Los Angeles County (Calif.)

Abstract This collection documents the COVID-19 pandemic as experienced by California State University, Dominguez Hills and Southern Los Angeles County community members. This collection includes student diaries, essays, letters, blogs, digital photographs, videos, local periodicals, and artworks. All materials in this collection are born-digital items, except for two boxes of Daily Breeze newspaper articles which are restricted to on-site use only. Material in this...

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The collection consists of scrapbooks, documents, publications, photographs, videotapes, and other material related to the history and activities of the Gardena, California, Chamber of Commerce.

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This collection contains three complete bound volumes of Les Claypool's Free Press, quickly renamed the Los Angeles Free Press, which ran from 1955-1957. The newspaper was sponsored by the Los Angeles chapter of Americans for Democratic Action with Les E. Claypool Sr. as the founding editor. Glenn M. Anderson served as a board member during the short lifespan of the newspaper. The newspaper covers 1950s Los Angeles and California politics from a liberal perspective.

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The Los Angeles Stock News Photographs Collection (circa 1920s-1940s) contains 122 black-and-white photographs featuring images taken mostly in Los Angeles and its surrounding areas. Images include: Gray building fire; livestock show; Braille Institute of America; an archery range; Sun Val Drive-In Theatre; Chinatown; Los Angeles Plaza; Olvera Street; Gay's Lion Farm; Los Angeles Harbor; Mission San Gabriel; Mission San Fernando; diners and sandwich stands; and others.