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Thelma Becker papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7162
Scope and Contents
The Thelma Becker papers consist of photographs, correspondence, press releases, newspaper articles, personal cards, and other material belonging to the Los Angeles businesswoman and resident of the Biltmore Hotel, Thelma Jane Becker (1913-2004). Becker moved to Los Angeles from New York in 1940 to establish retail partners in western states for Barbizon, a company that manufactured fabrics and sold dress slips. As soon as she arrived, Becker took up residence in the landmark Biltmore Hotel...
Dates:
1970 - 1995
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
California Proposition 187 ephemera
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0533
Abstract
This collection consists of papers about California Proposition 187. These include newspaper clippings, articles, and pamphlets.
Dates:
1994
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Vahakn Dadrian papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6213
Abstract
Vahakn Dadrian (1926-2019) was an Armenian-American sociologist and historian and one of the early scholars of the academic study of genocide. Dadrian was especially recognized as a leading expert on the Armenian Genocide. The Vahakn Dadrian papers contain Dadrian's research files on the Armenian Genocide. The collection includes copies of published legal papers with Dadrian's notes, maps of Turkey and Armenia, newspaper clippings, literature relating to Armenian Studies, copies of records...
Dates:
1843 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1990
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Esther Feldman and Community Conservation Solutions records
Collection
Identifier: 7136
Abstract
The Esther Feldman and Community Conservation Solutions records document the work conducted by Esther Feldman and/or Community Conservation Solutions (CCS) from the 1980s through 2020. The collection focuses on two major subject areas: (i) ballot measures and campaigns creating public financing for park and conservation projects and (ii) land-based projects involving land acquisition, native habitat restoration, park creation, 'green' stormwater and urban runoff capture, planning projects,...
Dates:
1984 - 2022
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Friends of the USC Libraries digital recordings and news clippings
Collection
Identifier: 5367
Abstract
Formed in 1953, Friends of the USC Libraries is an organization of people who support USC Libraries, whether it be by way of monetary donations or their commitment through work at the libraries. One of the aims of this organization is to enrich the cultural climate of the Southern California community at large.
University Archivist, Claude Zachary, digitized the recordings from June to August 2020 with the exception of the Mae West recordings, done in May 2019, and the Art Buchwald...
Dates:
1965 - 2021; Publication: 1965 - 1984; Modified: 2013; Modified: 2019 - 2021
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
German Exiles collection
Collection
Identifier: 6201
Abstract
The German Exiles collection contains correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, event programs, and other material relating to various German exiles, including Lion Feuchtwanger, Alfred Adler, Bruno Frank, Emil Ludwig, Franz and Alma Werfel, and Thomas Mann. The German Exiles collection finding aid began as a description of purchased material, consisting of a letter and photographs of Alfred Adler, Bruno Frank, Emil Ludwig, Franz and Alma Werfel, and Thomas Mann (by Ernest Gottlieb...
Dates:
1932 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1950
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Haufe family collection on Hildreth Mansion
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7144
Scope and Contents
The Haufe family collection on Hildreth Mansion contains photographs, newspaper clippings, and other material documenting the Hildreth Mansion, a Victorian house built in the Bunker Hill neighborhood of Los Angeles between 1886 and 1889 and restored by John and Mabel Haufe in the late 1940s as a rooming house named Hopecrest. The house, formerly located at 357 S. Hope Street, was designed by Joseph C. Newsom and built for Dr. Edward T. Hildreth, a retired Clergyman from Chicago. John and...
Dates:
1945 - 1976
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--biographical clippings
Collection
Identifier: 7000-5
Abstract
This finding aid describes the biographical clippings files of the Los Angeles Examiner photograph and clippings morgue.
Dates:
1903 - 1961; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1959
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Hearst Corporation Los Angeles Examiner photographs, negatives, and clippings--subject clippings
Collection
Identifier: 7000-4
Abstract
This finding aid describes the subject clippings files of the Los Angeles Examiner photograph and clippings morgue.
Dates:
1903 - 1961; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1959
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
R. Lee Heath scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7117
Abstract
Robert Lee Heath (1881-1974) joined the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in 1904 and rose through the ranks to serve as Chief of Police from 1924-1926. The R. Lee Heath scrapbook contains a total of more than 200 newspaper clippings and items of ephemera. Heath began this scrapbook in 1913, at about the time he was placed in command of the Boyle Heights division. He clipped newspaper articles written about or by police (e.g., "Officer Leo W. Marden Commanding the Juvenile Bureau...
Dates:
1913 - 1924
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections