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Robert S. Basker papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2013-076
Abstract
Organizational records, correspondence, handwritten notes, published articles, awards, armed services papers, clippings, and photographs from Robert S. Basker (1918-2001). Born Solomon Sloane Basker in Harlem, Basker dedicated his life to progressive causes. He established or directed numerous gay rights groups including Mattachine Midwest, Gay Activist Alliance of Miami, and the Dade County Coalition for Human Rights. Basker also served as a committee member for numerous human rights...
Dates:
1931 - 2001
Walter Bendick West Hollywood Veterans Day Parade Photographs
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2012-037
Abstract
Photographs of the Veterans Day Parade in West Hollywood, 1985. Walter Bendick is noted on the back of a selection of photographs, implicating him as either the photographer or photography owner. Images include Fong Eu, California State Secretary, and the Great American Yankee Freedom Band.
Dates:
1985
Andrew J. Eddy papers
Collection
Identifier: Coll2016-003
Abstract
The Andrew J. Eddy papers include correspondence, printed emails, clippings, press releases, and other materials, 1968-2002, many for the Broward Log Cabin Club of Florida. The collection also includes his writings, such as clippings from "Frankly Speaking," his column for Hotspots Magazine. Andrew Jay Eddy is a Republican gay activist in Broward County, Florida, working with groups like Political Advocacy Coalition Political Action Committee; Log...
Dates:
1968-2002
Filipino American Library collection
Collection
Identifier: 6235
Abstract
The Filipino American Library collection consists of materials owned by the Filipino American Library in Historic Filipinotown that were transferred to the University of Southern California Special Collections in 2017. The collection is currently divided into two categories: (i) digitized material and (ii) minimally processed material. The digitized material consists of lantern slides, bound volumes, photographic prints, maps, and other materials that the USC Digital Library digitized and...
Dates:
1910 - 2015
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Esther Herbert and Marvyl Doyle Papers and Photographs
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2013-030
Abstract
Correspondence, photographs, audiocassettes, manuscripts, professional papers, and other materials, 1921-2011, from lesbian speech pathologist and veteran, Esther Herbert, and her partner, Marvyl Doyle. The correspondence contains letters between Herbert and Doyle written between 1944 and 1996 with the bulk of the letters being exchanged during World War 2 while they were stationed separately in the Women's Army Corps. Also included is an extensive collection of photographs documenting their...
Dates:
1921 - 2011
George Kellman papers
Collection
Identifier: 6281
Scope and Contents
The George Kellman papers contain correspondence, clippings, newsletters and publications, memoranda, and notes and writings by George Kellman during his tenure as Director of the Fact-Finding Division of the American Jewish Committee (New York Chapter) during the 1950s and 1960s. Publications include newletters of the American Jewish Committee, such as The Committee Reporter--as well as a host of pamphlets, reports, and other materials from a variety of...
Dates:
1931 - 1971
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Lucjan Krause Warsaw Uprising postcards
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6212
Abstract
A collection of approximately 75 postcards and handmade cards sent from schoolchildren in Poland to Lucjan Krause (1928-2022), a member of the Polish underground resistance who fought in the Warsaw Uprising (1944). The cards, mostly written by Polish schoolchildren in 2018, express gratitude for Krause's wartime sacrifice and heroism. The cards in this collection were designed and delivered as part of a Polish campaign--"BohaterON"--to commemorate and honor the participants of the Warsaw...
Dates:
2018
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Robert Lewis family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7151
Scope and Contents
The Robert Lewis family papers comprise a multigenerational archive of a family of Black military servicemen who served in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. The collection holds documents relating to the Lewis family's military service, as well as documents relating to the Lewis Family's East Texas cotton farm in Naples, Texas. Material in the collection dates from 1893 through the 1970s. Robert Lewis, the main subject of the collection, served as a Private in the U.S. Army for...
Dates:
1893 - 1979
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Nisei Veterans Memorial Center Oral History
Collection
Identifier: 9002
Scope and Contents
The original collection received in 2016 contained 3 VHS tapes, 44 Micro Audio Cassettes, and 117 Audio Casettes that were converted to three .mp4 video and 161 .mp3 audio files for access copies in the Digital Repository. Currently there are 164 oral history interviews with 65 veterans and Japanese Americans that lived on Maui during WWII.
Dates:
1990 - 2000
Found in:
USC Digital Repository
Eugene Partyka and Philip Stuart papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2015-008
Abstract
Correspondence, journals, notebooks, photographs, slides, negatives, drawings, scrapbooks, film (home movies), sound recordings, video recordings, uniform accoutrements, and other material, 1961-2000, from Eugene Partyka and Philip Stuart. Materials in the collection document the relationship between Partyka and Stuart, as well as Partyka and his former partner Val Sondergaard. The bulk of the collection is Partyka and Stuart's visual works and other creative projects mostly involving...
Dates:
1961-2000