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C.E.D. Ballou scrapbooks
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5352
Abstract
This collection consists of two scrapbooks belonging to C.E.D. Ballou, a student at the University of Southern California's College of Liberal Arts in the 1890s.
Dates:
1892 - 1899
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Chaffey College scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5181
Abstract
This collection consists of a scrapbook related to Chaffey College and the University of Southern California. It includes programs, photographs, clippings, and ephemera.
Dates:
1891 - 1906
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Marion Frances Chevalier papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5059
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised chiefly of mementos from Chevalier's early years, particularly high school and college. One scrapbook contains photos, clippings, programs, etc. of her life at Pomona College where Chevalier participated in both the Italian and French clubs and from which she graduated in 1924 before continuing her education at USC. A small photo album consists of baby pictures of Chevalier from birth to two years, month by month. Other materials in the collecction include...
Dates:
1900-1980; Majority of material found in 1920s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
John Clyde Collison scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5150
Abstract
This collection consists of the scrapbook and photographs of organist and University of Southern California alumnus John Clyde Collison.
Dates:
1910 - 1914
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Herbert G. Klein papers
Collection
Identifier: 0345
Abstract
The Herbert G. Klein papers contain detailed records of the day to day activities of Herbert G. Klein, University of Southern California alumnus and trustee, journalist, editor and first White House Director of Communications. Included are records from all phases of Klein's long career: his early career as a journalist with Copley Newspapers in Alhambra and San Diego; his work with Richard Nixon, beginning with the Vice Presidential campaign of 1956; and his subsequent career as a media...
Dates:
15th-17th centuries, 1932-2009 (bulk 1960-1973)
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Lane-Wells Company records
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7055
Abstract
This small collection consists of a commemorative album celebrating the 100,000th Gun Perforating Job by the Lane-Wells Company of Los Angeles on June 18, 1948 and additional printed ephemera, 1939-1954, created and collected by Walter T. Wells, co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Lane-Wells Company. Walter T. Wells studied electrical engineering at Iowa State, graduating in 1910. He worked as an engineer in the Philippines and British Guiana (for the Demerara Bauxite Company), as...
Dates:
1939-1954
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Harry F. Maidenberg scrapbooks
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0069
Abstract
This collection contains six scrapbooks containing clippings, photographs, and ephemera documenting the early history of California. The scrapbooks were compiled by Harry F. Maidenberg, who was an insurance salesman in Los Angeles.
Dates:
1950 - 1960
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
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
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