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State of Israel Bonds Organization. Correspondence with Eugene Ormandy, 1962.

Title: Correspondence with Eugene Ormandy, 1962.

Comprises 1 item from Samuel W. Yorty, mayor of Los Angeles, regarding the award of the Medallion of Valor at the State of Israel Commendation dinner, and 1 item from Ormandy.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63643882 View

Esquire, inc. Esquire, inc. records, 1933-1977.

Title: Esquire, inc. records, 1933-1977.

Manuscripts of published articles and poetry, research and legal notes, correspondence with authors, and letters to the editor.

ArchivalResource: 26 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82799828 View

Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968. Kennedy, Robert F., Items, 1968

Title: Kennedy, Robert F., Items, 1968

Consisting of news bulletins sent to Austin radio station KOKE, the Robert F. Kennedy Items, 1968, document reporting on the Kennedy assassination from the night he was shot until his funeral in New York on June 8.

ArchivalResource: 1 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/759168778 View

Lerner, Max, 1902-2001. Max Lerner papers, 1927-1992 (inclusive).

Title: Max Lerner papers, 1927-1992 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings, and other papers (including research and teaching materials, photographs, memorabilia, newspaper and periodical clippings, books, and radio and television tapes) of Max Lerner, an American educator, author, lecturer, historian, and political scientist. The papers focus on Lerner's public life and career with very little material on his personal or family life. The papers document Lerner's close association with Justice Felix Frankfurter and Harold J. Laski, his controversial writings on homosexuality, his work with the Democratic Party during Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaigns, his work on behalf of Jewish causes and Zionism, and his activities during the "red scare" of the 1950s.

ArchivalResource: 96.50 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702154142 View

Andrews, Robert Hardy, 1908-1999. Robert Hardy Andrews collection, 1925-1985.

Title: Robert Hardy Andrews collection, 1925-1985.

Correspondence, manuscripts (novels, screenplays, radio scripts, short stories, teleplays, articles, poems, essays, and articles), photographs, printed material, film reels, audiotapes, scrapbooks, professional material, printed material, financial material, and research papers.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70976872 View

Dills, Ralph C., 1910-. Oral History Interview with Ralph C. Dills, 1989. Transcript. / by Carlos Vasquez, University of California, Los Angeles for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives.

Title: Oral History Interview with Ralph C. Dills, 1989. Transcript. / by Carlos Vasquez, University of California, Los Angeles for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives.

Dills discusses his background, education, early political involvement in the EPIC movement and in the Democratic party, tenure as a municipal court judge particularly during the Watts rebellion in 1965, and provides considerable information on his chief legislative interests and accomplishments while serving initially as a California State assemblyman and then as a California state senator.

ArchivalResource: 455 p. of typescript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540192 View

Associated Chambers of Commerce of the San Fernando Valley. Papers of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of the San Fernando Valley, 1955-1978.

Title: Papers of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of the San Fernando Valley, 1955-1978.

Correspondence, minutes and agendas, by-laws, articles of incorporation, city planning reports, resolutions, rosters of Chamber delegates and officers, brochures and literature, newspaper clippings, newsletters, and press releases. The records of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of the San Fernando Valley and its predecessor organization of the West Valley Associated Chambers of Commerce, reveal the rapid growth of the organization during the documented three decades and the corresponding growth of the San Fernando Valley business community.

ArchivalResource: 11 ms boxes (5.5 linear ft.) + 1 oversize box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19797709 View

Alphonzo Bell papers, 1933-1987

Title: Alphonzo Bell papers 1933-1987

Alphonzo Bell, Jr. (1914-2004) was a United States Congressman who represented the 27th and 28th Congressional Districts - which encompassed the communities of Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Bel Air, and West Los Angeles - between 1961 and 1977. Materials within the collection date from the 1930s to the 1980s and document Bell's political career.

ArchivalResource: 202.0 Linear feet; 202 boxes

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Jones, Gerald W., 1911-. Water for Los Angeles : oral history transcript /by Andrew D. Basiago, Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987.

Title: Water for Los Angeles : oral history transcript /by Andrew D. Basiago, Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987.

Jones disusses his career with the Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power. He offers his recollections of issues and leaders including William Mulholland, Joseph Barlow Lippincott, the 1971 Sylmar earthquake, city government and mayors Bowron, Yorty, and Bradley. He also discusses the technical aspects of water supply.

ArchivalResource: ix, 122 p. ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214569250 View

Rees, Thomas M., 1925-. Oral history interview with Thomas M. Rees, 1987. Transcript. [electronic resource] / by Carlos Vasquez, University of California, Los Angeles for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives.

Title: Oral history interview with Thomas M. Rees, 1987. Transcript. [electronic resource] / by Carlos Vasquez, University of California, Los Angeles for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives.

Rees discusses his family background, education, World War II service, conversion from the Republican to Democratic parties in the early-1950s, agricultural implement business in Mexico, participation in national Democratic Party conventions from 1956 to 1968, activities as a member of the California State Assembly, California State Senate, and the United States House of Representatives, and comments on a wide range of individuals and issues involved in California and national politics from the 1950s to 1987.

ArchivalResource: 388 p. of typescript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/755181116 View

Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park records, 1965-2008

Title: Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park records 1965-2008

The Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park was founded in 1965 to organize public and official awareness and to raise support to preserve the park land as public open space, and to develop it for recreational activities. The mission and efforts of this vibrant "grass roots" organization are ongoing, and the Committee will continue to add materials which document its activities. The collection consists of nine boxes of records dating back to the Committee's early history in the 1960s. It was donated by the 2004 Board of Directors of the Committee.

ArchivalResource: 11.0 linear ft.; 11 boxes

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Esquire Magazine. Esquire Magazine records, 1933-1977.

Title: Esquire Magazine records, 1933-1977.

Manuscripts of published articles and poetry, research and legal notes, correspondence with authors, and letters to the editor.

ArchivalResource: 26 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34423564 View

Hahn, Kenneth. Collection of Kenneth Hahn, circa 1945-1993.

Title: Collection of Kenneth Hahn, circa 1945-1993.

The collection is the administrative, political, and personal papers of LA County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn. It includes papers from his term on the LA City Council and his various campaigns for office covering the period of about 1945 to 1993, with major emphasis on his tenure as Supervisor, from 1953 to 1993. It contains correspondence, reports, drafts of legislation, internal memoranda, photographs, audiotapes, maps, motion pictures, videotape and campaign ephemera. The following list of subjects is incomplete (please see the collection finding aid for a complete list of subjects covered in the papers): Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Robert F. Kennedy's assassination and the case against Sirhan Sirhan, LA County Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner, the investigation into Marilyn Monroe's death, California law and legislation, courts, crime, city planning, health services and mental health, the Human Relations Commission, race relations, social services, military and veterans affairs, museums, public works, the Sheriff's Department, education, schools and universities, earthquake issues, parks, urban affairs, the Los Angeles International Airport, professional sports in LA (including the Dodgers baseball team, their move to LA and the construction of their stadium), the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the LA Memorial Sports Arena, drugs and narcotics, freeways, California government, United States government, water supply, air pollution, public transportation and the County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Watts riots, the riots in 1992 after the Rodney King decision, labor issues, the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital, as well as Culver City, Gardena, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lynwood, and Torrance, California. The following list of participants is incomplete (please see the collection finding aid for a complete list of participants in the papers): Fletcher Bowron, Tom Bradley, Edmund G. Brown, Jerry Brown, George Bush, Jimmy Carter, Alan Cranston, George Deukmejian, Bob Dole, Ed Edelman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Clair Engle, Gerald Ford, Daryl Gates, J. Paul Getty, James K. Hahn, Augustus F. Hawkins, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, Edward Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Stanley Mosk, Ralph Nader, Walter F. O'Malley, Ronald Reagan, Norman Schwarzkopf, John Van de Kamp, Earl Warren, Sam Yorty, California's District Attorney, Grand Jury, Legislature and Superior Court, the County Public Library, and the following Los Angeles County offices: Air Pollution Control District, Board of Supervisors, Commission on Human Relations, County Counsel, Dept. of Health Services, Dept. of Public Social Services, Dept. of Public Works, Dept. of Urban Affairs, Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Commission, Office of Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner and the Los Angeles County Earthquake Commission.

ArchivalResource: 1,086 boxes : plus 22 scrapbooks and 42 cartons.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/746337085 View

California Federation for Civic Unity. California Federation for Civic Unity records, 1945-1956.

Title: California Federation for Civic Unity records, 1945-1956.

Contains correspondence and materials relating to the Federation's activities, 1945-1956, and deals mainly with racial minority problems such as discrimination, immigration, segregation, housing, FEPC, etc. Included, also, are a number of pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and copies of bills introduced in the National and State legislatures regarding discriminatory subjects. In addition to the incoming and outgoing correspondence, there are minutes of meetings, minutes of board meetings, financial statements, bills, audits, and conference and workshop notes. Material relating to racial discrimination and segregation; immigration; employment practices and other interests of the Federation. Includes one letter each from Erskine Caldwell, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Ernest McFarland, Wayne Morse, and Harry Truman. Also included, are 1 letter from Ernest Bramblett; 2 from George Collins, Jr.; 1 from Robert L. Condon; 1 from Helen Gahagan Douglas; 1 from Clair Engle; 1 from Chet Hollifield; 2 letters from Ala Oakley Hunter; 1 from Clinton McKinnon; 1 from Leroy Johnson; 1 from George P. Miller; 1 from Norris Poulson; 1 letter from Hubert B. Scudder; 3 from John F. Shelley; and 2 from Sam Yorty, all as U.S. Congressional Representatives from California.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes and 4 cartons (7.8 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214986481 View

Bell, Alphonzo, 1914-2004. Alphonzo Bell papers, 1933-1987.

Title: Alphonzo Bell papers, 1933-1987.

The collection includes correspondence, administrative records, regulations and legislation, campaign materials, budget reports, commission and agency agendas, speeches, newspaper clippings, articles, and photographs from Alphonzo Bell's political career. The material is primarily print, originals, and photocopies.

ArchivalResource: 202 linear ft. (202 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/774912312 View

Paul Conrad Cartoons, 1963-1969

Title: Paul Conrad Cartoons 1963-1969

Approximately 1,089 original editorial cartoons by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American cartoonist primarily from the with some from the . Los Angeles Times Denver Post

ArchivalResource: 8.1 linear ft.

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Yorty, Samuel William. Remarks of Samuel W. Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles.

Title: Remarks of Samuel W. Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles. [1961]

ArchivalResource: 5 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29353362 View

Ackerman, Harry S., 1912-. Papers, 1952-1990.

Title: Papers, 1952-1990.

Papers relating to his career as a producer in film and television.

ArchivalResource: 18 boxes (22.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122509883 View

Baxter, Leone. Mother of political public relations : oral history transcript / Leone Baxter ; interview conducted by Gabrielle Morris, 23 June 1972.

Title: Mother of political public relations : oral history transcript / Leone Baxter ; interview conducted by Gabrielle Morris, 23 June 1972.

First session of a planned full memoir. First 26 pages are a typescript of audio of a film produced by the American Public Relations Society with Baxter on her career. Includes reminiscences of her work with husband Clem Whitaker as a political consultant on the campaigns of Goodwin Knight, Sam Yorty, and Earl Warren's 1942 campaign. Other reminiscences on California politics. Supplementary material contains Morris' notes in preparation for the interview, letters to Morris from Baxter, publicity material and news clippings, and other items related to Baxter's career and her firm of Whitaker and Baxter International.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 1 portfolio.Phonotapes: 2 sound cassettes.Supplementary material: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39475528 View

Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park (Los Angeles, Calif.). Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park records, 1965-2008.

Title: Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park records, 1965-2008.

The Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park was founded in 1965 to organize public and official awareness and to raise support to preserve the park land as public open space, and to develop it for recreational activities. The mission and efforts of this vibrant "grass roots" organization are ongoing, and the Committee will continue to add materials which document its activities. The collection consists of nine boxes of records dating back to the Committee's early history in the 1960s. It was donated by the 2004 Board of Directors of the Committee.

ArchivalResource: 11 linear ft. (11 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/688623625 View

Kennedy, Robert F. Items 69-1., 1968

Title: Kennedy, Robert F., Items 1968

Consisting of news bulletins sent to Austin radio station KOKE, the Robert F. Kennedy Items, 1968, document reporting on the Kennedy assassination from the night he was shot until his funeral in New York on June 8.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/02886/02886-P.html View

Los Angeles (Calif.). Dept. of Health. Documents of the Los Angeles Department of Health, 1959-1964.

Title: Documents of the Los Angeles Department of Health, 1959-1964.

These items, which are copies of bulletins, reports, letters, statements and speeches, all deal with the merger of the Los Angeles city's Department of Health and Los Angeles County's Health Department. A majority of the items were written by C. Erwin Piper, Los Angeles City Administrative Officer. Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty is mentioned in some of the documents. Other participants include several physicians including Lewis T. Bullock, Lenor S. Goerke, and Lyndon S. Hollinger. There are also four newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: 21 items, all copies.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/726764061 View