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California clippings collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7001
Abstract



This collection of primarily California-related materials was the provenance of Mrs. Walter K. Towers, with some materials from Berenice Towers. Over the span of more than forty years, they saved clippings, magazines, small publications, maps, and other ephemera chiefly on California with an emphasis on Southern California.

Dates: 1945s-1980s; Majority of material found in 1950s-1960s
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

California Social Welfare Archives agency and miscellaneous records

 Collection
Identifier: 0603
Abstract This collection consists miscellaneous printed materials and related items from agencies and organizations in California that deal with social welfare and social work. More than 400 organizations are represented, though most are only represented by a few items. Entities include state and local government agencies, schools, non-profit groups, and professional social work organizations. The majority of items date from the 1950s-1990s, though there are some materials dating back as early as the...
Dates: Majority of material found within approximately 1910s-1990s
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Chicano and Latino ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0509
Abstract This collection contains various pieces of ephemera and periodical issues related to Latinos, chiefly focused on Chicanos in California from the 1970s to 2000s. Materials include programs, fliers, brochures, clippings, and magazine issues related to various subjects including the Chicano movement, Cesar Chavez and farm labor, community organizing, strikes and boycotts, community organizing, journalism and journalist Ruben Salazar, and cultural events including plays, museum exhibits, and Día...
Dates: 1930s-2006 (bulk 1970s-2000s)
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Collection on conscientious objectors

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6270
Abstract A collection of brochures, newsletters, political questionnaires, pamphlets, position papers, and other material published by a variety of American organizations from throughout the country supporting citizens who claim the right to refuse to perform military service on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion. A portion of the collection includes newspapers published by conscientious objectors (COs) held at internment camps set up by the U.S. government during World War...
Dates: 1939 - 1946
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Lee and Carla-Lee Conti USC Alumni realia and ephemera

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5148
Abstract

USC memorabilia from the estate of Lee Conti (Journalism 1927) and his daughter Carla-Lee Conti (Class of 1956).

Dates: 1909; 1926 - 1929; 1952 - 1956
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Daily Trojan SoCal magazine collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5246
Abstract

This small collection contains eight issues of SoCal, a monthly magazine of the Daily Trojan student newspaper of the University of Southern California, dating from 1977 to 1981. The lifestyle magazine features articles about Los Angeles and Southern California people, culture, venues, and events.

Dates: 1977 - 1981
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

B. Kwaku Duren papers

 Collection
Identifier: 7022
Abstract B. Kwaku Duren is a lawyer and long-time political, social and community activist in the Los Angeles area. He has served various institutions, among them the South-Central Office of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA), the Union of Legal Services Workers of Los Angeles. He served as head of the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party and chairman of the New Panther Vanguard Movement. He was co-editor-in-chief of The Black Panther International News Service. As a...
Dates: 1964 - 2012
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

EPIC News periodicals collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0170
Abstract

This collection consists of 1936-1946 issues of writer, activist, and politician Upton Sinclair's (1878-1968) and the End Poverty League’s publication EPIC News.

Dates: Publication: 1936 - 1946
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Los Angeles Olympics realia and ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 5162
Abstract

This collection consists of realia and ephemera from the 1932 and 1984 Olympic Games, both having taken place in Los Angeles, California.

Dates: 1932; 1984
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Jon Miller papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5134
Abstract

This collection consists of the papers of Jon Miller, a senior research associate and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Southern California.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1960s-1990s
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

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Newspapers 11
Correspondence 9
Photographs 7
Clippings (information artifacts) 6
Magazines (periodicals) 6
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Publications (documents) 6
College student newspapers and periodicals -- California -- Los Angeles 5
Newsletters 5
Reports 5
Books 4
Journals (periodicals) 4
Pamphlets 4
Periodicals 4
Printed ephemera 4
Programs (documents) 4
Schedules (time plans) 4
Student publications -- Archival resources 4
Brochures 3
Directories 3
Ephemera 3
Handbooks 3
Universities and colleges -- Students -- Archival resources 3
Annual reports 2
Bulletins 2
Conference proceedings 2
Grants and funding -- Archival resources 2
Lectures and lecturing -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 2
Maps 2
Mexican Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 2
Minutes (administrative records) 2
Negatives (photographic) 2
Newspaper clippings 2
Olympic Games (23rd : 1984 : Los Angeles, Calif.) 2
Posters 2
Proposals 2
Questionnaires 2
Realia 2
Research (documents) 2
Resumes (Employment) -- Archival resources 2
Transcripts 2
Universities and colleges -- Alumni and alumnae -- Archival resources 2
Universities and colleges -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- Archival resources 2
Universities and colleges -- Faculty -- Archival resources 2
Videotapes 2
Administrative reports 1
Advertising -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 1
Aeronautics 1
Aeronautics -- History -- Archival resources 1
African Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
Agendas (administrative records) 1
Anti-communist movements -- Cuba -- Archival resources 1
Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
Athletic shoes 1
Audiotapes 1
Bibliographies 1
Budgets 1
Buyers' guides 1
Calendars 1
California -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals 1
California -- History -- Periodicals 1
California -- Newspapers 1
California, Southern -- History, Local -- Archival resources 1
Child welfare -- California -- Los Angeles County -- Archival resources 1
Child welfare -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1
Civil rights -- United States -- Archival resources 1
College athletes -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
Comic books, strips, etc. 1
Commemorative medals 1
Community-based social services -- California -- Archival resources 1
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
Contracts 1
Cuba -- History -- Invasion, 1961 -- Archival resources 1
Death Valley National Park (Calif. and Nev.) -- Archival resources 1
Delano (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
Disneyland (Calif.) -- Archival resources 1
Drafts (documents) 1
Essays 1
Exiles -- Cuba -- Archival resources 1
Faculty papers 1
Family social work -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 1
Flags 1
Fund raising -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 1
Guidebooks 1
Hats 1
Hispanic American journalists -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 1
Hispanic Americans -- California -- Archival resources 1
Identity cards 1
Invitations 1
Invoices 1
Journalism and public relations -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 1
Journalists -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
Journals (accounts) 1
Knapsacks 1
Lapel pins 1
Lawyers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 1
Layouts (printed matter) 1
Libraries -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 1
Library administration -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 1
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Newspapers -- Archival resources 1
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- Publications 1
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Language
Spanish; Castilian 3
 
Names
University of Southern California 6
Alpha 66 (Organization) 1
Barrio Defense Committee (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
Black Panther Party 1
Black Panther Party. Southern California Chapter 1
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California Chicano News Media Association 1
California Social Welfare Archives 1
Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993 1
Civilian Public Service 1
Civilian Public Service. Camp (Glendora, Calif.) 1
Conti, Carla-Lee 1
Conti, Lee 1
Daily Trojan 1
Duren, B. Kwaku 1
End Poverty League 1
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles 1
Los Angeles Times (Firm) 1
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund 1
Miller, Jon, 1940- 1
National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America 1
National Service Board for Religious Objectors 1
New Panther Vanguard Movement 1
New York Fellowship of Reconciliation 1
Olympic Games (10th : 1932 : Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
Olympic Games. (23rd : 1984 : Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
Pike, Don 1
Raza Unida Party (Calif.) 1
Robinson, W. W. (William Wilcox), 1891-1972 1
Salazar, Ruben, 1928-1970 1
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 1
Sotomayor, Frank 1
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.). University of Southern California chapter 1
Talleda, Miguel Luis (1919-2017) 1
Towers, Berenice 1
Towers, Walter K. (Mrs.) 1
University of Southern California. Library 1
War Resisters League 1
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