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National Housing Exposition scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: 7034
Abstract
The Pan-Pacific Auditorium, originally located at 7600 West Beverly Boulevard in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, was designed by Plummer, Wurderman and Becket and financed by a commmittee led by Clifford W. Henderson and his brother Phillip. The National Housing Exposition, the Pan-Pacific's inaugural event, was one of a number of similar expos held across the country after the passage of the National Housing Act in 1934, which was designed to make home ownership affordable for all...
Dates:
1935
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Neighborhood Youth Association records
Collection
Identifier: 0416
Abstract
The Neighborhood Youth Association began as charitable organization under the aegis of the Episcopal Church in 1914. Using a settlement house approach, the Association's oiginal goal was to acculturate immigrants to Los Angeles' West side neighborhoods to American culture and values. Over the years the Association has broadened its mission to include providing social services and counseling for poor families and teenaged children in the areas around Venice, California, and the Los Angeles...
Dates:
1954 - 1991
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Osborne-Montague family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0190
Abstract
The Osborne-Montague family papers contains the papers of multiple generations of the Osborne and Montague families, as well as of the families they married into (primarily the Tingstads and the Caleffs). Rodney Montague moved to Los Angeles in 1853, while Henry Zenas Osborne moved to the area in 1878. Montague was a farmer; Osborne owned the Los Angeles Evening Express and was a Congressman for California's 10th Congressional District from 1917 until his death in 1923. His son, Henry...
Dates:
1847 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1945
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Rafael Osuna realia and ephemera
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5187
Abstract
This collection consists of realia and ephemera related to Rafael Osuna, the Mexican tennis player and Olympian.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1950s-1960s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Paciolan Systems records
Collection
Identifier: 6124
Abstract
Paciolan Systems, Inc. began as a small computer software development company specializing in ticketing for college athletics. In its past four decades of history, the company grew, developed, and merged with other companies-- and now is once again known as Paciolan as part of Learfield. Paciolan's role in Learfield is providing ticketing, fundraising, marketing, and analytics solutions to athletic and entertainment events.
Paciolan's earlier history is documented in this collection of...
Dates:
1978-2020
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Marta Palau prints, correspondence, and ephemera
Collection
Identifier: 0576
Scope and Contents
The Marta Palau prints, correspondence, and ephemera consist of a set of screen prints by Marta Palau Bosch (1934-2022), correspondence from Palau to Evelyn Vedro, ephemera relating to Palau's works and exhibitions, and a small amount of photographs. The set of screen prints, titled Un Homenaje Artistico a Lázaro Cárdenas, was originally exhibited at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico, D.F., in 1981. The thirteen serigraphs by artist...
Dates:
1965 - 2003
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Phi Alpha Theta, Xi Chapter, records
Collection
Identifier: 0338
Abstract
This collection contains evidence of the Phi Alpha Theta, USC Xi Chapter's activities from its founding in 1932 through 2000.
Dates:
1932-2000
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Phrateres, Rho Chapter, scrapbook
Collection — Box: 2
Identifier: 5207
Abstract
This collection consists of a scrapbook from the sorority Phrateres, Rho Chapter, at the University of Southern California.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930s-1940s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
José Guadalupe Posada prints
Collection
Identifier: 0517
Abstract
The collection contains a total of 506 items printed by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo's press. Among the items are half-sheet and full-sheet broadsides, chapbooks, and games. A majority of the prints were by José Guadalupe Posada, and possibly a few by Manuel Alfonso Manilla, his precursor and mentor. Themes in the collection include: Mexican popular culture, Calaveras, local disasters, supernatural acts, crimes, suicides, moral lessons, social critique, political caricatures, corridos, religious...
Dates:
circa 1890-1915; 1943; 1953
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Howard Ralston papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5069
Abstract
Howard Ralston was an alumnus of the University of Southern California (class of 1930) and part of a family acting troupe as a child. Born in Bar Harbor, Maine in 1904, Ralston's family traveled around the country before eventually settling in Hollywood, California, where young Ralston became a featured player for five years. (One of his early film roles (1919) was opposite Mary Pickford in Polyanna.) Ralston graduated from University High School in...
Dates:
1917-1988; Majority of material found in 1920s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections