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Abolish Cross Filing in California
Papers of the group formed to advocate abolishing the practice in California of candidates cross-filing in elections. John B. Elliot, ChairmanAlphonzo Bell
Alphonzo Bell, a Representative from California; born in Los Angeles, Calif., September 19, 1914; graduated from Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif., in 1938; served in the Army Air Corps, 1942-19Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project
Papers related to the Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project in Los Angeles, California.California Hands Across America
Papers of the California leg of Hands Across America (Roger Carrick, Director). Hands Across America was a benefit event staged on May 25, 1986 in which millions of people held hands for fifteen minutCalifornia Historical Society
On long-term loan from the California Historical Society. Prints and negatives of the TICOR and Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce collections. Manuscript materials from the Los Angeles Area ChambCatherine Stern Collection
The collection contains correspondence, administrative papers, reports, and publications of the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, Community Relations Conference of So. Cal., KCET, theCentury Freeway
Papers related to the planning and building of the Century Freeway in Los Angeles, California.Chet Holifield
Chester Earl Holifield (1903-1995) -- also known as Chet Holifield -- of Montebello, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Mayfield, Graves County, Ky., December 3, 1903. Moved to Montebello in 1920 andChristopher Commission/Independent Commission
Papers of the Christopher Commission. The commission, headed by attorney Warren Christopher (who later became U.S. Secretary of State), was created to conduct "a full and fair examination of the strucCitizens Committee to Save Elysian Park
Founded in 1965 to organize public and official awareness and to raise support to preserve Elysian Park land as public open space, and to develop it for the recreational activities. The mission and efCraig Hosmer
U.S. Congressman (1915 - 1982)David Rose Papers
This collection is comprised of the original artwork of David Rose, renown courtroom sketch artist, and several boxes of his personal research files and clippings. Rose covered the trials of many famEdmund G. Brown, Jr.
Archives of former California Governor Jerry Brown (1936 - )Ernst Matray
Choreographer and director, born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1891, and worked with Max Reinhardt's theater. He came to Hollywood in 1933, where he worked until 1955.Eugene Biscailuz
Los Angeles County Sheriff (1883 - 1969) Under Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz, the LASD became the largest Sheriff’s Department in the world. Biscailuz held the record for longest consecutive service in tF. (Frederick) Oskar Martin Collection
F. Oskar Martin (1871-1951), born in Mittweida, Germany, was a mining engineer and geologist who came to the United States in 1891 after spending several years at sea, and worked in the mines of AlasFrank Lanterman
California Assemblyman (1902 - 1981)Gregory Freeman Stone
Collected materials of the Robert F. Kennedy assassinationHearst Collection - Los Angeles Examiner, Los Angeles Express
Photographs and clippings morgue from the Examiner late 1920s - 1961; negatives from the Examiner 1951 - 1961; bound volumes of the Los Angeles Express 1872 - 1899Homefront
Research, administrative materials, audiotape interviews, and film reels from a project by the USC Department of History for a book and a ninety minute television special for PBS entitled The HomefronHousehold Survey, 1939
In 1939, the Works Progress Administration provided funding for a comprehensive household survey of the Los Angeles area. In the course of the project about 400,000 documents, mostly census cards, werHouston Flournoy
California State ControllerInstitute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty Collection
Consists of publications from the Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart Center, Los AngelesJohn A. Sanborn
Daily journals, 1909-1942, by a longtime Los Angeles resident; letters to the Long Beach newspaper about urban development; photographs and clippings about the Long Beach-Compton earthquake in 1933.John Rousselot
U.S. Congressman (1927 - )K. Garrison Clarke Collection: Scenes of Southern California 1948-1975
Approximately 130 4X5 black and white prints in one binder, and on a CD. Includes images of Los Angeles, Inglewood, Thousand Oaks, and Baja California. Donated by Mr. ClarkeKNXT Channel 2
Press Releases 1961 - 1962Larchmont Chronicle, 1963 - 1995
Los Angeles area newspaper, serving residents of Hancock Park, Windsor Square and the Wilshire DistrictLillian I. Allard Collection of Historic Pictures of California
A collection of approximately 800 vintage post cards of Southern California, arranged geographically in seven scrapbooks. Donated by Mrs. Allard's son, USC alumnus Frank A. Allard.Los Angeles Board of Education
Donated by USC Education Library 1991Los Angeles City Directories, 1888 - 1988
Los Angeles Press Photographers Association
Yearbooks, 1952 -1988Los Angeles Theater
Notes, lists, clippings documenting the history of theater in Los AngelesLos Angeles Union Station Collection
Lynn Schenck
U.S. Congresswoman, 1993-1995, Chief of Staff for Governor Gray Davis, 1999Martin Krieger
Materials from photographic exhibits generated by Dr. Krieger's work and classes in Public Policy.Michael Several Papers
The collection consists of research materials focusing on public art in Los Angeles. The documentation covers public art projects, individual buildings, downtown areas, interviews with artists, and gPaul Christopher Collection of Studio Portraits and Outdoor Scenes Taken by Carl W. Knight, 1920s-1970s
The collection includes black and white prints and negatives of portraits and scenic views of Missouri and Southern California. Donated by former USC University Archivist, Paul ChristopherR.R. Spear Collection
Approximately 30 sketches and blueprints created by Spear of single family dwellings built in the Athens area of South-Central Los Angeles, 1910-1930. Donated by the Morrison FamilyRalph Story's L.A.
130 reels of out-takes. Ralph Story's Los Angeles aired from 1964-1970 on the local CBS affiliate KNXT (now KCBS). Well-written and wittily hosted by Story, the show examined interesting features, eveRobert Reese
Office of Municipal Research, Los AngelesSaunders/Boelsems Collection
Film of Muscle Beach, Santa Monica, shot by Russell M. Saunders, one of the star performers there. He was also a renowned stunt man and doubled for many of Hollywood's most famous actors. During WScribes
Rosters, minutes, by-laws, members' correspondence, 1926-55, from the exclusive newspaperman's club (founded 1897) in Los Angeles.Southern California Rapid Transit
Fiscal and planning documents, special reports of the regional agency, for the period 1967-69.Thomas Rees
U.S. Congressman (1925 - )Union Pacific
Materials related to the Union Pacific Railroad generated in the 40s and 50s as part of the Tidelands controversies, concerning the Los Angeles / Long Beach / Wilmington harbor areas, and documentingWebster Commission Records
Chaired by William Webster, the Webster Commission studied the causes and effects of the April 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest.Whittington Collection
The "Dick" Whittington Studio was the largest and finest photography studio in the Los Angeles area from the mid-1920's to early 1980's. Specializing in commercial photography, the Whittington studioWomen's Suffrage (Amy Ransome Coll.)
National Suffrage Bulletin, 1897-1901; material connected with Sarah Ware Whitney, editor of the Women’s Standard in Waterloo, Iowa; correspondence and organizational material from the Iowa Equal SuffYvonne Brathwaite Burke
U.S. Congresswoman (1932 - ). Perle Yvonne Watson in Los Angeles, Calif., October 5, 1932; B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1953; J.D., University of Southern California School of L
