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Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 3401
Abstract
Collection consists of tourism pamphlets and booklets, maps, exhibit and event programs, and postcard series primarily distributed by Korean Overseas Information Service.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1974 - 2010
Collection
Identifier: 7123
Abstract
This collection contains maps and reports relating to Southern California history from various sources, assembled under one collection for ease of access and use in USC Libraries Special Collections. Collection items include two tract maps from 1927 and 1928 showing different areas of the Miracle Mile neighborhood in Los Angeles and a third tract map from 1946 showing the "northerly portion of the City of Redondo Beach." Collection also includes general Southern California maps, maps of Los...
Dates:
1904 - 1946
Collection
Identifier: 0026
Abstract
This collection contains the files kept by Dr. Norman Topping for part of the time he served on the Board of Directors of the Southern California Rapid Transit District. Topping was the president of USC from 1958-1970. His files on the SCRTD include correspondence, publications, minutes, and maps documenting the agency's operations in the second half of the 1960s.
Dates:
1966 - 1969
Collection
Identifier: 7115
Abstract
The collection consists of photographs depicting landscapes, portraits, and businesses in Southern California between 1875 and 1950; Los Angeles and Southern California maps and promotional booklets dating from 1880 to 1940; and approximately 5,250 postcards relating to Southern California dating from 1880 to 1940. John G. Tomlinson, Jr. and Corrine Tomlinson began collecting the material circa the early 1990s. The collection also includes a large format photograph by H. T. Payne of Benjamin...
Dates:
1875 - 1950
Collection
Identifier: 7105
Abstract
The Travel and tourism ephemera collection consists of materials both informational and commemorative in nature, dating from the years 1896 to 2013. The contents of the collection are varied in both format and geographic location. The majority of the material focuses on points of interest in California, with a significant number of items dealing with Los Angeles and the surrounding areas including information about tourist sites and souvenir booklets and items such as postcards....
Dates:
1896 - 2013
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
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0050
Abstract
This collection consists of the University of Southern California Library of Aeronautical History collections including photographs, newspapers, ephemera, scrapbooks, and other information related to aeronautical history.
Dates:
1918 - 1971
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0059
Abstract
Correspondence, documents of Western Air Express; Hannah was a passenger agent at the San Francisco office of Western Air Express. WAE, later Western Airlines, was chosen in 1928 for a "model passenger" project founded by the Guggenheim Foundation to establish a passenger service line between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The collection is made up of the internal papers (tapes, and interoffice memos and dispatches) of San Francisco passenger office. The collection also contains a framed...
Dates:
1928 - 1930
Collection
Identifier: 0099
Abstract
Collection consists of approximately 400 maps from USC's Population Research Laboratory, donated by Professor Maurice D. Van Arsdol in 1998. The maps include much of the work done by Emory Bogardus and his students, as well as that of Van Arsdol and his students, and range from 1935 to 1980.
Dates:
1924 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1965
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7030
Abstract
17 historic maps of Beverly Hills, Doheny Beverly Ranch, Bel-Air, Coldwater and Benedict Canyons, and one map of the industrial and commerical development of the San Fernando Valley; 26 10 x 13 photographs and 1 28 x 24 aerial photograph of the G. Allan Hancock home at 2000 N. La Brea Terrace circa 1944.
Dates:
circa 1925-1944