Young boy carrying goat at Rancho Represito, March, 1967, Harry Crosby Collection, MSS 333

Taco vendor in Tijuana, Mexico, catching up on the day’s...

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:30:33 -0700

Taco vendor in Tijuana, Mexico, catching up on the day’s news until the next customer shows up, June, 1964, Harry Crosby Collection, MSS 333.

Pueblo lands of San Diego : exceptions : arguments in...

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:30:35 -0700

Pueblo lands of San Diego : exceptions : arguments in favor of the Fitch map and survey, C.P. Taggart, counsel for the City, 1869

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[Aerial view of Tijuana], circa 1943

Sat, 11 May 2013 09:30:31 -0700

[Aerial view of Tijuana], circa 1943

A. Hitler Taxidermist, published by PM Magazine on June 25,...

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:30:19 -0700

A. Hitler Taxidermist, published by PM Magazine on June 25, 1941, Dr. Seuss Collection, MSS 230

Linocut Title: Untitled Artist: Unknown Date: 1938 From our...

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:30:31 -0700

Linocut

Title: Untitled

Artist: Unknown

Date: 1938

From our exhibit: Lampooning the Right: Caricatures and Political Cartoons of the Spanish Second Republic and Civil War

December 1936MadridAssociated Press of Great Britain Ltd. A...

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:30:43 -0700

December 1936
Madrid
Associated Press of Great Britain Ltd.

A CITY OF BOMB-SHATTERED BUILDINGS. — Photo shows a view of a Madrid street which shows vividly the destruction which is going on. A wrecked building is seen in foreground; workmen are attempting to clear the street of some of the debris which has fallen from houses shattered by junta bombs.

From our online exhibit: Shots of War

Child’s drawing from the Spanish Civil War Recto: ...

Tue, 07 May 2013 09:30:00 -0700

Child’s drawing from the Spanish Civil War

Recto: [Bombardment of the population of Madrid by the fascist airforce]. Verso: Rafael Cerrillo Dobal, Colonia Escolar German Araudo, Alcañiz Teruel Edad 13 años [Rafael Cerrillo Dobal, Student Camp German Araudo, Alcañiz Teruel Age 13 years].

From our online exhibit: They Still Draw Pictures

Izquierda Republicana. Defiende la pequeña propiedad. Pena de...

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:30:32 -0700

Izquierda Republicana. Defiende la pequeña propiedad. Pena de muerte al ladrón

[Republican Left. Defend small private property. Death penalty to the thief].Signed: V. Petit Alandi. Junta Municipal. Delegación de Propaganda. Valencia. Lit.: S. Dura, Socializada U.G.T. C.N.T. Valencia. Lithograph, many colors; 160 x 108 cm.

S. Dura, a Valencian lithography firm jointly collectivized by the CNT and the UGT, published this poster for Izquierda Republicana (the Republican Left Party), probably in the summer of 1937. At that time, the Republican Left Party, led by Manuel Azaña, had become frustrated with the problem of theft and joined others in the loyalist zone in calling for more severe punishments against those who stole foodstuffs or disrupted Republican trade. This scene portrays a Valencian peasant or sharecropper holding a Republican flag and sounding an alarm with a giant conch. The figure is essentially a vigilant sentry who has spotted some undesirables (lower right) stealing armfuls of grain. Upon sounding his alarm, other peasants or small landowners (lower left) react violently as they impose their vigilante justice on the thieves. The homes in the far center-left background of the poster are barracas, rustic adobe lodgings common in the province of Valencia.

The political party Izquierda Republicana was formed in the fall of 1934, when Manuel Azaña fused his Acción Republicana with other moderate parties to create a large coalition of like-minded Republicans seeking to regain political power. Izquierda Republicanawas the driving force behind the Popular Front coalition, which included the Socialists and Communists, united to curb the advance of the “fascist” right. The Popular Front was able to slimly defeat the conservative coalition in the national elections of 1936, and Izquierda Republicana secured 106 seats in Parliament, second only to the Socialists.

Theft of agrarian products, among other valuables, was a significant problem at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, and the problem became worse as the war progressed. The food scarcity was exacerbated by constant warfare, and the rapid advances of the Nationalist army forced soldiers and refugees to help themselves to farmland foods. One Valencian collective sent the following complaint to the Minister of Agriculture on November 29, 1937:

[Soldiers and refugees] take whatever they want, break branches, strip our trees, break into and disturb our plantations, etc. Our nut crop has disappeared at their hands, the same is true of our pomegranates. They take vegetables, olives, yank out potatoes from the earth without letting them mature to a proper age and weight, and the oranges have disappeared from trees. We have an anguishing, exhausting, and frustrating situation on our hands.

Posters like this were one way that the Republican left tried to deal with the thefts.

From our online exhibit: The Visual Front

National Broadcasting Company Vital Spots advertisement, between...

Fri, 03 May 2013 09:30:25 -0700

National Broadcasting Company Vital Spots advertisement, between 1930 and 1940, Dr. Seuss Collection, MSS 230

New Writing Series reading with Evan Lavender-Smith and Carmen...

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:30:41 -0700

New Writing Series reading with Evan Lavender-Smith and Carmen Giménez Smith, recorded May 1, 2013

Evan Lavender-Smith was born in Iowa in 1977. He attended the University of California at Berkeley and New Mexico State University. He is the author of From Old Notebooks (Blazevox, 2010) and Avatar (Six Gallery Press, 2011), Editor-In-Chief of Noemi Press, and Prose and Drama Editor of Puerto Del Sol. His writing has recently appeared in Fence, No Colony, Post Road, and Evergreen Review. He is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at New Mexico State University. He Lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds, four poetry collections— Milk and Filth, Goodbye, Flicker, The City She Was, and Odalisque in Pieces. She is the recipient of a 2011 American Book Award, the 2011 Juniper Prize for Poetry, and a 2011-2012 fellowship in creative nonfiction from the Howard Foundation. Formerly a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she now teaches in the creative writing programs at New Mexico State University, while serving as the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Puerto del Sol and the publisher of Noemi Press.