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Air Mail clippings scrapbook
Orion Ashenfelter papers
A collection of nineteen letters written by Orion Ashenfelter to his family while on his tour of duty in the U.S. Navy, which began on January 29, 1900. Included in these letters is an eyewitness account of events during the Boxer Rebellion in China.
Alphonzo Bell papers
Alphonzo Bell, Jr. (1914-2004) was a United States Congressman who represented the 27th and 28th Congressional Districts - which encompassed the communities of Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Bel Air, and West Los Angeles - between 1961 and 1977. Materials within the collection date from the 1930s to the 1980s and document Bell's political career.
Household Survey records
In 1939, the Works Progress Administration provided funding for a comprehensive household survey of the Los Angeles area. Over the course of the project, about 400,000 documents, mostly census cards, were generated.
Allan A. Hunter papers
Allan Kaplan and Robert Kaplan political memorabilia collection
The Allan Kaplan and Robert Kaplan political memorabilia collection consists of posters, ephemera, and realia documenting national and local political and campaigns. The bulk of the material dates from the late 1960s-early 1970s and documents the brothers' earliest political activism. The collection also includes later campaigns (from the 2000s) on which Robert was involved professionally.
Samuel H. Kline papers
Samuel Kline (1837-1917) was a Boston businessman who retired to San Diego, California in 1902. His papers include his detailed memoirs in which he wrote about his two-hundred-year family history, his childhood in upper New York State, his experiences in the Civil War, and his years in the shoe and leather trades.
Left Literature collection of pamphlets and periodicals
Pamphlets, books, and periodicals from Socialist and Communist publishers in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., 1930s-1950s. Subjects include fascism, atomic weapons, race and labor relations.
Greg Mitchell manuscript
Typed draft of Mitchell's The Campaign of the Century (Random House, 1992) on the 1934 EPIC campaign in California.