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Mendel B. Silberberg was a Jewish communal leader and a prominent attorney in the motion picture industry. As a former president of the Los Angeles Jewish Community Council, Silberberg was active in the work of the United Jewish Appeal, the Joint Distribution Committee and the National Conference of Christians and Jews. His career also led to a term as Beverly Hills councilman and a position as Director Emeritus of Columbia Pictures. This small group of papers consists chiefly of letters...
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Approximately 70 publications from various Southern California churches dating from the 1950s to the 1990s. Types of publications include books and pamphlets celebrating church anniversaries, programs for building dedication ceremonies, annual reports, directories, yearbooks, promotional pamphlets, and periodicals. The majority of the publications in the collection were published by churches in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, including in Pasadena, Pomona, and Covina. However, the...
This collection contains the records of the Speakers' Club of Los Angeles for the years 1931-1935. Established in 1931, the club aimed to facilitate cooperation between government officials and agencies and the public.
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126 primarily Bay Area and Los Angeles area punk and heavy metal music flyers, ephemera and posters collected by Sara Sutler-Cohen, a member of the scene in the mid 1980s and early 1990s. Among the bands represented in the collection are the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neurosis, D.R.I., Circle Jerks, Corrosion of Conformity, Social Distortion, Bad Brains, Bad Religion, NOFX, Green Day, and Agnostic Front. The materials range in size from 2-3/4"x 3-3/4"to 11"x 17", with the majority measuring...
This collection contains the records of Town and Gown of the University of Southern California, a non-profit organization begun in 1904 as the Women's Club of USC, which raises money for scholarships, campus projects, and cultural programs. Much of the collection centers on the planning and work needed produce Town and Gown benefit events, most notably the annual luncheon and fashion show.
This collection consists of scrapbooks with clippings and printed ephemera related to the Trojans football team at the University of Southern California.
Letters, ephemera, notes, and pamphlets created and collected by USC Professor of Botany and Zoology Albert B. Ulrey, and his wife, USC alumna Florence Speicher Ulrey, documenting aspects of the history of USC and Ulrey's teaching and scientific research interests.
The University of California loyalty oath collection consists of five pamphlets and one letter pertaining to the U.C. Berkeley loyalty oath controversy of 1949-1951. The collection documents anti-Communist movements in the early 1950s, their impact on higher education, and Ernst Kantorowicz's involvement in the University of California loyalty oath.
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The USC Davis School of Gerontology records chronicle the development of Gerontology at USC, 1964-1987. Erected as a tribute to Ethel Percy Andrus, the Andrus Gerontology Center is committed to understanding aging and preparing professionals to work in an aging society. Founded in 1975, the Davis School is the nation's first professional School of Gerontology. With its own faculty representing various disciplines, the School is able to offer students a wide range of scientific and...