Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 576 Collections and/or Records:
Century Freeway records
Collection
Identifier: 0228
Abstract
Century Freeway, officially named the I-105 Glenn M. Anderson (Century) Freeway Transitway, extends for 17.3 miles in a west-east direction, from Sepulveda Blvd near the Los Angeles International Airport to the I-605 Freeway. The freeway traverses nine cities in the County of Los Angles and interchanges with four freeways: Interstate Routes 405, 110, 710, and 605. Planning for the Century Freeway began in 1958 and it took 35 years to build. The freeway opened to the public in 1993. The...
Dates:
1966 - 1993
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Helen Paik Chen papers
Collection
Identifier: 3350
Abstract
This collection consists of the papers and photographs of Helen Paik Chen.
Dates:
Majority of material found within c. 20th century
Found in:
USC Libraries East Asian Library
China Society of Southern California records
Collection
Identifier: 3311
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...
Dates:
1935 - 2015
Found in:
USC Libraries East Asian Library
Arden H. Christensen papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275051173525]
Identifier: 5115
Abstract
This collection consists of the papers and photographs of University of Southern California alumnus Arden H. Christensen.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1920s-1960s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Carl Quimby Christol papers
Collection
Identifier: 5323
Abstract
Carl Quimby Christol, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science in USC's Dornsife College (on faculty from 1949-1987) was a pioneer in the field of international space law. The papers consist of materials documenting his time at the University of Chicago, personal activities, and items collected by Christolduring his time in the Army during World War II. The bulk of the collection documents Christol's tenure on the faculty at USC, and covers topics related to his area of...
Dates:
1931-2004, undated
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Church of Scientology publications, correspondence, and other material
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275058601627]
Identifier: 6275
Scope and Contents
A collection of printed and manuscript materials gathered and written by an unidentified New York woman in her early twenties while she was exploring the Church of Scientology during the 1960s. The collection includes 18 printed publications, 13 mimeographed policy letters and other memoranda from the Hubbard Communications Office, three completed "Personality Analysis" self evaluations, a two-page typed manuscript describing the woman's "gains from first auditing...
Dates:
1963 - 1967
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park records
Collection
Identifier: 0320
Abstract
The Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park was founded in 1965 to organize public and official awareness and to raise support to preserve the park land as public open space, and to develop it for recreational activities. The mission and efforts of this vibrant "grass roots" organization are ongoing, and the Committee will continue to add materials which document its activities. The collection consists of fifteen boxes of records dating back to the Committee's early history in the 1960s. ...
Dates:
1965 - 2019
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Clayonian Literary Society Lecture Committee records
Collection
Identifier: 0101
Abstract
The Clayonian Literary Society was charged with inviting notable persons of the day to speak at its meetings. George Long Hutchings, a banker, was chairman of the Clayonian Society of Newark, New Jersey at least until 1871. Some of the club's speakers included G. W. Curtis, Anna E. Dickinson, Bret Harte, and Frederick Douglass, among many other authors, musicians, actors, abolitionists, and activists. The collection is comprised of "acceptance" as well as "rejection" letters of the...
Dates:
1865 - 1937; Majority of material found within 1865 - 1896
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Cleve family papers
Collection
Identifier: 6164
Abstract
A collection of family papers concerning a Jewish family who fled Austria and sought exile in the United States during the rise of Nazi power. Felix Merori Cleve, his wife Melitta Cleve, their son George Wolfgang Cleve, and Felix's sister Fanny Suhrkamp-Cleve, were Austrian-Jewish emigres who fled to the United States after the Nazi Anschluss of Austria. This collection contains professional and personal correspondence and papers prior to their departure, correspondence and papers related...
Dates:
1910s-1980s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Coast to Coast Times records
Collection — Box 1: Series Series 1.; Series Series 2.
Identifier: Coll2011-021
Abstract
Typescripts and editorial content, correspondence, advertising information, personnel records, distribution records, financial records, notes, negatives, and publicity material, 1972-1979, from the bi-monthly gay and lesbian newsmagazine, Coast to Coast Times and its predecessor Pacific Coast Times, based in West Hollywood, California.
Dates:
1972-1979