Big Little Books Collection
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Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
2016
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Title: Big Little Books Collection
Dates: 1935-1939
Collection Number: GC 1372
Creator/Collector:
Extent: (Boxes: 1 letter; 1/2 letter)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, California 90007-4057
Abstract: Eight books including several photoplay books, commonly known as Big Little Books.
Language of Material: English
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Big Little Books Collection. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Scope and Content of Collection
Eight books including several photoplay books, commonly known as Big Little Books. Seven books published by Whitman Publishing
Company, Racine, Wisconsin: Powder Smoke Range (1935); Silver Streak (1935); Popeye in Quest of His Poopkeck Pappy (1937);
Cowboy Lingo (1938); Dan Dunn Secret Operative 48 and the Border Smugglers (1938); Tim Tyler's Luck and the Plot of the Exiled
King (1939); and Wells Fargo (no date) (pages missing through page 6). One book published by Saalfield Publishing Co., New
York: Shirley Temple with Lionel Barrymore in The Little Colonel, [1935].
Photoplay editions