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Collection
Identifier: 0434
Abstract
The Welfare Planning Council, Los Angeles Region, records, consists of correspondence, brochures, minutes, and reports, dated 1939-1974 (bulk 1950s-1960s), that document the activities of the Council in the areas of social welfare planning, research, and development, and the coordination of health, welfare and recreational programs in the Los Angeles area. Material dating before the establishment of the Welfare Planning Council in 1953 covers the Metropolitan Welfare Council's studies...
Dates:
1939-1974
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5354
Abstract
This collection consists of the scrapbook, realia, and printed emphemera belonging to Mildred Wellborn who graduated from the University of Southern California in 1912.
Dates:
Majority of material found within c. 20th century
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5035
Abstract
Alfred "Al" Wesson is best known as the composer, while a student at USC, of "All Hail"-- USC's current alma mater song-- for a student fundraiser called "Campus Frolics of 1923". The other song he wrote for the opening of Frolics was "Cardinal and Gold" which also became a perennial favorite, played at Trojan football games and countless other university events. In addition to Wesson's musical ability, he served as the University's first...
Dates:
1924-1974
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7026
Abstract
George Harrison Whitney's research and correspondence regarding a visit made by Winston Churchill to Los Angeles in 1929. The collection includes newspaper clippings, mostly from the Los Angeles Times, that range from the 1920s to the 1980s. Winston Churchill spent three weeks in California in September of 1929, his only visit to the American West. He arrived in Los Angeles on September 17th, spending nine nights in the Los Angeles area. The purpose of the trip, which started in Seattle and...
Dates:
1920s-1980s
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7005
Abstract
This collection cosists primarily of information on the Van Nuys and Lankershim families, pioneers in Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, and the development of the Valley. George Harrison Whitney was President of the Van Nuys Foundation.
Dates:
1897-1963, undated
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0002
Abstract
Correspondence, clippings, publications, photographs from the career of diplomat Henry Lane Wilson (1859-1932), with particular reference to U.S. relations with Mexico, including the "El Chamizal" border dispute.
Dates:
1910 - 1940
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2167
Abstract
This collection consists of Claire Windsor (1892-1972) photographs, letters, and newspaper clippings in scrapbooks. Windsor was an American actress during the silent film era.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1920s-1972
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5192
Abstract
This collection consists of scrapbooks, photographs, and publications from Eva L. Winsett (1896-1991), an alumna of the University of Southern California.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940s; 1992 - 1996
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6102
Abstract
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings. Subjects include political and social events in Wisconsin and the United States, obituaries, statistics, and cartoons.
Dates:
circa 1930s
Collection
Identifier: 2295
Abstract
Robert Wise was an American movie director and producer, best known for "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music", as well as his early career at RKO Pictures, wherein he infamously re-edited and directed a scene in Orson Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons". This collection comprises primarily film files of twenty-six completed as well as proposed projects including "The Sound of Music", "West Side Story", and "The Haunting". It also contains awards and ephemera, correspondence, personal...
Dates:
1904 - 2001