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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
Margaret Hooper Hollywood High School Graduation Scrapbook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SPC-2024-010
Scope and Contents
Margaret Hooper Hollywood High School Graduation Scrapbook (1918-January 23, 1923) is a memory book with 189 pages that contains hand written letters, news clippings about Hollywood High School, photographs of the Class of 1922, theater programs, name cards, a button pin, tickets, playbills, gradution event invitations, and other ephemeral material attached to the pages of a scrapbook called "Graduation Memories". Also included are event ticket stubs, attendance cards, poems, and...
Dates:
1918-January 23, 1923
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