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Ray Morris films of Southern California
Collection
Identifier: 7147
Scope and Contents
The Ray Morris films of Southern California consist of seven digital video files digitized from six reels of film depicting Southern California scenes recorded by Ray Morris. Ray Morris was a photographer for the Los Angeles Police Department. The films focus on various scenes and events in Southern California during the 1950s and 1960s, including Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty's New Year's message to the city in December 1961, the San Pedro Fisherman's Fiesta in 1957, a trolley car junkyard,...
Dates:
1950 - 1969
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Union Pacific Railroad Tidelands records
Collection
Identifier: 0243
Abstract
When the Union Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Railroad merged in 1997 and the former did a housecleaning of its inventory, many of the Union Pacific's archival materials were saved. The records that were donated to USC were chiefly those that were generated in the 1940s and 50s as part of the Tidelands controversies, concerning the Los Angeles / Long Beach / Wilmington harbor areas, and documenting channels, wetlands, islands, elevations, and shoreline. In addition to many maps,...
Dates:
1940s-1950s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections