USC Pacific Asia Museum history archives
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Scope and Contents
The USC Pacific Asia Museum history archives consist of institutional records of the USC Pacific Asia Museum (PAM), which was founded in 1971 and became part of the University of Southern California in 2013. The collection includes event programs, administrative files, photographs, photograph albums, press releases, program and outreach files, memoranda, building blueprints, renovation designs, PAM newsletters, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, audiovisual material, and records from PAM's various councils and committees. PAM events and programs that are documented in the collection include the Festival of the Autumn Moon, Family Free Day, language classes, volunteer events, exhibitions, Rank and Style, costume events, Tiny Treasures, open houses, and Woven Wonders. PAM was founded in 1971 by the Pacificulture Foundation, which purchased "The Grace Nicholson Treasure House of Oriental Art" from the City of Pasadena. The museum's mission is to "create inspiring encounters with the art, history and culture of Pacific Asia to promote intercultural understanding in the service of elevating our shared sense of humanity." PAM's volunteers, docents, and members of PAM's Service Council were integral in assembling and preserving much of the material in the USC Pacific Asia Museum history archives. The museum credits one such docent, Margaret "Sunny" Stevenson, with contributing a significant amount of work toward organizing and preserving the material in the USC Pacific Asia Museum history archives.
Dates
- Creation: 1971 - 2015
Creator
- Pacific Asia Museum (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Extent
35.46 Linear Feet (37 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The USC Pacific Asia Museum history archives consist of institutional records of the USC Pacific Asia Museum (PAM), which was founded in 1971 and became part of the University of Southern California in 2013. The collection includes event programs, administrative files, photographs, photograph albums, press releases, program and outreach files, memoranda, building blueprints, renovation designs, PAM newsletters, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, audiovisual material, and records from PAM's various councils and committees. PAM events and programs that are documented in the collection include the Festival of the Autumn Moon, Family Free Day, language classes, volunteer events, exhibitions, Rank and Style, costume events, Tiny Treasures, open houses, and Woven Wonders. PAM was founded in 1971 by the Pacificulture Foundation, which purchased "The Grace Nicholson Treasure House of Oriental Art" from the City of Pasadena. The museum's mission is to "create inspiring encounters with the art, history and culture of Pacific Asia to promote intercultural understanding in the service of elevating our shared sense of humanity." PAM's volunteers, docents, and members of PAM's Service Council were integral in assembling and preserving much of the material in the USC Pacific Asia Museum history archives. The museum credits one such docent, Margaret "Sunny" Stevenson, with contributing a significant amount of work toward organizing and preserving the material in the USC Pacific Asia Museum history archives.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the USC Pacific Asia Museum via Raphael Gatchalian, September 8, 2022.
Processing Information
Most of the material in this collection was originally housed in boxes labeled "Museum History Archives" before the collection was reboxed during accessioning.
Subject
- Nicholson, Grace, -1948 -- Archives (Person)
- Pacific Asia Museum -- Archives (Organization)
Genre / Form
- Administrative records
- Blueprints
- Memorandums
- Moving images
- Negatives (photographic)
- Newsletters
- Newspaper clippings
- Photograph albums
- Photographs
- Press releases
- Programs (documents)
- Scrapbooks
- Slides (photographs)
Geographic
- Asia -- Study and teaching -- Archival resources
- East Asia -- Study and teaching -- Archival resources
Topical
- Art museums -- California -- Pasadena -- Archival resources
- Art, Asian -- Archival resources
- Asian Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
- Intercultural communication -- Asia -- Archival resources
- Museum archives -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
- Museum outreach programs -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
- Museums and children -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
- Volunteer workers in museums -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
- Title
- Finding aid for the USC Pacific Asia Museum history archives
- Status
- Minimally Processed
- Author
- Bo Doub
- Date
- 2022 September
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu