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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
Hamlin Garland papers
Collection
Identifier: 0200
Abstract
The Hamlin Garland papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks, photographs, and memorabilia, by and about the American realist writer. Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who once held the title of "Dean of American Letters" and counted many of the prominent literary figures of his time as friends. This collection holds close to 10,000 of Garland's letters, which are now digitized and available via the USC Digital Library. Garland's literary notebooks...
Dates:
1850 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1940
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Leon Surmelian typescript
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0044
Abstract
Typescript of Surmelian's (b.1905) novel, 98.6 (Dutton, 1950); the Armenian-American author was professor of English at CSU, Los Angeles.
Dates:
circa 1950
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections