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Spanish Language Art Postcard Collection
SPC.2024.009
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Contributing Institution:
California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
Title: Spanish Language Art Postcard Collection
Identifier/Call Number: SPC.2024.009
Physical Description:
1 box
(one notebook; ten loose postcards)
Date (inclusive): 1939-1940; undated
Language of Material:
Spanish; Castilian
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Container: 1
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Vada and her husband, Geo, lived in the Los Angeles region during the 1940s. Vada attended school during this time, and she
states that the purpose of her Spanish postcards was to practice her Spanish grammar. She listened to Spanish radio shows
to help her learn. Vada wrote about watching films such as Wuthering Heights, Alexander Graham Bell, and Pygmalion. Vada also
described her daily life, mentioning her husband and cats in her correspondence.
The Spanish Language Art Postcard collection (1939-1940; undated) contains one box and 0.21 linear ft. of material belonging
to A.M. Lawton, possibly named Alice May Lawton. The majority of the collection contains postcards in a notebook sent to
A.M. Lawton, who lives in San Francisco, from a woman named Vada, who lived in Los Angeles. The postcards contain art from
Vada, and her day-to-day life inspired the majority of her drawings. Vada drew in pencil and outlined with bright colored
pens relating to outdoor scenery, many doors, people she knew named "Juan and Juanito," several churches and people going
to church, gardens, and portraits of herself and friends that resemble Spanish folk art. The cover and back of the leather
notebook contains images of the Florentine Codex. The back cover also contains a note stating it is a notebook for Spanish
lectures.
Processed by Jocelyn De Avila on April 5, 2024.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
San Francisco (Calif.)
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Mexican American folk art