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Milton Carlson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7110
Abstract
A collection of scrapbooks, notebooks, photographs, photograph albums, ledgers, postcards, and court transcripts and testimonies from Milton Carlson. Carlson was a criminologist and handwriting expert.
Dates:
1896 - 1918
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Los Angeles Webster Commission records
Collection
Identifier: 0244
Abstract
On April 29, 1992, the city of Los Angeles erupted into riots after four LAPD officers accused of beating motorist Rodney King were acquitted of all criminal charges. The effects were catastrophic; in total, the chaos persisted for six days and resulted in 58 deaths, 2,383 injuries, and nearly a billion dollars in property damage. The extent of the human and material losses incurred from the riots, coupled with intense public scrutiny of the LAPD, led the Los Angeles Board of Police...
Dates:
1931 - 1992; Majority of material found within
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Edward S. Sullivan papers
Collection
Identifier: 7111
Abstract
A photographic and manuscript archive created and compiled by Edward S. Sullivan, a Los Angeles-based correspondent for the seminal crime publication True Detective, whose ground-level journalistic techniques often blurred the line between reportage and private investigation. The photo portion of the archive contains "evidence" of hundreds of murders, assaults, stick-ups, forgeries, and other criminal acts spanning from the 1930s through the...
Dates:
1930 - 1970
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections