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Mabel C. Harris papers
Collection
Identifier: 7068
Abstract
Mabel C. Harris, also professionally known as Virginia O'Neal and Martha Logan, was a trained home economist who, after working for Swift and Company and Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corp., was hired by Vons grocery stores in 1960 to be the first home economist hired by a supermarket chain. Her papers consist of photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and cookbooks relating to her career in the Los Angeles food and grocery industry from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Dates:
1937 - 1989
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Household Survey records
Collection
Identifier: 0231
Abstract
In 1939, the Works Progress Administration provided funding for a comprehensive household survey of the Los Angeles area. Over the course of the project, about 400,000 documents, mostly census cards, were generated.
Dates:
1939
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections