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Jenny Wrenn papers and artwork
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2014-113
Abstract
Drawings, resumes, portfolio, correspondence, event flyers, and clippings of Jenny Wrenn, 1977-2016. Jenny Wrenn is an artist, writer, activist, and publisher from Los Angeles.
Dates:
1977-2016
Kenneth L. Wright papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6068
Abstract
This collection contains the correspondence of Veramay Spencer and her U.S. Army boyfriend Kenneth Wright beginning in the year of 1953 and ending in 1955. It also includes letters from his mother Mrs. Carl C. Wright and friends that he met while serving for the Army. Several letters from his girlfriend Veramay Spencer contain newspaper clippings of happenings back home such as beauty pageants and daily current events. Many of the final letters are Christmas cards from friends to Wright upon...
Dates:
1953 - 1955
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Richard R. Wright Jr. films
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6204
Abstract
The Richard R. Wright Jr. films comprise a collection of 13 moving images created circa the 1920s through the 1960s. Richard Robert Wright Jr. (1878-1967) was an African American sociologist, social worker, and minister for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Wright was married to Charlotte Crogman Wright, who authored a memoir relating to her travels throughout South Africa as the wife of a Methodist bishop, Beneath the Southern Cross (1955). Much of...
Dates:
1920 - 1960
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Major Alfred G. Wurmser collection of Nuremberg Trial documents
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6058
Abstract
This collection of documents on the Nuremberg Trials was collected by Captain (later Major) Alfred G. Wurmser, a staff member of the British War Crimes Executive. The collection contains signatures of defendants and legal staff, letters, photographs, a report, and a pencil sketch.
Dates:
1931 - 1947; Majority of material found within 1946 - 1947
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Richard G. Wyatt Pasadena Playhouse negatives
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2564
Abstract
This collection consists of negatives from productions at the Pasadena Playhouse from Richard G. Wyatt.
Dates:
1946 - 1951
Found in:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
William Yee films of Watts and East Los Angeles
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7132
Abstract
The William Yee films of Watts and East Los Angeles consist of four 16mm films and one U-matic videotape of neighborhood footage of Watts and East Los Angeles, recorded by Dr. William Yee in the 1960s and 1970s. The videotape of Watts focuses on street scenes circa 1963, just prior to the Watts Riots of 1965, including footage of the Watts Towers. The East Los Angeles footage, which Yee titled "East LA Estrada," was filmed circa 1970-1971. The East Los Angeles footage shows Chicano murals in...
Dates:
1963 - 1971
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Yeghiayan Law Firm records on the Marootian v. New York Life Insurance class action lawsuit
Collection
Identifier: 6184
Abstract
The Yeghiayan Law Firm records on the Marootian v. New York Life Insurance class action lawsuit contain claimant files and documents submitted to the court as part of the class action lawsuit, filed in 1999 and settled in 2004, brought against the New York Life Insurance Company for unpaid life insurance benefits. The plaintiffs in this case consist of descendants of New York Life Insurance policyholders who were killed during the Armenian Genocide (1914-1923). The plaintiffs' co-counsel in...
Dates:
1995 - 2004
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Annabelle Yerigan Foursquare Church album
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7154
Abstract
The Annabelle Yerigan Foursquare Church album is a photograph and memory book created by Annabelle Yerigan (1902-1975), an ordained minister of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. An Evangelical Pentecostal Christian church founded by Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944) in Los Angeles, the Foursquare Church is credited by some as the first megachurch. McPherson used radio broadcasts to draw in large audiences and donations to Foursquare Church events and services. In 1938,...
Dates:
1933 - 1943
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Chong-chan Yi photograph albums
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 3364
Abstract
This collection consists of the photograph albums prepared by National Assemblyman of the Republic of Korea Chong-chan Yi.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1980s
Found in:
USC Libraries East Asian Library
Allen Young papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2008-004
Abstract
Manuscripts, survey responses, correspondence, galley proofs, notes, and miscellaneous typescripts created and collected by writer, journalist and activist Allen Young. The bulk of the collection consists of materials relating to the gay male portion of The Gay Report: Lesbians and Gay Men Speak Out About Sexual Experiences & Lifestyles (1979), the first comprehensive survey of the homosexual community, which Young co-authored with writer Karla Jay. The...
Dates:
1975 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1977 - 1979