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This manuscript and book by Alejandro Morales is written about his Uncle's experience with Tuberculosis and explores the history of the disease and the effects of Tuberculosis on the Chicano/Latino community in Los Angeles. His Uncle, Robert Contreras, was at Olive View during his recovery. The book spans three sections, and one section is devoted to Olive View and gives an excellent snapshot of what life was like at Olive View before the curing of Tuberculosis.

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Richard Bauman completed a Master's Thesis in History chronicalling Olive View's history. In the collection are various stages of his manuscript, some he wrote while serving as the historian for the Olive View History Advisory Committee. There are also two complete copies, draft chapters, and correspondence related to the writing process.

Scope and Contents The compilations in this sub-series are historical in nature and contain either just visual, often photographic, or both written and visual material. They are sometimes in notebooks, and sometimes were found as loose papers. There were many staff who put together compilations and/or scrapbooks, and some of the compilations, especially the later ones, were created for anniversary or other events and presentations, such as the presentation at the Huntington on 2/2/2007. Selma Calmes put...