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Collection
Identifier: 7108
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, a property indenture, and a store ledger relating to California history from various sources, assembled under one collection for ease of access and use in USC Libraries Special Collections instruction. The earliest item in the collection is an 1850 letter written by T. R. Billings, a California gold seeker, to his wife, Elizabeth Billings, back home in New York. Billings' letter describes the hardships and financial troubles experienced by many who...
Dates:
1850 - 1927
Collection
Identifier: 0374
Abstract
The twenty-one documents in this collection, primarily inventories, account books, and annual reports from five California missions, show economic and social aspects of life at the missions. The documents, written in Spanish and dated from 1791-1846, provide information about the people living and working at the missions, including numbers of baptisms, marriages, births, and deaths; number and kinds of livestock and crops; descriptions of property and buildings; and accountings of debits and...
Dates:
1791-1846, undated
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
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5196
Abstract
This collection consists of a ledger containing the University of Southern California's Chaffey College of Agriculture Board of Trustees minutes from 1891-1904.
Dates:
1891 - 1904
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2382
Abstract
This collection consists of correspondences, drawings, articles, photographs, and the business dealings of the Los Angeles Theatre, the Tower Theatre, and the Cameo Theatre. These theatres were all once owned by H. L. Gumbiner.
Dates:
1912 - 1990
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7127
Abstract
Five ledgers from an early Los Angeles hotel, the Hollenbeck Hotel, which was active from 1884 to 1932. The collection consists of three hotel ledgers for parts of the calendar year 1902 (April 19 to May 12; September 22 to October 19; and December 12 to December 31), a single ledger for the Hotel saloon from 1895 to 1896; and a single ledger for the Hotel restaurant from 1896. The Hollenbeck Hotel was established in 1884 by John E. Hollenbeck and his wife Elizabeth Hollenbeck. The hotel was...
Dates:
1895 - 1902
Collection
Identifier: 0389
Abstract
In the mid-1920s, Jackie Coogan Productions purchased a cattle ranch near Campo, California, approximately fifty miles east of San Diego, on behalf of child actor Jackie Coogan. The collection contains correspondence and financial documents related to the operations of the ranch between 1924 and 1936.
Dates:
1924 - 1936
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5195
Abstract
This collection consists of the records of the Maclay College of Theology at the University of Southern California.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1880s-1920s
Collection
Identifier: 0541
Abstract
This collection contains various handwritten record books and copies of legal and financial documents related to haciendas in Mexico, chiefly dating from the 17th to 19th centuries. The items concern a variety of topics including real estate, legal issues, boundary disputes, property and estate inventories, financial accounts reflecting income sources and debts, and issues related to indigenous peoples.
Dates:
1673 - 1913
Collection
Identifier: 6122
Abstract
Gerhard and Marianne Pinkus emigrated from Germany to Los Angeles in the 1930s and began to collect art in the 1940s. After accumulating a small collection of choice (and sometimes rare) finds, Gerhard and Marianne became a major force in the Los Angeles art world, especially in regard to their primary interest: Marc Chagall. Though they focused mainly on Chagall, the Pinkuses collected drawings, lithographs, and paintings by many other artists from various periods, with some emphasis on...
Dates:
1859-2005; Majority of material found in 1920s-1970s