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Collection
Identifier: 6241
Abstract
A collection of videos and a scrapbook relating to Katherine Sui Fun Cheung (1904-2003), the first Chinese woman to obtain an international flying license. The scrapbook was created by Cheung and her daughter Dorothy Leschenko and consists of photographs, newspaper clippings, copies of certificates and articles, and programs from air shows and other events documenting the life of Katherine Sui Fun Cheung. Cheung immigrated to the United States from China in 1921. After studying music at...
Dates:
1932 - 2016
Collection
Identifier: 3316
Abstract
This collection chiefly contains travel diaries and correspondence reflecting the trips of American hydraulic engineering professor James W. Daily (1913-1991) and his wife, Sarah A. Daily (1915-2009), to the People's Republic of China in 1974 and 1979, as well as a visit by Sarah in 1994. Also included are letters from Carr Chia-Chang Liang, a Caltech student in the late 1930s, that chronicle his trip back to and conditions in wartime China in the early 1940s.
Dates:
1940 - 1994
Collection
Identifier: 0291
Abstract
This collection consists of the personal and business papers of Robert F. Jani (1934-1989). He was a creator, director and executive producer of musical spectaculars, television productions, pageants and extravaganzas, celebrations, international events, parades, arena shows and sports events, world premieres and openings, pyrotechnic shows, expositions, and theme parks. Mr. Jani was a founder of USC Songfest and principal of Robert F. Jani Productions, Inc. He graduated from the University...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1950s-1980s
Collection
Identifier: 3309
Abstract
Pedro Loureiro is a Navy historian, curator, archivist, and USC alum who has concentrated much of his research on pre-War Japanese espionage and relations with the United States. This collection comprises primarily reports, memos, and correspondence relating to the United States Navy, Army and Marine Corps stationed in China and Japan during the late 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, acquired and collected by Loureiro during his academic research and career as a historian.
Dates:
1910-2016; Majority of material found in 1930-1945
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7152
Abstract
Anna M. Ranck, née Kammerer (1874-1956), was a missionary, educator, radio broadcaster, and a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) for over fifty years. Ranck held high-level positions at the local and national levels of the WCTU. She was the Director of Temperance and Missions for the National WCTU for ten years and held the title of Special Worker with Orientals for at least twenty years, during which she organized with Asian American members of the WCTU, supported Asian...
Dates:
1895 - 1956
Collection
Identifier: 0240
Abstract
Lynn Schenk was a representative from California. She served as Deputy Attorney General in the California State Attorney General's Office, Criminal Division for about a year before taking a position with San Diego Gas and Electric as an in-house lawyer. In 1976, she left San Diego Gas and Electric when she was offered a position to be special assistant to Vice Presidents Nelson A. Rockefeller and Walter F. Mondale. From 1977 to 1980, she served as Secretary of California's State...
Dates:
1975-1985
Collection
Identifier: 6148
Abstract
Zines, flyers, and printed ephemera produced across the United States and internationally from 1981 to 2019. Also included are flyers, stickers, and cards. Topics covered by the zines created in the United States include straight edge vegans, death metal devotees, Washington prisoners, punk rockers, and Catherinettes. Three of the zines in the collection were created as part of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, also known as the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (ELAB) Movement, by USC students...
Dates:
1981 - 2019