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All Nations Foundation Child Welfare Clinic photograph album

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7156
Abstract A photograph album from 1935 showing the work of the Child Welfare Clinic, a project of the Los Angeles-based All Nations Foundation, then one of the largest non-governmental social welfare organizations in Los Angeles. The All Nations Foundation, founded in 1918, purchased land and buildings and equipped gymnasiums, playgrounds, libraries, and medical clinics in East Los Angeles for a community where three-fourths of the families were on public assistance. The album also documents a...
Dates: 1935

American Photo Company Cuba photograph album

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0598
Abstract Photograph album consisting of 27 black and white silver prints, each approximately 8 x 10", of Cuba. Scenes include landscapes, city scapes, and genre scenes. Each photograph is accompanied by a glassine leaf with typed photo descriptions. Of particular note are photographs of both the sinking and raising of the USS Maine. Also includes a poem written by Irene Wright, who may have been the owner of the album. Wright was an American historian who spent time in Havana as a writer for the...
Dates: circa 1911

Thelma Becker papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7162
Scope and Contents The Thelma Becker papers consist of photographs, correspondence, press releases, newspaper articles, personal cards, and other material belonging to the Los Angeles businesswoman and resident of the Biltmore Hotel, Thelma Jane Becker (1913-2004). Becker moved to Los Angeles from New York in 1940 to establish retail partners in western states for Barbizon, a company that manufactured fabrics and sold dress slips. As soon as she arrived, Becker took up residence in the landmark Biltmore Hotel...
Dates: 1970 - 1995

Maceo Braxton, Jr. family photograph album

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7109
Abstract An album of family portraits and other material assembled at the time of Maceo Braxton, Jr.'s graduation from West Point in 1974. The more than 40 photographs in the album prominently feature Braxton (1953-2008)--a Black physician and military officer--as well as his parents, Maceo Braxton, Sr. (1922-1997) and Bernice Maiflorence Braxton (1924-2013), and his four siblings in their Los Angeles home. Many of the portraits feature Braxton's mother, Bernice, who worked at the University of...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1974; 1944; 1980

California family photograph album

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7098
Abstract A photograph album of an unidentified family in California with snapshots of various people and places taken circa 1900-1905. Places pictured include Sierra Madre, Alhambra, Pasadena, Santa Monica, Laurel Canyon, Redwood City, San Francisco, the Cliff House (San Francisco), Westlake Park (now MacArthur Park), and "E.B.B. Pasadena Home." Most of the handwritten captions in the album that indicate names are illegible and/or first-name-only, but some names are still legible: Helen Douglass,...
Dates: 1900 - 1905

Milton Carlson papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7110
Abstract

A collection of scrapbooks, notebooks, photographs, photograph albums, ledgers, postcards, and court transcripts and testimonies from Milton Carlson. Carlson was a criminologist and handwriting expert.

Dates: 1896 - 1918

Death Valley Scotty photograph album

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7146
Scope and Contents A bound leather album containing fifty five black and white photographs of a location in Death Valley, California, known as Scotty's Castle. Scotty's Castle was named after Walter Scott (1872-1954), better known as Death Valley Scotty, who was one of the area's best known and most colorful characters. The album includes both exterior and interior shots of Scotty's Castle (including shots of Scotty's personal living quarters -- his bed, a wall of his hats, the photographs on his walls); views...
Dates: circa 1930s-1940s

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

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

Collection of German cigarette cards on famous dancers of the world

 Collection
Identifier: 6214
Abstract Five albums of promotional sets of cigarette cards featuring pictures and text on famous dancers of the world, published by German cigarette companies in the 1930s. The contents of these albums were issued as collector's cards and distributed with cigarette packages from three companies: Orami and Eckstein-Halpaus--both in Dresden--and Garbáty in Berlin. Two of the albums are part of a series: "Berühmte Tänzerinnen und Tänzer" (Famous Dancers), published by Cigarettenfabrik Orami with...
Dates: 1930 - 1935

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Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America 1
Becker, Thelma Jane (1913-2004) 1
Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
Braxton, Bernice Maiflorence Tuggle 1
Braxton, Maceo, Jr. 1
Braxton, Maceo, Sr. 1
Brown, Helen Agcaoili Summers 1
California Congress of Parents, Teachers, and Students, Inc. 1
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 1
Carlson, Milton 1
Child Welfare Clinic 1
Cigarettenfabrik Orami 1
Collin, Helene Montague 1
Comfort, Mary Apolline 1
DuVall, Everett W. 1
Eckstein-Halpaus 1
Filipino American Library (FAL) 1
Foley family 1
Foley, Elsa Zelinda 1
Foley, Sara Dolores Sepulveda 1
Foley, Zoraya Filema 1
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006 1
Frasher, Burton (1888-1955) 1
Garbáty Cigarettenfabrik 1
Hammer, Armand, 1898-1900 1
Hearst Corporation 1
Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951 1
Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World 1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel 1
Johnson, Albert M., 1872-1948 1
Johnson, Arlien 1
Johnson, Bessie M. 1
Larrinaga, Isabelle 1
Larrinaga, Mario 1
Larrinaga, Norma Fae 1
Los Angeles (Calif.). Board of Public Utilities 1
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce 1
Los Angeles Examiner 1
McCroskey, Pearl 1
McElmurry, Charles O. 1
McKibben, Robert A. (Robert Anderson) 1
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 1
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Montague, Rodney 1
Morgan, Julia, 1872-1957 1
Morrow Aircraft Corporation 1
Morrow, Bernard 1
Morrow, Viola Lillian Foley 1
Morrow, Zelinda 1
Nicholson, Grace, -1948 1
Olympic Games. (10th : 1932 : Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
Osborne, Clarence B. (Clarence Bristol) 1
Osborne, Helen Annas 1
Osborne, Henry Zenas, 1848-1923 1
Osborne, Henry Zenas, Jr. 1
Osborne, Lilian Montague 1
Osborne, Raymond G. (Raymond Gaylord) 1
Osborne, Sherrill B. (Sherill Blaisdell) 1
Osborne, William Montague 1
Pacific Asia Museum 1
Pacific Southwest Airlines 1
Pharaohs Scooter Club 1
Rodriguez, Yolanda 1
Rose, Henry Howard, 1856-1923 1
Rostropovich, Mstislav, 1927-2007 1
Royer, Keith 1
Salinas (Calif.). Chamber of Commerce 1
Schneider, Stella Montague 1
Scott, Walter E., 1872-1954 1
Scotty's Castle (Calif.) 1
Sennecke, Robert 1
Sepulveda family 1
Sepulveda, Jose Dolores de Jesus 1
Sierra Club 1
Stanford University. School of Engineering 1
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Talleda, Miguel Luis (1919-2017) 1
Tingstad, Hortense Marie Osborne 1
Tournament of Roses 1
Tubbesing, Dorothy Ann 1
Tubbesing, Eugene J. 1
United States Military Academy 1
University Club of Los Angeles 1
University of Southern California 1
University of Southern California. School of Social Work 1
University of Southern California. Trojan Marching Band 1
Vincent, Art 1
Vrba, Thomas Joseph, 1921-1948 1
West, Willa Mae 1
Wilson Aero Corp. 1
Women's University Club, Los Angeles 1
Wright, Irene Aloha, 1879-1972 1
Yerigan, Annabelle (1902-1975) 1
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