Abstract The China Society of Southern California was founded in 1935 as a non-profit cultural organization and is the oldest Sino-American organization of its kind in the United States. The records of the China Society consist primarily of correspondence, board meeting minutes, the Bulletin of the China Society, and financial records. There are also materials surrounding events held by both the China Society and neighboring organizations, foundation documents, articles and clippings, as well as...

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1 menu from the New Year's Eve celebration held at the Coconut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel, December 31, 1948.

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Printed ephemera collected by the donor's aunt on a trip to Germany in 1936. Includes a guidebook for Hamburg, 2 postcards and a brochure for the Berlin Central-Hotel, events calendar for the week of July 7-13, 1936 for Berlin, a menu for Das Haus der deutschen Heimat restaurant, a magazine of the Berlin Tourist Association for the week of July 7-13, 1936, and two radio news bulletins from aboard the M.S. Batory dated July 4th and July 6th, 1936.

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22 menus from Los Angeles restaurants and cruise ships, including Perino's and The Brown Derby.

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The collection contains travel and home movies; cartoons and children's films; family recipes; monthly and annual reports; meeting minutes; financial records; family photographs; and a few miscellaneous items from the Milner Family.

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Menus from restaurants and bars, which presumably catered to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) clientele, circa 1960-2000. The majority of the restaurants represented in this collection were located in Los Angeles, California; others were located in San Francisco, New York City, and San Diego.