Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- Archival resources
Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:
Union Pacific Railroad Tidelands records
University Club of Los Angeles scrapbooks and photograph albums
This collection consists of University Club of Los Angeles photographs, event invitations, photograph albums, and scrapbooks.
University of Southern California oral histories
Tapes and transcripts of interviews conducted by librarian Dr. Robert Knutson on behalf of the University between 1960-70.
USC Library of Aeronautical History C. S. James collection on aviation
Photographs, correspondence, ephemera pertaining to the history of Western Air Lines (Western Air Express). Charles N. James (a.k.a. James James, Jimmy James) flew the first Air mail run with Fred Kelly from Salt Lake to LA in seven hours, in 1926. He was a pilot for Western Air Express and later Vice-President in charge of operations at Western Airlines (1938-1950). He then became Security Manager with Bendix West Coast Division.
Watts Writers' Workshop stories, lesson books, and other material
The Watts Writers’ Workshop was founded in 1965 by Budd Schulberg. This collection contains clippings about the workshop and works by Jimmie Sherman, one of the Workshop’s members.
George Harrison Whitney papers
This collection cosists primarily of information on the Van Nuys and Lankershim families, pioneers in Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, and the development of the Valley. George Harrison Whitney was President of the Van Nuys Foundation.
Carol Mass Winn papers
This collection consists of one copy of "Los Angeles Cookery" (1881), with clippings enclosed; a copy of an article from the Los Angeles Times (8/24/1980) on the cookbook; issues of "Wampus," magazine (12/1944, 2/1945, 1/1946, and 4-5/1947) published the USC Associated Students.