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Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7080
Abstract
Curricular projects and bibliiographies prepared for teachers in Los Angeles County public schools by the Division of Secondary Education in the Office of the County Superintendent of Schools.
Dates:
1935
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5283
Abstract
Scrapbook containing photographic reproductions of clippings about the proposed Los Angeles World's Fair. The clippings came from many different local newspapers.
Dates:
1943
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7024
Abstract
This collection consists of photographs, pamphlets and clippings documenting Los Angeles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The majority of the photographs are of the downtown area and feature intersections of major Los Angeles streetsn. Current and former landmarks also appear in the collection's photographs. There are also photographs of San Pedro Harbor, an old city hall building, and the remnants of the LA Times building after the bombing of 1910. The pamphlets and clippings...
Dates:
circa 1890-1920
Collection
Identifier: 5284
Abstract
The Annette Moore papers consist of research materials used to write “The University of Southern California: 1880-2005,” the 125th Anniversary history book of USC, which covers the years 1880-2005. The collection consists of emails, clippings, photocopies, bound copies, drafts, notes, and correspondence. Annette Moore served as co-writer of “The University of Southern California: 1880-2005,” and as Director of Web, Special, and Communications Projects at USC University Communications from...
Dates:
circa 2005
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7008
Abstract
The Ersey O'Brien scrapbooks consists of two ledger format spiral binders containing green bar computer paper that has been repurposed as scrapbook pages. The scrapbooks, one entitled "My friends" and the other "High School Memories," contain clippings and printed ephemera that document the activities of Jefferson High School alumni in Los Angeles from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Dates:
1950s-1980s
Collection
Identifier: 0373
Abstract
R.A. Rowan & Co. was one of the Los Angeles area's earliest and most long-lived real estate development firms, spanning almost a hundred years of the twentieth century. Robert A. Rowan was responsible for founding the company in 1904; the company remained in family hands for many generations until it finally folded in the late 1990s. By then, the original real estate company had expanded into several other ventures including property management, agriculture, insurance, thoroughbred...
Dates:
1904-1999
Collection
Identifier: 0241
Abstract
The collection includes files accumulated by Gregory Freemen Stone during his investigation into the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Dates:
1944 - 1992
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7048
Abstract
2 scrapbooks documenting Glenn Tindall's work with the Department of Parks and Recreation and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles as music director. Tindall was born in Indiana in 1894, graduated from Northwestern University, and embarked on a career in music education. He served as superintendent of the music program for the Kokomo, Indiana school stystem before World War I, and after serving in the Army, moved to Glen Cove, NY to be superintendent of music for the Glen Cove school system. ...
Dates:
1926-1929
Collection
Identifier: 0084
Abstract
Final report (1965) of the Governor's Commission on the Watts Riots.
Dates:
1965
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7026
Abstract
George Harrison Whitney's research and correspondence regarding a visit made by Winston Churchill to Los Angeles in 1929. The collection includes newspaper clippings, mostly from the Los Angeles Times, that range from the 1920s to the 1980s. Winston Churchill spent three weeks in California in September of 1929, his only visit to the American West. He arrived in Los Angeles on September 17th, spending nine nights in the Los Angeles area. The purpose of the trip, which started in Seattle and...
Dates:
1920s-1980s