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King's River Canyon Sierra Club Trip photograph album
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7074
Abstract
Photograph album containing 71 black and white photographs accompanied by titles and captions documenting the two week trek through Kings River Canyon by the Sierra Club, August 16-31, 1930. Also included is a copy of "This is Santa Fe" by Charles Haines Comfort and Mary Apolline Comfort. Mary Apolline Comfort is presumed to be the creator of the photograph album (a photograph of her is the last one in the album). The group consisted of approximately 26 individuals, both men and women....
Dates:
1930 August 16-31
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Kossack family papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6131
Abstract
Kossack family photograph album, official Nazi party family tree document, and one page of a letter.
Dates:
1920s-1930s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Geraldine Liniger photograph album
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6262
Abstract
A photograph album compiled by Geraldine Liniger of Medford, Oregon to document her 1950 trip to a Brethren youth work camp in Kassel, Germany, where she helped build homes for refugees displaced by World War II. The album begins with a series of photographs showing Liniger and other young women sightseeing in Italy, Paris, and the Netherlands and attending a Brethren Service Committee conference in Germany. The remainder of the album dates from Liniger's time in at the Kassel work camp in...
Dates:
1950 - 1958
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Building photograph album
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7100
Abstract
The Los Angeles Herald Examiner Building photograph album contains 171 original silver gelatin print photographs chronicling the construction and dedication of the headquarters for the Los Angeles Examiner--later the Los Angeles Herald Examiner--in downtown Los Angeles. The building was designed by San Francisco architect Julia Morgan in the Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles. Architects J. Martyn Haenke and...
Dates:
1913 - 1914
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Pearl McCroskey papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5362
Abstract
This collection consists of the papers and photographs of Pearl McCroskey, Phi Beta sorority member, alumna and secretary of the College of Music at the University of Southern California.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1890s-1950s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
McElmurry and Larrinaga family papers
Collection
Identifier: 7122
Abstract
A collection of family papers documenting two generations of the McElmurry and Larrinaga family. Mario Larrinaga immigrated from Mexico to Los Angeles and--in collaboration with his brother Juan Larrinaga--worked as a designer, art director, and painter of set backgrounds in Hollywood, working at RKO Pictures, Universal, and other major film studios. Larrinaga is most recognized for painting the set backgrounds for the original King Kong (1933) film. After...
Dates:
1920 - 2005
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Mexican and U.S. movie stars photograph album
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0702
Abstract
Album of 31 autographed photographs of Mexican and American movie stars. Includes images of, among others, Cantinflas, Peter Lawford, Lana Turner, Pedro Vargas, Cuates Castillo. The Mexican signatures are all original; some of the signatures of the American stars were done with mechanical pen, others are unsigned. Many of the photographs are inscribed to the former owner of the album, Yolanda Rodriguez.
Dates:
circa 1940s-1950s
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
Pacific Southwest Airlines flight attendant photograph album
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: 7128
Abstract
A photograph album compiled by a flight attendant working for Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) in the 1970s. The photographs are uncaptioned but some feature the year and month in the negative: October through December of 1973. The woman, who is unnamed, is repeatedly shown alongside a consistent group of fellow attendants, each clad in period uniforms comprising short, bright pink and orange miniskirts, sometimes accompanied by pink hotpants and paired with red go-go boots. PSA was known...
Dates:
1973
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