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Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7007
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of agreements between Allison and Allison (architects) and the Friday Morning Club, 1922-1924; invoices and receipts between the Friday Morning Club and the contractors; 1976-77 membership directory; ephemera of the Variety Arts Center (The Society for the Preservation of Variety Arts); 1991 newspaper clippings regarding the Friday Morning Club's centennial; architectural floor plans of the building, photographs.
Dates:
1891-1991
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7145
Scope and Contents
Records of the Friends 4 Expo Transit advocacy group created and collected by Kathy Seal, a longtime community organizer who founded Friends 4 Expo in 2000 to fight for a light rail Expo Line along a right of way in Los Angeles running from Exposition Boulevard into Santa Monica. Friends 4 Expo (also known as Friends4Expo and F4E) emphasized the environmental benefit of clean, speedy, high-capacity light rail, and sought to overcome opposition to a passenger line--principally from...
Dates:
2000 - 2002
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5270
Abstract
The collection consists of Merrell Gage's sculpture of Saint Francis and a clipping of an article that appeared in the Los Angeles Times on January 16, 1949 on the artist Glen Lukens in which the sculpture, owned by Lukens, was featured. Merrell Gage was born in Topeka, Kansas, studied art in New York and France, and worked as an assistant to the sculptor Gutzon Borglum. In 1924 he and his wife moved to Los Angeles and built a studio in their home in Santa Monica Canyon. He began teaching...
Dates:
1949
Collection
Identifier: 6005
Abstract
This small, artifical collection consists of materials relating to 19th and 20th century musicians--sheet music, a photograph, a letter, clippings, programs, and a postcard.
Dates:
1866-1955, undated
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0372
Abstract
This collection includes the files, records, photographs, and scrapbooks of clippings related to dentist Dr. Charles Goldstein and his work with the USC School of Dentistry Mobile Clinic from 1966-2008.
Dates:
1965 - 2008
Collection
Identifier: 0312
Abstract
This collection comprises the business and private archives of literary agent and Pazifische Presse co-founder Felix Guggenheim (1904-1976).
The collection includes private and business correspondence, and contracts with publishers, authors and other business associates between 1925 and 1986 (bulk 1940-1976). The collection also includes manuscripts, some photographs and book reviews of works by many of the authors Guggenheim represented. Authors of the German-speaking Exile community in...
Dates:
1941 - 1976
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5065
Abstract
Lucile Hage was a student of the University of Southern California, class of 1924. The small scrapbook contains many small photographs of family members (presumably hers), including a young girl (possibly Lucile as a child). In addition to the photographs, the scrapbook holds correspondence and greeting cards plus memorabilia from Hage's USC days-- Delta Gamma notices, dance cards, news clippings, etc. A California Teachers Association card indicates that Hage was teaching in...
Dates:
1920s
Collection
Identifier: 6056
Abstract
This collection documents the life of Nina Hard, a German dancer, who at one time worked with German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The collection consists almost primarily of personal photographs, with some documents such as letters and legal documents.
Dates:
circa 1870s-1970s, undated
Collection
Identifier: 7068
Abstract
Mabel C. Harris, also professionally known as Virginia O'Neal and Martha Logan, was a trained home economist who, after working for Swift and Company and Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corp., was hired by Vons grocery stores in 1960 to be the first home economist hired by a supermarket chain. Her papers consist of photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and cookbooks relating to her career in the Los Angeles food and grocery industry from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Dates:
1937 - 1989
Collection
Identifier: 7000-5
Abstract
This finding aid describes the biographical clippings files of the Los Angeles Examiner photograph and clippings morgue.
Dates:
1903 - 1961; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1959