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Collection
Identifier: 0019
Abstract
Established in 1908, the Southern California Chapter of the American Guild of Organists is a local chapter of the national professional association serving the organ and choral music fields. This collection contains the records of the Los Angeles and Pasadena chapters of the American Guild of Organists, including administrative files, publications, and annual scrapbooks.
Dates:
1908 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1950 - 2000
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6222
Scope and Contents
This small collection consists primarily of mounted (on 16 x 20" boards) photographs of late 19th and early 20th century American authors, literary scholars, and persons of note, including Walt Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, Louise Chandler Moulton, Joaquin Miller, Lyman Abbott, George Wharton James, and William Jennings Bryan, to name a few.
Dates:
late 19th-early 20th centuries
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0598
Abstract
Photograph album consisting of 27 black and white silver prints, each approximately 8 x 10", of Cuba. Scenes include landscapes, city scapes, and genre scenes. Each photograph is accompanied by a glassine leaf with typed photo descriptions. Of particular note are photographs of both the sinking and raising of the USS Maine. Also includes a poem written by Irene Wright, who may have been the owner of the album. Wright was an American historian who spent time in Havana as a writer for the...
Dates:
circa 1911
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5139
Abstract
This collection consists of the papers and music scores of film and classical composer, Michael Andersen. Includes scores, photographs, news articles, letters, and music programs.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1950s-1980s
Collection
Identifier: 5266
Abstract
The Verle and Elizabeth Annis papers contain photographs, pamphlets, postcards, correspondence, architectural designs, and other material created by Verle and Elizabeth Annis. Verle Lincoln Annis (1897-1983) was a scholar and professor of architecture at the University of Southern California until 1962. Verle Annis wrote The Architecture of Antigua Guatemala 1543-1773, published in 1968. Elizabeth Naomi Annis (née Reed) (1905-2000) was a writer, traveler,...
Dates:
1910 - 1978
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4006
Abstract
Collection consists of the project files and research materials of Southern California architect, Tony Anthony (1922-1997). Records include photographs, correspondence, clippings, research materials, and project reports.
Dates:
Majority of material found within c. 1950-1998
Collection
Identifier: 5315
Abstract
Papers of Michael A. Arbib, Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science; University Professor; Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience and Psychology; Director, USC Human Brain Project. Prof. Arbib has based his career on the argument that we can learn much about machines from studying brains, and much about brains from studying machines. He has thus always worked for an interdisciplinary environment in which computer scientists and...
Dates:
1970-2016
Collection
Identifier: 0191
Abstract
James Arkatov was a cellist who photographed famous concert soloists performing. This collection consists of black and white prints of the photographs he took between 1946 and 1999 of musicians and artists, as well as interviews of artists.
Dates:
1946 - 1999; Majority of material found within
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0562
Abstract
This collection consists of a signed headshot of actor Pedro Armendáriz (1912-1963) and a postcard of his character in the movie Juan Charrasqueado (1948).
Dates:
1948
Collection
Identifier: 5012
Abstract
Color photographic transparencies and black and white negatives with proof prints by Allen A. Arthur (1920-1999) showing San Francisco and surrounding counties, California wineries, and the University of Southern California, dated 1963 to 1980. Arthur was a veteran, a graduate of the University of Southern California, and founder of the public relations firm Allen A. Arthur Plus Associates. He was also an occasional contributor to wine publications and the Los Angeles Times, arranger of...
Dates:
1963 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1963 - 1976