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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
Collection
Identifier: 0349
Abstract
The Carol Muske-Dukes papers consist of the literary works, academic files, and personal papers, photographs, and correspondence of Carol Muske-Dukes, California poet laureate and USC professor of creative writing. The materials cover the period from early 1957 to 2023.
Dates:
1957 - 2023
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2634
Abstract
This collection consists of American film actress Marian Nixon's (1904-1983) photographs and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1922 - 1936
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 3391
Abstract
Collection consists of a scrapbook, photographs, and ID cards from USC alumnus and chair of the Overseas Korean Studies and Heritage Foundation, Dr. Tae Hyun Oh.
Dates:
1960s-1996
Collection
Identifier: 2455
Abstract
This collection consists of the papers, photographs, and books of vaudevillian and comedian Ole Olsen (1892-1963).
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900s-1950s
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
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5276
Abstract
Scrapbook of clippings created by George E. Outland documenting the 1931 USC-Notre Dame football game. Clippings come from newspapers from all over the United States. Also included is a section on the 1931 Stanford-Dartmouth football game. Outland was born in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California, on October 8, 1906. He attended public schools and Whittier College in California, received his M.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He also attended the...
Dates:
1931 November-December
Collection — Box: 2
Identifier: 5207
Abstract
This collection consists of a scrapbook from the sorority Phrateres, Rho Chapter, at the University of Southern California.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930s-1940s
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5069
Abstract
Howard Ralston was an alumnus of the University of Southern California (class of 1930) and part of a family acting troupe as a child. Born in Bar Harbor, Maine in 1904, Ralston's family traveled around the country before eventually settling in Hollywood, California, where young Ralston became a featured player for five years. (One of his early film roles (1919) was opposite Mary Pickford in Polyanna.) Ralston graduated from University High School in...
Dates:
1917-1988; Majority of material found in 1920s
Collection
Identifier: 6245
Abstract
This collection contains materials related to the work of Austrian theater and film director Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) including European set design plans and some papers, dating from circa 1910s-1930s, and a scrapbook of memorabilia from Reinhardt’s 1927-1928 New York repertory theater season.
Dates:
approximately 1910s-approximately 1930s