The Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" collection provides a broad overview of printed material from the 1780s through 1949. Gathered by book collector Mavis Eggle, the collection serves as a social history of books, newspapers, and ephemera. Physical characteristics of the books include a variety of printer's marks, publishers' bindings, bookplates, and early subscription libraries. The collection's titles are a diverse and creative gathering of poetry, children' literature, religious texts, broadsides, newspapers, and popular fiction. Together, the items in the Mavis Eggle "Books as They Were Bought" collection illustrate changes in literature, printing and publishing, advertising, and book history over a time period of more than 170 years.
Archival Collection
Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr. dancing onstage during a Four Immortal Chaplains benefit at the Las Vegas Convention Center on February 7, 1960.
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Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford and Dean Martin grabbing for the microphone onstage during a Four Immortal Chaplains benefit at the Las Vegas Convention Center on February 7, 1960
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