Side two of the invitation has the address of Coastlines as well as who they were sending the invitation to. There is a stop in the top right corner and a stamp saying the invitation is being returned to the writer as the recipient moved and left no…
An invitation to the Coastlines party which would have poem readings, music and dancing. Has descriptions of who will read poems, who will be playing music, and directions on how to get to the address.
By the 1950s, polio replaced tuberculosis as the deadliest communicable disease in the United States. The first publicly available vaccine, the Salk Vaccine, was made available to the public by academic institutions such as Cal State LA. Colleges…
Three Black women show their support, having signs with popular slogans used during the 2020 BLM Protests. Among them: “BLM; “Black Lives Matter”; “No Justice No Peace” which was first used in 1986 at the murder of Black Michael Griffith by…
Despite the fact that polio vaccines had been in use for nearly 15 years with great success, a small subset of the population remained skeptical, some going so far as to theorize that their distribution was part of a “Communist plot.”
A combination of workers, first responders, and volunteers scour over ruins of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Sylmar, removing tiles and rubble in search of trapped victims.