US Military Forces
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Alvan Burton Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-023
Abstract
This collection showcases the photographs of Alvan Robert Burton (1925-2009), a well-respected Black photographer, community advocate, youth mentor, and Air Force veteran. After serving in World War II, Burton opened a photography studio in the Central Avenue neighborhood of Los Angeles, where he documented the lives of those in his community, particularly the students of Thomas Jefferson High School. This expansive collection includes photographs and negatives from throughout Burton’s...
Dates:
1940-1981, undated
World War II War Crimes and Battles Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2024-018
Scope and Contents
The World War II War Crimes and Battles Collection (1939-June 30, 1952; undated) contains one box, 1.5 linear ft., and consists of 260 clippings of newspapers in two scrapbooks. The first scrapbook contains a variety of German and American newspapers from 1939 to October 16, 1945, including German propaganda newspapers from Berlin in 1940. The second scrapbook, titled “The Truth about the War Crimes,” is a compilation of American newspapers from September 30, 1941-June 30, 1952, featuring...
Dates:
1939-December 7, 1941; May 28, 1945- November 14 1945; March 31, -October 1946; November 23, 1947; December 14, 1947; October 16, 1948; December 5, 1948; February 1949- August 15; 1949; June 30, 1952
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- Subject
- Black people -- History 1
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
- Family life 1
- High school 1
- High school students 1
- Libraries -- Special Collections -- Black People 1
- Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949 1
- Photographers, Black 1
- Photography 1
- Photography -- Studios and Dark Rooms 1
- Photography -- United States -- History 1
- Photography of Sports 1
- Portraits 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- Youth, Black 1 ∧ less
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