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Cleary, James J. (James Joyce), 1888-1974. James J. Cleary papers, 1837-1988 bulk 1907-1956.

Title: James J. Cleary papers, 1837-1988 bulk 1907-1956.

The James J. Cleary papers date from 1837, before Cleary's time, to 1988, years after his death. The bulk of the material, however, spans the late 1900s to the 1960s, and is made up of Cleary's poems and prose, socialist literature, correspondence, local sports programs, newspaper and magazine clippings, Irish newspapers, and scrapbooks. His scrapbooks, which are central to this collection, serve as rich chronicles of American (and to a limited extent, international) popular culture and current events from the 1910s through the 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes, 11 v., 2 flat files, (5.8 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310352036 View

Puck, Charles C. Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Charles C. Puck Collection of Photographs [graphic], 1880s-1961, (bulk 1920-1940s).

Title: Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Charles C. Puck Collection of Photographs [graphic], 1880s-1961, (bulk 1920-1940s).

The collection provides comprehensive pictorial documentation of the changing face of Los Angeles and environs during the first half of the twentieth century. It is especially noteworthy for its focus on Los Angeles city streets and neighborhoods. Also included are photographs of counties across California, other Southwestern states, and Mexico; these are primarily in the form of negatives. The collection includes eight photograph albums put together by Puck that document, through both text and image, adobes and missions, ranchos, and Old Los Angeles.

ArchivalResource: approximately 11,400 photographs in 42 boxes (30.29 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228769820 View

Collection of Material About the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games, 1932

Title: Collection of Material About the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games, 1932

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.); 2 oversize boxes

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt5c6004cm View

Bailey, Charles Z. Collection of Panoramic Photographs [graphic], 1851-1947.

Title: Collection of Panoramic Photographs [graphic], 1851-1947.

The Huntington Library's Collection of Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1947, depicts a wide variety of subjects and provides an important resource for the visual history of the United States, with a particular emphasis on California and the American West. Subjects include landscapes, group portraits, and miscellaneous views. The collection also contains photographs by some of the better known photographers and photographic firms of the first part of the twentieth century. Photographers and publishers represented in the collection include Charles Z. Bailey; Bailey and Ramsey; Bryant Studio; Bunnell Photo Shop; California Panorama Company; Bell Clements; Fay Foto Service; R.J. Gallagher; George. R. Lawrence Company; J.D. Givens; Gordon Panoramic Photo Company; Griffith Photo; Harris Photographic Company; Karen Halverson; George W. Hazard; L.M. Hermance; Hiller; Hughes Photos; William Henry Jackson; I.L. Maduro; Mayhart Studio; C.R. Nock; Panorama Publishing Company; Pettit's Studio; Photo News Service; C.C. Pierce; A.C. Pillsbury; Pillsbury Picture Company; Prince Photo; G.H. Rice; H.H. Rideout; Sanford and Black Photo News Service; Thompson; O.A. Tunnell; H.A. Varble; Miles F. Weaver; and West Coast Art Company.

ArchivalResource: 18.86 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123408381 View

"Dick" Whittington Studio Collection of Negatives and Photographs [graphic], 1924-1948.

Title: "Dick" Whittington Studio Collection of Negatives and Photographs [graphic], 1924-1948.

The collection consists of 70 panoramic negatives, 3207 copy prints, and corresponding negatives and interpositives, covering the years 1924-1948. The images depict specific places, businesses, and commercial activity in both central and southern California, with the emphasis on Los Angeles County. The collection provides a broad overview of the commercial landscape of the area during the first half of the twentieth century. The 70 panoramic negatives depict undeveloped and newly developed areas of Los Angeles, including Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, and Alhambra, views of Lido Isle in Newport, and Republic Studios in Studio City. There are also images of Los Angeles industries, including film and automotive, as well as specific locations, such as the Hollywood Bowl, and events, such as swimming events during the 1932 Olympics. The first part of the collection of copy prints depicts specific towns, businesses, street scenes and landscapes in central and southern California, specifically El Dorado, Inyo, and Nevada Counties, Lake Tahoe, Kern, Tulare, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Imperial Counties, Mexico, and Los Angeles County. The bulk of these images depict Ventura, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Los Angeles Counties. The Ventura County images concentrate on Port Hueneme. The Orange County images depict Fullerton, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Laguna Beach, Capistrano Beach, Balboa and Newport Beach, and Lido Isle. In Riverside County, the images depict Lake Elsinore, Perris, Corona, the Sherman Institute, Riverside, Norco, Palm Springs, San Jacinto, Hemet, and a number of hot springs. The San Bernardino images depict Twentynine Palms, Fontana, Chino, Ontario, San Bernardino, Big Bear and Lake Arrowhead. In San Diego County, images depict Mount Helix, La Mesa, El Cajon, Alpine, Pine Valley, Descanso, Lakeside, Ramona, Escondido, Vista, Rancho San Luis Rey, Bonsall, Tahiti Beach, Del Mar, Solana Beach, La Jolla, Casa de Manana, and the San Diego Fairgrounds (Balboa Park). Los Angeles County images form the bulk of the second section. Images of the San Gabriel Valley and nearby areas depict Flintridge, Altadena, Monrovia, Glendora, Azusa, East Los Angeles, Montebello, Whittier, the Pio Pico Adobe, Santa Fe Springs, Downey, Norwalk, Bellflower, El Monte, Baldwin Park, Covina, the Pomona Fairgrounds, San Marino, Pasadena, Sierra Madre, Alhambra, El Sereno, San Gabriel, Monterey Park, Arcadia, and Santa Anita. Images of Los Angeles beach communities include Long Beach, San Pedro and Fish Harbor, Palos Verdes and Rancho Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Playa del Rey, Venice, Santa Monica and coastal areas. The collection also depicts West Los Angeles, specifically Westwood and the University of California, Los Angeles, Bel Air, and Brentwood. Central, East and South Los Angeles are represented by images of Hollywood, Los Feliz, Culver City, Leimert Park, Baldwin Hills, Inglewood, View Park, Hawthorne, Westchester, and Gardena. The San Fernando Valley images depict Woodland Hills, Encino, Sherman Oaks, North Hollywood, and Studio City. Also present in the collection are images of specific locations within Los Angeles proper (such as the Los Angeles riverbed, the Farmer's Market and Gilmore Stadium, Olvera Street, Los Angeles theaters, hospitals and businesses, City Hall, the Los Angeles Public Library, the Los Angeles Times Building under construction, Memorial Coliseum and the Olympic pool, and the Pan-Pacific Auditorium). Of particular note are the series of photographs that depict new housing tracts (Midwick View Estates, Rolling Knolls, Rolling Hills Estates, Beverly Wood), Wilshire Boulevard from Westlake to Western Avenues, the business district around La Brea Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard, and the construction of the Federal Building and Post Office in central Los Angeles. The collection also contains images arranged by subject. These include photographs of advertising (signs, billboards and displays); radio and television communications; clubs; people (including Herbert Hoover, J.W. Robinson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Frank Shaw, Archibald Joseph Cronin, and Bing Crosby); transportation (including Los Angeles Railway cars and Union Station); industries (food processing, fruits, water, rubber, steel, quarries, entertainment, and miscellaneous); construction (dams and aqueducts, housing); recreation; circuses; police and fire; cemeteries, charities and relief; religion; photography and photographers; World War II effort; medical; ranches; automobiles; trucks; buses; motorcycles; automobile dealerships and used car lots; racing cars; races; National Auto School; and aviation. Of particular note are the series of photographs depicting tire production by Goodyear; the interior of the Bethlehem Steel Plant; the construction of the Metropolitan aqueduct and Parker Dam; the construction of Boulder (now Hoover) Dam; assembly lines in Ford, Plymouth, Studebaker, and Willys-Knight plants; photographs of Amelia Earhart, Howard Hughes, and other aviators; images of the Douglas Aircraft plant; Timm Aircraft plastic plane construction; and images of Vultee Aircraft plants.

ArchivalResource: 70 panoramic negatives, 3207 copy prints, and corresponding negatives and interpositives in 30 boxes (30.16 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84546838 View

Allgemeine Ausstellung für Büro-Bedarf (1907 : Berlin, Germany). Trade catalogs of fairs and exhibitions, 1842-1957.

Title: Trade catalogs of fairs and exhibitions, 1842-1957.

Pamphlets, catalogs, guides, applications for exhibiting, and other ephemera relating to fairs, expositions and exhibits, as well as pamphlets issued in conjunction with expostions.

ArchivalResource: 77 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/221781526 View

Baker, Viroque. Historical Society of Southern California Collection of Photographs by Subject [graphic], ca. 1850s-1982 (bulk 1880s-1930s).

Title: Historical Society of Southern California Collection of Photographs by Subject [graphic], ca. 1850s-1982 (bulk 1880s-1930s).

The collection consists of 3511 photographs, negatives and ephemeral items circa 1850s-1982 covering a wide breadth of subject matter. The collection includes images of Los Angeles streets and city views; neighborhoods (including Olvera Street, the Plaza, and Chinatown); Los Angeles office buildings and blocks, municipal buildings and facilities (including city halls, court houses, federal buildings, and postal facilities); Los Angeles County communities (including Culver City; Beverly Hills; Watts; Compton; the Hollywood/Cahuenga area; Mt. Washington; Redondo Beach; Hermosa Beach; Venice Beach; Santa Monica; San Pedro; Wilmington; Long Beach; Burbank; Glendale and the San Fernando Valley; Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley; Avalon and Santa Catalina Island); San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains; San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Francisco Counties; Los Angeles County homes, residential buildings, and gardens; Los Angeles parks; Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside County schools, colleges and universities; Los Angeles County churches and synagogues; Los Angeles area country clubs; hotels and theaters in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino Counties, and the city of San Francisco; and Los Angeles County department stores, newspaper buildings, storefronts, and restaurants. General subjects represented in the collections include industry and manufacturing (including iron and steelworks; brick and terracotta; the motion picture industry; and the clothing trade); agriculture; mining and other extractive industries; infrastructure (including dams and roads, and photographs taken for Caltrans documenting the construction of the Pasadena Freeway, also known as the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway); water and power (including photographs depicting the irrigation of the San Fernando Valley in the 1910s); transportation; sports and leisure activities (including images depicting the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles); fairs and expositions (including trade and industrial fairs; the Panama Pacific Exposition; the California Pacific International Exposition; the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition; and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition); fiestas and parades (including the Fiesta de Los Angeles, the Fiesta de las Flores, and the Pasadena Tournament of Roses), circuses and circus wagons; missions in California, the Southwest United States, and Mexico; and California adobes and ranchos. Miscellaneous images include national and state parks; the California Gold Rush and mining towns; the armed forces in California; native and indigenous culture; local flora, including trees; unidentified people; unidentified scenery; documents; maps; and a small grouping of ephemera pertaining to the Wilshire Boulevard Miracle Mile. The collection includes photographs produced by 141 identified photographic studios, photographers, and publishers including Blanchard; Cromwell and Westervelt; Frasher's Studio; Garden City Foto; Harold W. Grieve, T.E. Hecht; William Henry Hill; Keystone Photo Service; Luckhaus; Charles F. Lummis; F.H. Maude; Harold Parker; Putnam Studios; F.H. Rogers; Julius Shulman; Spence Airplane Photos; Stagg; A. Sturtevant; Carleton Watkins; and "Dick" Whittington Studio. There are also photographs made by or for companies including American Trona Corporation; Douglas Aircraft; Estelle Mines Corporation; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Paramount Pictures; Selznick International Pictures; Studebaker Corporation; Union Pacific Railroad; and United Artists. Images produced and compiled by the Federal Writers' Project Southern and Northern California branches include photographs by Viroque Baker, Horace Bristol, Burton Burt, Fred William Carter, Fred R. Dapprich, Luckhaus Studios, Julius Shulman, and Art Streib.

ArchivalResource: 3511 items in 11 boxes (13.93 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122639211 View

Historical Society of Southern California Collection -- Charles C. Puck Collection of Negatives and Photographs, 1864-1963, (bulk 1920s-1950s)

Title: Historical Society of SouthernCalifornia Collection -- Charles C. Puck Collection of Negatives andPhotographs 1864-1963 (bulk 1920s-1950s)

The Puck Collection consists ofphotographs both taken and collected by Charles C. Puck. They depict buildings,monuments, civic happenings, modes of transportation, flora and fauna, and anythingelse that captured his particular interests. Puck compiled several scrapbooks ontopics such as adobes and buildings of Los Angeles, illustrating them with hisphotographs and annotating them with historical anecdotes and personalrecollections. Puck also collected the work of noted Los Angeles photographers likeCharles C. Pierce and James B. Blanchard to supplement his own archive. At the timeof his gift to the Historical Society of Southern California, Puck had amassed alarge array of images documenting the changing face of Los Angeles and itsenvirons.

ArchivalResource: 11,400 photographs; 42 boxes; (30.29 linear feet)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2p30028s View

Madison, Helene, 1913-1970. Helene Madison papers, 1914-1972 (bulk 1929-1932).

Title: Helene Madison papers, 1914-1972 (bulk 1929-1932).

Photographs, papers, ephemera, and realia documenting the career of the Seattle swimming champion and 1932 Olympic gold medal winner.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (0.84 cubic ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/247369835 View

Martin, F. O. (Frederick Oskar), 1871-1951. F. Oskar Martin papers, 1891-1947.

Title: F. Oskar Martin papers, 1891-1947.

This collection contains F. Oskar Martin's personal correspondence, the minutes of the board meetings of the German American Savings Bank of Los Angeles, and paper and photograph scrapbooks documenting his career as a geologist and mining engineer for the United States and for the Union Oil Company. Also included in this collection are clippings documenting his appointment as Consul for Austria in anticipation of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and the honorary medal given to him by Austria upon the Games' conclusion. Of especial note are the scrapbooks with photographs of his travels in the undeveloped regions of Colombia and Panama in the 1920s.

ArchivalResource: 3.1 linear ft. (7 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/727074365 View

Historical Society of Southern California Collection of Photographs by Subject, circa 1850-1982, (bulk 1880s-1930s)

Title: Historical Society of Southern California Collection of Photographs by Subject circa 1850-1982 (bulk 1880s-1930s)

The collection consists of 3511 photographs, negatives, and ephemeral items in various formats circa 1850s-1982. Compiled from the gifts of various donors to the Historical Society of Southern California, the collection covers a wide breadth of subject matter. The images provide comprehensive information about many activities and events important to Southern California in the late 19th and early 20th century.

ArchivalResource: 24 boxes,; 22.42 linear feet

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0f59q6d0 View

F. Oskar Martin papers, 1891-1947

Title: F. Oskar Martin papers 1891-1947

This collection contains the papers of Frederick Oskar Martin, a German who moved to the United States in 1891 and worked as a mining engineer and geologist for a variety of employers over the course of his career. He spent a year working on the Panama Canal and explored the holdings of Union Oil of California in Panama and Colombia in the 1920s. His papers include mining reports, correspondence with his fiancé and brother in the late 1890s, and scrapbooks of his travels in South and Central America.

ArchivalResource: 3.1 Linear feet; 7 boxes

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6t1nf3g8 View

Newspaper clipping collection of the Olympic Games of 1932 : scrapbooks.

Title: Newspaper clipping collection of the Olympic Games of 1932 : scrapbooks. [1932?]

English language newspaper accounts, primarily from Los Angeles Examiner Sports, of the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34708156 View

Edward A. Dickson Papers, 1900-1954

Title: Edward A. Dickson Papers, 1900-1954

Edward Augustus Dickson (1879-1956) was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. He worked for the and the before joining the which he later purchased. Dickson was also a founding member of the Lincoln-Roosevelt League, a delegate to the Republican National Convention (1932), sat on the Board of Directors of the Olympic Games Association (1932 Olympics) and was appointed to the University of California Board of Regents (1913). The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, clippings, 51 scrapbooks, and memorabilia related to Dickson's career as editor of the as well as his role as a Regent of the University of California System, Los Angeles civic leader, and Progressive Republican. Sacramento Union San Francisco Chronicle Los Angeles Evening Express Los Angeles Express

ArchivalResource: 37 boxes (18.5 linear ft.); 41 oversize boxes

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9x0nb6dk View

Raycroft, Joseph Edward, 1867-. Joseph E. Raycroft papers, 1888-1992.

Title: Joseph E. Raycroft papers, 1888-1992.

The Joseph E. Raycroft papers contain correspondence, manuscripts of lectures, notes, writings, printed material, press releases, photographs, and memorabilia and document Raycroft's personal and professional activities with the bulk of material focusing on Raycroft's role in developing training camp activities for the army in World War I and the navy in World War II, as well as the fire that destroyed his personal library.

ArchivalResource: 4.59 linear ft. (7 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/177709006 View

Manners and customs collection [manuscript], 1814-2009 (bulk 1880-1960)

Title: Manners and customs collection [manuscript], 1814-2009 (bulk 1880-1960)

The Manners and Customs Collection consists of ephemera items relating to social life and customs, primarily in Oregon and Portland. Topics include celebrations, child rearing, civic events, cooking, death, fashion, holidays, home life, exhibitions, expositions, fairs, patriotism, recreation, and sports. Materials range widely in format and include advertisements, announcements, autograph albums, calendars, cook books, greeting cards, invitations, postcards, programs, and scrapbooks. Most materials date from circa 1880 to 1970, but best represented are the decades of the early 20th century. Of special interest is a large collection of scrapbooks, most dating from the late 19th and early 20th century. These include all manner of memorabilia, including dance cards, calling cards, programs, photographs, invitations, post cards, and dried flowers. Also of note is an extensive collection of postcards and other greeting cards for a variety of holidays, most dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries; and a substantial group of personal autograph albums from the period. Among the sports materials are daily programs for the Xth Olympic Games in Los Angeles, 1932.

ArchivalResource: 40 cubic feet (54 document cases, 7 card file boxes, 32 flat boxes, 16 custom boxes, 4 oversize folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/314410948 View