UCLA’s Young Research Library maintains a great collection of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of the metropolitan Los Angeles area, including Venice, San Pedro, Culver City, and North Hollywood. From about the 1870s until the 1970s, the Sanborn Company was one of a few companies that specialized in producing fire insurance maps for the purpose of [...]
The neatline on a map is: “A border drawn around a map to enclose the legend, scale, title, geographic features, and any other information pertinent to the map, often showing tick marks that indicate intervals of distance. On a standard quadrangle map, the neatlines are the meridians and parallels delimiting the quadrangle.” Citation The ERSI [...]
Here was a challenging reference question I received at the Young Research Library reference desk that was ultimately solved by a couple of my colleagues. A patron was looking for a transcript of a debate that took place in the British Parliament in 1937 about, as the patron asked, whether any black representatives would be [...]
According to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2004), these were some of the common slang terms used in popular soda fountains and diners in the 1930s and 1940s. Some of these slang words don’t sound that appetizing, but it sure would be fun to order things like cackle berries with squeal [...]
The martini was first mentioned in O.H. Byron’s The Modern Bartender’s Guide, published in New York in 1884. A martini is a cocktail made of gin or vodka and vermouth, with a dash of bitters. The origin of the name is in dispute. Byron called the drink a “Martinez” and described it as a Manhattan [...]
Top
Facebook
LinkedIn
Myspace
Twitter
RSS