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K. Garrison Clarke collection of photographs of Southern California and Baja California, Mexico
Collection
Identifier: 0322
Abstract
The collection consists of 128 black and white reprints of images taken by K. Garrison Clarke between 1948 and 1975. Most of the images are taken in and around Los Angeles County. A sizable amount of photographs are from a 1961 photo shoot at Jungleland USA, an animal training center in Thousand Oaks, CA that housed animals used in Hollywood films. Images from a commercial experiment at Oxnard and the Channel Islands (1965) and photographs from a shoot for Mexico West Coast Magazine in Baja...
Dates:
1948 - 1975
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Collection of promotional material for Southern California police departments
Collection
Identifier: 7119
Abstract
A collection of promotional materials related to policing in Los Angeles County. The collection contains a series of photographs taken by Milton K. Bell circa 1960 depicting members of the Arcadia Police Department at work. The photographs, which were likely commissioned as part of a public relations campaign, show Arcadia police officers investigating crime scenes and motor vehicle accidents, assisting wounded people, conducting a traffic stop, completing a pat-down, and riding and posing...
Dates:
1960; 1964
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
John Clyde Collison scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5150
Abstract
This collection consists of the scrapbook and photographs of organist and University of Southern California alumnus John Clyde Collison.
Dates:
1910 - 1914
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
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
Danburg family negatives and photographs
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7121
Abstract
The Danburg family negatives and photographs consists primarily of negatives, with a few photographs, that depict members of the Danburg family in and around their properties, as well as in the Southwest. The Danburgs lived at 1406-1/2 S. Westmoreland Avenue and 2104 W. Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Dates:
circa 1890s-1920s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Rubén Darío correspondence
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0591
Abstract
A collection of 14 letters from Rubén Darío to Julio Piquet spanning 1894 to 1914. Rubén Darío was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo. Julio Piquet was the director of the Argentine newspaper La Nación beginning in 1886. The collection also contains: a photograph of Darío's son, Rubén Darío Sánchez (1907-1948); a letter written on mourning stationery from Francisca...
Dates:
1894 - 1916
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
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
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) poster and photograph collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5327
Content Description
Posters and photographs documenting a DACA protest march staged at MacArthur Park, Sunday, September 10, 2017 at 3pm.
Dates:
2017
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Collection on Dolores del Río
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0521
Abstract
This small artificial collection contains various printed promotional items for Mexican and American productions starring Mexican actor Dolores del Río (1904-1983), chiefly dating from 1928 to 1958.
Dates:
1935 - 2000
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections