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Jitney Buses scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6023
Abstract
This small scrapbook contains clippings, from December 1914 to March 1915, documenting the controversy over lack of regulation of "jitney" buses in Los Angeles. Many of the clippings come from the Los Angeles Times, the Express, the Tribune, and the Examiner, and are identified as such in pencil or ink annotations, along with dates (often without year). The remainder of the clippings are not identified as to source. The jitneys were private automobiles that operated as "buses" and...
Dates:
1914 December-1915 March
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Ersey O'Brien scrapbooks
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7008
Abstract
The Ersey O'Brien scrapbooks consists of two ledger format spiral binders containing green bar computer paper that has been repurposed as scrapbook pages. The scrapbooks, one entitled "My friends" and the other "High School Memories," contain clippings and printed ephemera that document the activities of Jefferson High School alumni in Los Angeles from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Dates:
1950s-1980s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections