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Community Relations Conference of Southern California records
Collection
Identifier: 0401
Abstract
The records of the Community Relations Conference include full minutes for the first ten annual meetings, with executive committee, board of directors and delegate assembly minutes covering the following 31 years. Correspondence files for successive executive directors of the Conference display the range of their influential acquaintance, and their skill and patience in advocacy and mediation. Correspondence with well known figures, particularly in liberal or left wing circles of the era,...
Dates:
1947 - 1991
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Company Theatre records
Collection
Identifier: 7106
Abstract
The Company Theatre records document the activities and history of the Company Theatre, an experimental, groundbreaking theater company founded in Los Angeles in 1967. Several USC students and graduates were among the Company Theatre's founding members, including Steven Kent and Gar Campbell. The Company Theatre remained active until around 1972, at which time its descendent, the ProVisional Theatre, commenced its decade-long run involving many of the same artists. The collection includes...
Dates:
1967 - 1982
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Connie Conaway letters
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7014
Abstract
Letters and postcards from Corporal Art Harm to Connie (Vernacaleen) Conaway (Haught). Although primarily love letters, the letters and postcards also contain details about Corporal Harm's basic training at Fort Murphy, Florida. The letters begin in May 1943 and end in September 1943. Also included is a photograph of Corporal Harm, inscribed to Connie and dated June 22, 1943; a telegram; and a letter from Cyrus Lounsbury. Connie was born in Oklahoma, but was living in Los Angeles by 1943....
Dates:
1943 - 1945
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Elizabeth Corbett papers
Collection
Identifier: 0148
Abstract
Correspondence between novelist Elizabeth Corbett (b. 1887, Aurora, Ill., d. 1981, New York, NY) and Laura Burmeister; includes typescript poems.
Dates:
1952 - 1969
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Correspondence collection
Collection
Identifier: 6196
Abstract
This artificial collection was created by former USC librarians. It contains letters and related ephemeral material created by a wide variety of primarily American men and women of letters. Many of these are addressed to various University librarians--including Lloyd Arvidsen, Lewis Steig, Charlotte Brown and Christian Dick--and former USC President Rufus von KleinSmid. In addition to this set of letters, which make up the bulk of the collection and were seemingly saved for their autograph...
Dates:
1851-1979
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Julio Cortázar correspondence
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0532
Abstract
This small collection contains approximately 30 handwritten and typescript letters in Spanish from Argentine-French writer Julio Cortázar (1914-1984), dating between 1950 and 1960. Recipients include Alberto M. Salas and Dorita and Jorge Vila Ortiz.
Dates:
1950 - 1960
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Coulter Dry Goods Company records
Collection
Identifier: 0008
Abstract
Family history of B. F. Coulter, photographs, business correspondence, clippings; photographs of window and counter displays. The family business was founded in 1878 in Los Angeles and flourished until the 1960s.
Dates:
circa 1870s-1960s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Council of Social Agencies of Los Angeles records
Collection
Identifier: 0480
Abstract
The Council of Social Agencies of Los Angeles records consist of meeting minutes, reports, and correspondence and memorandums, 1929-1947, created and collected by this welfare organization. The minutes are primarily those of the Executive Committee, and describe the higher level administrative activites of the Council. The reports consist of summaries of the activities of the various Council divisions, as well as research reports produced by these divisions on such topics as Los Angeles...
Dates:
1929 - 1947
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Floyd C. Covington papers
Collection
Identifier: 7057
Abstract
Floyd C. Covington was a Black civic leader in Los Angeles from the late 1920s to the 1970s. Through his work as the first Executive Director of the Los Angeles Urban League and his service in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Covington redefined social welfare and equal opportunity in both employment and housing for various communities in Los Angeles. Covington's papers contain his early scholarship and poetry from his youth and education in Seattle, Washington and Topeka,...
Dates:
1901 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1970
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Crawford et al. v. Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles et al. records
Collection
Identifier: 0234
Abstract
Crawford et al. v. Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles et al. was a case in which the California Supreme Court ordered the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to formulate a feasible plan to desegregate its schools. In 1977, the LAUSD came up with a plan that was later deemed one of, if not the most, drastic plans of mandatory student reassignment in the nation. The collection consists of court case transcripts, court exhibits, depositions, reports, office memos,...
Dates:
1976-1980
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections