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"An Account of the Great Chinese Riot and Massacre in Los Angeles" typescript
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: 7140
Abstract
Typescript of Judge Widney's account of the riot and massacre of Chinese in Los Angeles, based on the trial of 10 people indicted for the murders, which took place in front of Widney as Judge of the District Court of the Seventeenth Judicial District for Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties. The massacre was the result of a shootout between several Chinese men over the kidnapping of a young Chinese woman, that led to a shootout with police and the death of a civilian. As a result, a mob...
Dates:
1871 November
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project records
Collection
Identifier: 0226
Abstract
The collection spans from 1938 to 1997 and consists of items related to the redevelopment of Bunker Hill: legal documents, reports, studies, brochures, proposals, serials, books, photographs, design proposals, and Community Redevelopment Agency studies.
Dates:
1938 - 1997
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park records
Collection
Identifier: 0320
Abstract
The Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park was founded in 1965 to organize public and official awareness and to raise support to preserve the park land as public open space, and to develop it for recreational activities. The mission and efforts of this vibrant "grass roots" organization are ongoing, and the Committee will continue to add materials which document its activities. The collection consists of fifteen boxes of records dating back to the Committee's early history in the 1960s. ...
Dates:
1965 - 2019
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Coulter Dry Goods Company records
Collection
Identifier: 0008
Abstract
Family history of B. F. Coulter, photographs, business correspondence, clippings; photographs of window and counter displays. The family business was founded in 1878 in Los Angeles and flourished until the 1960s.
Dates:
circa 1870s-1960s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Marta Feuchtwanger papers
Collection
Identifier: 0206
Abstract
This archive contains the correspondence of Marta Feuchtwanger, wife of German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger, who survived her husband by almost thirty years. Marta Feuchtwanger remained an important figure in the exile community and devoted the remainder of her life to promoting the work of her husband. The collection contains Marta Feuchtwanger's personal correspondence, texts and manuscripts by her and others, royalty statements received for the works of her husband, correspondence with...
Dates:
1536 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1987
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
Robert F. Jani papers
Collection
Identifier: 0291
Abstract
This collection consists of the personal and business papers of Robert F. Jani (1934-1989). He was a creator, director and executive producer of musical spectaculars, television productions, pageants and extravaganzas, celebrations, international events, parades, arena shows and sports events, world premieres and openings, pyrotechnic shows, expositions, and theme parks. Mr. Jani was a founder of USC Songfest and principal of Robert F. Jani Productions, Inc. He graduated from the University...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1950s-1980s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Martin Krieger papers
Collection
Identifier: 0248
Abstract
This collection consists of materials from photographic exhibits generated by Dr. Martin Krieger's work and classes in Public Policy at the University of Southern California.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1980s-2000s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Los Angeles city directories
Collection
Identifier: 0235
Abstract
City directories are among the most important sources of information about urban areas and their inhabitants. They provide personal and professional information about a city's residents as well as information about its business, civic, social, religious, charitable, and literary institutions. A typical city directory provides a listing of residents, streets, businesses, organizations or institutions, giving their location in a city.The collection consists of 78 bound volumes of...
Dates:
1886 - 1953
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Records on the Investigation of the Homicide of Ruben Salazar
Collection
Identifier: 0548
Abstract
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department's Records on the Investigation of the Homicide of Ruben Salazar contain documents maintained by the Sheriff's Department for more than forty years pertaining to preparations for, and responses to, the National Chicano Moratorium march and rally, among the largest anti-Vietnam War protests in Los Angeles, held on August, 29, 1970, in East Los Angeles. Also documented is the tragic aftermath--the ensuing riot, significant damages, complaints about...
Dates:
1970 - 1974; 1998; 2011 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1971
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections