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Stereo Card Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SPC-1900-039
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 92 stereo cards documenting photographic scenes from San Francisco, California; New York City; Yosemite; Watkins Glen, N.Y.; the Johnstown Flood (Pennsylvania); Phildelphia, Pennsylvania; Niagara Falls; New Hampshire; Oregon; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Arizona and other locations.

Dates: circa 1880s-1890s

Jacquelyn Stewart Black and Local History Subject File Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2023-042
Scope and Contents The Jacquelyn Stewart Black and Local History Subject File Collection (1966-2020; undated) contains three boxes of newspapers, articles, calendars, brochures, pamphlets, flyers, postcards, funeral and memorial service programs, and other material related to Black history and Los Angeles area history. Featured topics and people in this collection are: Colonel Allensworth, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Barack Obama, Harriet Tubman, Ray Charles, West Adams, Central Ave, Carson, and the Del...
Dates: 1966-2020; undated

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Los Angeles Papers of Ron Wilkins

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2023-006
Abstract

This collection includes publications, organizational documents, correspondence, pamphlets, interviews, and other material related to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Los Angeles branch of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, formally known as H. Rap Brown. Also included is one folder that contains mailers, flyers, and a pamphlet regarding the East Bay Friends of SNCC; Bay Area Friends of SNCC; and National Office (SNCC).

Dates: May 1965-2005; undated; Majority of material found within 1967-1972

Sumi Family Manzanar Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-015
Abstract

The Sumi Family Manzanar Photographs includes two digitized photographs from the Sumi family, who were forceably removed to the Manzanar incarceration camp during World War II. Some of the material in this collection is digitized and available online.

Dates: circa 1944, 2018

Sri Ratnam Swami Aerial Photography Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-039
Abstract

This collection contains over 500 black-and-white aerial photographs of images taken mostly of the Southwestern United States; as well as color slides, negatives, and clippings belonging to Sri Ratnam Swami, a former employee of Fairchild Aerial Survey and Aero Service Corporation; and former lecturer at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dates: 1934-1973; undated

Sylvester (Owen M.) Tule Lake Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2016-012
Abstract

This collection contains one box of photographic images taken by Captain Owen M. Sylvester while at Tule Lake Segregation Center during a military occupation as a member of the 772 Military Police Battalion in 1943. This collection is digitized and available online.

Dates: 1942-1943

Takahashi Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-013
Abstract The Takahashi Family Papers comprise of photographs from a family photo album, correspondence between the immediate Takahashi family, correspondence between Florence Griffen and her mother-in-law, Lois Griffen, transcripts of the correspondence, Yae Takahashi's original artwork, Dorothy Treakle's school report cards, Florence's short autobiography, newspaper clippings, church and Peace Corps papers, Poston incarceration camp Christmas cards, and more. All of this collection has been...
Dates: 1942-2013; Majority of material found within 1942-1969

Hideyuki and Betty (Tanji) Takamori Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-001
Abstract This collections contains digitized photographs, correspondence, and official documents related to the Hideyuki and Betty (Tanji) Takamori. Images in the collection include family photographs from the United States and Japan, travel photographs from Las Vegas, Santa Monica, Disneyland, San Francisco, and Hawaii, graduation photographs of young women from the Fashion Center, and other photographs related to the lives of the Takamori family. All of the items have been digitized and some of the...
Dates: 1900-1960

Takano Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2017-004
Abstract This collection contains materials from members of the Takano and Meguro family in Los Angeles, California, including Issei immigrants, Itsuhei and Tomoye Takano and Kumaji and Tsuruno Meguro, and their Nisei children, Fumio Fred and Yoneko (Meguro) Takano, Yoshiko Ruth Meguro, and Leo Ryoichi Meguro. The papers covers from prewar through post-war, including the period of the forced evacuation and incarceration during World War II, U.S. military service in Europe druing the war and in Korea...
Dates: 1906-1991; undated

Itsuhei Takano camp journal

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-033
Abstract The collection is comprised of seven volumes of the author's accounts from the time of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, during the mass removal and incarceration, and after being released from the Gila River camp. The collection documents his observation and thoughts on a variety issues during the war and the postwar time. Also included are some issues from the Gila River Co-op newsletters, which contain his essays, and Japanese translations of two English announcements presumably made by Captain...
Dates: 1941 December 7-1946 March 19

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California State University, Dominguez Hills 12
Poston Incarceration Camp 10
Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp 8
Los Angeles Unified School District 6
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Amo, Gregorio del, 1858-1941 5
Gila River Incarceration Camp 5
Hairston, Jester, 1901-2000 5
Jerome Incarceration Camp 5
Manzanar Incarceration Camp 5
Tradeswomen, Inc. 5
United States. Army 5
United States. Department of Labor 5
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
Grenier, Judson 4
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 11 (Calif.) 4
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 4
Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department 4
McNeil, Albert 4
Santa Anita Assembly Center (Calif.) 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
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
Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress 3
Obama, Barack 3
Standard Oil Company of California 3
Tule Lake Incarceration Camp 3
United States. Marine Corps 3
United States. Women's Bureau 3
University of California, Los Angeles 3
Watson Land Company 3
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 3
Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers 2
American Civil Liberties Union 2
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
Daughters of Bilitis 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
Díaz, Porfirio, 1830-1915 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, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 2
Johnson, Marylynn T. 2
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