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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- Archival resources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:

Union Pacific Railroad Tidelands records

 Collection
Identifier: 0243
Abstract When the Union Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Railroad merged in 1997 and the former did a housecleaning of its inventory, many of the Union Pacific's archival materials were saved. The records that were donated to USC were chiefly those that were generated in the 1940s and 50s as part of the Tidelands controversies, concerning the Los Angeles / Long Beach / Wilmington harbor areas, and documenting channels, wetlands, islands, elevations, and shoreline. In addition to many maps,...
Dates: 1940s-1950s

University Club of Los Angeles scrapbooks and photograph albums

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5214
Abstract

This collection consists of University Club of Los Angeles photographs, event invitations, photograph albums, and scrapbooks.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1960s-1990s

University of Southern California oral histories

 Collection
Identifier: 0180
Abstract

Tapes and transcripts of interviews conducted by librarian Dr. Robert Knutson on behalf of the University between 1960-70.

Dates: 1960 - 1970

USC Library of Aeronautical History C. S. James collection on aviation

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275038202306]
Identifier: 0056
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1918 - 1957

Watts Writers' Workshop stories, lesson books, and other material

 Collection
Identifier: 0177
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1966 - 1993

George Harrison Whitney papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275056430367]
Identifier: 7005
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1897-1963, undated

Carol Mass Winn papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275049045892]
Identifier: 5271
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1944 - 1947; 1881; 1980

Zobelein family collection

 Collection
Identifier: 7009
Abstract The Zobelein family collection consists of photographs, maps, clippings, ephemera, and realia that documents the history of the Zobelein family and the brewing industry in Los Angeles in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The collection includes images of the Zobelein family house and descriptions of the real estate tracts owned by the Zobeleins; publications, photographs and ephemera documenting the Zobelein family business, the Los Angeles Brewing Company; and recollections and reports...
Dates: 1856-2006