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Floyd C. Covington papers
Collection
Identifier: 7057
Abstract
Floyd C. Covington was a Black civic leader in Los Angeles from the late 1920s to the 1970s. Through his work as the first Executive Director of the Los Angeles Urban League and his service in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Covington redefined social welfare and equal opportunity in both employment and housing for various communities in Los Angeles. Covington's papers contain his early scholarship and poetry from his youth and education in Seattle, Washington and Topeka,...
Dates:
1901 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1970
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Dancing Cansinos photograph album
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 8000
Abstract
The Dancing Cansinos photograph album consists of photographs and ephemera relating to the Dancing Cansinos, a family of professional dancers who emigrated from Spain and eventually settled in Los Angeles. The troupe consisted of Antonio, Sr. and Carmen Cansino; their children Eduardo, Elisa, Paco, Jose, Antonio, Jr., Rafael, and Angel; Gabriel Cansino, a cousin; and, briefly in the 1930s, Margarita Carmen Cansino, who later became known as the actress Rita Hayworth. Rita Hayworth's parents...
Dates:
1920 - 1939
Found in:
USC Libraries Music Library
Death Valley Scotty photograph album
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7146
Scope and Contents
A bound leather album containing fifty five black and white photographs of a location in Death Valley, California, known as Scotty's Castle. Scotty's Castle was named after Walter Scott (1872-1954), better known as Death Valley Scotty, who was one of the area's best known and most colorful characters. The album includes both exterior and interior shots of Scotty's Castle (including shots of Scotty's personal living quarters -- his bed, a wall of his hats, the photographs on his walls); views...
Dates:
circa 1930s-1940s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Arthur E. DeMott Civilian Conservation Corps photograph album
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6185
Abstract
An album of photographs documenting Civilian Conservation Corps projects in California compiled by Arthur E. DeMott. Activities pictured in the photographs include the construction of "Dalton Camp F-126," construction at Tanbark Flats, and the building of a dam.
Dates:
1933
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Harold L. Dittmer collages, scrapbooks, and photograph albums
Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: Coll2014-076
Abstract
Collages, photograph albums, and scrapbooks of the male physique created by Harold L. Dittmer. Dittmer used photographs and clippings approximately from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Dates:
circa 1930-1980
Harry L. Ettinger papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3333
Abstract
The Harry L. Ettinger papers contain correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, collected publications, and other material belonging to American philanthropist Harry L. Ettinger. In 1966, Ettinger--then serving as the director of the American-Korean Foundation--established a leprosy rehabilitation center in southeastern Seoul known as Ettinger Village. Ettinger was also a close associate of Syngman Rhee, who served as the first president of South Korea from 1948 to 1960. The Harry L....
Dates:
1950 - 1970
Found in:
USC Libraries East Asian Library
Filipino American Library collection
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
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Neil Flowers North Korea Journal photograph album
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 3037
Abstract
North Korea Journal: 2002 is a large album (30 cm x 42 cm) of photographs taken by poet, screenwriter, writer, director, actor, editor, and USC alumnus Neil Flowers during a trip to North Korea (DPRK) in June 2002. Flowers, a Canadian who lives and works in Los Angeles, was the only Caucasian amongst 19 Koreans from L.A. who were invited by the government to visit the DPRK. These Korean Angelenos (and Flowers) had been contributing financially to a noodle factory in Pyongyang that fed the...
Dates:
1995 - 2002
Found in:
USC Libraries East Asian Library
Foley and Sepulveda family papers
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
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Henry Garrett photograph album
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6039
Abstract
Album of photographs, mostly cartes-de-visite, depicting members of the extended Garrett family from Ireland. The album also includes a few scenic photographs. Inscribed on the verso of the first page: "Henry Garrett's Family album/1876-1896".
Dates:
1876 - 1896
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections