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Wienberg (Eric) Collection of Malibu Matchbooks, Postcards, and Ephemera
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Pepperdine University. Special Collections and University Archives.
Title: Eric Wienberg Collection of Malibu Matchbooks, Postcards, and Ephemera
Identifier/Call Number: 0129
Physical Description:
1.68 Linear Feet
(4 Hollinger boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1900-2013
Abstract: The Eric Wienberg Collection of Malibu Matchbooks, Postcards, and Ephemera chronicles the history of business establishments
and sites in Malibu and the surrounding area. The collection covers a period between the late 19th century and the 1980s,
and features matchbook covers, postcards, publications, and ephemera from restaurants, cafes, bars, hotels, motels, stores,
and other businesses from Malibu, Topanga, Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, Culver City, Venice Beach and Catalina Island.
The collection also includes publicity photographs, photojournalistic images, and candid snapshots from life in Malibu and
Southern California.
Container: 1-4
The collection is organized into the following series: 1.Documents/Ephemera, 2.Matchbooks 3.Photographs and 4.Postcards. The
files are separated geographically within series, and ordered first alphabetically.
Eric Wienberg is an avid collector of historical photographs and ephemera related to Southern California
history, particularly Malibu. He donated this collection, which includes matchbook covers, postcards,
photographs, slides, publications and other ephemera to the Pepperdine University Library starting in 2014. It is an ongoing
collection.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was transferred by Eric Wienberg to Special Collections and University Archives starting on June 2, 2014 and
continuing through 2017. It will continue to be updated as items are recieved.
[Box/folder# or item name],Eric Wienberg Collection of Malibu Matchbooks, Postcards, and Ephemera, Collection no. 0129, Special
Collections and University Archives, University Libraries, Pepperdine University.
Collection processed by UCLA Intern Angela Maani in April 2016, under the supervision of Pepperdine University Archivist Kelsey
Knox.
Malibu Times Photographs, Collection no. 0112, Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries, Pepperdine
University.
Lani Netter Collection of Malibu Photographs , Collection no. 0118, Special Collections and University Archives, University
Libraries, Pepperdine University.
Rindge and Adamson Family Papers, Collection no. 0034, Malibu Historical Collection, Special Collections and University Archives,
University Libraries, Pepperdine University.
Elinor Oswald Collection of Southern California Tourism Ephemera, Collection no. 0007, Malibu Historical Collection, Special
Collections and University Archives, University Libraries, Pepperdine University.
The collection consists of matchbooks, postcards, photographs and collectibles dating from the early 1900s up until 2013.
It is arranged alphabetically by series and the files are sorted by subject and geography and put in alphabetical order. Items
are related to the history of business establishments and sites in Malibu and surrounding areas in Southern California; the
one exception is the Cliff House Restaurant Postcards file, which contains postcards from San Francisco, California.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Beaches -- California, Southern
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History
Malibu (Calif.) -- History
Pacific Coast Highway
Santa Monica Bay (Calif.)
Wildfires -- California, Southern
Color slides
Correspondence
Ephemera
Photographs