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Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6219
Scope and Contents
Photograph album of parts for Morrow Aircraft Corporation planes.
Dates:
1942
Collection
Identifier: 5377
Abstract
The USC Pacific Asia Museum history archives consist of institutional records of the USC Pacific Asia Museum (PAM), which was founded in 1971 and became part of the University of Southern California in 2013. The collection includes event programs, administrative files, photographs, photograph albums, press releases, program and outreach files, memoranda, building blueprints, renovation designs, PAM newsletters, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, audiovisual material, and records from PAM's...
Dates:
1971 - 2015
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5296
Abstract
Photographs of the Southern California, the 1932 Olympics, Rose Parade, etc. taken and compiled by Art Vincent, Class of 1938.
Dates:
1928 - 1945
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5209
Abstract
This collection contains the photographs and artifacts collected by University of Southern California alumni Thomas J. Vrba.
Dates:
1939 - 1948
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0545
Abstract
8 oversized leather photograph albums containing approximately 3025 primarily black and white photographs, created and/or compiled by a Mr. and Mrs. Wallace while on an extended trip to Argentina in 1953-54. The photographs depict cities and town, beaches, the Andes, working cattle ranches, sporting events, parks and monuments, and parties, restaurants and the theater, with one album dedicated to images of an oil refinery. The photographs were taken during Juan Peron's second term as...
Dates:
1953-1954
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7112
Abstract
A collection of photographs and ephemera spanning nearly 50 years of the life of Willa Mae West, an active participant and leader in many African American social organizations in the Los Angeles area. West served as a national officer for the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World (IBPOEW), acting as Grand Directress of the Arts and Crafts Department. West also served as a Chaplain Major for her local chapter of IBPOEW, as a member of the Crenshaw Committee on Aging,...
Dates:
1920 - 1980
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7045
Content Description
Photograph album with 24 photographs depicting Wilson Aero Corp.'s motion picture work. Photographs include on the set images of Dawn Patrol (1930), the comedy short Plane Crazy (1930), and Paul Sloane's War Correspondent (1932) starring Jack Holt. The album documents much of the activity of the Wilson Aero Corp. and may have functioned as a sales tool--glamourous images of film shoots, various planes, and photographs of the turret camera mount that allowed for 360 degree in-air tracking...
Dates:
circa 1932
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5318
Abstract
This small collection consists of a photograph album that documents Carl B. Wirsching's life at USC, with a focus on athletics; Wirsching's two diplomas; a Skull and Dagger plaque; an honorary society key fob; a tag identifying him as a "Three Year Varsity Man"; a pole vault pin, and his Alumni Association president's ring. Wirsching graduated from USC in 1909, and earned his graduate degree in civil engineering from USC in 1919.
Dates:
1906-1919
Collection
Identifier: 6060
Abstract
5 photograph albums containing over 500 photographs and related ephemeral items. The first three albums were created by photojournalist Robert Sennecke and are propagandistic in nature, with images from the front showing officers, war heroes, weaponry, politicians, and soldiers; all images are accompanied by typewritten captions. Sennecke's albums contain a mounted identification slip from Sennecke's studio. The fourth album, created by a German grenadier, contains 210 photographs, many...
Dates:
circa 1915-1918
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6077
Abstract
13 photograph albums and one report containing over 1700 individual photographs. Ten are personal albums of Nazi serviceman; one is the personal album of an American serviceman depicting American allied forces. Two albums are of official Nazi party or press photography. Also includes one bound intelligence report for a reconnaissance unit in the Balkans.
Dates:
circa 1932-1944