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Richard M. Mosk Warren Commission papers
Collection
Identifier: 6120
Abstract
Richard M. Mosk was a California Court of Appeal Justice who over more than three decades of public service investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, chaired the Motion Picture Classification and Rating Administration that provides the parental ratings for motion pictures, and sat on the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal at The Hague, where he served as a judge from 1981 to 1984 and 1997 to 2001. The Warren Commission was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson on November 29,...
Dates:
1963-2015
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Nobody Knows Anything collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2689
Abstract
This collection consists of the paper materials related to the comedy movie "Nobody Knows Anything!" (2003).
Dates:
2003
Found in:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
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
Pride Foundation records
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2011-071
Abstract
Articles of incorporation, bylaws, minutes, correspondence, reports, legal referral documents, contractual agreements, resolutions, clippings, flyers, publicity material, legal papers, financial records, photographs, telephone and visitor logs, municipal agency documents, real estate records, position statements and other material, 1966-1984, documenting the activities of the Pride Foundation, founded in San Francisco in 1973. Pride Foundation was a community organization that provided...
Dates:
1966 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1983
Reich and Hayman family papers
Collection
Identifier: 6047
Abstract
This collection contains the personal papers of Dr. Joseph Reich and members of his extended family. It contains photographs and artifacts as well as correspondence, legal documents, and some ephemera, mostly from the period from World War I to World War II. Dr. Joseph (Josef) Paul Reich, M.D. was born 1887 June 16 in Breslau. He studied neurology, and was licensed to practice medicine in Germany in 1911. His father-in-law was Dr. Oskar Kohnstamm, M.D., founder of the Sanatorium Dr....
Dates:
1600 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1914 - 1944
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Schramm family papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6061
Abstract
This collection contains the documents of the Schramm family, a family of Bessarabian Germans who were moved to German territory during World War II. The documents include pre-war military papers; resettlement documents; naturalization and employment papers; and some letters, including personal correspondence.
Dates:
1920-circa 1950s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Hansi Share papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6160
Abstract
Hansi Share, creator of the Monica Doll, was a Jewish emigre to the United States from Germany. In Germany, she was married to Hermann Ploschitzki, co-owner of Karstadt, a German department store chain, who died in 1932. She was subsequently married to Julius Wilhem Fehr, and then Leon Share, who sponsored her emigration to the United States. After her emigration, she designed and created the Monica Doll, which was notable as the first doll to use real human hair implanted in the head. ...
Dates:
1924-1971
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Stanislaus County Welfare Commission and Welfare Department records
Collection
Identifier: 0455
Abstract
The Stansilaus County Welfare Commission and Welfare Department records consists of materials created by these two entities (subsequently renamed the Stanislaus County Department of Social Services, and now the Community Services Agency). The collection's material is all textual and ranges from ledgers to photocopies of legal agreements; chronologically the material spans the period 1919-1986.
Dates:
1919 - 1986
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Union Pacific Railroad Tidelands records
Collection
Identifier: 0243
Abstract
When the Union Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Railroad merged in 1997 and the former did a housecleaning of its inventory, many of the Union Pacific's archival materials were saved. The records that were donated to USC were chiefly those that were generated in the 1940s and 50s as part of the Tidelands controversies, concerning the Los Angeles / Long Beach / Wilmington harbor areas, and documenting channels, wetlands, islands, elevations, and shoreline. In addition to many maps,...
Dates:
1940s-1950s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
USC Thornton School of Music records
Collection
Identifier: 0283
Abstract
The University of Southern California's music school was officially established in 1884, and conferred its first degrees in 1885. The records document many of the activities of the School from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries. Included are the papers (generally incomplete) of some of the School's notable personnel, including Max Swarthout, Raymond Kendall, Ellis Kohs, Pauline Alderman, and Walter F. Skeele; records of academic activities; records of student and alumni...
Dates:
1897 - 2017; Modified: 2017-2019, 2021
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections