Abstract The El Nido Services and Lodges records cover the practical details of El Nido's operations, 1930-1980, documenting its real estate management, zoning battles, tax questions, insurance and "disaster preparedness" provisions, and occasional personnel problems of this social service agency. Originally a project of the Los Angeles Section of the National Council of Jewish Women, the Section established a Children's Bureau in Los Angeles in 1925, and three years later built a camp for...

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This collection consists of the administrative and business files of Gin Wong Associates architecture firm.

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This collection consists of blueprints for the production studios of American-Polish film producer Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974). Goldwyn was a co-founder of Paramount Pictures, co-founder of Goldwyn Pictures which was later bought and combined with other studios to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), and the founder of Samuel Goldwyn Pictures. He also produced over 100 films.

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This collection consists of correspondences, drawings, articles, photographs, and the business dealings of the Los Angeles Theatre, the Tower Theatre, and the Cameo Theatre. These theatres were all once owned by H. L. Gumbiner.

Abstract Correspondence and photographs, along with business, financial, and organizational records, chronicling the life of W. Dorr Legg before and beyond his involvement with ONE, Incorporated. Photographs document his early life along with minimal records of his educational experience at the University of Michigan, his professional life as a landscape designer and professor, and as a Church of Christ, Scientist practitioner, 1909-1994. His family papers include documents from his siblings along...

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This collection consists of a scrapbook, publications, drafting papers, blueprints, sketches, and design files of architect and USC graduate George Ligar (1918-1995).

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The Los Angeles Union Station Collection documents the planning and construction of the historic landmark, as well as the battles that preceded its actual construction. The collection consists of approximately 22 boxes of legal files, blueprints, maps, correspondence, and planning documents regarding one of Los Angeles's most recognizable architectural icons.

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This collection consists of production materials of films produced by MGM. Extensive Ben-Hur (1959) set design materials are represented.

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The collection is comprised of a subdivision map as well as specifications, blueprints, and sketches of several structures constructed in South Los Angeles between 1910 and 1930.

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,...