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These categories represent a set of collection strengths in the Digital Library that support the research, teaching, performance and patient care mission of the University and inspire our students, faculty and staff in their scholarly and creative endeavors. These categories will change and evolve over time to reflect changes in the university's mission and the interests of our students and faculty.

The Verle and Elizabeth Annis papers contain photographs, pamphlets, postcards, correspondence, architectural designs, and other material created by Verle and Elizabeth Annis. Verle Lincoln Annis (1897-1983) was a scholar and professor of architecture at the University of Southern California until 1962. Verle Annis wrote The Architecture of Antigua Guatemala 1543-1773, published in 1968 by the University of San Carlos de Guatemala. Elizabeth Naomi Annis (née Reed) (1905-2000) was a writer, traveler, and supporter of libraries, having served as a founding member of the Friends of the Library organization at the University of California, Irvine. The physical collection consists of photographs, pamphlets, and postcards from the Annis' travels in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal; a photo index of Latin American architecture on file cards; a few architectural designs; correspondence; travel journals; Verle Annis' course materials; an unpublished manuscript by Elizabeth Annis; and other material dating from approximately 1910 to 1978.

Verle and Elizabeth Annis Papers

This collection was drawn from various collections of 35-millimeter slides physically maintained in and by the Art and Architecture Library.

Architectural Teaching Slide Collection

California History Through Armenian Experiences
Focusing on the power of the individual story, "California History Through Armenian Experiences" oral history initiative by the USC Institute of Armenian Studies documents the diversity and history of Armenian presence in California. The interviews in this collection were conducted starting in 2018 and will continue through 2024, ranging from formal oral history interviews by trained interviewers, such as the Displaced Persons Documentation Project and the Armenian-American Experiences Oral History Project, to crowd-sourced interviews through the Institute’s “My Armenian Story” project. Narrators share their stories of migration, community-building in diaspora, personal experiences of world and regional events, and their individual and collective contributions to the social and cultural fabric of California and beyond. A number of interviews also contain digitized photographs and ephemera from the narrators’ personal collections.
 
Displaced Persons Documentation Project
The USC Institute of Armenian Studies has been recording oral histories and gathering documents on the unique history of the Armenian displaced persons (DP) community formed during and after World War II. Many interviewees migrated to Southern California, with Montebello, California fostering a large number of diasporans eager to rebuild the connective tissues torn by war and displacement. This growing collection of oral histories and digitized documents is meant to serve as a primary source for researchers who are interested in World War II, post-Genocide Armenian history, and Diaspora Studies.
 
The documentation and publication of oral histories in this collection is funded, in part, by the California State Library through the “California History through Armenian Experiences” project.

Institute of Armenian Studies Digital Collection

The Asian Maps Collection brings together a range of graphic representations of East and Southeast Asia, its features, localities and history.

The Sea of Korea Map subcollection consists of original maps, dating from 1606 to 1895, in English, French, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Latin, German and Russian. The subcollection was formed by digitizing the combination of two private collections (David Lee and Shannon McCune) comprised of 172 maps. Together, they help to illustrate how the West's image of East Asia evolved over the course of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

David Lee contribution of 132 maps was assembled for the purpose of documenting the application of the term "Sea of Korea" (or similar terms) to identify the body of water between Japan and Korea.

The Shannon McCune maps were gathered by this prominent professor of East Asian geography for use in his distinguished teaching and research career.

Asian Maps Collection

The Automobile Club of Southern California Collection provides documentation on the region's transportation history, especially Los Angeles from 1892 to 1963, from the Auto Club's Corporate Archives. The Collection includes: a selection of 98 historic strip maps, illustrating the development of major Southern California routes; 498 photographs from the general photograph collection, depicting buildings, businesses, streets, and points of interest; and 650 photographs from engineering notebooks along with searchable transcriptions of the engineers' notes documenting the conditions of streets, highways, bridges, railroads, etc.

The Automobile Club of Southern California was founded in 1900 and its archive provides a distinctive picture of life in the region during the 20th century. The documents and pictorial materials relate not only to the Club's history but also to local and regional architecture, infrastructure, public policy, and cultural and recreational history.

Since 1909 the Auto Club has produced a monthly magazine focused on automotive tourism. The archived issues of Touring Topics and its successor, Westways, provide a chronicle of landscapes and destinations including extensive coverage of the deserts and coastal regions of California, the national parks of the American West, and Hawaii.

The club began to participate in deliberations about transportation policy in 1909. Its activities have included independent provision of planning studies as well as commentary on public policies, programs and proposals. In 1922 the Auto Club produced the first comprehensive traffic survey of Los Angeles, and in 1937 its engineers wrote the first detailed proposal for a region-wide freeway system. The working files for these projects provide a rich source of materials on the region.

A substantial portion of the holdings document the workings of the organization itself, from the executive staff to the daily operations in dozens of district offices.

Automobile Club of Southern California collection, 1892-1963

Jerry Berndt Collection is a collection of 774 photographs shot by Jerry Berndt. These photographs were created under the auspices of Center of Religion and Civic Center (CRCC), USC. Jerry Berndt is an American photojournalist based in Paris. His photographs are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the International Center of Photography (New York York), and the Bibliotheque National (Paris).

Jerry Berndt Collection

The Biomechanics of Movement Collection is intended for researchers and students to access and utilize video clips of human movements. This digital archive resource provides a mechanism for bringing together engineers, animators, computer scientists, and kinesiologists to collectively solve meaningful real world problems fundamental to functional movement. This digital collection of movement video clips is created by members of the USC Biomechanics Research Laboratory in collaboration with USC Libraries. The five primary facets of the Biomechanics of Motion Collection are Tasks, Actors, Abilities, Equipment and Views. The secondary facets are Task Details, Actor details, Ability details, Equipment detail, View details, Trial Number and Frame rate. The files name of each video clip incorporate sequential abbreviations of the five primary facets and then the secondary facets separated by a hyphen. Given below is an explanation of primary facet codes used for generating such file names:
 
PRIMARY FACETS

Tasks: Advanced Progression (AP), Arm Circles (AC), Cut (CU), Diving (DV), Dribbling (DB), Frog (FR), Front Plank (FP), Golf (GF), Head (HE), Hopping (HO), Juggle (JG), Juggling with Feet (JF), Jumping Jacks (JJ), Musculo Skeletal (MS), Passing (PS), Receive (RE), Receive Air (RA), Receive Check (RC), Side Plank (SP), Sit to Stand (SS), Sole Pull (SO), Swing (SW), Toe Touch (TT), Turn (TU), Volley (VO), Warm Ups (WU), Zig-Zag (ZZ)
Actors: Animation (AN), Dancer (DA), Dental Hygienist (DH), Diver (DV), Football Player (FP), Golfer (GF), Musician (MU), Skeleton (SK), Soccer Player (SP), Trex (TX), Volleyball Player (VP)Equipment: 6 Iron (6I), 9 Iron (9I), Cello (CL), Chair (CH), Driver Standard (DS), Football (FB), Platform (PF), Shoes (SH), Soccer Ball (SB), Toe Shoes (TS), Trumpet (TP), Volleyball (VB)
Abilities: Advanced (A0), Intermediate (I0), Novice (N0), Professional (P0)
Views: Back (B0), Front (F0), Front and Back (FB), Front and Side (FS), Front and Top (FT), Front and Under (FU), Left Side (L0), Multiple (M0), Right Side (R0), Side (S0), Top (T0), Under (U0)

 
SECONDARY FACETS

Task details: 135 Degrees (35), 45 Degrees (45), 80 Degrees (80), 90 Degrees (90), 90-90 (99), Arm Circles (AC), Backward Somersault (BS), Both Feet (BF), Bounce Foot (B1), Bounce Foot Foot (B2), Bounce Foot Foot Foot (B3), Compass (CS), Down (DW), Downward Dog (DD), Dummy (DU), Foot Bounce (F1), Foot Bounce Foot (FB), Foot Foot (F2), Forward (FD), Forward Somersault (FS), Frog (FG), Front Plank (FP), High Chair (HC), Hip Flexion (HF), Inside Left turn (IL), Inside Out (IO), Inside Right Turn (IR), Inside The Left Foot (LF), Inside The Right Foot (RF), Internal Shoulder Rotation (SR), Jumping Jacks (JJ), Kneeling (KN), Left (L0), Maximum (MX), Maximum with Bounce (MB), Normal Swing (NS), One Touch (OT), Outside Right Turn (OR), Outside Left Turn (OL), Outside the Left Foot (LO), Outside the Right Foot (RO), Plus 10 Yard Swing (SP), Right (R0), Run on One Leg (R1), Scissor (SC), Sitting (SI), Standing (ST), Step Over and Turn (SO), Swivel Run Shuffle (SS), Then Pass Inside Left (PL), Then Pass Inside Right (PR), Then Pass Outside Left (TL), Then Pass Outside Right (TR), Toe Touch (TT), Top of the Toot (TF), Up (UP), U-Turn (UT), With Left Thigh (LT), With Right Thigh (RT), With the Chest (CH), With the Thigh (TH), Zig-Zag (ZZ)
Actor details: Middle Aged Female (FM), Young Female (FY), Young Male (MY)
Ability details: Non-Specific
Equipment details: In Laboratory (LB), On Grass (GR), On Turf (TF), With Alignment Grid (AG), With Computer (CP), With Matt System (MS)
View details: Force Overlay (FO), Force Vectors (FV), Overlay and Vectors (OV)

 
For example, the file name for the video clip of Golf, a normal swing, performed by a young female of advanced ability with a 9 iron recorded from the Multiple view is GFGFA09IM0-NSFY00MSOV0115. Please also note that "fps" as in "recorded at 20 fps" refers to frames per second. This digital collection of movement video clips is created by members of the USC Biomechanics Research Laboratory in collaboration with USC Libraries.

<span>Jill McNitt-GrayProfessor, College of Letters Arts and Sciences, Kinesiology (</span>https://dornsife.usc.edu/kinesiology/biomech/gallery.html<span>). Principal Investigator</span>
<span>Korkut Brown, Doctoral Candidate at the USC College of Letters Arts and Sciences, Mechanical Engineering. Metadata</span>

Biomechanics of Motion Collection

The Edmund G. Brown, Jr. papers comprise the papers of Jerry Brown during his tenure as California Secretary of State (1971-1975) and his first two terms as the Governor of California (1975-1983). Over the course of his career, Jerry Brown has served as the California Secretary of State (1971-1975), the 34th Governor of California (1975-1983), the Mayor of Oakland (1999-2007), the Attorney General of California (2007-2011), and the 39th Governor of California (2011-2019).

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Papers

The collection consists of items related to the redevelopment of Bunker Hill: legal documents, reports, studies, brochures, proposals, serials, books, photographs, design proposals, and Community Redevelopment Agency studies. Also found within the collection are planning documents and other related materials concerning surrounding downtown areas: Central City East, South Park, Financial District, Historic Core (including the Broadway Corridor), Seventh Street Retail Development, and various housing, tourism, retail, and transportation reports. See the finding aid at https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/227.

Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project records (1938-1997)

The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

The California Social Welfare Archives (CSWA, https://www.usc.edu/cswa) was organized in 1979 to collect materials that chronicle the history and diversity of social welfare in California.

The physical Archives (https://www.oac.cdlib.org/institutions/University+of+Southern+California::California+Social+Welfare+Archives) contains correspondence, minutes, memoranda, annual reports, research papers, conference proceedings, oral histories, and newsletters of California social welfare and related organizations which have reflected in their programs the development of social welfare programs, problems, issues, and services in the State. It also contains the personal papers of social workers or social work lay or civic leaders who participated in the emergence of social programs, public or private. Included in the collection are documents illustrating the roles of philanthropic groups and, especially, those depicting the history of marginalized groups as providers and consumers of mainstream social welfare services, as well as their experience in developing and using their own community services through, for example, benevolent societies and religious groups.

Only part of the Archives have so far been digitized and are available here in the USC Digital Library.

CSWA is located on the campus of the University of Southern California, Doheny Memorial Library, room 209. The Archives may be used by academic and community researchers (by appointment only).

Contact: Social and Behavioral Sciences Library Services
Email: sscihelp@usc.edu
We will respond within 24 hours, observing normal business hours Monday-Friday.

California Social Welfare Archives

The Historical California Topographical Maps collection contains over 700 maps of California quadrangle maps issued by the United States Geological Survey. The maps cover the entire state of California in three sizes -- 15-minute, 30-minute, and 60-minute. Included are multiple editions of the same maps from as early as 1886 and as recent as 1977. The maps were digitized primarily from three physical collections -- the University of Southern California (USC), the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL). Many of these maps are not in the USGS National Center in Reston, Virginia, as of the time of their digitization (ca.2002).

Thanks to Li Hunt for gathering these maps from their disparate locations in order to make them available here.

Historical California Topographical Maps, 1886-1977

The Cassady Lewis Carroll Collection consists of publications, correspondence, and other materials by and related to Lewis Carroll and come from the Cassady (G. Edward, M.D. and Margaret Elizabeth, R.N.) Lewis Carroll collection (https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/390). The collection continues to grow as Dr. Cassady donates additional material.

San Francisco pediatrician George Cassady loved the Alice in Wonderland books so much that he read them to his sons at bedtime and incorporated Alice quotes into his lectures at medical conferences. In 2000, he gave his extensive collection of vintage books and spin-off items to his alma mater, USC, and funded the creation of an Alice symposium with the Huntington Library in 2006 with a promise to keep adding to the book collection. The collection currently contains almost 1,700 titles, including first editions of the 1865-66 Alice's Adventures and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. In addition to these and a facsimile of Carroll's manuscript, there are foreign language and illustrated editions of the Alice books. Illustrated editions include works with 19th century black and white etchings and 20th century illustrations inspired by animation techniques. Stage adaptations, film versions, Victorian-era playing cards and pop-up books for the very young are included in the collection. Some illustrators are famous in their own right, like Salvador Dali, Barry Moser and Ralph Steadman. Critical works on Lewis Carroll are included, as well as collector’s editions of Carroll’s other books. A portion of the Lewis Carroll Collection is housed in the Horton Reading Room, Room 209, Doheny Memorial Library.

Cassady Lewis Carroll Collection

Established in 2003, the USC Center on Public Diplomacy (CPD) is a recognized leader in research, analysis and professional education with a reputation as the most comprehensive resource on public diplomacy, cultural relations and global engagement. CPD is building the field of public diplomacy into a strong and sustainable facet of international relations grounded in academic theory with an emphasis on practical application. In 2008, USC received the Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Diplomacy from the U.S. Department of State in recognition of the university's teaching, training and research in public diplomacy.

Center for Public Diplomacy

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 collection includes reports, studies, meeting minutes, photographs, and court documents related to the planning and building of the freeway.

Century Freeway records

The China Society of Southern California has held meetings and events in Los Angeles since 1935, focusing on promoting an appreciation of Chinese culture. The collection consists of the Society’s foundation documents (constitution, by-laws), its Bulletin, meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records and various other records of their activities over the course of the last eighty years (1935-2015).

The collection came to the University through connections made by Clayton Dube, Associate Director of USC’s U.S.-China Institute. Representatives of the China Society of Southern California, including its President (2014), Robert Lee, visited USC to discuss the donation of the material.

See the finding aid (https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/6/resources/2808) for the China Society of Southern California records.

China Society of Southern California Collection

The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Collection documents artifacts systematically excavated from two sites in Southern California. The first site is represented by about 1,040 color images of artifacts from the original Los Angeles Chinatown; an additional 150 images document artifacts from the site of a Chinese laundry in Santa Barbara. These two outstanding Chinese Historical Society of Los Angeles artifact collections are among the largest and best documented assemblage of cultural materials on Chinese settlement in the United States. Excavated from unmixed dated sites with developed historical context, the collections represent tremendous research potential.

Chinese Historical Society Santa Barbara artifacts.
The first collection consists of materials excavated in 1992 during the seismic upgrading by the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation of an old adobe structure that for about 25 years housed a Chinese laundry. These materials represent a valuable resource for reconstructing a narrower range of Chinese working class daily life in Santa Barbara from about the mid 1880s to 1905.

Chinese Historical Society Chinatown artifacts.
The second and larger collection consists of materials systematically excavated, in October/November 1989 and February/March 1991, during the construction of the Metro Rail Red Line by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Unearthed from a sealed and unmixed deposit underneath Union Station, the collection conveys information on the daily life and activities of people from all walks of life and all classes of the Chinese community from the1880's to 1933. Valuable data on food and subsistence, medicinal preparations and health practices, household technology, recreation, art, ritual patterns of space usage, and interaction with the Anglo community can be garnered from the objects, and changes over time may also be traced stratigraphically.

The digitization of artifacts from these two sites was supported by a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Collection, ca. 1880-1933

The collection of Chinese posters consists of approximately 43 posters, including a few duplicates, advertising both Chinese and Western products. Many of the posters date from the 1920s and were printed in China by the Shanghai Commercial Press (Shanghai shang wu yin shu guan or 上海商务印书馆). The collection also includes 12 calendars featuring art by various Chinese artists, including Zheng Mantuo. One of the calendars is signed by Zheng Mantuo. The commercial posters advertise various products, including cigarettes, condensed milk, alcohol, and shaving products.

Chinese Posters Collection

The Chinese Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection includes materials in Chinese that date from the 13th to the mid-19th century.

Chinese Rare Books and Manuscripts

El Clamor Publico is available through a partnership with The Huntington Library, who generously allowed USC to digitize their complete holdings of this newspaper. Billed as Los Angeles' "Periodico Independiente y Literario," El Clamor Publico was the first Spanish-language newspaper in California after the American occupation. It was founded by the former Spanish editor of the Los Angeles Star, Francisco P. Ramirez, a 19-year old printer. Published weekly, 233 four-page issues were published between July 1855 and August 1859.

The initially moderate paper evolved into an activist tabloid and espoused strong political views generally in support of the Mexicanos. While articles commonly dealt with American political ideology and practice, the newspaper's publication of poetry and literature make it an excellent source of cultural history. It was distributed as far north as San Francisco. For additional information see an account of the historic building in Los Angeles which housed the newspaper at Mexican Americans in California: Historic Sites: El Clamor Publico Site (https://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/5views/5views5h34.htm).

El Clamor Publico Collection, 1855-1859

Archive of computer science technical reports published by the USC Department of Computer Science from 1991 - 2017.

Computer Science Technical Report Archive

The Crystal City Collection documents a detention camp for Japanese in Crystal City, Texas, formed secretly to gather and house Japanese, German and Italian citizens in the United States and Latin America, to be used for prisoner exchange for Americans and others in Japanese detention. This distinguishes it from "relocation" camps, which were largely for American citizens of Japanese descent.

Crystal City Collection

Vahakn Dadrian (1926-2019) was an Armenian-American sociologist and historian and one of the early scholars of the academic study of genocide. Dadrian was especially recognized as a leading expert on the Armenian Genocide. The Vahakn Dadrian papers contain Dadrian's research files on the Armenian Genocide. The collection includes copies of published legal papers with Dadrian's notes, maps of Turkey and Armenia, newspaper clippings, literature relating to Armenian Studies, copies of records from the German State Archives, research files organized by subject, copies of records from Turkish Military Tribunal hearings, United Nations session transcripts with notes, a large binder labeled "Report of the Armenian Genocide Archive Project" from 1986, statistics on genocide, and documentation of 1919-1920 Turkish court martial trials.

Vahakn Dadrian Papers

With generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (https://mellon.org/), the USC Libraries (https://libraries.usc.edu) and the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance (https://kaufman.usc.edu) created the Dance History Video Archive (DHVA) collection. The collection preserves culturally significant recordings that document global and U.S. dance traditions, creative work by outstanding choreographers and performers, and performances that helped to advance the art form.

The DHVA collection continues the work begun by the Dance Heritage Coalition’s Dance Preservation and Digitization Project to address the challenges faced by dance artists, choreographers, performers, and companies in preserving a record of their work and helping to share it as broadly as possible with global and U.S. audiences and scholars.

Over a 15-year period, the Dance Heritage Coalition assembled more than 1,200 important dance performances digitized at hubs in New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Thanks to generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, those recordings were migrated to their new permanent home in the USC Digital Library during the summer of 2018.

The USC Libraries will make the DHVA collection available as broadly as reasonably possible within contractual and legal limits for educational research, study, and teaching.

The collection includes video recordings with certain rights restrictions that require limited access. To inquire about gaining access to these materials, contact (dhva@usc.edu) dance preservation and digital projects librarian Javier Garibay.

In the coming years, the USC Libraries and the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance will continue to build and enhance the features of this culturally significant digital collection documenting the artistry and diversity of human movement traditions.

Dance Heritage Video Archive

The Edward L. Doheny Family Collection is comprised of materials acquired from the family of the namesake of Doheny Library, the main library on the campus of the University of Southern California.

Edward L. Doheny Family Collection

The Dunbar Economic Development Corporation (Dunbar EDC) collection contains photographs and artifacts which document the Vernon-Central neighborhood of Los Angeles which is the historic core of the California African American community. The Dunbar EDC was founded by local community members to implement a holistic approach to addressing the lack of employment opportunity and prosperity existing in the Vernon-Central area.

The collection contains 32 photographs, 2 newspaper articles, and one document.

Dunbar Economic Development Corporation Collection, 1880-1986

The collection consists of more than 2,000 digitized 35mm slides of murals in Los Angeles photographed by Robin Dunitz. The murals date from 1925 to the early 2000s and were photographed by Dunitz in the late 1980s and early-mid 1990s to early 2000s.

Robin Dunitz Slides of Los Angeles Murals, 1925-2002

This collection contains documentary ephemera on emerging nationalism in Portuguese Africa, collected by Ronald H. Chilcote in the course of research he did for his book, Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa. Emphasis is on materials originating from the nationalist organizations of Angola and Mozambique with lesser amounts on the Cape Verde Islands, Guinea-Biasau, and Sao Tome and Principe. Also included are copies of United Nations documents relating to Portuguese Africa.

Chilcote is a political scientist and Latin Americanist by training and was the founding editor of Latin American Perspective. He created a documentation center in Africa for which he collected one each of these documents. Sadly the center and its contents were destroyed during the struggle for independence. However, all original documents are safely preserved in the Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa collection in the USC Libraries' Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (https://libraries.usc.edu/locations/special-collections-department/boeckmann-center) in Special Collections.

Funding for the acquisition of the collection and metadata creation was provided by the Boeckmann Center Endowment.

Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa, 1959-1965

Organized by El Centro Chicano, the first Festival de Flor y Canto (Festival of flower and song), a three day literary festival that brought together dozens of Chicano novelists, poets, and short story writers on November 16-18, 1973 (Town and Gown at the University of Southern California), inspired subsequent events including the 2nd festival in Austin, Texas (Festival Floricanto II), the 3rd in San Antonio, Texas, the 4th in Albuquerque, New Mexico (Flor y Canto IV, 1977), and the 5th in Tempe, Arizona (Flor y Canto V, 1978). Three additional events under the name "Canto al Pueblo" took place later in Wisconsin, south Texas and Colorado.

Most of the 1973 readings were captured on video, and Michael Sedano digitized and donated the 39 DVDs to the Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies in Doheny Library, University of Southern California. Michael V. Sedano is a USC alumnus and, in 1973, he was a student photographer for the Daily Trojan who photographed the event. Nearly 150 photographs are included in this collection.

The writers and artists who performed at the Festival Flor y Canto in 1973: Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Alurista, Jorge Alvarez, Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin, Estevan Arellano, Ronald Arias, Tomás Atencio, Jerónimo Blanco, Olivia Castellano, Juan A. Contreras, Veronica Cunningham, David Gómez, Juan Gómez Quiñones, Jorge González, Barbara Hernández, Juan Felipe Herrera, R.R. Hinojosa Smith, Elias Hruska-Cortez, Enrique Lamadrid, Benjamín Rochín Luna, E.A. "Tony" Mares, José Montoya (no DVD), Alejandro Murguía, Antonio G. Ortiz, Pedro Ortiz Vásquez, Javier Pacheco, Tomás Rivera, Lynne Romero, Ponce Javier Ruiz, Omar Salinas, raúlrsalinas, Ricardo Sánchez, Frank Sifuentes, Mario Suárez, Marcela Trujillo, Avelardo Valdez, Roberto Vargas (no DVD), El Teatro de los niños (not digitized), El Teatro pequeño (not digitized), El Teatro mestizo.

If you would like to help identify some of the individuals in the photographs, please go to the photographer's Website and submit any information you have. We will feed those identifications back into the USC Digital Library as well.

Festival de Flor y Canto de Aztlan, 1973 & 2010

This collection contains digitized materials from the Lion Feuchtwanger papers, a collection in the Department of Special Collections, USC. The following description refers to the physical collection. As additional materials are digitized from the physical collection, they will be added to the digital collection.

The Lion Feuchtwanger papers (https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/203) consist of the German-Jewish novelist's personal and business correspondence; manuscripts for plays, poetry, short stories, and historical novels; manuscripts by other writers including Marie Luise Fleisser, Luzi Korngold, and Alan Marcus as well as Charles Chaplin's manuscript for Limelight; correspondence with publishers; newspaper clippings mentioning Feuchtwanger and other exiles; photographs from Feuchtwanger's life in Germany, his exile in France, and in the United States; copyright agreements and reviews of his works; ephemera; art works; audio and video recordings; and his speeches and open letters about Judaism, politics, and literature.

Even though the majority of materials in this collection dates to the 1940s and 1950s when Feuchtwanger lived in Los Angeles, the collection includes important holdings from his exile in Southern France and a few materials from his life in Germany. Noteworthy among the materials from Feuchtwanger's life in Germany are the original manuscripts for his novels Jud Süss and Die hässliche Herzogin, as well as newspaper clippings containing Nazi propaganda and lists of people who were stripped of their German citizenship. The papers also contain Feuchtwanger's vast collection of autograph letters. Amongst these are original letters by historical figures such as Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Charles Darwin, Alexandre Dumas, Eleonora Duse, and many more. The collection also holds the bookseller's catalogs used by Feuchtwanger to acquire his vast personal library. Furthermore, the collection includes materials on the establishment of the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library at USC, the International Feuchtwanger Society, and the artists' residence Villa Aurora, the former Feuchtwanger residence.

Lion Feuchtwanger Papers, 1884-1958

The Edward H. Fickett Collection contains a selection of items digitized from the archives of the architectural office of Edward H. Fickett (1916-1999), FAIA, in Special Collections, USC Libraries. The physical collection contains 664.04 linear feet of architectural drawings, renderings, and photographs as well as other material stored in 360 boxes, including 99 long boxes, 163 document boxes, 2 banker's boxes, an additional 96 boxes of various sizes; and 52 flat file drawers. Another set of renderings is stored in flat folders. In addition, there are 4 3-D models of Fickett projects. The entire physical collection dates from 1945-2013.

Examples in the digital selection include some of Fickett's more notable designs: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles Police Academy, Hotel Cabo San Lucas, Los Angeles City Hall tower renovation and the Port of Los Angeles Passenger and Cargo Terminals.

The rights to the archive as well as the physical materials were transferred to USC.

The USC Digital Library acknowledges the support provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission in making this material available online.

Edward H. Fickett, FAIA, Collection

The Filipino American Library Collection consists of materials owned by the Filipino American Library in Historic Filipinotown that were transferred to the University of Southern California Special Collections in 2017.

The Filipino-American Library was founded in a church basement in 1985 as the Pilipino American Reading Room and Library (PARRAL) in a neighborhood close to Echo Park by Helen Agcaoili Summers Brown, affectionately referred to as “Auntie Helen” in the local community. In January of 2000 PARRAL moved to a new location on Temple Street and was renamed the Filipino American Library (FAL). It contained the largest collection of Filipino and Filipino American reading materials at more than 6,000 titles, and promoted literacy and cultural engagement through many community programs and exhibits. When the FAL closed its doors, its collections were dispersed among the USC Libraries and the Echo Park Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library.

Items selected by affiliates of the FAL to be made digitally available include lantern slides, bound volumes, photographic prints, maps, and loose printed materials that all reveal the Filipino American experience spanning life in the Philippines, contributions by Filipino Americans in the World War II effort, and the acculturation and growth of the Filipino American community in Southern California. Materials are written in English, Tagalog, and Ilocano. Highlights of the Filipino American Library Collection include:

? Items commemorating Filipino veterans from World War II, including publications and a certificate of commendation from President Clinton
? Bilingual short stories written by staff from the Asian American Bilingual Center about Asian immigrants and their journey and settlement to the United States
? Reports, summaries, and recommendations surrounding the health, education, and welfare of Asian Americans
? Ephemeral materials from the Philippines detailing geography, culture, religion, and life in the Philippines in the early 20th century

Thanks to generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (https://www.neh.gov/), the USC Libraries are digitizing this collection for public access as part of the L.A. as Subject Community Histories Digitization Project.

Filipino American Library Collection

Finch Family Papers, 1776-1954

The First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles Collection currently consists of approximately 400 sermons given by Reverend Cecil “Chip” Murray. These recordings capture the evolution of Reverend Murray’s thinking during his time leading the church in addition to the messages he gave his congregation after pivotal moments in U.S. life, such as the acquittal of the LAPD officers captured on video beating Rodney King. These sermons, delivered with passion, great humor, and insights into the structural inequalities that led to events like the 1992 L.A. civil unrest, are a record of important events interpreted through the lens of Rev. Murray’s socially engaged African-American Christianity. Originally captured on VHS, a selection of these sermons have been digitized by the USC Digital Repository and uploaded and transcribed for optimum access in the Digital Library. Founded by Biddy Mason in 1872, the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles (also known as the First AME, or FAME Church) is the oldest African-American church in Southern California. During his 27 years as pastor, Reverend Murray transformed a small congregation of 250 people into an 18,000-member institution that brought jobs, housing, and corporate investment into South L.A. neighborhoods. After the 1992 civil unrest, the economic development arm of the church brought more than $400 million in investments to L.A.’s minority and low-income neighborhoods. After retiring from his ministry in 2004, Reverend Murray was named a senior fellow of the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture (CRCC). He chairs the USC Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement, a leadership training and capacity-building organization that equips clergy and lay leaders to guide their communities into full partnership in the development of underserved neighborhoods in Greater Los Angeles. Materials from the First African Methodist Episcopal Church Collection are part of the L. A. as Subject Community Histories Digitization Project. Thanks to generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (https://www.neh.gov/), the USC Libraries are digitizing this collection for public access.

First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles Collection

Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) is best remembered by the title he gave his autobiography, Son of the Middle Border. First receiving notice with a successful collection of grimly naturalistic 'down home' stories in 1891 (Main-Roads Traveled), Garland came to prominence just as the "frontier" mentality was receding in the wake of the settling of California and the West. Garland, with roots in Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest, frequently wrote about how this area had also been borderland in his lifetime. Garland was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1918, and won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for biography for his autobiography A Daughter of the Middle Border.
 
In later years Garland wrote extensively about Indian affairs, conservation, art, literary trends, and psychic research; he also expanded his geographic range to include romances of the Far West, yet it was his reminiscences of his early years which stamped him in the public mind, and to which he turned again and again for inspiration. He lectured at USC in the mid-1930s; and his personal library along with some 8000 letters from fellow writers, publishers, and admirers came to USC after Garland's death, forming the cornerstone of the American Literature Collection.
 
Supporters
 
Thanks to generous support from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission (https://www.archives.gov/nhprc), the USC Libraries are digitizing this collection for online public access.

Hamlin Garland Correspondence, 1864-1941

The Go for Broke National Education Center Collection contains materials from the Go for Broke National Education Center.

Hanashi Oral History Program

The Hanashi Oral History Program subcollection is comprised of approximately 1,100 oral histories of Japanese-American WWII veterans and their contemporaries in the war effort gathered by the Go for Broke National Education Center. The mission of this program, initiated in 1998, is to gather and preserve the life stories of Japanese American war veterans. Interviewees include Senator Daniel Inouye and others who were highly decorated for their service and bravery as they reflect on the historical significance of WWII, their reasons for serving, the incarceration of their families in camps, their service in segregated Japanese-American combat units, and the complexities of their wartime experiences.

Hiroshi Sugiyama Collection, circa 1941-1945

The Hiroshi Sugiyama Collection, circa 1941-1945, is comprised of photographs, memorabilia, correspondence, and bound volumes relating to Hiroshi Sugiyama, a medic who served with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in World War II. The subcollection focuses on Sugiyama’s military service, as many of the items are military regalia that show signs of Sugiyama’s personalization. A portion of the photographs and correspondence are personal in nature. Some items of note are letters from Sugiyama to family members incarcerated in camps and Sugiyama’s posthumously awarded Purple Heart and Bronze Star medals. Materials are in English and Japanese.

Materials from the Hanashi Oral History Program and Hiroshi Sugiyama Collection, circa 1941-1945 are part of the L. A. as Subject Community Histories Digitization Project. Thanks to generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (https://www.neh.gov/), the USC Libraries are digitizing this collection for public access.

Go for Broke National Education Center Collection

Overview

In an effort to create the most advanced and comprehensive digital music archive in the world, the Gospel Music History Archive (GMHA) benefits greatly from the passion and expertise of its institutional partners.

In 2006, fire gutted Chicago’s historic Pilgrim Baptist Church, destroying irreplaceable documents, including the original sheet music and letters of Thomas A. Dorsey, the “Father of Gospel Music.” While the tragedy deprived the world a significant part of the historic legacy of one of America’s great composers and arrangers, the event also underscored the need for the systematic collection and preservation of the history of gospel music.

The GMHA is an effort to preserve the legacy of gospel music in a state-of-the-art digital archive. The GMHA digitizes and catalogues important documents and makes them available in a searchable database to scholars, gospel artists, librarians, church historians, teachers, and anyone with Internet access. The archive contains original audio and visual video interviews, music files, publicity materials, photographs, film, scholarly articles, and analysis from academic and gospel-community-based experts. When complete, the GMHA will be the largest and most advanced digital repository for these collections in the world.

Partners

The Gospel Music History Project (The Black Voice Foundation)

The Gospel Music History Project is an advocacy and re-granting institution supporting local, regional, and national efforts to document, preserve, analyze, and publicly present the full history of gospel music in America. The GMHP builds synergistic relationships between corporations, the media, archives, historical societies, denominational bodies, and gospel music associations throughout the nation to achieve its goals. The permanent staff of the GMHP carries out its mission with the assistance of a national advisory board and five regional advisory boards. The boards are composed of performers, scholars, clergy, and industry professionals. Institutional partners of the GMHP include the University of Southern California, Indiana University, and the African American Preservation Alliance, a coalition of more than 150 museums, archives, libraries, and historic societies across the nation.

The Center for Religion and Civic Culture

The Center for Religion and Civic Culture is a research unit of the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences. CRCC investigates the civic role of religion and collaborates with congregations, scholars, funders, and faith-based organizations. CRCC is a catalyst for interdisciplinary research and innovative partnerships in the community and at the University of Southern California. The center and its affiliated scholars engage in numerous research projects on topics such as global Pentecostalism, the transmission of religious values across generations, economic research on civilizations, immigrant religion, faith-based human service provision, homelessness, and the connection between spirituality and social transformation. CRCC is also involved in the creation of visual archives, including the Gospel Music History Archive, Internet Mission Photography Archive and a selection of photographs by Jerry Berndt on religious life in Los Angeles and other cities.

The Archives of African American Music and Culture (Indiana University)

Established in 1991, the Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) is a repository of materials covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era. Its collections highlight popular, religious, and classical music with genres ranging from blues and gospel to R&B and hip hop. The AAAMC also houses extensive materials related to the documentation of Black radio. The AAAMC supports the research of scholars, students, and the general public worldwide by providing access to holdings which include oral histories, photographs, musical and print manuscripts, audio and video recordings, educational broadcast programs, and the personal papers of individuals and organizations concerned with Black music. The AAAMC also invites exploration of its collections and related topics through a variety of public events, print and online publications, and pedagogical resources.

USC Libraries

The USC Libraries actively support the discovery, creation, and preservation of knowledge. The organization develops collections and services that foster and encourage the academic endeavors of faculty, students, and staff; build a community of critical consumers of information; and help develop engaged world citizens. Through these means, the USC Libraries contribute to the continued success of the University of Southern California and actively collaborate with museums, historical societies, and academic institutions on a local, national, and international level.

The USC Libraries is well positioned to build working relationships with the owners of content related to gospel music. Similar in purpose to the GMHA is the USC Libraries Digital Library. Spanning a wide range of visual media, the USC Libraries Digital Library offers digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, as well as audio and video recordings to scholars and the general public. The USC Libraries also are partners with the Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive, created by Steven Spielberg to collect video testimonies from more than 52,000 Holocaust survivors.

Contribute to the Archive

The GMHA welcomes donations of gospel music materials and recordings that fall within the scope of its collection, as well as any monetary donations that can be used to preserve sacred African American music. Prospective donors should contact the GMHA project manager at timstant@usc.edu or (213) 821-5568. The project manager will explain the priorities and needs of the collections.

Gospel Music History Archive

The L. Anthony Greenberg Architecture Archive contains material from Tony Greenberg (1937-1993), University of Southern California alumnus, modernist architect with integrity and vision, whose career regenerated and enriched West Los Angeles. Some of the colleagues with which Tony worked closely include Gene Flores, Ellis Gelman, Ena Dubnoff, Gary Scherquist (all USC architecture graduates).

For a comprehensive overview of Tony Greenberg see: Marco Greenberg. Tony Greenberg: life and times, 1937-1993. Published by the author, 2012.

L. Anthony Greenberg Architecture Archive

The Greene and Greene Digital Archive contains images of drawings, architectural plans, rooms, furnishings, books, sketches, photographs, correspondence, and other historical documents related to the life and work of the architects Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene, who headed the southern California design firm of Greene & Greene (active 1894-1922) that is often associated with the finest architecture and craftsmanship of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. The physical collections are housed in the David Berry Gamble House and in the Greene and Greene Archives at the Huntington Library, both in Pasadena, California. This material was also available digitally in the Greene and Greene Virtual Archive (https://greeneandgreene.usc.edu/) which included Greene and Greene materials from the University of Southern California, Columbia University (see Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library. Greene & Greene Architectural Records & Paper Collections: https://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/avery/greene/), and the University of California Berkeley (for a finding aid only of the Charles Sumner Greene Collection at the University of California Berkeley, see the Online Archive of California (https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7z09p00j/)).

Gamble House Greene and Greene Decorative Arts

The Gamble House Greene and Greene Decorative Arts Collection contains images of rooms, furnishings, and other objects in the Gamble House. The David Berry Gamble House is a National Historic Landmark, the only house designed by Greene & Greene (the southern California design firm, active 1894-1922) that is open to the public and the only example of their work to contain all of the original Greene & Greene furniture designed for it. David Berry Gamble was one of ten children of James Gamble, a co-founder of the Procter and Gamble Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. In May 1907 he purchased the largest parcel along Westmoreland Place, a private development overlooking the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena. Mature eucalyptus trees shaded the home site, from which could be had fine views of the dry riverbed below and the mountains beyond. Notable aspects of the house as seen from the street are the traditional gabled elevation on the south contrasted with the deep terrace and heavily-timbered sleeping porch on the north. These elements are unified by a shared horizontal line of deep eaves and exposed rafters and beams, and by the simple rhythm of the split-redwood, shake-shingle surface. The broad mass of the house is given height and balance by a one-room, third-level attic space and sleeping porches challenge the distinction between interior and exterior on the second level of the house. Outdoor terraces are elevated behind picturesque clinker-brick and pebbledash retaining walls. The design of the broad entry's leaded-glass doors was inspired by the California live oak. Inside, carefully crafted exotic-hardwood paneling, furniture, light fixtures, custom-woven rugs, cast and wrought andirons, fireplace tools, and other hardware express the spirit of the Greenes' Asian-inspired design vocabulary at its most classic.

USC's Huntington Archive Greene and Greene Decorative Arts

This collection contains furniture and other objects owned by the Gamble House (USC) or the Huntington Library, Art Galleries and Botanical Gardens. These objects were designed by the architects Greene & Greene (southern California design firm active 1894-1922) and are on permanent display in the Greene & Greene Gallery at The Huntington.

USC's Huntington Greene and Greene Archive

The Greene and Greene Archives, USC, at the Huntington Library is an eclectic collection of Greene & Greene materials. Since its inception, over four hundred donors have given a wide variety of items to the collection, including original job files containing client correspondence, original drawings, copies of drawings from private collections and other repositories, personal correspondence, specifications, contracts, postcards, invoices, notes, building permits, advertisements, philosophical writings, books, newspaper and magazine articles about Greene & Greene or their projects, memorabilia, sketchbooks, and scrapbooks.

Greene and Greene Digital Archive

The Hancock Foundation Archive consists of correspondence, reports, clippings, photographs, sound recordings, film, and other materials, 1823-2005, documenting the activities and history of the Hancock Foundation at the University of Southern California, its founder G. Allan Hancock, and the Hancock family. Included are records of the Foundation's scientific and research activities in marine biology and zoology; the Foundation's Library; the Hancock Museum, housed in the Foundation building on the USC campus; and the research vessel Velero IV, the second of Captain Hancock's ships put into service for research purposes. Also included are historical documents regarding the Hancock family's land interests in Los Angeles, and material documenting the non-scientific interests of Captain Hancock. Specifically this digital collection includes:
 
• Allan Hancock Foundation publications.
 
• Sound recordings produced by the Allan Hancock Foundation for radio broadcast in the 1930's and 1940's. Many of the recordings are of the Hancock Ensemble whose 'cellist was Allan Hancock. Digitized thanks to generous support from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) (https://www.arsc-audio.org/index.php), Lance Bowling and Cambria Music, Kenneth Hayashida MD (USC ’89)
 
• Films and photographs from the Allan Hancock Foundation mostly from the expeditions of the research vessels Velero II, III, and IV. The digitization efforts for the Hancock collection have been financed (in part) with Federal funds from the National Park Service Maritime Heritage grant program (https://www.nps.gov/maritime/grants/apply.htm), administered by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. However, the contents and opinions contained herein do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of the Interior, nor does the mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation by the Department of the Interior. The project received Federal financial assistance for preservation of historic maritime resources and for increasing public awareness and appreciation for the maritime heritage of the United States. Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended, the U.S. Department of the Interior prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability or age in its federally funded assisted programs. If you believe you have been discriminated again in any program, activity, or facility as described above, or if you desire further information, please write to: Office of Equal Opportunity National Park Service 1849 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20240.
 
• Station logs from the research vessel Velero IV.

Allan Hancock Foundation Collection

Susan Hanley was a Department of the Army civilian working as a Director of the Art and Craft Shops. She arrived in Korea in October, 1956 and left about February 1959. She was located at Camp Kaiser until the fall of 1958 when she was transferred to Puson [later called Buson].
 
Most of the photographs by Hanley in this collection were taken in the vicinity of Camp Kaiser and near Unchon-ni [later called Incheon City). As director of the Crafts Shop, she received permission to take soldiers out of the camp on photo trips into the countryside and the Army provided transportation -- jeep, truck, and bus. Also, according to Hanley, "travel in Korea was in the Army's small planes that were more like taxi cabs, we would call for one and they would pick us up or take us to where ever we wanted to go so there are many aerials in the collection".
 
From Camp Kaiser she went monthly to Seoul to buy supplies for the Crafts Shop and a few photos were taken en route. The railroad images were taken on Hanley's train trip from Seoul to Puson. The remaining photos were taken in Puson -- city, army base, boats, and coast.
 
The University of Southern California does not own the physical photographs. Hanley allowed them to be digitized for this collection.

Susan Hanley Photographs of Korea, 1956-1959

The Health and Human Rights Oral History Project (HHROHP) is a growing archive of video testimonies from diverse figures in the health and human rights movement. The Project fills a critical gap in the modern history of public health by providing an inside view of the decisions, discussions, and dynamics behind some of the most impactful health and rights interventions of the past several decades. A product of the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health (USC IIGH), the inaugural archive of 30 oral histories is available for research and educational purposes both through the USC IIGH website and here in the permanent digital archives of the USC Digital Library.
 
This first phase of the HHROHP, launched in early 2022, comprises 30 long-form oral histories from former staff and grantees of the the Open Society Foundations’ Public Health Program (PHP), one of the many entities to apply an international human rights framework to policy and practice in public health, as well as other key pioneers in the field of health and human rights. From 1993-2021, the PHP catalyzed and funded some of the most transformative trends in the health and rights field, from the development of harm reduction programs in the former Soviet Union, to the globalization of palliative care, to the development of medical professionals among the Roma minority in Europe. The PHP’s work reflected an understanding of public health as a political process, not just a biomedical one, offering critical lessons for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and other global health challenges.
 
Each interview was conducted by a USC student with the guidance of USC faculty and oral history experts. Our vision is to create a dynamic archive that continues to grow as other organizations, institutes, and individuals are inspired to add their own oral histories that deepen our collective understanding of global public health.
 
Phase I of the HHROHP is led by a partnership between three global leaders in health and human rights, philanthropy, and oral history. The partnership is led by the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health (IIGH), which works across disciplines to address health-related disparities and inequalities by expanding the evidence base about what works to advance global health, training the next generation of global health leaders, and informing public policy to more effectively contribute to global health outcomes. IIGH is responsible for identifying interview participants, background research, carrying out interviews, producing interview videos and transcripts, and publicizing findings.
 
Support
 
Financial support, written source material, and strategic input for the HHROHP is provided by the Open Society Foundations (OSF), which works globally to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. Founded by George Soros, OSF gives thousands of grants each year to groups and individuals, through a unique network that is guided by local voices and global expertise.

The Health and Human Rights Oral History Project

The Filmoteca Narcisa Hirsch collection was provided to the University of Southern California Libraries by the director of the Filmoteca Narcisa Hirsch (Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Tomas Rautenstrauch. A screening of eight of her films and an introduction by Rautenstrauch and Erin Graff Zivin (University of Southern California professor) were presented at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, in January 2024.
 
Digital restorations are courtesy Filmoteca Narcisa Hirsch, in collaboration with USC Libraries, supported by a grant from USC Research and Innovation.
 
Access to search and view the 69 films in this collection is granted to the USC Community by logging in using their USC NetID via Single Sign On (SSO). Click the USC LOGIN link in the top right corner of the USC Digital Library. Then search for "Filmoteca Narcisa Hirsch collection".
 
Access to the collection for researchers outside the USC Community can be obtained by first obtaining permission to view the films from the Director of the Filmoteca Narcisa Hirsch (Tomas Rautenstrauch, tomasrauten@gmail.com). After receiving written permission (e-mail is sufficient), click the REGISTER link at the top right corner of the USC Digital Library. Then send an email to cisadmin@lib.usc.edu notifying us that you have registered and want access to the Filmoteca Narcisa Hirsch collection. Be sure to attach to the email your permission from the Director. Your account will then be approved and you will be able to access the full on-line collection.

Filmoteca Narcisa Hirsch collection

The Dwayne Hunn Collection, housed at the Rubel Castle Historic District located at 844 North Live Oak Avenue, Glendora, California, is made up of slides and photographs taken by Dwayne Hunn between 1966-1987. Other materials in this collection (not included as part of the digital project) include correspondence ephemera and audio cassette recordings (1966-2007). For more information on the collection see The Glendora Historical Society Newsletter & Archive (Jan.-Feb. 2023).
 
After completing high school in Cleveland, Ohio, and studying Political Science and Economics at a small college in Indiana, Hunn joined the Peace Corps, volunteering for two years in urban community development in Mumbai, India. Employment as high school teacher brought him to Glendora, California, where he rented a studio apartment from Michael Clarke Rubel. Hunn lived and helped with building projects at the "Rubel Farm" (also known as Albourne Rancho, Rubel Pharm, Tin Palace, or Rubelia) from 1968-1976. Hunn continued his education at San Francisco State University and Claremont Graduate University earning a Ph.D. in Government in 1984. He continued work as an educator, and Executive Director of People's Lobby Inc., advocating for political and environmental reform and lobbying for the creation of American World Service Corps. In 2010, Hunn published a Rubel Castle focused memoir titled, Every Town Needs a Castle.
 
Hunn captured rare glimpses of construction and transformation that would become the monumental folk art environment, Rubel Castle Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. The images document construction of the Tree House, Chip House, Castle Complex, Machine Shop, and Clock Tower. Other images show massive flood damage sustained in 1969 Glendora foothill area of the San Gabriel Mountains, as well as community gatherings and a celebration marking the completion of the Castle in 1986. Other images capture Hunn's life experiences, living space and his Peace Corps service work and conditions in India.
 
Subcollections

Dwayne Hunn's travels
Glendora Foothill Area Flood of 1969
Hunn in Peace Corps, 1966-1967
Rubel Castle

The Glendora Historical Society is a 501c3 non-profit established in 1947 with a mission to preserve the history of Glendora and the surrounding area. Michael Rubel donated the Castle to the Society in 2005, with a goal to create a museum and educational space for the community.
 
The collection was generously donated by Dwayne Hunn to the Glendora Historical Society.

Dwayne Hunn Collection, 1966-2007

The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture video collection contains videos and Journalism 201 class materials in the following collections.
 

Image of the journalist in popular culture collection, promotion, and research videos
Heroes and scoundrels journalist in popular culture project video collection
Image of the journalist in popular culture silent film collection
Joe Saltzman produced documentaries and historic programming
Journalism 201 - Culture of Journalism: past, present and future
Journalism ethics goes to the movies

 
The material comes from The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (IJPC) project in the Norman Lear Center at USC Annenberg. The mission of the IJPC is to investigate and analyze through research and publication the conflicting images of journalists in film, television, radio, fiction, commercials, cartoons, comic books, music, art, video games and other aspects of popular culture demonstrating their impact on the public’s perception of newsgatherers. It was founded in 2000 by Joe Saltzman, professor of journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. Today, the IJPC Web site (ijpc.org) and the IJPC Database are considered the definitive worldwide sources for this subject and are used on a daily basis by scholars, students and professionals who want to do more research in this area.

Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture video collection

When the Immaculate Heart Community of California assumed lay status in 1970, Doris Murphy, IHM, undertook a comprehensive collection of oral interviews with 138 of the founding members. The 114 interviews selected for the collection were completed between 1970 and 2009. We hear the courageous voices of religious women shaping their future with purpose and humor after being removed from schools by the conservative Catholic Cardinal of Los Angeles. The Immaculate Heart Community provided these interviews as part of the L.A. as Subject Digital Residency Program, 2019-2022.
 
These digital recordings may not be copied or reproduced in any way. Doing so would violate the full copyright of the Immaculate Heart Community. Permission for any print or commercial use must be acquired in writing from President, Immaculate Heart Community. Please write to: 5515 Franklin Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90028 or ihmla@ihmoffice.org. Brief quotations citing the source are permissible under fair use.
 
Access to the physical (CD-R) oral histories is restricted. But the digital versions are available online at this site.
 
Supporters
 
 
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) provided funding to digitize these newspapers. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through IMLS Grant RE-85-18-0110-18. Physical access to the Immaculate Heart Oral History collection is unavailable. Digitized copies of the recordings have been made available for use. Further inquiries on permissions can be addressed to: ihmla@ihmoffice.org

Immaculate Heart Community Oral Histories, 1987-2009

The city of Los Angeles became the epicenter of a public relations scandal on March 3, 1991, when an amateur cameraman captured on video four uniformed LAPD officers beating motorist Rodney G. King. In addition to generating public outrage, the incident cast a dark shadow over the LAPD and called into question the integrity of the nation's third largest municipal police force. Subsequently, the ten member Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department was formed to conduct a full and fair evaluation of all aspects of the LAPD's structure and operations related to the use of force when making arrests. Included in this collection are the documents that were collected and analyzed by the Commission over the course of its study.

See also the finding aid (https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/2251).

See also The Los Angeles Riots: The Independent and Webster Commissions Collections (https://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-los-angeles-riots-christopher-and-webster-commissions-collections/index).

Related collections in the USC Digital Library:

? Los Angeles Webster Commission records (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/2266)
? Richard M. Mosk Christopher Commission records, 1988-2011 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/393)
? Kendall O. Price Los Angeles riots records, 1965-1967 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/979)
? Watts riots records, 1965 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/83)

Thanks to generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (https://www.neh.gov/), the USC Libraries are digitizing this collection for online public access.

Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, 1991

The InscriptiFact Collection is designed to allow access via the Internet to high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions and artifacts, primarily from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds. The targeted inscriptions constitute some of the world’s earliest written records, which are mostly housed in a number of international museums and libraries, as well as field projects where inscriptions still remain in situ. Included, for example, are, selected Dead Sea Scrolls; cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia, Persia, Canaan and Egypt; early Jewish papyri from Egypt; lapidary inscriptions, primarily from Jordan, Lebanon and Cyprus; inscriptions on a variety of hard media (e.g., ostraca, copper, semi-precious stones, jar handles) mostly written in early Canaanite, Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic, Ammonite and Edomite; and much more. These ancient texts are foundational documents that serve as a point of reference for Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the cultures out of which they emerged.
 The name "InscriptiFact" is intended to convey the concept of a scholarly archive based on "facts" about "inscriptions" and "artifacts." West Semitic Research Project (WSRP) under the auspices of the University of Southern California (USC) is broadly acknowledged as a leader in the application of photographic and digital technologies to capture and analyze data of ancient texts. The West Semitic Research image archive now contains approximately 1,500,000 images.
 Important! Search terms with more than one word or number need to be enclosed in quotation marks.
Guide to Searching InscriptiFact

InscriptiFact -- an image database of inscriptions and artifacts

International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960

This collection of photographs from the Hearst Collection of the Los Angeles Examiner in the USC Regional History Collection, documents the incarceration of Japanese Americans in California during World War II. These 222 photographs provide a glimpse into the lives of Japanese immigrants and native born Japanese Americans (a.k.a. Nisei) residing in California from 1921 to 1958, with primary emphasis on 1941-1946. Much of the coverage documents scenes of:

1) the mass removal and incarceration process;
2) life in camps at Manzanar, Santa Anita, Tanforan, and Tule Lake;
3) post-war repatriation to Japan.

The original captions from the photographs, many of which were published in the Los Angeles Examiner, have been transcribed into the Japanese American Incarceration Images, 1941-1946 to enhance subject-specific retrieval; the cultural references reflect the 1940's terminology.

USC's Japanese American Incarceration Images, 1941-1946, originally known as Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive, 1941-1946 (JARDA), was funded by a grant from the Library Services and Technology Act to the California Digital Library, administered by the California State Library, as part of an initiative to assemble a statewide Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive, available at: https://cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2004/04/22/japanese-american-relocation-digital-archives-jarda-web-site-updated/. Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive includes access to more than 25 different collections from four (eventually nine) institutions. It features newly digitized photographs, documents, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, letters, oral histories, and inventories of archival collections. It will eventually bring together over 10,000 digital images and 20,000 pages of electronic transcriptions of documents and oral histories, showing daily life in the camps.

Please note that this collection was originally known as the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive, 1941-1946 (JARDA), before being changed to the Japanese American Incarceration Images, 1941-1946.

Japanese American Incarceration Images, 1941-1946

The Japanese poster collection contains 46 posters on the following topics: Japanese products and design; railways, ocean liners and tourism; Japanese art and design exhibitions; Japanese imperial modernity (including colonies in Korea, Manchuria, and northeastern China); and Japanese Ministry and Telecommunications campaigns. The posters reflect both Japanese painting techniques (nihonga) and Western painting techniques (yōga).
 
Pictorial styles range from neo-traditionalism derived from woodblock prints (ukiyoe) to modernism. The prominence of beautiful women (bijin) as an aesthetic category in the collection is of note. Most of the posters were produced using the offset lithographic printing technique. The posters were created by prominent designers, commissioned by large Japanese corporations and government ministries, and produced by Japan's major offset printing companies.
 
See also the finding aid.

Japanese Poster Collection

The Japanese Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection includes materials in Japanese that date from the 13th to the mid-19th century.

To view the physical objects from which these digital objects were created, please request the items through our Specialized Research Collections Request System (https://libraries.usc.edu/locations/special-collections/how-request-books-and-early-manuscripts). You can also contact the Japanese Studies Librarian at rcorbett@usc.edu with inquiries about these items. See also the East Asian Library Japanese Collection Web pages (https://libraries.usc.edu/locations/east-asian-library/east-asian-library-japanese-collection). See also Rebecca Corbett's Japanese Book History: A View from USC Libraries (https://scalar.usc.edu/works/japanese-rare-books-at-usc-libraries/index).

Japanese Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection

The Payne B. Johnson Latin American photographs collection contains photographic slides taken by Payne Johnson during his travels and historical research. The color slides principally document Mesoamerican Mayan sites visited by Johnson primarily from the 1970s to the early 2000s. The collection also includes textual documents about the slides and Johnson's research, as well as compact discs related to the images. Places depicted consist of: Aké, Boca Iglesia, Bonampak, Chichen Itza, Coba, Copan, Cozumel & Isla Mujeres, Izamal, Kabah, Kinic, La Venta, Labna, Machu Picchu, Macoba, Palenque, Quirigua, Sayil Tulum, Uxmal, and Xul. Also included is John Lloyd Stephens' Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. Revised by Frederick Catherwood. London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Col, 1854.

Payne B. Johnson Latin American Photographs

Bronisław Kaper (1902-1983) was an Oscar-winning film composer who left Poland in the early 1920s for Berlin and then Paris. Kaper emigrated to the US in 1935 and lived in Beverly Hills until his death in 1983. During that time he wrote over 200 film and TV scores for Hollywood, and became the first Polish-born composer to win an Academy Award for scoring in 1954. Kaper also served for many years on the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association's Board of Directors, which later named an award for young musicians after him.
 
The Polish Music Center’s Bronisław Kaper Collection was initiated in October 2006 by Kaper’s agent, Steve Goldring, who donated 5 original film scores:
 
The Stranger (1946)
The Glass Slipper (1955)
Green Mansions (1959)
Tobruk (1967)
The Way West (1967)
 
In addition to Kaper’s own music and notations, the Kaper Collection includes a signed manuscript by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa Lobos, who notated an indigenous chant for the score of Green Mansions. Between 2007 and 2010, Kaper’s friend Irene Kearney donated several volumes of sheet music featuring some of Kaper’s most famous songs, such as Lili, On Green Dolphin Street, Blue Love Bird, and Invitation, among many others.
 
The USC Digital Library is providing access to these materials for educational and research purposes and makes no warranty with regard to their use for other purposes. The written permission of the copyright owners and/or other rights holders (such as holders of publicity and/or privacy rights) is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions. There may be content that is protected as "works for hire" (copyright may be held by the party that commissioned the original work) and/or under the copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations.
 
Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Users should consult the bibliographic information that accompanies each item for specific information. This catalog data provides the details known to the USC Digital Library and the Polish Music Center regarding the corresponding items and may assist users in making independent assessments of the legal status of these items as related to their desired uses.
 
In some cases, the Digital Library was unable to identify a possible rights holder and has elected to place some of those items online partially or in their entirety as an exercise of fair use for strictly non-commercial educational uses.
 
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through IMLS Grant RE‐85‐18‐0110‐18. All digital items are a part of The Dianne and Tad Taube Polish Music Center Digital Archives at the USC Thornton School of Music.

Bronisław Kaper Collection

The Herbert G. Klein papers contain detailed records of the day to day activities of Herbert G. Klein, University of Southern California alumnus and trustee, journalist, editor and first White House Director of Communications. Included are records from all phases of Klein's long career: his early career as a journalist with Copley Newspapers in Alhambra and San Diego; his work with Richard Nixon, beginning with the Vice Presidential campaign of 1956; and his subsequent career as a media professional and author.
 
A Finding Aid for the Herbert G. Klein papers is available (https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/346).
 
The collection was donated to the University of Southern California by the Klein family in 2008.

Herbert G. Klein Papers, 1940-2000

The documentary record of the Korean experience in America remains dispersed and difficult to access. The Korean American Digital Archive brings more than 13,000 pages of documents, over 1,900 photographs, and about 180 sound files together in one searchable collection that documents the Korean American community during the period of resistance to Japanese rule in Korea and reveal the organizational and private experience of Koreans in America between 1903 and 1965. The components of the Korean American Digital Archive include:
 
Documents of the KNA Building
The Korean National Association building dedicated in Los Angeles in 1938, served as the headquarters for several Korean organizations. Among these were the Korean National Association (Kungminhoe) itself, the United Korean Committee in America, the Korean Chamber of Commerce in America, the Korea Relief Society, and the newspaper Sinhan Minbo (New Korea). The documents in this collection are the records that have remained in the KNA building to the present day and document many of the major events of the first 60 years of Koreans in America. See https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/6/resources/1528 for a brief listing of the contents of this collection.
 
Korean American Archive Photograph Set
This is the primary repository in the KADA database of the visual record of the Korean community. See https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/6/resources/1531 for a brief listing of the contents of this collection.
 
Korean American Museum Oral History Series
The Korean American Museum, in Los Angeles, conducted a series of oral history interviews with long-time members of the Korean community. The actual sound recordings of these interviews are included in this section of the database and can be downloaded as mp3 files for listening. See https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/6/resources/1532 for a brief listing of the contents of this collection.
 
Korean American Private Records
Many historically important records remain in private hands. This section of the database contains a variety of small but significant sets of documents. See https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/6/resources/1530 for a brief listing of the contents of this collection.
 
Korean American Story
The mission of Korean American Story is to capture, create, preserve and share the stories of the Korean American experience by supporting and promoting storytelling in all forms that explore and reflect the ever evolving Korean American story. We seek to be an inclusive hub that bridges gaps between communities and helps to instill cultural awareness and pride among the Korean American community.
 
Korean Heritage Library Subject Files
The Korean Heritage Library has actively sought out documents on a selected number of specific Korean American issues. Some of these are made available in this section of the database. See https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/6/resources/1533 for a brief listing of the contents of this collection.
 
The Reverend Soon Hyun Collected Works
Soon Hyun was a Methodist minister who served in both Hawaii and in Seoul Korea. He was a key participant in the March First Movement in 1919 and later served as Minister Plenipotentiary from the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai to the United States of America. The papers in this collection document Reverend Hyun's life and career up until his death in Los Angeles in 1968. See https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/6/resources/1529 for a brief listing of the contents of this collection.
 
Nak Chung Thun Archive
<span>The digital archive of Nak Chung Thun’s manuscripts consists of four full-length novels, four short stories, and six essays. Some of the essays are present in the archive in multiple versions. While the documents are undated, their time of production likely lies between 1917 and 1937: the document that seems to have been written first, </span><span>The Tale of Hong Kyŏngnae</span><span>, mentions Ch’oe Namsŏn’s </span><span>Hong Kyŏngnae silgi</span><span> [The True Record of Hong Kyŏngnae; 1917], and throughout, despite some references to a possible future war involving Japan, the author appears to be unaware of the second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45).</span>
 
Processing of some materials were funded by a grant from the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), California State Library. Project dates: October 1, 1999 - September 30, 2000

Korean American Digital Archive

This collection contains materials from Americans who spent important parts of their lives in Korea.
 
These subcollections are part of this collection:

The Martin J. Bolhower Collection
Susan Hanley Photographs of Korea, 1956-1959
Mattie Wilcox Noble Collection
The Reference V.W. Peters Collection
The Reverend Corwin & Nellie Taylor Collection

 
See also the Sea of Korea Map Collection.

Korean Digital Archive

The Korean Periodicals collection contains runs and individual issues of Korean-language serials -- newspapers and journals.

Please note the quality of many of the earlier 20th-century titles is poor due to the source (microfilm) from which they were digitized.

Korean Periodicals

The collection consists of display samples of Latino, Chicano, lowrider and gangbanger t-shirt designs, decals, patches, and cards from the 1980s to the 1990s. The display samples are printed on off-white or black tyvek and heat transfer sheets; many of the tyvek samples are in the shape of t-shirts. Also included are heat transfer patches, decals, and greeting cards. The samples and items are in both color and black and white. Some of the designs were supplied by Francisco's Exotic T's, Photo-Lith International, and SSI. Only two designs have identified illustrators: "Zaraic" and "Clapez". Many of the designs draw on gang-related street art forms--tattoo flash and graffiti placas. There are also designs inspired by Christian iconography; album cover design; and lowrider artwork. Some designs reference Latin music; others are targeted to Latinas, children and military veterans. There are designs emphasizing Central and South American countries, as well as some U.S. cities and states. A few designs reference Chicano Power and Mojado Power.
 
See also the finding aid for the physical collection.

Latino/Chicano, Lowrider and Gangbanger T-Shirt Art Collection

USC Libraries' exhibits since 1998 have often been at least partially documented through photographs. Most of the exhibits have taken place in Doheny Memorial Library whereas others have been co-sponsored by the USC Libraries but were mounted elsewhere. This collection contains both categories of images.

Library Exhibits Collection

The Lawrence Lipton papers, 1883-2009 (bulk 1950-1975), consist of correspondence, interviews, manuscripts, typescripts, periodicals, audio recordings, motion pictures, clippings, photographs, and ephemera, created and collected by novelist, poet, and Beat Generation chronicler Lawrence Lipton. The collection documents Lipton's prolific work as a novelist, poet, and columnist through a variety of materials. Typescripts and manuscripts of his works--including Erotic Revolution, Rainbow at Midnight--and Lipton's columns for Radio Free America, Interface, and the Los Angeles Free Press showcase Lipton's writing styles and core themes. Correspondence between Lipton and members of the Beats, including Allen Ginsberg, as well as Lipton's third wife, novelist Craig Rice, reveals Lipton's central position among the Beat movement. And interviews--included as both recorded audio and, sometimes, as textual transcripts--that Lipton conducted with a variety of notable writers and musicians during the 1960s provide examples of literary and political dialogue of that era. Also included are items that Lipton collected as research material, newspapers and magazines (many of which feature Lipton's published poetry), photographs, and motion pictures. Many of Lipton's articles and poems written in the era of the Beat Movement deal with subjects pertinent to "beatnik" ideology such as anti-materialism, sexual liberation, exploration of eastern philosophy, criticism of western Christendom, experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and denouncement of homophobia. Much of Lipton's poetry in this collection relates to his poetry and jazz project, as Lipton often combined these two art forms as a skilled jazz music composer. See the finding aid (https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/158).

Thanks to generous support from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) under the Recordings at Risk grant program (https://www.clir.org/recordings-at-risk/), the USC Digital Library digitized a selection of 139 recordings from the Lawrence Lipton papers.

Lawrence Lipton Papers

This collection contains selected documents digitized from the Los Angeles City Archives which relate to the early history of Los Angeles (including land grants and maps) and videos from the mid 20th century from various city departments and offices.

Los Angeles Department of City Planning

Contains videos documenting and promoting the Department.

Los Angeles Office of the City Clerk

Contains videos documenting and promoting the activities of the City Clerk including elections.

Los Angeles Police Department

Contains videos documenting and promoting the LAPD. Included are films (and out takes) on recruitment, construction of Police Headquarters, and public demonstrations.

Los Angeles Department of Public Works

Contains videos documenting and promoting the Department.

Los Angeles Redevelopment Corporation -- coming soon

Contains hand-drawn Los Angeles city block maps.

Untitled Record Series, volume 1

Contains a portfolio of petitions for house lots and sowing lands for the years 1836 to 1846. Includes petitions for land, official complaints, powers of attorney, correspondence, reports on crime, finance and lawsuits as well as other official documents generated by and for the Mayor (Alcalde) and City Council (Ayuntamiento) of Los Angeles. In Spanish with English translations throughout.

Untitled Record Series, volume 10

Contains ordinances for the years 1869-1872. Includes laws on finances, water, the Fire Department, tax collection and other subjects generated by the City Council of Los Angeles. In Spanish with English translations throughout.

Los Angeles City Archives, 1833-1970

Since 1976, the Los Angeles City Historical Society has worked to disseminate knowledge of the rich and diverse multicultural history of the city of Los Angeles. [The Society is] also the official Friends of the Los Angeles City Archives. (https://www.lacityhistory.org/).

Included in this collection are issues of the Los Angeles City Historical Society Newsletter beginning with the first issue published in 1978. Editors for the Newsletter have been:

Bob Hattem (1978-1986)
Don Ray (1986-1988)
Portia Lee (1990-1996)
Anita King (1996-2003)
Irene Tresun (2004-2013)
Anna Sklar (2013-2017)
Maria Siciliano (2019-2020)
Richard Ross (2020-date)

In 1992, with what would have been volume XIV, the numbering got out of increment when it jumped to volume XIX. There was an attempt to bring it back in line in 2005 by changing the volume from then XXXI to XXV. Unfortunately it missed the mark by one as it should have been corrected to XXVI instead. Titles of the issues in this collection show the correct volume number rather than the volume printed on the issue; but an Alternate title and Description indicate the actual volume number printed on the issue. The volume number was adjusted again in 2019 and is correct as of that year.

We are grateful to Louise Smith who provided the Newsletters in this collection to us.

Twenty issues were either not present when this corpus was digitized or have not been subsequently provided and are thus missing from the digital collection. If readers have copies of any of these missing issues, we would be grateful if we could be provided copies for digitization to be included with the rest of the issues. They missing issues are:

vol. 11, no. 1 (1989 [March])
vol. 11, no. 2 (1989 [July])
vol. 11, no. 3 (1989 [November])
vol. 21 [sic, i.e. 16], no. 2 (1994 April)
vol. 25 [sic, i.e. 20], no. 3 (1998 [September])
vol. 26 [sic, i.e. 21], no. 2 (1999 [June])
vol. 26 [sic, i.e. 21], no. 3 (1999 [September])
vol. 27 [sic, i.e. 22], no. 1 (2000 [February])
vol. 28 [sic, i.e. 22], no. [4] (2001 [November])
vol. 29 [sic, i.e. 23], no. 3 (2002 [August])
vol. 29 [sic, i.e. 23], no. 4 (2002 [November])
vol. 30 [sic, i.e. 24], no. 4 (2003 [November])
vol. 31 [sic, i.e. 25], no. 1 (2004 [February])
vol. 31 [sic, i.e. 25], no. 4 (2004 [November])
vol. 30 [sic, i.e. 29], no. 2 (2008 May)
vol. 30 [sic, i.e. 29], no. 3 (2008 August)
vol. [30] [i.e. 29], no. [4] (2008 [November])
vol. [40] [i.e. 30], no. [2] (2009 [May])
vol. [40] [i.e. 30], no. [3] (2009 [August])
vol. [40] [i.e. 30], no. [4] (2009 [November])

Los Angeles City Historical Society, 1978-

The Los Angeles County Demographic Data Project preserves and makes accessible a dataset tracing social changes in the City of Los Angeles, L.A. County, and 86 municipalities between 1950 and 2010. The Los Angeles County demographic dataset includes over 90 discrete data files and represents the culmination of more than a decade of work by historian Becky Nicolaides and her team while completing research for her book The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles After 1945 (Oxford, 2024). Nicolaides’ research for The New Suburbia was supported by grants from NEH, the American Council of Learned Societies the John Randolph Haynes & Dora Haynes Foundation, and other organizations. The dataset traces many facets of demographic change in Los Angeles and 86 nearby municipalities along with poverty rates and voter registration data.

Please use https://doi.org/10.25549/lademo-ouc1sto1757543 as the URL when citing this data.

Los Angeles County Demographic Data Project 1950-2010

The Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. It was a daily newspaper, published in the afternoon on weekdays (Herald-Express) and in the morning on weekends (Examiner). The afternoon and morning papers merged in 1962 (Herald Examiner).

? 1903-1989: Los Angeles Examiner (founded 1903)
? 1931-1962: Los Angeles Herald-Express (formed from the 1931 merger of Los Angeles Evening Express and Evening Herald)
? 1962-1989: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (formed from the 1962 merger of the Los Angeles Herald-Express and the Los Angeles Examiner)

Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los Angeles during the period late 1920's to 1961 is represented in the collection. Coverage is broad including crime, sports, society, art, and entertainment. The collection forms part of the Hearst Collection and was a gift from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division of the Hearst Corporation in 1978.

The Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection (1950-1961) consists of approximately 215,000 4x5-inch negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

The Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection consists of approximately 1.2 million photoprints from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961

Los Angeles Plat Books

The Los Angeles Star (La Estrella de Los Angeles) is available through a partnership with The Huntington Library, who generously allowed USC to digitize their complete holdings of this newspaper. Established in 1851 as a weekly newspaper, it was printed half in Spanish and half English until 1855. When the Civil War broke out, the outspoken criticism of the federal government by its editor led to the Star being banned from the mails, and the arrest of its editor for treason. It ceased publication in 1864, apparently due to financial problems, but resumed in 1868. In 1870 it became a daily, but ceased publication in 1879 because of lack of funds. No complete file is known to exist. The current collection consists of about 500 issues up through 1864.

Los Angeles Star Collection, 1851-1864

Chaired by former federal judge and FBI and CIA Director William H. Webster, the Los Angeles Webster Commission assessed law enforcement's performance in connection with the April, 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest. The collection consists of materials collected and studied by the Commission over the course of its investigation. Materials pertain to both the Los Angeles incident specifically, and civil disturbance, civil unrest control, and policing tactics in general.

Included in the collection are the following: interviews with LAPD officers, law enforcement personnel, government officials, community leaders, and activists; articles, broadcasts, and press releases covering the civil unrest; various tactical and contingency plans created for disasters and emergencies; reports, studies, and manuals about civil unrest control and prevention; literature about community-based policing strategies; emergency plans and procedures developed by other cities; and after-action reports issued once the civil unrest had subsided. Also featured are items related to the internal operations of the LAPD both before and during the civil unrest, including activity reports, meeting agendas and minutes, arrest data, annual reports, curricula and educational materials, and personnel rosters.

See also the finding aid (https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/2266).

See also The Los Angeles Riots: The Independent and Webster Commissions Collections (https://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-los-angeles-riots-christopher-and-webster-commissions-collections/index).

Related collections in the USC Digital Library:

? Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, 1991 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/2251)
? Richard M. Mosk Christopher Commission records, 1988-2011 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/393)
? Kendall O. Price Los Angeles riots records, 1965-1967 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/979)
? Watts riots records, 1965 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/83)

Thanks to generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the USC Libraries are digitizing this collection for online public access.

Los Angeles Webster Commission records, 1931-1992

The physical collection consists of over 200 posters and flyers, 5 pussy hats, 1 t-shirt, and other ephemera collected by librarians in USC Libraries Special Collections in the aftermath of the Los Angeles Women's March of January 21, 2017, and at the Women's March of January 20, 2018. The collection also includes a few items created for the Women's March on Washington, as well as information on the various marches produced by march organizers, information about the Valentines to Congress project and the Pussyhat Project, photographs used in USC Libraries' Special Collections exhibit on the Women's March (Spring 2017), a few newspapers and magazines documenting the events, and miscellaneous notes that accompanied many of the items. Many of the posters include the names and hometowns of the marchers (information collected when possible at time of donation).

The colleciton currently stored off-site. Advance notice required for access. Please visit the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/2719 for information about the collection.

The digital collection contains images collected by librarians during the Los Angeles Women's Marches, which have taken place every January since 2017.

Los Angeles Women's March Collection

Pedro Loureiro is an historian who has concentrated much of his research on pre-War Japanese espionage and relations with the United States. In the course of his research, he applied for and gathered a sizable collection (24,000+ pages) of declassified documents from such agencies as the Asiatic Fleet, the 4th Marine Regiment (the "China Marines"), American Naval Attaches in Peiping (Beijing) and Tokyo and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The collection documents many details of the political, economic, military and social conditions in East Asia during the 1920s and 1930s.

Pedro Loureiro Collection

The physical Heinrich Mann papers collection contains personal and business correspondence, manuscripts and published articles, short stories and reviews, personal documents and photographs, and pencil drawings dating from Heinrich Mann's years in France, 1933-1940 and Los Angeles, 1940-1950.
 
The digital collection available online at this site contains only selections from the physical collection.
 
See the physical collection finding aid here:
https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/207

Heinrich Mann papers

The Master of Professional Writing (MPW) Program at the University of Southern California (USC) started in 1971 in the USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, and was closed in May 2016. The program’s initial literary journal, The Southern California Anthology, published fiction and poetry. The journal was later renamed the Southern California Review and expanded its featured content to include nonfiction, interviews, artwork and photography.
 

The Southern California Anthology was published from 1983 - 2006.
The Southern California Review was published from 2008 - 2015.

Master of Professional Writing Program Publications

USC alumnus Carl Maston was an influential Los Angeles mid-century modern architect. Upon graduation, Maston worked for the offices of Floyd Rible, A. Quincy Jones, Fred Emmons, Phil Daniel, and Allied Architects before opening his own office. His homes, shopping centers, military housing units, and university buildings can be found throughout Southern California. Known for his stark, no-frills modern buildings such as the Maston (or Marmont) Residence and Hillside House, his career spanned over 40 years in public and private sectors. The bulk of the collection consists of architectural project files as well as architectural photographs by longtime-collaborator Julius Shulman.

See the complete finding aid of the physical collection (Maston (Carl) papers).

Carl Maston Papers, 1946-1989

MAW Collection

The USC Max Kade Institute is a research center devoted to German and European studies. Located several blocks north of the USC campus, the institute hosts lectures, conferences, and performances for students, faculty and the general public. Institute programs cover German and European studies broadly defined, but its main areas of emphasis include: exile studies, Cold War studies; German history, film, and aesthetics; and contemporary German and European affairs.

Max Kade Institute

The Hilton H. McCabe papers consist of correspondence, reports, photographs, clippings, legal documents and maps documenting McCabe's judicial work with allotments, guardianships and conservatorships of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in and around Palm Springs, California.
 
See also the Finding Aid for the physical collection.

Hilton H. McCabe papers

The patriarch of the Milner family was John Milner. He and his wife, Anna, lived in Los Angeles, CA. John and Anna had seven children: John, Mrs. J.W. Krause, Esther Rule, Clara McDonald, Mrs. Charles L. Michod, Louise Alton, and Henriette Straton. Milner was cashier of the Farmers' and Merchants' National Bank in Los Angeles.

The son, John Milner, was born in Los Angeles, CA, in 1887 and passed away on January 20, 1937, at the age of 50. He was married to Winifred Milner, and they had a son, Reese L. Milner, and a daughter, Gwendolyn Milner Hubbard. John was secretary of the Lewellyn Iron Works, which merged with Consolidated Steel Corporation in 1929, and was a director of Consolidated Steel. In addition to these activities, he was a director of the Union Bank and Trust Company, Pacific Indemnity Company, Discount Corporation, Francisco Building Company, Blue Diamond Company, and the Dominquez Land Corporation. He attended Harvard Military School and the University of California.

Reese Lewellyn Milner was the only son of John and Winifred Milner. Reese was born on April 15, 1916 and died in April 1986. Milner, who resided in Beverly Hills, CA, attended Stanford University. He was a financier, and owned Milner Oil Co., headquartered in Beverly Hills, and was active in real estate holdings.

The Milner family owned Rancho La Vista in Ojai, CA, north of Los Angeles, for about 100 years. The family subsequently sold the ranch.

For additional information on the physical collection, see the finding aid (https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/333).

Milner Family Collection, 1917-1991

The collection includes police commission correspondence, status reports and final reports of the Independent Commission, testimony transcripts, a transcript of messages from the LAPD Mobile Digital Terminal System, and the transcript of an oral history of Mosk.

See also the finding aid (https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/393).

See also The Los Angeles Riots: The Independent and Webster Commissions Collections (https://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-los-angeles-riots-christopher-and-webster-commissions-collections/index).

Related collections in the USC Digital Library:

? Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, 1991 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/2251)
? Los Angeles Webster Commission records (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/2266)
? Kendall O. Price Los Angeles riots records, 1965-1967 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/979)
? Watts riots records, 1965 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/83)

Thanks to generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (https://www.neh.gov/), the USC Libraries are digitizing this collection for online public access.

Richard M. Mosk Christopher Commission records, 1988-2011

Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) used multiple cameras to capture motion in early stop-motion photographs in 1870s and 1880s. His subjects included animals such as a kangaroo, antelope, buck, buffalo, camel, capybara, cat, chickens, cockatoo, deer, doe, dog, eagle, eland, elephant, elk, gnu, goat, guanaco, hawks, horses, jaguar, lions, oryx, ox, pigeon, sloth, sow, storks, swans, tiger, and vulture; as well as men, women, and children performing various tasks clothed and in varying degrees of undress.
The plates were published as: Eadweard Muybridge. Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements. 1872-1885 / published under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania. Plates. The plates printed by the Photo-Gravure Company. Philadelphia, 1887.
The individual consecutive frames from the plates were converted to animations by Haeyong Moon in 2013.

Muybridge's Complete Human and Animal Locomotion, 1887

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the oldest active Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning (LGBTQ) organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records and personal papers.

A small subset of this material has been digitized and is available online.

For additional information about the Archives, please see our Website (https://one.usc.edu/).

ONE Archives’ digital collections have been made possible by generous support from the California State Library (https://www.library.ca.gov), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) (https://www.clir.org/), The GRAMMY Foundation (https://www.grammy.com/grammy-foundation), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) (https://www.neh.gov/), ONE Archives Foundation (https://www.onearchives.org), and a USC Libraries Dean's Challenge Grant.

ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives

The images in this collection were collected over the long career of Irving Rehman, Ph.D., who taught anatomy as a faculty member at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Medicine, at the Naval Medical Center San Diego, and at Orthopaedic Hospital in Los Angeles where he last used the collection for residency training. The original collection consisted of 16,000 photographs and illustrations of human anatomy dissections maintained in 3-ring binders. Some of those images are 35 mm slides, and others are photographic plates printed on paper. Dr. Rehman photographed dissections of fresh cadavers while a former Deputy Coroner and Forensic Anatomist with the Los Angeles County Department of the Coroner. Since these dissections were performed on cadavers before embalming, the color is much more realistic than in a typical dissected image. During his years in San Diego, Dr. Rehman hired Helen Barker to draw anatomical illustrations, which are included in this collection. The images focus on anatomical areas of interest to an orthopaedic surgeon. Chadwick F. Smith, M.D., an orthopaedic surgeon, collaborated with Dr. Rehman for many years in using these images for training materials for orthopaedic residents and others. Dr. Smith adds the orthopaedic surgeon perspective to the collection.

Orthopaedic Surgical Anatomy Teaching Collection

An Other War Memorial -- Memories of the American War in Viet Nam

This collection of Outstanding Student Papers contains primarily undergraduate papers recognized as a cut above. Initially the collection consists of those papers published by the USC Libraries as part of the series "Outstanding Academic Papers by Students", or OAPS. Read more about OAPS (https://uscdornsifehub.com/2014/12/01/oaps-outstanding-academic-papers-by-students-under-usc-libraries/).

Outstanding Student Papers

The Pacific Rim Archive (PRIM) brings together archival materials relating to America's first century of involvement in and impressions of East Asia (broadly interpreted as including activities from the 1840s through the 1940s). Trading relations predate this period, but not at the level that began to develop with the United States' active settlement of its Pacific shores. And, on the other hand, the level of American involvement in East Asia following the defeat of Japan, and particularly the outbreak of the Korean War was on a much different level than this first century of the "Pacific Rim."

Pacific Rim Archive

Pasadena Museum of History (PMH) is located on the Fenye’s Mansion grounds on Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena. PMH maintains the area’s largest and most comprehensive collection of documents and artifacts related to the history of Pasadena and the west San Gabriel valley. The ever-expanding collection spans years from 1834 to the present.

Pasadena Museum of History’s Black History Collection is comprised of photographs, letters, family records, property deeds, and other materials revealing history of African-American community in Pasadena. This collection was a result of a documentary, Changing Rose, created by PMH in 1984. Robin Kelley, an American historian, interviewed black community members and collected photographs and memorabilia for the documentary, which make up the bulk of the collection. Many of these materials date from the early 20th century, and shed light on a less-visible period in African-American life prior to the second Great Migration. The collection tells the stories and struggles of black citizens who either migrated or grew up in Pasadena. The interview tapes in this collection were digitized as a part of California Revealed Project and can be accessed at https:/californiarevealed.org/collections/pasadena-museum-history. PMH staff chose to digitize only the materials that they have explicit copyrights to.

Thanks to generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (https://www.neh.gov/), the USC Libraries are digitizing this collection for public access as part of the L.A. as Subject Community Histories Digitization Project.

Pasadena Museum of History Collection

Between 1966 and 1981, more than two thousand Americans served in Korea as Peace Corps Volunteers, working as teachers, health workers, engineers, agricultural advisers, etc. Living in rural and urban communities across the country, they learned the Korean language and participated in Korean life on a broader and deeper level than any other group of Americans before or since have been able to do.

Once returned to their homes after their service, they formed an alumni group called Friends of Korea to continue their friendships with Korea and one another. Many went on to build careers as Korea experts as diplomats, educators, scholars, policy makers, consultants, etc. To this day many of the returned volunteers actively work to raise awareness of Korean issues and perspectives in America.

The many materials the Peace Corps Korea Volunteers brought back from Korea -- photographs, diaries, correspondence, audio-visual recordings, etc. -- help to document the critical fifteen-year period in Korean history that laid the foundations of a modern economy and a flourishing democracy.

Peace Corps Korea Archive

At different times and in different parts of the world, Pentecostal and charismatic expressions of Christianity have followed very different courses of development. A fuller contemporary account of these movements is possible if it is grounded in a better historical understanding of the variations from one time and place to another. To address this challenge, the Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative (PCRI) is working with the USC Digital Library to build an online digital archive of primary historical materials - correspondence, organizational records, tracts, sermons, diaries, photographs, oral histories - from different regions of the world. In order to build this resource, PCRI is providing funding to selected seminary and university libraries so that they can digitize and catalog the most important materials from their collections.

List of Collaborators:

1. Center for African American Church History and Research, Dallas TX
2. The D.J. Young Heritage Foundation
3. Donald Gee Research Centre, Mattersey, Nottinghamshire UK
4. Dr. Mattie McGlothen Museum and Library
5. The DuPree Holiness Pentecostal Center (DHPC)
6. Evangelical Theological Seminary. Osijek, Croatia
7. Hollenweger Centre, Free University of Amsterdam
8. Ukrainian Evangelical Theological Seminary, Kiev, Ukraine

Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Archive

"Wheels, Kilns & Clay" was produced for CBS-KNXT Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA, and originally broadcast three times per week in 1967 and 1968. 54 programs were produced. The producer, Susan Peterson, who was head of the Ceramics Department at the University of Southern California from 1955 to 1972, purchased the 2-inch video tapes outright from CBS for $5,400 rather than have the studio erase and reuse them after the series completed production. Peterson later had the tapes converted to VHS and archived at the Ceramic Research Center, Arizona State University Art Museum. The series was copyrighted in 1997 and made available for purchase on DVDs.

Peterson's Wheels, Kilns & Clay, 1967-1968

The Polish Music Center (previously the Polish Music Reference Center) was established at the University of Southern California in 1985. The collections of the PMC comprise music manuscripts, a library, and other archival material.
 
Material available digitally:

Bronisław Kaper Collection
Manuscript Collection
The Henryk Wars Collection

 
The Center is located in Suite 120 in Stonier Hall, 837 Downey Way, Los Angeles, California, on the campus of the University of Southern California.
 
All digital items are a part of The Dianne and Tad Taube Polish Music Center Digital Archives at the USC Thornton School of Music, made possible by a generous gift from Taube Philanthropies.

Polish Music Center Archives

Postcards depicting the homes and environs of some of the first families of Los Angeles as well as other locations.

Historic Postcards

The collection is comprised of the reports created as a result of two seminars and a conference related to a critique of the McCone Report following the 1965 Los Angeles civil unrest. In addition to the reports directly related to the seminars and conference, the materials include documents from training programs for U.S. Air Force Security and Law Enforcement Officers for 1965, 1966, and 1967. These publications were the result of work done through USC with Air Force Law Enforcement personnel to help them establish skills in administration and in dealing with race relations, relative to the work done on the McCone report. Each of the participants was assigned a different city administrator -- many of whom had been educated at the USC School of Public Administration -- to gain experience, share ideas, and prepare a written report.

See also the finding aid (https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/979).

Related collections in the USC Digital Library:

? Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, 1991 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/2251)
? Los Angeles Webster Commission records (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/2266)
? Richard M. Mosk Christopher Commission records, 1988-2011 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/393)
? Watts riots records, 1965 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/83)

Thanks to generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (https://www.neh.gov/), the USC Libraries are digitizing this collection for online public access.

Kendall O. Price Los Angeles Riots records, 1965-1967

In 2016, a collective of over 20 USC faculty formed, calling themselves RAP: Race, Arts, and Placemaking. We saw both a timely urgency and an opportunity. A national conversation about race had opened up to a degree not seen in recent times. At the same time, many of our faculty’s individual research projects and community work had been uncovering grassroots place makers of color who have been claiming urban space through design, media, the arts and cultural practice. We sought to extend the national discussion beyond the important topics of policing and discrimination, to include how to create places in the city where communities of color can thrive. How might we disrupt an intractable pattern in which public and private sector investments intended to redevelop the city often result in disproportionately displacing low-income communities of color? How might we conceptualize and reimagine related topics, such as neighborhood change, community engagement, the design of infrastructure and the integration of emerging media platforms into space, in a manner that defies displacement? How can we expand this conversation beyond the university and make a pertinent contribution to a very real process?

RAP received a Provost Research Collaboration Fund Grant for 2016-2019 which supported our development of new curriculum, symposia, and collaborative projects. This website archives two kinds of oral history content created through two RAP initiatives: student oral history projects created for its namesake class, PPDE 638 Race, Arts, and Placemaking, and community member stories collected in an oral history booth set up during a conference to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1992 LA Civil Unrest.

Both undergraduate and graduate students took the early versions of the class in Spring 2017 and 2018. The intellectual aim of the RAP class was to investigate the underexplored intersection of race, arts, and placemaking. It foregrounds race in the arts and cultural placemaking literature. It also explores how the urban development and planning literature might benefit from seriously considering how arts and culture might be a potent realm for expressing and empowering the fuller humanity and agency of marginalized ethnic communities and a strategy for claiming urban space. Furthermore, the class investigates what a spatialized framework might elucidate about arts and race. In order to explore these questions as well as to uncover narratives, students found oral history subjects themselves in the LA region.

On April 27-28, 2017, with five other co-organizing entities, RAP convened a large conference entitled, “FORWARD LA: Race, Arts, and Inclusive Placemaking after the 1992 Civil Unrest. (https://slab.today/2016/11/rap-conference/). We were dissatisfied with how the news media and conventional wisdom had narrated what happened in 1992 while simultaneously missing other stories. Taking advantage of the convening, we set up an oral history booth to formally record the stories of conference attendees. The USC Price School also recorded the sessions that brought together academics, activists, community members, and artists, discussing neighborhood change, the alliances of social movement organizations, and the role that arts and culture have played in transforming Los Angeles.

Race, Arts, and Placemaking: Oral History Archives

The Amy C. Ransome collection contains material related to women's suffrage from 1884-1949. There is a large amount of correspondence and printed material connected with Sarah Ware Whitney, editor of the Women's Standard in Waterloo, Iowa. In addition, there is correspondence and organizational material from the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association and other state organizations; equal rights and temperance pamphlets, ca. 1890-1900; World Woman's Party correspondence and clippings, ca. 1940; and National Suffrage Bulletins, 1897-1901.

Amy C. Ransome collection on Women's Suffrage

Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection

Scores used by Maestro Paul Salamunovich (American conductor, 1927-2014) as he conducted the St. Charles Borromeo Church Choir of North Hollywood, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and other smaller ensembles. Recordings, photographs, and a few score manuscripts are also included.

Paul Salamunovich Papers

The Ruben Salazar Papers, donated in 2011 to the USC Libraries by his children, Lisa Salazar Johnson, Stephanie Salazar Cook, and John Salazar, comprise Salazar's documents from his early life, his journalism career and his legacy. The physical collection, containing photographs, correspondence, clippings, typescripts of stories, cards and letters from supporters, awards, and realia, is housed at USC Libraries Special Collections in the Doheny Memorial Library. The USC Digital Library collection contains a selection of these items.

Ruben Salazar (1928-1970) Papers

This collection consists of Russian satirical journals which were produced during the revolutionary upheaval of 1905-1907. The physical issues come from the collection of the Institute of Modern Russian Culture at the University of Southern California. The Revolution of 1905, sometimes referred to as "the first Russian Revolution," was a period of major social, political and cultural upheaval. Catalyzed by Russia’s defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 and inaugurated by the killing of unarmed protesters on what became known as "Bloody Sunday" (January 22 [January 9 Old Style], 1905), the revolution led to the end to Russian autocracy and the country’s first experiment in constitutional democracy.

Russian Satirical Journals Collection

This collection presents 753 photographs and drawings of the 1976-1978 excavations conducted in the church of Saint‑Bénigne in Dijon, France. Carolyn Marino Malone, USC Professor Emerita, directed these excavations in the nave and courtyard of the existing Gothic Cathedral with the aid of a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant. The excavations focused on discovering the plan of the pre-Romanesque abbey church of Saint‑Bénigne, built between 1001-1016, but also unearthed 6th and 9th century remains. In this collection, the photographs and drawings are arranged according to the chronological sequence of discovery in each of the excavated areas. The primary publication of the excavation, "Les Fouilles de Saint‑Bénigne de Dijon (1976‑1978) et le problème de l'église de l'an mil,” Bulletin Monumental, 138 (1980): 253‑84, which won the Courtlandt-Elliott Prize from the Medieval Academy of America in 1982, and other related publications are included in the collection.
 
Subcollections

Photos of Excavation
Drawings made during excavation
Plans and sections made for publication
Publications related to the excavation

 
Indices

List of photographs of the 1976-1978 excavation (trenches 1-5), and related photographs
List of drawings made during the excavation
Plans and sections made for publication
Publication of excavation

 
In this archive the photos and drawings are to be viewed in chronological order within each trench of the excavation. To access the successive images correctly, it is necessary to click the word Sort (at the top right) of each section and highlight the following words on the following page that will appear: medium labels (first column), file names (third column, near bottom), and then ascending order (third column, near top). Then click apply (bottom right corner). Please ignore other features that appear in the web design, such as Conceptually Similar and Linked assets, which are automatically generated based on the titles, descriptions, and tags of other assets not necessarily in this collection. Carolyn Malone did not select these comparisons which are meaningless.

St. Bénigne de Dijon 1976-1978 excavation: Malone archive of drawings and photos

The Self Help Graphics & Art Serigraph Collection is comprised of prints made at Self Help Graphics & Art, which fosters the creation and advancement of new art works by Chicana/o and Latinx artists through experimental and innovative printmaking techniques and other visual art forms.
 
Ten projects are featured in this digital collection (chronologically from 2012-2020):

Self Help: Atelier LIII - The Jornalero Papers (2012)
Self Help: Atelier LIV - Sueños Libres: West Coast Soñazos (2012)
Self Help: Atelier LV - Communication Threads & Entwined Recollections (2012)
Self Help: Special Project - Futbol: The Beautiful Game (2013)
Self Help: Special Project - Print Summit Portfolio (2015)
Self Help: Special Project - 43: From Ayotzinapa to Ferguson (2016)
Self Help: Atelier LVI - Queerida (2017)
Self Help: Special Project - Printmaking Survey of the Los Angeles River (2018)
Self Help: Utopia/Dystopia (2019)
Self Help: Atelier LVII - Census (2020)

Self Help Graphics & Art Serigraph Collection

The Hansi Share papers, 1924-1971, include correspondence, photographs, clippings, and legal and financial documents created and collected by Hansi Share, creator of the Monica Doll. Included is a report on the house built by Hansi and her first husband, Hermann Ploschitzki, which was noted for its architectural design and its contents that included a sizable and valuable art collection (this information may have been prepared for a reparations case that Hansi brought against Germany), love letters between Hansi and Hermann, immigration and naturalization documents for Hansi, letters between Hansi and Vicki Baum, documents and correspondence regarding Hansi's estate planning, and photographs of Hansi and family members. See the finding aid at https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/2862.

Hansi Share Papers

Sheet Music Collection

Wally G. Shidler Historical Collection of Southern California Ephemera

The Silver Lake History Collective archive documents the oral histories of long-term residents, business owners, artists and other interesting residents of Silver Lake and nearby communities. It includes over fifty video interviews involving more than seventy people including memories from the great-grandchild of a slave, a Japanese-American doctor who was interned at the Santa Anita racetrack during World War II as well as many people who have lived all their lives in Silver Lake. The History Collective continues its work as of this date in 2012, interviewing 6-8 subjects each year. Those videos will continue to be sent to USC to further expand the archive.

For additional information see the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council History Collective / Bob Herzog Memorial Archives (https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/391) in the USC Archives listing.

Silver Lake History Collective

Southern California housing reports and photographs collection

The Southern California Library (SCL) for Social Studies and Research primarily documents and preserves the history of twentieth-century radicalism and social change through progressive movements in the greater Los Angeles area. The materials held by the library relate to the labor, peace, social justice, civil rights, women’s, gay and lesbian, and various other grassroots movements. While the library’s print holdings—numbering approximately thirty thousand books and three thousand periodical titles—range well beyond the subject of Los Angeles to socialism, Marxism, and the Cold War, its special collections focus on Los Angeles. These collections include twenty-five thousand pamphlets, fifteen hundred posters, two thousand photographs, one hundred documentary films, one hundred videos, thirty-five hundred audio tapes, organizational files for Los Angeles and national grassroots groups, and extensive subject files containing newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and reports.

Among the library’s major archival collections are the papers of civil liberties defender Leo Gallagher, California Eagle editor and publisher Charlotta Bass, and Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research founders Emil and Tassia Freed, as well as papers from the Los Angeles chapter of the Civil Rights Congress, the Los Angeles Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, the Los Angeles International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and the Los Angeles Congress of Industrial Organizations. The archival collections on the Watts Rebellion of 1965, the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panthers, and Chicano activism are heavily used, as are the documentary films of the 1930s from the Film and Photo League and those of the 1960s from the Newsreel (SDS) collective.

The library was founded in 1963 in downtown Los Angeles by Emil Freed, a labor and political activist in Southern California, and initially contain Freed's personal collection of materials from organizations and individuals involved in the movement. The library moved to South Los Angeles in 1971. Library directors have included:
1963-1982: Emil Freed (born 1901, died 1982)
1983-200?: Sarah Cooper
2005-current: Yusef Omowale

The library is committed to making its collections on the multicultural history of Los Angeles, documenting the struggles that challenge racism and other systems of oppression, widely available and to working with other institutions and organizations to ensure that a broadly based historical record of the city’s people is preserved for future generations.

Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research

The audio recordings in this collection are sociolinguistic interviews and conversations collected by USC professor emeritus Carmen Silva-Corvalán when she was in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Linguistics.

Covarrubias, Spain
East Los Angeles, California: Mexican American bilinguals
Los Angeles, California: Children ages 4½-6 years
San Fernando Valley, California: Mexican American adolescents, Spanish-English code switching
Santiago, Chile
West Los Angeles, California: Mexican Americans various ages

The subcollections listed above cover ca. 348 hours of audio interviews collected from 1976 to 1992. The tapes from Covarrubias, Spain are 35 hours and were recorded from 1981 to 1982. The East Los Angeles, California, interviews of Mexican Americans cover 110 hours, collected from 1983-1984. About 48 hours are interviews with Mexican American children, collected in Los Angeles, California, from 1988-1992. The San Fernando Valley Mexican American adolescents interviews cover more than 21 hours, collected in 1976. The recordings of West Los Angeles Mexican Americans of various ages cover more than 41 hours, collected in 1978. The Santiago, Chile, interviews cover 93 hours and were collected from 36 Chileans of varying ages from 1978-1992.
 
These materials provide an authentic resource serving multiple research communities engaged in projects related to language education, linguistic research, bilingualism research, and technology development, specifically of Spanish spoken in Spain, Chile and Los Angeles. Financial support for the initial research came from the National Science Foundation and a USC Faculty Research grant. Digitization was supported by the Del Amo Fund (USC Dornsife College), the L.A. Murillo Hispanic Heritage Endowment (USC Libraries), and the Center for Research Libraries, Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP).
 
Analysis of some of these data sets was published in
 

Carmen Silva-Corvalán. Language Contact and Change: Spanish in Los Angeles. Oxford: Clarendon, 1994.
Carmen Silva-Corvalán. Sociolingüística y Pragmática del Español. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001.
Urrutia, Hernán & Carmen Silva-Corvalán, eds. Bilingüismo y adquisición del español. Bilbao, Spain: Instituto Horizonte, 1992.

 
When using material from this collection please cite it as follows:
 

Short version: “Courtesy of the USC Libraries' USC Digital Library”.
Long version: "From the Spanish Sociolinguistic Research Collection, 1978-1992, USC Digital Library, USC Libraries, University of Southern California".

Spanish Sociolinguistic Research Collection, 1978-1992

How does COVID-19 impact the University of Southern California community?

USC Libraries makes an effort to collect and archive materials and stories from individuals from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and the Southern California community as a way to create a public record of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic that will be used for research and other purposes.
Submissions will be archived and processed by USC Libraries Special Collections and USC.

Libraries Digital Library. Submissions will only be viewed by the #StayAtHome project team. If you have any questions or comments please visit our website. We have an FAQ, helpful submission guidelines, and project team information with direct contact details: https://libguides.usc.edu/stayathome.

There is a companion Website (https://stayathomeusc.github.io/stayathome/) to USC's #StayAtHome archiving project. The map will provide access to a selection of contributions which you can select and read more about.

#StayAtHome 2020

The Taiwanese American Archive (TAA) started as a Los Angeles as Subject Resident Archivist project under LAAS Resident Archivist Joanna Chen Cham (joanna.yl.chen@gmail.com), in collaboration with USC East Asian Library Director, Kenneth Klein, and local Taiwanese American community leaders, including Lung Chen, a community leader, Wencheng Lin (wen1945@gmail.com), Editor of a weekly Taiwanese American newspaper, Pacific Times, and TaiwaneseAmerican.org (https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/), a nonprofit organization that seeks to promote Taiwanese American identity, heritage, and culture. The documentary record of the Taiwanese American experience has largely been overlooked or subsumed, with few collections collected, and there is a large gap in the historical record regarding Taiwanese Americans in Los Angeles and in the nation. The impetus to digitize Taiwanese American materials and capture the historical record before it is gone has been welcomed and supported by the local and national Taiwanese American community, who has funded the digitization for the first TAA collection: Pacific Times (1987-2010), as well as by other archivists, librarians, and academics. Eventually, the hope is that the Taiwanese American Archive would bring together documents, photographs, oral histories, moving images, ephemera, and more to preserve and give access to Taiwanese American community life, starting from the 1960's, to document the history, family and community life, political activism, and academic and social contributions of Taiwanese Americans.
 
Pacific Times (太平洋時報), 1987-
 
Pacific Times (https://pacific-times.com/) is a weekly Taiwanese American newspaper published in Los Angeles. It has published local and national news about and relevant to the Taiwanese American community since 1987, and has readers across the globe. With 50 issues printed annually from 1987 to the present, this newspaper collection is significant both in volume as well as content, covering a long, continuous span of time from some of the earlier waves of Taiwanese American immigration to the present, including attitudes and reactions toward Taiwan as decades-long martial law was lifted in 1987 and Taiwan transitioned into a democracy. It also includes news events important to the Taiwanese American community, prominent community members, and various other columns. It is published in traditional Chinese characters.
 
The following issues were either missing or lacked pages when digitization occurred and are thus not available here.
 

Pacific times, whole nos. 1-23, 27-51, 53-74, 79-81, 83-84, 86-102, 105-106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 122, 126, 133, 136, 138, 140-141, 143-144, 147, 150-152, 154-155, 157, 161, 164-190, 192-219, 221-227, 292, 294-299, 307, 309, 312, 314-329, 332-333, 339-340, 365, 384-385, 400-499, 771, 781, 783, 795, 942 – missing all of these issues
Pacific times, whole no. 265 (1991-09-13) – missing pages 3-4
Pacific times, whole no. 306 (1992-03-20) – missing pages 5-6, 15-16
Pacific times, whole no. 352 (1993-02-05) – missing pages 7-10
Pacific times, whole no. 354 (1993-02-19) – missing pages B3-B6
Pacific times, whole no. 364 (1993-04-30) – missing pages 7-10
Pacific times, whole no. 367 (1993-05-21) – missing pages 5-6, 11-12
Pacific times, whole no. 693 (1999-09-23) – missing pages 5-6, 11-12
Pacific times, whole no. 775 (2001-05-03) – missing pages 11-12
Pacific times, whole no. 834 (2002-06-27) – missing pages 9-10
Pacific times, whole no. 839 (2002-08-01) – missing pages 11-12
Pacific times, whole no. 842 (2002-08-22) – missing pages 11-12
Pacific times, whole no. 852 (2002-10-31) – missing pages 11-12
Pacific times, whole no. 857 (2002-12-05) – missing pages 3-4, 11-12
Pacific times, whole no. 874 (2003-04-10) – missing pages 7-10
Pacific times, whole no. 891 (2003-08-07) – missing pages 11-12
Pacific times, whole no. 892 (2003-08-14) – missing pages 11-12
Pacific times, whole no. 965 (2005-01-20) – missing pages 5-6, 11-12
Pacific times, whole no. 966 (2005-01-27) – missing pages 5-6, 11-12
Pacific times, whole no. 984 (2005-06-02) – missing pages 5-6, 11-12
Pacific times, whole no. 985 (2005-06-09) – missing pages 5-6, 11-12
Pacific times, whole no. 987 (2005-06-23) – missing pages 7-8

Taiwanese American Archives

Wayne Thom Photography Collection

Trojan Bloom was founded in 2021 by he USC Center for Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. The journal is published biannually, and submissions are accepted early during both the fall and spring semesters. The editors consider submissions from the University of Southern California undergraduate community.

Trojan Bloom, 2022-2024

This collection contains all USC theses and dissertations since USC was founded in the 19th century. The vast majority were digitized from print copies. Since the Fall of 2006 they have been submitted electronically by the authors. A small number (probably less than 200) have not yet been added; but they will be added to this collection as they are located and digitized.

University of Southern California Dissertations and Theses

This collection contains publications, unpublished research, and presentations by faculty of the University of Southern California. Many of these documents were previously deposited in USC's Institutional Repository, DSpace, before it was locally decommissioned in the Spring of 2010.

University of Southern California Faculty Research and Publications

The University of Southern California History collection contains yearbooks, photographs, newspapers, audio, video, and documents published by or otherwise created at USC, or specifically about USC.
 
ACADEMIC SENATE RECORDS
 
The collection contains minutes and resolutions from the meetings of the University Faculty Senate (later the Academic Senate) from 1947 to 2011.
 
For more information see The Academic Senate (https://academicsenate.usc.edu/).
 
THE DAILY TROJAN, 1912- [the student newspaper]
 
The student newspaper, known as the Daily Trojan (since 1925) is usually published Monday through Friday during the regular school term (typically September through May). During the summer, the Summer Trojan (so named initially in 1950), is usually published once per week.
 
The first student newspaper was the University Courier. There's an early picture of the cover of vol. 2 no. 4 (Wed., October 17, 1904) of the Courier in the 1908 El Rodeo (p. [204]).
 
Weekly student newspaper (typically September-May)

University Courier (1894-1911)

Daily student newspaper (typically September-May)

Daily Southern Californian (1912-1915)
Southern California Trojan (1915-1925)
Southern California Daily Trojan (1925-1943)
Southern California Trojan (1943-1944)
Southern California Daily Trojan (1945-1961)
University of Southern California Daily Trojan (1961-1972)
Daily Trojan (1956) (1972- )

Summer student newspaper (about May-August)

Southern California Trojan (1923-1934)
Summer Session Trojan (1935-1936)
Southern California Summer Trojan (1937-1938) (1940-1942)
Southern California Trojan (1943-1944)
Southern California Daily Trojan (1945)
Southern California Summer News (1946-1949)
Southern California Summer Trojan (1950)
Southern California Summer News (1951-1954)
Summer News (1955-1956)
Summer Trojan (1957)
Southern California Summer Trojan (1958-1963)
University of Southern California Summer Trojan (1963)
Summer Trojan (1964)
University of Southern California Summer Trojan (1965-1972)
Summer Trojan (1973- )

 
The collection was digitized from microfilm and print copies of the newspaper in the University Archives and current issues continue to be added electronically.
 
For more information see Daily Trojan History (https://dailytrojan.com/history/).
 
DENTISTRY YEARBOOKS, 1904-
 
The Dental Department, later the College of Dentistry, the School of Dentistry, and from 2010, the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, published its own yearbook since 1904. USC Dental yearbooks separate from El Rodeo were not published in 1965, 1993, 1997, 2007 and other years as well. The yearbooks have been variously titled.
 
? Extractions (1904-1905)
? Odontograms (1918-1921)
? El Molaro (1952-1972, 1978, 1988-1996, 2002-2004)
? School of Dentistry yearbook (1973-1977, 1979-1987, 2000-2001, 2005- )
? Restorations (1998-1999)
 
In the 1970s and 1980s many of the yearbooks had a theme satirizing various cultural phenomena of the day including: Playboy, the US bicentennial, Mad Magazine, Star Wars, National Lampoon, Disneyland, the Olympics, Star Trek, camp, mechanical engineering, board games, big box discount stores and dentistry itself. A yearbook just for the department of Dental Hygiene was issued in 2009. The 1961 yearbook was issued with a 33?-rpm record and the 2001 yearbook was issued with a DVD.
 
ROTC YEARBOOKS, 1940-
 
The Reserve Officers' Training Corps units at USC have issued their own yearbooks.
 
? Air Force ROTC yearbook (1972- )
? Naval ROTC yearbook "Seahorse" (1940- )
 
EL RODEO, 1898- [the student yearbook]
 
El Rodeo is USC's yearbook. It has been published annually since 1898. The Japanese Student Association even published several in Japanese between 1912 and 1919.
 
For availability of the current print volume, see El Rodeo (https://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/elrodeo/index.shtml).
 
ALUMNI MEMORABILIA
 
USC's graduates have donated memorabilia from their association with USC in this collection. Contact us if you want to contribute.
 
UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES IMAGE, AUDIO & VIDEO COLLECTIONS
 
The University Archives Image, Audio & Video Collections contains photographs, sound, and moving images documenting the history of USC. Subjects include: football coaches, fraternities, sororities, buildings, student activities and athletics.
 
Search for Buildings or Fountains or People or Plaques.
 
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE
 
The USC Chronicle was published by USC for the staff and faculty of USC. It was published from October 1974 through at least October 2002 and was continued by the USC Transcript. A run limited to the years 1995 through 2002 are available here.
 
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES COLLECTION -- coming soon
 
The Edward L. Doheny Memorial Library (https://www.usc.edu/libraries/locations/doheny/history/), USC's flagship library, opened in 1932. Sixty-seven years after its opening, it was closed for nearly two years for a Seismic Retrofit and Preservation Project from December 1999 to August 2001. The project was mostly paid for by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and included major cleaning and conservation work as well.
 
The photographs in this collection showcase the newly retrofitted building just prior to its reopening. Both public and private spaces are documented.
 
Some photographs of the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Library (https://www.usc.edu/libraries/locations/leavey/history/), which opened in 1994 and is located just across the quad from Doheny, are also included.

University of Southern California History Collection

This collection includes over 900 pieces of art that were created by patients at the Atascadero State Hospital (ASH) in the mid-1950’s.  The artists were under the treatment of Albert R. Vercoutere who used the technique of providing photos from magazines for the patients to use as inspiration for their own artwork. Although not trained in the use of art therapy and during a time when art therapy was a new approach, Vercoutere often utilized art as a mechanism for working with his patients. The artwork was created during a time when psychotropic drugs were not yet available as treatment options for mental health patients.
 
The collection is divided into two sub-collections (1) the artwork and (2) information about Vercoutere.  The artwork from 34 artists and some unidentified artists is predominantly paintings (watercolors and oil), pencil and crayon drawings, and a few ceramics, wood carvings, and woven textiles. The artwork demonstrates a wide range of techniques, artistic abilities, and mental states. Vercoutere’s notes written on the artwork or in his memoirs that mentions some of the artists are included when available. Names of the artists are not provided in order to protect confidentiality.  Names included on the artwork were digitally removed. From the 1970’s, images of several paintings were included in psychology text books as examples of the state of mind of patients with various psychological disorders.  In addition to the artwork, the collection also includes papers and other documents from and about Vercoutere that provide a context for the artwork, including a scrapbook, newspaper clippings, and correspondence with publishers.
 
This digital collection focuses on Vercoutere’s career while at ASH. Other documents related to his years at the Camarillo State Hospital are included in the physical archives that are part of the USC Chan Archive at the Center for Occupation and Lifestyle Redesign https://chan.usc.edu/about-us/archive.  Janice Vercoutere donated her husband’s materials to the Norris Medical Library of the USC Libraries in 2016.

Albert Vercoutere Collection: Artwork by Psychiatric Occupational Therapy Patients in the 1950's

Welcome to the Andrew J. and Erna Viterbi Family Archives
 
The inventory of the physical collection (see https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt7199r7h1/) is arranged into 18 series which organize the groups of documents in the archive alphabetically. Due to the possible presence of sensitive information, two series have been restricted from view:

Correspondence (1,674 items)
Technical Information (472+ items)

 
A third series (Business Plan) was previously restricted but subsequently released after a review of the contents established that no non-public information was contained therein.
 
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
 
Andrew J. Viterbi is one of the most important of the group of scientists and entrepreneurs whose revolutionary and creative work in the late 20th century ushered in the digital age. His most famous discovery, the Viterbi Algorithm, is a mathematical system for retrieving the original voice or data message from a coded digital stream and is used in all the world's major cell phone standards. Viterbi is also one of the creators of the spread spectrum standard used in cell phones, Code Division Multiple Access, or CDMA.
 
A native of Italy whose family immigrated to the U.S. when he was four years old, Viterbi attended public schools in Boston graduating from Boston Latin School in 1952. He earned both B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 
Even before he received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1962, Viterbi distinguished himself when he was singled out in Life magazine as one of the bright young scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab, which answered Sputnik's wake-up call to launch Explorer I.
 
Viterbi not only had an extraordinarily prolific academic career beginning at UCLA, but he simultaneously excelled as a business entrepreneur. He co-founded two hugely successful companies, Linkabit, which marketed digital technologies based on the Viterbi Algorithm, and the San Diego cell phone technology giant, Qualcomm.
 
Viterbi fell in love and married Erna Finci in 1958. She became his equal lifetime partner, sharing in all major decisions and she was usually by his side as he scribbled notes on communication theory at home or at family gatherings. The Finci and the Viterbi families both fled anti-Semitic oppression in World War II.
 
Since Andrew Viterbi stepped down as vice chairman and chief technology officer at Qualcomm in 2000 when he was 65, the Viterbis have devoted their lives to philanthropy and providing counsel and investment to startup high-tech companies. In March of 2004, the Viterbis named the USC Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering with a $52 million gift, the largest ever to name an existing engineering school.
 
Andrew Viterbi is a trustee of the University of Southern California and a USC Presidential Professor. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2008, he was named a laureate for the Millennium Technology Prize, and was also awarded the 2007 National Medal of Science by the President of the United States.
 
Andrew Viterbi currently serves as president of the Viterbi Group, LLC, founded in 2000. He and Erna live in La Jolla, Calif. They have two sons and a daughter and several grandchildren.

Andrew J. and Erna Viterbi Family Archives

A collection of correspondence to and from Voltaire, as well as three pages of poetry written by Voltaire. Many letters in the collection are either to or from Frederick the Great, who was the King of Prussia from 1740-1786. The correspondence between Voltaire and Frederick, as well as all the other correspondence in the collection covers such topics as freedom of expression in 18th Century France and wars which were going on in Europe at the time. Voltaire was sick and apparently bed-ridden while he wrote some of the later letters. Voltaire incorporated some poetry directly into his letters, but in this collection there are also three pages of poetry dedicated to various people.

Scope and Content
There are 32 items in this collection, the majority of which are correspondence between Frederick the Great of Prussia and Voltaire. In the letters between Frederick and Voltaire, they discuss such topics as religious freedom and freedom of expression in France, the Catholic Church, the Seven Years War, the War of Austrian Succession, the health of Voltaire, and the talent and skill of both men in writing poetry. There are also some other letters from Voltaire to various friends including the Derrey de Rocqueville, who was a lawyer in the Parliament of Toulouse. These letters again discuss religious matters, certain legal cases where a French citizen was unjustly prosecuted for being of the wrong faith, and the health of Voltaire. Three pages of poems are also included in this collection, all written by Voltaire, and which include flowery language, many metaphors, and references to mythological characters and gods. Several of the letters are signed by Voltaire. All of Frederick the Great's letters are signed by him.

See also the Finding Aid (https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/874).

Voltaire Correspondence, 1742-1777

The Nancy E. Warner Pathology Slide Collection consists of nearly 7,500 digitized 35mm Kodachrome slides of pathology specimens including both microscopic histology sections and macroscopic (gross) pathology specimens. The photographs were taken by Nancy E. Warner, M.D., over her long career beginning in the mid-1950’s and continuing until her retirement in 1991. The collection covers all human systems with an emphasis on surgical pathology. A few images of mouse and rat tissue also are included. Her avid interest in photography and her expertise as an anatomical pathologist have produced very high quality images. She used the slides for lectures at the University of Southern California and at conferences and as teaching materials for medical residents. With changes in diagnostic techniques and treatment methods, many of these images are a historical reflection of the time they were photographed and could not be collected in current days. The collection includes images of disease states at the time of diagnosis and before treatment, as well as photographs taken from autopsies that reveal end stages of other diseases. Unfortunately, Dr. Warner’s most recent slides were given to another individual and are not part of this collection.

Dr. Warner donated the slide collection along with funds to digitize the collection in 2016 to the Norris Medical Library of the USC Libraries.

Dr. Warner was a female ground breaker in medicine. Graduating in 1949, she was an early woman graduate from the University of Chicago’s School of Medicine. She claims that she was admitted during the war years because male applicants were sparse. She practiced as a pathologist at the University of Chicago, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, and the University of Washington, before arriving in 1967 to the University of Southern California where she spent the remainder of her career. She was appointed as chair of the Department of Pathology in 1972 becoming the first female department chair at the Keck School of Medicine and the first female in the United States to be named chair of a pathology department at a coeducational school of medicine. She feels that her chair appointment by then Keck School Dean Franz K. Bauer, M.D., was heavily influenced by his wife and mother who both had medical degrees. In turn, Dr. Warner recruited a number of women to faculty positions. She stepped down from the chair position in 1983 to practice surgical pathology at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. She continued to be active in teaching and serving USC even after her official retirement. Teaching was one of her great joys in life and garnered her many teaching awards from medical students, as well as from the American Society of Clinical Pathologists’ Distinguished Pathology Educator Award. In 2009 from the USC Emeriti Center, she received the inaugural Paul E. Hadley Faculty Award for Service to USC.

The Nancy E. Warner Papers, 1935 – 1956, are housed at the University of Chicago Library https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.WARNERN.

About the metadata

Dr. Warner organized her slide collection by organ system, body part, and disease providing headings on tabs to mark the different sections. The order of the images in this digital collection reflect the original slide organization, so images of body areas within organ systems will be grouped together. However, to find all images on disease states (e.g., melanoma), searching for the disease is required. Dr. Warner included descriptions on each slide, usually disease and body part, but also age, sex, test method, primary site for metastasis, and other relevant information. The metadata includes:

1. Title – transcribed from slide, including annotations of case numbers and magnifications. Question marks included in the title were indicated on the slide. Some slides did not include descriptions, so titles were indicated as [Unidentified Pathology Slide]. Patients and hospitals identified on the slides were not included.
2. Keywords – full form of abbreviations included in the title. Body parts or diseases not included in the title, but derived from the organization of the slides. When these keywords were derived, question marks (?) were added to indicate that these were not provided by Dr. Warner.
3. Gross/Microscopic – determined by examination of the slide
4. Magnification – included only if indicated on the slide
5. MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) – the National Library of Medicine’s Thesaurus of controlled and hierarchical vocabulary for biomedical information was used to provide additional subject access to the collection. In general for this collection, MeSH terms include organ systems, body parts, and diseases. Terms for sex, age group, and other information were added when available. Disease states (e.g., Dysentery, Bacillary) were added when the causative organism (Shigella) was provided. MeSH provided a bridge from the terminology used in earlier years to current times (e.g., salivary gland virus infections are now called cytomegalovirus infections). Terms were not provided for test methods (e.g., Alcian Blue), but those can be found in the titles and keywords.

Notes

The donation was received by Janis Brown, Associate Director, Systems & Information Technology, Norris Medical Library. Ms. Brown also oversaw the preparation of the collection into the digital library. Others working on the project include Stephanie Osorio, Hanna Canawati, M.D., and Peter Nichols, M.D., as well as Dr. Warner.

Nancy E. Warner Pathology Slide Collection

The collection consists of the report published by the governor's commission following the Los Angeles civil unrest of 1965, also known as the Watts Riots, and the supporting documentation. The report itself is titled, "Violence in the City—An End or a Beginning?: A Report by the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots, 1965". While the additional documents are primarily transcripts of testimony, the testimonies come from a wide range of people directly and indirectly involved in the civil unrest, including Governor Pat Brown, Lieutenant Governor Glen Anderson, several leaders of the Los Angeles Police Department and National Guard, some business leaders, and many members of the affected communities. Some of the other documents include reports about different aspects of the communities and the civil unrest, including arrests, damages, and employment. The commission was headed by John A. McCone, former CIA director. This is copy 7 of the report.

See also the finding aid (https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/83).

See also The Los Angeles Riots: The Independent and Webster Commissions Collections (https://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-los-angeles-riots-christopher-and-webster-commissions-collections/index).

Related collections in the USC Digital Library:

? Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, 1991 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/2251)
? Los Angeles Webster Commission records (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/2266)
? Richard M. Mosk Christopher Commission records, 1988-2011 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/393)
? Kendall O. Price Los Angeles riots records, 1965-1967 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/979)

Thanks to generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (https://www.neh.gov/), the USC Libraries are digitizing this collection for online public access.

Watts riots records, 1965

This collection includes lists of archaeological sites that have been surveyed or excavated since Israel occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1967. Since that time, the oversight of the antiquities of the area has devolved on two government bodies: the military administration's Staff Officer for Archaeology (SOA) in Judea and Samaria and the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). The IAA, which is responsible for East Jerusalem, is a civil branch of government and its records are open for inspection. Some of the records of the Staff Officer for Archaeology in Judea and Samaria are being accessed in full for the first time as a result of the joint Israeli-Palestinian Archaeology Working Group. This involved a team of Israeli and a team of Palestinian archaeologists and cultural heritage professionals working in concert to create new data resources that document the single, unitary archaeological landscape of the southern Levant, which is now bisected by the modern borders.
 
A searchable map is not yet available.
 
The Israeli-Palestinian Archaeology Working Group sponsored and partly funded a research effort by Rafi Greenberg (Tel Aviv) and Adi Keinan (University College London) in order to gather details about each site in the West Bank excavated or surveyed between 1967 (updated periodically). These data include the site name(s), location on a GIS grid, description of the site's major components (e.g. olive oil press; ritual bath; sheikh's tomb; church, synagogue, village); details about the periods when the site was occupied (e.g. Neolithic, Byzantine [Christian]; Iron Age II; Ottoman); and information about the excavators or surveyors who gathered data about the site; and relevant publications/bibliography. This collection page provides access to a database, which is a work in progress. We look forward to additions to this database file in the future as additional data are provided by Israelis, Palestinians and others.
 
Generous donors provided funding for various stages of this project (in chronological order):
 
University of Southern California (USC) Center for Religion and Civic Culture, the United States Institute for Peace, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, The S. Daniel Abraham Centers for Middle East Peace & Economic Cooperation (Washington DC) and for International and Regional Studies (Tel Aviv), the USC Provost's Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative, Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies and several private donors, including Mary Louise Remy; Howard and Roberta Ahmanson; Jack and Peggy Bryant; Wally and Suzy Marks; Nancy Berman and Alan Bloch; and Luis Lainer.
 
Additionally, we would like to acknowledge the following people for their contributions to this project:
 

For their assistance in obtaining basic published and archival information: Aryeh Rochman, Ruthy Shem-Tov, Michal Shmuel, Gideon Avni, Jon Seligman, Gideon Solimany and Yehuda Dagan of the IAA; Yitzhak Magen and Yoav Zionit of the SOA.
For providing GIS layers and cartographic help: Hanita Cinamon, Dan Rothem (S. Daniel Abraham Center, Washington) and Adi Bin-Nun (Hebrew University).
For legal help: Raz Ben-Dor of the Freedom of Information Movement.

 
An earlier incarnation of this site received the 2009 ASOR Open Archaeology Prize. This award is sponsored by the Alexandria Archive Institute to highlight efforts within the archaeological community to provide public access to research content. The competition is supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the David Brown Book Company.

The West Bank and East Jerusalem Searchable Map

The Whittier Public Library provided several newspapers from its Whittier Newspapers Collection, formerly housed in the History Room, for digitization as part of the L.A. as Subject Digital Residency Program. Four bound volumes (The Coast Reporter, Whittier Californian, Whittier Sunday Review) and several issues of the Whittier Pointer. The Library donated the physical newspapers to the Donald K. Ball Archives of the Whittier Society & Museum.

Whittier Historical Newspaper Collection

The "Dick" Whittington Studio was the largest and finest photography studio in the Los Angeles area from 1924 to 1987. Specializing in commercial photography, the Whittington Studio took photographs for nearly every major business and organization in Los Angeles; in so doing, they documented the growth and commercial development of Los Angeles. Clients included Max Factor, the Broadway, Bullock's, and May Co. department stores, the California Fruit Growers Association, Signal Oil, Shell Oil, Union Oil, Van de Kamp's bakeries, Forest Lawn, Sparkletts Water, CBS, Don Lee Television, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, real estate developers, construction companies, automobile, aircraft, and railroad companies, and drive-in theaters. Another notable client was the University of Southern California, which contracted with the Whittington Studios for coverage of athletic and other events. The collection consists primarily of roughly 500,000 negatives; the rest are photoprints.
 
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The collection is only partially digitized, but thanks to the generous help of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the USC Libraries has digitized 76,645 at-risk negatives in obsolete formats from the 1920s to 1940s.

Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987

The Paul R. Williams Arnoll residence collection contains three blueprints for the A.C. Arnoll residence, Glendale, CA, designed by architect Paul R. Williams.

Paul R. Williams Arnoll Residence blueprints

"The Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum Collection, 1830-1930 consists of materials from the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum in the City of Industry, California. The Homestead Museum is located in a former Mexican rancho and is home to rich collections documenting many aspects of Southern California history between 1830 and 1930.

Staff from the Homestead Museum have selected approximately 500 photographs and ephemera highlighting Mexican-American, Chinese-American, and Japanese-American life in the Los Angeles region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among these items are broadsides from two Mexican-American theatres in Boyle Heights during the 1920s and an 1863 Democratic party poster written in Spanish. Photographs depicting businesses, celebrations such as festivals and parades, and daily life in these early communities are also included in this collection. These materials are some of the rare traces of mass entertainment and community life of the region during this era, as much was lost in the rapid development of Los Angeles after World War II.

Materials from the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum Collection are part of the L. A. as Subject Community Histories Digitization Project. Thanks to generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the USC Libraries are digitizing this collection for public access."

Workman-Temple Homestead Museum Collection, 1830-1930

The Works Progress Administration Los Angeles Household Census Cards collection dates from 1939. The physical cards which number nearly half a million items are owned by the USC Libraries. More than a quarter of the collection has been digitized.

The household survey cards (or "dwelling schedules"), one for each street address in greater Los Angeles, document a wide variety of information ranging from the type of dwelling, the value of the property, the monthly rent or mortgage, to whether or not there were flush toilets. While these cards form the bulk of the collection, other digitized documents include "block face cards" and "block lists" -- documenting the census process -- as well as employee records which provide a fascinating view of the background and skills of the census takers themselves. Naturally, in this city of the car, the employee records include whether or not the employee owned an automobile.

WPA household census cards and employee records, Los Angeles, 1939

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted a land use survey from December 18, 1933 to May 8, 1939 for the city of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning. It covered approximately 460 square miles within the boundary of the City of Los Angeles and resulted in this series of 345 hand-colored land use survey maps. They are collected in 10 books (averaging 35 maps per book) each corresponding to a geographic region within the City's boundary. Each original map measures bout 2 ft. x 3.5 ft.

The books cover:

1) North Los Angeles District;
2) Tujunga;
3) San Fernando Valley from Canoga Park District to Van Nuys District;
4) Van Nuys District to Garvanza District;
5) Santa Monica Mountains from Girard to Van Nuys District;
6) Hollywood District to Boyle Heights District;
7) Topanga Canyon to Hollywood District;
8) Downtown Los Angeles and Hyde Park to Watts District;
9) Pacific Palisades Area to Mines Field (Municipal Airport);
10) Shoestring Addition to San Pedro District.

Each book includes:

? A title page with key;
? legend and list of symbols used;
? A composite index page of the entire city (which indicates on a city map which portion is included in a given book);
? An index, which indicates on a city section map, the specific coordinates and sheets of maps contained in a given book (book 4 and 7 are missing their indices).

The land uses tracked on each map include:

? 9 different types of farming (mixed, livestock, field crops, row crops, bush fruits, orchard, nursery, woodland, farming)
? Vacant
? 16 residential classifications -- these are broadly grouped as:
Single family residential
Multiple residential (2 to 4 families)
Unlimited multiple residential (i.e. hotels, boarding houses, chicken or rabbit ranches, etc.)
? Institutional
? Commercial (31 classifications: i.e. undertakers, theaters, restaurants, etc.)
? Industry, utilities, recreational, agricultural, open uses, problem uses, combined uses, electric railway, steam railway
? Manufacturing (30 classifications: i.e. cannery, oil well supply, ice manufacturing, motion picture studio, etc.)
? Height of buildings in stories

WPA Land use survey maps for the City of Los Angeles, 1933-1939

The Philip K. Wrigley Marine Science Center (WMSC) is the Wrigley Institute’s satellite location for research and education. In 1965, thanks to the generosity of the center’s namesake, the University of Southern California established a marine science outpost at Big Fisherman Cove on Santa Catalina Island, CA.
 
Several thousand slides from the WMSC dating from 1963-1993 are available in this collection. They come from four batches:

Slides in plastic cubes
Slides in a three-ring binder
Slides in sleeves in a box
Slides loose in a box

Wrigley Marine Science Center Slides

"Eileen Chang (Ailing Zhang, 1920-1995) was one of the most influential Chinese writers of the twentieth century. The digitized portion of her collection available online here dates from 1919 to 1994. Her works, considered to be among the best Chinese literature of the 1940s, examined the themes of marriage, family, love, and relationships in the social context of 1930s and 1940s Shanghai. The Ailing Zhang papers were brought to the USC East Asian Library with the help of Dr. Dominic Cheung 張錯, Professor Emeritus of Chinese and Comparative Literature at USC. It consist of six boxes of correspondence (primarily with literary critic Dr. C.T. Hsia 夏志清), manuscripts (such as The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai, Chang’s English translation of the Chinese novel Hai Shang Hua 海上花), newspaper clippings and journal articles, photographs, essays, articles, and written speeches. While the collection includes some of her early Shanghai publications, the majority of the materials relate to her life and ongoing works after she immigrated to the United States in 1955. The strength of the collection is found within the correspondence as this series chronicles Chang’s life and career in the United States, primarily her professional relationship with Dr. C.T. Hsia. Though a largely obscure figure in modern Chinese literature from the 1950s to the 1970s, Chang's career was revived by Dr. Hsia who played a role in helping Zhang achieve wider recognition.
 
This collection consists of four sub-collections:

Articles, Essays, and Speeches (written by Ailing Zhang)
Correspondence
Manuscripts
Photographs

 
Please note that the online collection does not include all the items from the Ailing Zhang papers held at the USC special collections. See the finding aid for a complete list of items at https://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c85m68v2/admin/. Also, the OCR functionality of the software we are using for the digital library is quite limited, so you may see gibberish characters in the full text field for letters and essays written in Chinese. We apologize for the inconvenience that may cause you."

Ailing Zhang (Eileen Chang) Papers, 1919-1994

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