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Chauncey Alexander papers
Collection
Identifier: 0419
Abstract
The papers include material collected by Chauncey Alexander over a long and active life in social work and radical politics. Included are personal papers, school papers, and materials relating to Alexander's leadership of such organizations as the National Association of Social Workers, the International Federation of Social Workers, the First Amendment Foundation, and other organizations. Considerable materials are preserved from Alexander's service as an adjunct professor of Social Work...
Dates:
1917 - 2004
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Alpha Epsilon Delta California Alpha Chapter records
Collection
Identifier: 5325
Abstract
The Alpha Epsilon Delta California Alpha Chapter records, 1936-1993, consist of legal documents (constitution and by-laws), membership lists, correspondence, report, and conference proceedings created and collected by the fraternity. The records document the the history of Kappa Zeta, founding of the chapter at USC, the reestablishment of the chapter in the early 1950s, the planning of activities undertaken by the chapter, and the finances of the chapter. The USC Alpha Chapter of Alpha...
Dates:
1936-1993
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project records
Collection
Identifier: 0226
Abstract
The collection spans from 1938 to 1997 and consists of items related to the redevelopment of Bunker Hill: legal documents, reports, studies, brochures, proposals, serials, books, photographs, design proposals, and Community Redevelopment Agency studies.
Dates:
1938 - 1997
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
California Missions collection of inventories, reports, and other material
Collection
Identifier: 0374
Abstract
The twenty-one documents in this collection, primarily inventories, account books, and annual reports from five California missions, show economic and social aspects of life at the missions. The documents, written in Spanish and dated from 1791-1846, provide information about the people living and working at the missions, including numbers of baptisms, marriages, births, and deaths; number and kinds of livestock and crops; descriptions of property and buildings; and accountings of debits and...
Dates:
1791-1846, undated
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
El Nido Services and Lodges records
Collection
Identifier: 0409
Abstract
The El Nido Services and Lodges records cover the practical details of El Nido's operations, 1930-1980, documenting its real estate management, zoning battles, tax questions, insurance and "disaster preparedness" provisions, and occasional personnel problems of this social service agency. Originally a project of the Los Angeles Section of the National Council of Jewish Women, the Section established a Children's Bureau in Los Angeles in 1925, and three years later built a camp for...
Dates:
1932-1986 (bulk 1970s-1980s)
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
International Military Tribunal for the Far East records
Collection
Identifier: 0098
Abstract
Background reports, court documents, photographs, maps from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, May 1946 through February 1947, at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo.
Dates:
1946 - 1947
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Records on the Investigation of the Homicide of Ruben Salazar
Collection
Identifier: 0548
Abstract
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department's Records on the Investigation of the Homicide of Ruben Salazar contain documents maintained by the Sheriff's Department for more than forty years pertaining to preparations for, and responses to, the National Chicano Moratorium march and rally, among the largest anti-Vietnam War protests in Los Angeles, held on August, 29, 1970, in East Los Angeles. Also documented is the tragic aftermath--the ensuing riot, significant damages, complaints about...
Dates:
1970 - 1974; 1998; 2011 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1971
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Management Council for Merit Employment, Training and Research records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0493
Abstract
The articles of incorporation of the Management Council for Merit Employment Training and Research state that "the specific business in which this corporation is primarily to engage is to develop job opportunities and training for the disadvantaged and to perform research in the general field of employment and economic improvement of minority groups."
The Council was formed following the aftermath of the 1965 riots in Los Angeles when the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce...
Dates:
1966-1999
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Hilton H. McCabe papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0018
Abstract
The Hilton H. McCabe papers consist of correspondence, reports, photographs, clippings, legal documents and maps documenting McCabe's judicial work with allotments, guardianships and conservatorships of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in and around Palm Springs, California. McCabe, a graduate of USC's Law School, was appointed as a judge in the Superior Court in Indio, California in 1953, and then as an appeals court judge in San Bernardino.
Dates:
1868, 1952-1974; Majority of material found in 1952-1968
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Richard M. Mosk Warren Commission papers
Collection
Identifier: 6120
Abstract
Richard M. Mosk was a California Court of Appeal Justice who over more than three decades of public service investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, chaired the Motion Picture Classification and Rating Administration that provides the parental ratings for motion pictures, and sat on the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal at The Hague, where he served as a judge from 1981 to 1984 and 1997 to 2001. The Warren Commission was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson on November 29,...
Dates:
1963-2015
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections