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R.R. Spear blueprints and sketches

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0319
Abstract

The collection is comprised of a subdivision map as well as specifications, blueprints, and sketches of several structures constructed in South Los Angeles between 1910 and 1930.

Dates: 1910 - 1930

Warren L. Steinberg papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0348
Abstract

The papers of Warren L. Steinberg date from 1944 to 1998 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1966 to 1997. The papers focus on Steinberg's involvement with the City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission, an organization that Steinberg was involved with until his death in 2004.

Dates: 1944 - 1998; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1997

Catherine G. Stern papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0301
Abstract

Catherine G. Stern was a social activist for civil and human rights. The papers contain correspondence, administrative papers, reports, and publications from the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, the Community Relations Conference of Southern California, the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, and other civic, educational, and artistic organizations with which Stern was involved.

Dates: 1951 - 2001

George H. Stewart scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0047
Abstract

Collection consists of three scrapbooks created by George H. Stewart containing personal social mementos like tickets, souvenir menus, and acknowledgments and newspaper clippings on political topics.

Dates: 1891 - 1911

Mary Stoddard Florence Crittenton Home papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0610
Abstract

Letters, photographs, ephemera and a large scrapbook created and collected by Mary ("Mollie") Stoddard, president of the Los Angeles Florence Crittenton Home in the 1920s. The papers document the Home, and Mollie's personal and philanthropic pursuits. Mary ("Mollie") Wilcox Stoddard (later Mary Wilcox Hurd) was born in Placerville, CA in 1870. Mollie was a long time supporter and president of the Los Angeles Florence Crittenton Home.

Dates: 1911-1928

Helen Walker Truesdell papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5038
Abstract Helen Walker Truesdell was a poet and literary scholar, as well as an alumnus of USC. Born in 1897, she attended Los Angeles Polytechnic High where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the school's quarterly literary magazine. After graduation in 1914, she began her studies at USC from which she obtained her B.A. (magna cum laude) in 1918. She then obtained her high school teaching credential and a master's degree (also from USC), later also earning an additional teaching diploma in 1929 for...
Dates: 1900-1938; Majority of material found in 1920-1930

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

University Club of Los Angeles scrapbooks and photograph albums

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5214
Abstract

This collection consists of University Club of Los Angeles photographs, event invitations, photograph albums, and scrapbooks.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1960s-1990s

University of Southern California oral histories

 Collection
Identifier: 0180
Abstract

Tapes and transcripts of interviews conducted by librarian Dr. Robert Knutson on behalf of the University between 1960-70.

Dates: 1960 - 1970

USC Library of Aeronautical History C. S. James collection on aviation

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0056
Abstract

Photographs, correspondence, ephemera pertaining to the history of Western Air Lines (Western Air Express). Charles N. James (a.k.a. James James, Jimmy James) flew the first Air mail run with Fred Kelly from Salt Lake to LA in seven hours, in 1926. He was a pilot for Western Air Express and later Vice-President in charge of operations at Western Airlines (1938-1950). He then became Security Manager with Bendix West Coast Division.

Dates: 1918 - 1957

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Association of Trojan Leagues 1
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company 1
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Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas) 1
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Bates, Francis E. 1
Blew, Robert 1
Bogart, Guy 1
Bond, Genevieve Farnell 1
Boston Society of Natural History 1
Bright, Verne 1
Britzman, Homer E. (Homer Elwood), 1901-1953 1
Brown, Jerry, 1938- 1
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Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson) 1
Burke, Yvonne Brathwaite 1
Bush, Grace E. 1
California Congress of Parents, Teachers, and Students, Inc. 1
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Chandler, Otis 1
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Cody, Iron Eyes, 1904-1999 1
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Community Relations Conference of Southern California 1
Congress of Mexican American Unity 1
Coulter Dry Goods Company (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
Coulter, B. F. (Benjamin F.) 1
Crittenton Center for Young Women & Infants (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
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Davy, Woods 1
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) 1
Denzel, Carl 1
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Garth, John S. (John Shrader) 1
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