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  • Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist

    Visual Materials

    Image of a central image a boy about to hit another boy who lies on the ground below him but is being held back by a maid in a kitchen area, while another servant looks on at the fighting, captioned “Oliver plucks up a spirit”; with a top-left vignette of a boy on his knees pleading before a magistrate while a group of lawyers look on, disinterested, captioned “Oliver escapes from the sweep”; and a bottom-right vignette of a young boy asking for more gruel from a male cook while other boys sitting on benches at a dining table look on fearfully, and a woman stands in background; the poster depicts scenes form “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens.

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  • Oliver Twist : Nancy Sikes

    Oliver Twist : Nancy Sikes

    Visual Materials

    Image of a full-length portrait of the character Nancy Sikes, a young, poor woman who stands on docks of a wharf next to a barrel and rope, with a view of London buildings, the river, and ships behind her; the title has a geometric black and white line background; the poster depicts a character from “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens.

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    Employees - Ainsworth, Ed

    Manuscripts

    5 items: letter (in plastic sleeve), 2/9/1962, from Allan Hancock to Ed Ainsworth, thanking him for a copy of The California I Love by Leo Carrillo (in collaboration with Ainsworth); article copy from "Keeping up with The Times," 6/2/1967, on Ed Ainsworth; copy of Ainsworth's final LAT column ("On the Move"), 6/6/1967, "Time arrives for farewell";copy of LAT obit, "Ed Ainsworth, retired Times columnist, dies in San Diego"; clip of Among Ourselves obit, 7/1968, "Death takes Ed Ainsworth, Timesman for 43 years."

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    To a Young Italian Lady: poem

    Manuscripts

    A signed, autograph seven stanza poem, with typewritten transcription. Also included in the volume are six autograph letters, with typewritten transcriptions, from Ainsworth to various addressees and two black and white engravings of Ainsworth.

    mssHM 14981-14987

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    Jeny Jumper's Chaunt: a ballad

    Manuscripts

    An autograph ballad, or flash song, in six stanzas, with corrections and a typewritten transcription. Also included in the volume is the poem "Henley" (1827), seventeen autograph letters, with typewritten transcriptions, from Ainsworth to various addressees, a signed, black and white photograph (1857), and three black and white engravings of Ainsworth.

    mssHM 14961-14980