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Filipino American Library collection
Collection
Identifier: 6235
Abstract
The Filipino American Library collection consists of materials owned by the Filipino American Library in Historic Filipinotown that were transferred to the University of Southern California Special Collections in 2017. The collection is currently divided into two categories: (i) digitized material and (ii) minimally processed material. The digitized material consists of lantern slides, bound volumes, photographic prints, maps, and other materials that the USC Digital Library digitized and...
Dates:
1910 - 2015
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Foley and Sepulveda family papers
Collection
Identifier: 7042
Abstract
The Foley and Sepulveda family papers consists of letters, diaries, photographs, photograph albums, books, legal documents and ephemera, 1850-1953 and undated, created and collected by various members of the Sepulveda and Foley families. The bulk of the collection consists of materials created and collected by William I. (W.I.) Foley and his daughter Viola Lillian Foley Morrow. Also included are some items from Foley's wife Sara Dolores Sepulveda, their children Zoraya, Rupert, and Elsa...
Dates:
1850-1953, undated
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Osborne-Montague family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0190
Abstract
The Osborne-Montague family papers contains the papers of multiple generations of the Osborne and Montague families, as well as of the families they married into (primarily the Tingstads and the Caleffs). Rodney Montague moved to Los Angeles in 1853, while Henry Zenas Osborne moved to the area in 1878. Montague was a farmer; Osborne owned the Los Angeles Evening Express and was a Congressman for California's 10th Congressional District from 1917 until his death in 1923. His son, Henry...
Dates:
1847 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1945
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Flora Elise Robinson scrapbook and photograph album
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5337
Abstract
The Flora Elise Robinson scrapbook and photograph album consists of a scrapbook covering the years 1906-1910 and a photograph album covering the years 1907-1910, and miscellaneous USC-related printed ephemera, dating from the 1890s. The materials document Mr. Robinson's years as a student at USC.
Dates:
1893-1910
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Keith Royer collection on Southern California scootering and youth subculture
Collection
Identifier: 7139
Abstract
The Keith Royer collection on Southern California scootering and youth subculture documents several decades of vintage scooter culture and the diverse aspects of the subculture as it relates to music, fashion, politics, and youth communities. Keith Royer has been a scooter rider, collector, and bike mechanic since the mid-1980s and a patched club member of the Pharaohs Scooter Club of San Diego since 1995. The Pharaohs Scooter Cult was formed on December 23, 1993 at Hill Street Coffee House...
Dates:
1985 - 2022
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Dorothy and Eugene Tubbesing USC football memorabilia collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5364
Abstract
A collection of USC football memorabilia and keepsakes, along with two photograph albums, assembled by Dorothy and Eugene Tubbesing. Items in the collection include a football signed by the USC 1989 team at the Rose Bowl, USC/Notre Dame "Fight is on" bourbon glasses, Christmas ornaments, game day pins, and a photograph album documenting a 1998 USC Trojan Marching Band trip to Spain and Portugal. Dorothy Ann Rounsavell graduated from USC in the late 1940s and married Eugene J. Tubbesing in...
Dates:
1949 - 1998
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Albert B. Ulrey and Florence Speicher Ulrey papers
Collection
Identifier: 0258
Abstract
Letters, ephemera, notes, and pamphlets created and collected by USC Professor of Botany and Zoology Albert B. Ulrey, and his wife, USC alumna Florence Speicher Ulrey, documenting aspects of the history of USC and Ulrey's teaching and scientific research interests.
Dates:
1891-1959, undated
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Willa Mae West papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7112
Abstract
A collection of photographs and ephemera spanning nearly 50 years of the life of Willa Mae West, an active participant and leader in many African American social organizations in the Los Angeles area. West served as a national officer for the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World (IBPOEW), acting as Grand Directress of the Arts and Crafts Department. West also served as a Chaplain Major for her local chapter of IBPOEW, as a member of the Crenshaw Committee on Aging,...
Dates:
1920 - 1980
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Annabelle Yerigan Foursquare Church album
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7154
Abstract
The Annabelle Yerigan Foursquare Church album is a photograph and memory book created by Annabelle Yerigan (1902-1975), an ordained minister of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. An Evangelical Pentecostal Christian church founded by Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944) in Los Angeles, the Foursquare Church is credited by some as the first megachurch. McPherson used radio broadcasts to draw in large audiences and donations to Foursquare Church events and services. In 1938,...
Dates:
1933 - 1943
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections