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California manuscripts teaching collection
Collection
Identifier: 7108
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, a property indenture, and a store ledger relating to California history from various sources, assembled under one collection for ease of access and use in USC Libraries Special Collections instruction. The earliest item in the collection is an 1850 letter written by T. R. Billings, a California gold seeker, to his wife, Elizabeth Billings, back home in New York. Billings' letter describes the hardships and financial troubles experienced by many who...
Dates:
1850 - 1927
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Patt Morrison collection of Los Angeles memorabilia
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7113
Abstract
A collection of five board games, nine cans of "smog," two buttons and a t-shirt relating to the 1984 Summer Olympics, a Southern California "powdered smog" postcard, a dish towel, a bumper sticker, and a button relating to the fruit fly (Medfly) crisis in California during the early 1980s collected by journalist, author, and radio and television personality Patt Morrison. Most of the items in the collection relate to Los Angeles smog and air pollution, but a few of the items relate to the...
Dates:
1950 - 1985
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Travel and tourism ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: 7105
Abstract
The Travel and tourism ephemera collection consists of materials both informational and commemorative in nature, dating from the years 1896 to 2013. The contents of the collection are varied in both format and geographic location. The majority of the material focuses on points of interest in California, with a significant number of items dealing with Los Angeles and the surrounding areas including information about tourist sites and souvenir booklets and items such as postcards....
Dates:
1896 - 2013
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections