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Allan Hancock Foundation archive
Collection
Identifier: 0257
Abstract
The Allan Hancock Foundation Archive contains records of the Foundation set up at the University of Southern California by G. Allan Hancock for the purpose of furthering oceanographic studies. These records also include those materials from the library and museum that were associated with the Foundation, as well some personal mementos of Captain Hancock's and the Hancock family. Also included are extensive records of the research ship Velero IV, as well as sound recordings, photographs and...
Dates:
1823 - 2005
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
American Film Institute 1930s-1940s Videos collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2600
Abstract
This collection consists of the American Film Institute's videotape recordings of films from the 1930s and 1940s.
Dates:
1930s-1940s
Found in:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
Rick Carter collection
Collection
Identifier: 2289
Abstract
Collection contains the papers of production designer Rick Carter (b. 1952), who frequently works with directors Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. Movies represented in this collection include Jurassic Park and Forrest Gump.
Dates:
1976 - 2019
Found in:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
Lorenzo DeStefano collection on the Hancock Pacific Expeditions
Collection
Identifier: 6215
Abstract
A collection of screenplay drafts, research notes, subject files, correspondence, photographs, books, audio and video tapes, and one 16mm film compiled by Lorenzo DeStefano for a film about G. Allan Hancock's expeditions to the Galapagos Islands during 1930s. DeStefano never completed his film, but his research for the project--which began in the 1970s--forms a significant collection of documentation on the people and events involved in the Hancock Expeditions.
Dates:
1930s-1980s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Homefront records
Collection
Identifier: 0247
Abstract
The collection contains research materials, administrative files, audiotape interviews, and film reels from a project by the USC Department of History for a book and PBS television special entitled The Homefront : America during World War II, compiled by Mark Jonathan Harris, Franklin D. Mitchell, and Steven J. Schechter. The book was published in 1984, and the show was broadcast in 1985. The project was a collection of first-person accounts of ordinary citizens describing their experiences...
Dates:
1980s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
John Fitzgerald Keitel film collection
Collection
Identifier: Coll2017-016
Abstract
Film prints (16mm and 35mm) and publicity material, 1991-1999, from Los Angeles filmmaker John Fitzgerald Keitel. The collection includes prints and trailers for the student film Counterpoint; the documentary short An All-American Story (circa 1991); and the feature film Defying Gravity (1997), about "a macho fratboy who falls in love with his openly gay friend and grapples with his...
Dates:
1991-1999
Herbert G. Klein papers
Collection
Identifier: 0345
Abstract
The Herbert G. Klein papers contain detailed records of the day to day activities of Herbert G. Klein, University of Southern California alumnus and trustee, journalist, editor and first White House Director of Communications. Included are records from all phases of Klein's long career: his early career as a journalist with Copley Newspapers in Alhambra and San Diego; his work with Richard Nixon, beginning with the Vice Presidential campaign of 1956; and his subsequent career as a media...
Dates:
15th-17th centuries, 1932-2009 (bulk 1960-1973)
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Lawrence Lipton papers
Collection
Identifier: 0159
Abstract
The Lawrence Lipton papers, 1883-2009 (bulk 1950-1975), consist of correspondence, interviews, manuscripts, typescripts, audio recordings, clippings, periodicals, photographs, motion pictures, and ephemera, created and collected by Beat Generation chronicler, novelist, and poet, Lawrence Lipton. The collection documents Lipton's prolific work as a novelist, poet, and columnist through typescripts and manuscripts of his works; correspondence between Lipton and members of the Beats, including...
Dates:
1883 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1975
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
Ray Morris films of Southern California
Collection
Identifier: 7147
Scope and Contents
The Ray Morris films of Southern California consist of seven digital video files digitized from six reels of film depicting Southern California scenes recorded by Ray Morris. Ray Morris was a photographer for the Los Angeles Police Department. The films focus on various scenes and events in Southern California during the 1950s and 1960s, including Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty's New Year's message to the city in December 1961, the San Pedro Fisherman's Fiesta in 1957, a trolley car junkyard,...
Dates:
1950 - 1969
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections