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Collection
Identifier: 0116
Abstract
This collection contains scripts for plays performed by the Federal Theatre Project, which was operated between 1935 and 1939 as a part of the Work Progress Administration. The Los Angeles branch of the project produced over 195 plays.
Dates:
1935-1939
Collection
Identifier: 7018
Abstract
This collection consists of the papers of Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education member Richard E. Ferraro.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1970s-1980s
Collection
Identifier: 6235
Abstract
The Filipino American Library collection consists of materials owned by the Filipino American Library in Historic Filipinotown that were transferred to the University of Southern California Special Collections in 2017. The collection is currently divided into two categories: (i) digitized material and (ii) minimally processed material. The digitized material consists of lantern slides, bound volumes, photographic prints, maps, and other materials that the USC Digital Library digitized and...
Dates:
1910 - 2015
Collection
Identifier: 7042
Abstract
The Foley and Sepulveda family papers consists of letters, diaries, photographs, photograph albums, books, legal documents and ephemera, 1850-1953 and undated, created and collected by various members of the Sepulveda and Foley families. The bulk of the collection consists of materials created and collected by William I. (W.I.) Foley and his daughter Viola Lillian Foley Morrow. Also included are some items from Foley's wife Sara Dolores Sepulveda, their children Zoraya, Rupert, and Elsa...
Dates:
1850-1953, undated
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2174
Abstract
This collection consists of American film producer David Foster (1929-2019) expenses, scripts, videotapes, and photographs. Foster created films such as "The Fog" (2005) and "The River Wild" (1994), included in this collection. Foster graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television in 1953.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1970s-2000s
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2676
Abstract
Collection consists of the books, tapes, DVDs, and papers belonging to author and media arts historian Anne Friedberg (1952-2009).
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1980s - 2009
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2387
Abstract
This collection consists of the papers of American writer and producer Bernard Gordon (1918-2007), including scripts, personal papers, books, floppy disks, photographs, and personal finance records. Gordon was a blacklisted writer who often wrote screenplays under the name Raymond T. Marcus. He wrote films like Flesh and Fury (1952), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), and 55 Days at Peking (1963). He also wrote two autobiographical books about his blacklisting and the government...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1920s-2000s
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2008-046
Abstract
A collection of collage and scrapbook albums by unidentified individuals, circa 1950s-1980s. The contents primarily consist of clippings and photographs either in a scrapbook or collage album, but may also include drawings in pencil or pen, prose, poetry, watercolors, and repurposed books, periodicals, and greeting cards.
Dates:
circa 1950s-1980s
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: 5310
Abstract
Copy of first issue of "The Rare Bird," yearbook of the School of Medicine (1955); copy of Dr. Hazan's memoir "Looking Back at My America" (2006). Hazan was the business manager for the yearbook.
Dates:
1955, 2006