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Turning the Tide: L.A. Anti-Racism Newsletter

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2021-006
Scope and Contents

This collection contains issues of the "Turning the Tide" newsletter, published by People Against Racist Terror (PART). Topics include: social justice, racism, colonialism, incarceration, political and social movements, anti-fascism, anti-war, and other related topics.

Dates: December 1994-August 2017

Udo and Sasashima Family Papers

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Identifier: SPC-2021-034
Abstract

This collection contains kensho mawashi (sumo ceremonial belt), wooden bird pins, books, and photographs. Photographs in the collection include images of sumo wrestlers, sumo wrestling tournaments and events, photographs from Los Angeles, and family photographs in the United States and Japan.

Dates: circa 1900-1945; undated

United Farm Workers Ephemera Collection

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Identifier: SPC-2021-016
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs, flyers, articles, pamphlets, vinyl records, a flag, a poncho, buttons, stickers, stamps, and a mailer regarding United Farm Workers (UFW) and Cesar Chavez and is mostly related to boycotts that occured in the late 1960s through the early 1970s in support of farmworkers. Also included are documents both in favor of and in opposition to Proposition 14, the farm labor initiative, a 1976 ballot initiative sponsored by Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers...
Dates: 1957,1965-1978, 1984, 1993, 2003; undated

R. Bruce Urmston Collection

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Identifier: SPC-2011-007
Abstract This collection consists of two sketchbooks and eight watercolor paintings by R. (Robert) Bruce Urmston, artist. The majority of art in the two sketchbooks depicts his journey around Quebec, mainly by ship, focusing on places such as the Falls of Montmorency and Halifax, Nova Scotia. The drawings and paintings in the sketchbooks are varied in content, mostly showing the view of passing harbors, but also giving a few glimpses of people and places on the ship itself. The majority of the eight...
Dates: 1882-1912

Kiyoshi Uyekawa Tule Lake Camp Collection

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Identifier: SPC -2019-030
Abstract The collection comprises of Tule Lake newsletters and bulletins, materials issued by the Pro-Japan group, 報國奉仕團 Hokoku Hoshidan (or Hoshi Dan), WRA publications, and incarceration documents that mostly belonged to Kiyoshi and Mitsuye Uyekawa. There are also Kiyoshi's manuscripts of original fictional works, copies of fictional works by Japanese authors, and correspondence, bulletins, and manuscripts by the haiku circle members. Most of the items in this collection have been digitized and are...
Dates: 1942-1980 ; Majority of material found within 1942-1946

Wada Family Photographs

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Identifier: SPC-2020-016
Abstract

The Wada family photographs features two negatives and ten pre-World War II images of mainly the Wada family as well as some images of members from the Ushijima family. Most of the items in this collection have been digitized and are available online.

Dates: circa 1925-1940

Tomoji Wada Family Papers

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Identifier: SPC-2019-029
Abstract This collection contains materials regarding Tomoji Wada’s business on Terminal Island, California, immigration materials, and incarceration camp records pertaining to Tomoji Wada and his family. Included are taxes, receipts of expenses, and ledgers, receipts for his donations to Japanese American organizations, photographs, journals, notebooks, books, a metal seal stamp for Terminal Island Credit Union, immigration documents of Tomoji and Kan Wada, WRA documents, and wood carving tools and...
Dates: 1903-2016; undated

John Alan Walker Art Catalog Collection

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Identifier: SPC-2007-007
Abstract

This collection consists of art catalogs from museums, galleries, and other entities.

Dates: 1882-2002; Majority of material found within 1919-2002

William Warne Collection

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Identifier: SPC-2007-006
Abstract The William E. Warne Papers document the breadth and duration of Warne's multifaceted career as a leading federal and California state official specializing in water reclamation, water resource issues, natural resources, and international as well as domestic development; as a diplomat directing U. S. economic and technical development programs in the Middle East, in Asia, and in Latin America; as a prolific writer and researcher focusing on water reclamation and natural resources and on...
Dates: 1905-2010; Majority of material found within 1933-1992

Watson Land Company Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2005-002
Abstract

A small collection of materials from the Watson Land Company, including articles of incorporation, financial statements, correspondence, newsletters, and reports.

Dates: 1927-2005

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Los Angeles (Calif.) 49
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Carson (Calif.) 9
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Public schools -- California -- Compton 9
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Manzanar War Relocation Center 8
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California State University, Dominguez Hills 12
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Amo, Gregorio del, 1858-1941 5
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United States. Army 5
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Weatherwax, John M. (John Martin), 1900-1984 5
Wider Opportunities for Women, Inc. 5
Women in Non Traditional Employment Roles (WINTER) 5
Caldwell, Hansonia L. (Hansonia LaVerne), 1944- 4
Dominguez Estate Company 4
Electric Women 4
Gila River Incarceration Camp 4
Grenier, Judson 4
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 11 (Calif.) 4
Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department 4
Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress 4
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 4
University of Southern California 4
Briegel , Kaye 3
Cabrero, Eugenio 3
Century Freeway Affirmative Action Committee Inc. (Calif.) 3
Chanslor-Western Oil and Development Company 3
Chicago Women in Trades 3
Del Amo Estate Company 3
Del Amo, Jaime 3
Dominguez Water Corporation 3
Doro, Sue, 1937- 3
Gallagher, Leo 3
Hairston, Jester, 1901-2000 3
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 3
Los Angeles Times (Firm) 3
Military Intelligence Service Language School (U.S.) 3
Minidoka Incarceration Camp 3
Mixer, Madeline 3
National Organization for Women 3
Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.) 3
Standard Oil Company of California 3
Tule Lake Incarceration Camp 3
United States. Women's Bureau 3
University of California, Los Angeles 3
Watson Land Company 3
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 3
American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born 2
American Servicemen's Union 2
Anderson, Glenn M. 2
Aquarian Spiritual Center (Los Angeles, Calif.) 2
Bailey, Alice, 1880-1949 2
Black Panther Party 2
Boston Tradeswomen's Network 2
Bradley, Tom, 1917-1998 2
Brown, Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald), 1905-1996 2
California Public Utilities Commission 2
California State University and Colleges 2
California. Legislature. Assembly 2
California. Legislature 2
Camp Roberts (Calif.) 2
Carson Estate Company 2
Carter, Jimmy , 1924- 2
Cassyd, Donna 2
Collins, Wayne M. 2
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) 2
Crane-Gartz, Kate 2
Crudup, Neshtey 2
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne ), 1944- 2
Del Amo Foundation 2
Del Amo Nurseries 2
Dominguez Water Company 2
Douglas Aircraft Company 2
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 2
Equal Rights Advocates 2
Fukuhara, Henry 2
Fukuhara, Jimmy 2
Gidra 2
Gillingham, Robert C. (Robert Cameron), 1896- 2
Golding, Priscilla 2
Granada (Amache) Incarceration Camp 2
Hahn, Kenneth 2
Hall, Manly P. (Manly Palmer), 1901-1990 2
Hata, Donald Teruo, 1939- 2
Industrial Workers of the World 2
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 2
Ishibashi, Akira 2
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 2
Jackson, John G. 2
Japanese American Citizens' League 2
Johnson, Marylynn T. 2
Los Angeles Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case 2
Marcos, Ferdinand E. (Ferdinand Edralin), 1917-1989 2
McNeil, Albert 2
Nanka Fukushima Kenjinkai. 南加福島県人会 2
Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.) 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
National Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case 2
National geographic 2
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