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Collection
Identifier: 0554
Abstract
This collection consists of English and Spanish instructional materials from Harry E. Babbitt’s company Babbitt Instructional Resources, along with issues of the publications La Aventura de la Historia purchased from B.I.R.
Dates:
1996 - 2012
Collection
Identifier: 7120
Abstract
A collection of material relating to a series of interviews with Wally Shidler, conducted by David Boulé. Wally G. Shidler is a former motion picture engineer and collector of Southern California ephemera. David Boulé is an author, researcher, and collector of items and information relating to the California citrus industry. The interview sessions combined last approximately six hours and focus on Shidler's life and activities as a collector of materials on Los Angeles history, particularly...
Dates:
2016 - 2019
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7110
Abstract
A collection of scrapbooks, notebooks, photographs, photograph albums, ledgers, postcards, and court transcripts and testimonies from Milton Carlson. Carlson was a criminologist and handwriting expert.
Dates:
1896 - 1918
Collection
Identifier: 0490
Abstract
The Carmen Combs papers contains reports, conference proceedings, committee minutes, studies, seminar and institute materials, pamphlets, analyses of problems and topics, legislation, speech transcripts, and memoranda to Court Referees, and personal notes. The documents generally focus on the welfare of children. There is much attention given to the juvenile court system.
Dates:
1923 - 1979
Collection
Identifier: 0234
Abstract
Crawford et al. v. Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles et al. was a case in which the California Supreme Court ordered the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to formulate a feasible plan to desegregate its schools. In 1977, the LAUSD came up with a plan that was later deemed one of, if not the most, drastic plans of mandatory student reassignment in the nation. The collection consists of court case transcripts, court exhibits, depositions, reports, office memos,...
Dates:
1976-1980
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6213
Abstract
Vahakn Dadrian (1926-2019) was an Armenian-American sociologist and historian and one of the early scholars of the academic study of genocide. Dadrian was especially recognized as a leading expert on the Armenian Genocide. The Vahakn Dadrian papers contain Dadrian's research files on the Armenian Genocide. The collection includes copies of published legal papers with Dadrian's notes, maps of Turkey and Armenia, newspaper clippings, literature relating to Armenian Studies, copies of records...
Dates:
1843 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1990
Collection
Identifier: 0410
Abstract
Jessie E. Dean was employed by the Los County Department of Charities from 1919 to 1943, and served as Supervisor in the successive Divisions of Outdoor Relief, County Welfare and Indigent Relief. A citation of appreciation from her fellow workers, found in this collection, noted that she was the first, or "near first" trained social worker to practice in Los Angeles. Certainly she was a founding member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Association of Social Workers, begun in 1923,...
Dates:
1916 - 1960
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2229
Abstract
This collection consists of approximately 200 scripts and transcriptions of the radio programs of comedian and actor Jimmy Durante (1893-1980), dating from 1943 to 1947.
Dates:
1943 - 1947
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2464
Abstract
This collection includes the papers of American author, editor, and biographer George Eells (1922-1995). Materials include research documents, interview transcripts, and newspaper clippings for his books.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960s-1970s
Collection
Identifier: 3380
Abstract
The Bill Einreinhofer China Archive comprises approximately 1,000 digital video, image, audio, and text files that Einreinhofer used to produce a series of public television documentaries covering modern China and Japan from 1910 to 2023. The collection includes the finished television programs, as well as unedited interviews and historic and scenic footage that were used in the documentaries. The collection also holds transcripts, footage logs, research material, and documentary overviews....
Dates:
1910 - 2023