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Los Angeles Florence Crittenton Home records
Collection
Identifier: 0415
Abstract
The Los Angeles Florence Crittenton Home records consists of correspondence, meeting notes and minutes, photographs, publications and newspaper clippings related to the history and development of the Los Angeles Florence Crittenton Home. Apart from the photographs and clippings, the greatest concentrations of material are from 1906-1915, 1947-1955, and the 1990s. The photographic collections span the period between the 1920s and the 1950s, and include many photographs of staff and board...
Dates:
1892-1999
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Los Angeles Unified School District mental health research materials
Collection
Identifier: 0429
Abstract
This collection consists of the sources that were used by the team writing the history of the mental health services in the Los Angeles city schools, now known as the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The materials include memorandums, agendas, papers and reports, publications from organizations outside the LAUSD, annual reports, etc. Of special interest are the ledgers recording the referral and treatment of students at school mental health facilities, from the 1940s to the...
Dates:
1931 - 1988
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Management Council for Merit Employment, Training and Research records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0493
Abstract
The articles of incorporation of the Management Council for Merit Employment Training and Research state that "the specific business in which this corporation is primarily to engage is to develop job opportunities and training for the disadvantaged and to perform research in the general field of employment and economic improvement of minority groups."
The Council was formed following the aftermath of the 1965 riots in Los Angeles when the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce...
Dates:
1966-1999
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Milner family films, papers and photographs
Collection
Identifier: 0332
Abstract
The collection contains travel and home movies; cartoons and children's films; family recipes; monthly and annual reports; meeting minutes; financial records; family photographs; and a few miscellaneous items from the Milner Family.
Dates:
1917-1928, 1949-1991
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
R.A. Rowan & Co. records
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
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Lynn Schenk papers
Collection
Identifier: 0240
Abstract
Lynn Schenk was a representative from California. She served as Deputy Attorney General in the California State Attorney General's Office, Criminal Division for about a year before taking a position with San Diego Gas and Electric as an in-house lawyer. In 1976, she left San Diego Gas and Electric when she was offered a position to be special assistant to Vice Presidents Nelson A. Rockefeller and Walter F. Mondale. From 1977 to 1980, she served as Secretary of California's State...
Dates:
1975-1985
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Hansi Share papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6160
Abstract
Hansi Share, creator of the Monica Doll, was a Jewish emigre to the United States from Germany. In Germany, she was married to Hermann Ploschitzki, co-owner of Karstadt, a German department store chain, who died in 1932. She was subsequently married to Julius Wilhem Fehr, and then Leon Share, who sponsored her emigration to the United States. After her emigration, she designed and created the Monica Doll, which was notable as the first doll to use real human hair implanted in the head. ...
Dates:
1924-1971
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Southern California Building Funds records
Collection
Identifier: 0491
Abstract
The Southern California Building Funds records consists of minutes, financial records, and committee reports, 1961-1992. This capital fund was established at the end of World War II by Southern California business leaders who recognized that the rapidly increasing population of the area could not adequately be served by health and welfare institutions operating in facilities that had already been outgrown and outworn during the Depression and war years. In the 38 years of its existence the...
Dates:
1961 - 1992
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Southern California Rapid Transit District records
Collection
Identifier: 0026
Abstract
This collection contains the files kept by Dr. Norman Topping for part of the time he served on the Board of Directors of the Southern California Rapid Transit District. Topping was the president of USC from 1958-1970. His files on the SCRTD include correspondence, publications, minutes, and maps documenting the agency's operations in the second half of the 1960s.
Dates:
1966 - 1969
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Warren L. Steinberg papers
Collection
Identifier: 0348
Abstract
The papers of Warren L. Steinberg date from 1944 to 1998 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1966 to 1997. The papers focus on Steinberg's involvement with the City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission, an organization that Steinberg was involved with until his death in 2004.
Dates:
1944 - 1998; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1997
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections