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Immaculate Heart Community records
Collection
Identifier: 7141
Scope and Contents
The Immaculate Heart Community records contain material spanning the history of the Immaculate Heart Community (IHC), a Catholic religious teaching institute based in Los Angeles, and its parent institution, the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM), founded in 1848 by Father Joaquin Masmitja de Puig in Olot, Catalonia (Spain). The material in the collection was created between approximately 1852 and 2021 and consists of a wide variety of items and formats including correspondence,...
Dates:
1852 - 2021
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Robert F. Jani papers
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
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
George Kellman papers
Collection
Identifier: 6281
Scope and Contents
The George Kellman papers contain correspondence, clippings, newsletters and publications, memoranda, and notes and writings by George Kellman during his tenure as Director of the Fact-Finding Division of the American Jewish Committee (New York Chapter) during the 1950s and 1960s. Publications include newletters of the American Jewish Committee, such as The Committee Reporter--as well as a host of pamphlets, reports, and other materials from a variety of...
Dates:
1931 - 1971
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Hans Nordewin von Koerber papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5180
Abstract
This collection consists of the papers of Professor Hans Nordewin von Koerber, Ph.D.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Frank James Kunc photographs of the Dachau concentration camp
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6278
Scope and Contents
54 photographs taken by Frank James Kunc (1923-1986) showing the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945. The photographs show the human remains of deceased camp prisoners, trains and other vehicles around the camp, views of the countryside surrounding Dachau, American military forces, survivors of the camp, and the furnaces used to cremate the bodies of the dead. The collection also includes a newspaper clipping from an unknown publication and creation date with an article...
Dates:
1945
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
La Mujer en America y España collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0540
Abstract
Collection consists of various academic publications, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, and other writings about and by women and their lives and roles in 19th and 20th century societies.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 19th and 20th centuries
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
La Voz de la Frontera (Mexicali) clippings
Collection
Identifier: 0505
Abstract
This collection consists of article clippings, dating from 1967 to 1977, from the newspaper "La Voz de la Frontera," published in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. La Voz focuses on local Mexico and U.S. border issues. The clippings are chiefly arranged in broad subjects related to topics including politics, industry and commerce, culture, and international relations.
Dates:
1967 - 1977
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Anna M. Ranck papers
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
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Alfonsina Storni collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0539
Abstract
Collection consists of poet and playwright Alfonsina Storni’s published books of poems, newspaper clippings, and other publications written about her life and work.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1919 - 1974
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Edward S. Sullivan papers
Collection
Identifier: 7111
Abstract
A photographic and manuscript archive created and compiled by Edward S. Sullivan, a Los Angeles-based correspondent for the seminal crime publication True Detective, whose ground-level journalistic techniques often blurred the line between reportage and private investigation. The photo portion of the archive contains "evidence" of hundreds of murders, assaults, stick-ups, forgeries, and other criminal acts spanning from the 1930s through the...
Dates:
1930 - 1970
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections