The chief topics of the Curphey papers are: his work as Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Battered Child Syndrome, air pollution, smoking and smog, aircraft accidents, suicide and suicide prevention, drug...
The letters are all written by Ami Inuzuka to her friends Hardin and Raemond Craig. The first thirteen letters were written while the Inuzukas were interned at the Gila River Relocation Center in Rivers, Arizona. Inuzuka talks about life in the...
Administrative Series contains records relating to various facilitative operations within the Alamitos Land Company, including, but not limit to, account books, annual reports, appraisals, articles of incorporation, audits, balance sheets, bylaws,...
The collection contains research materials related to noted author, Thomas Pynchon. Many of the documents are photocopies of originals obtained from various libraries and institutions. There is a large collection of Family History materials,...
Subjects of the entire collection include: Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, American dance and dancers, dance instruction and notes, exercises and warm-up routines, various dance types (international as well as American), famous dancers from around the...
The entire collection spans 240 years of American history and includes seven generations of the Howell and Taylor families. Subjects covered are: the Society of Friends; land ownership in the New Jersey colony; Mount Ephraim, New Jersey; fisheries...
The collection consists of copies of scripts for plays performed at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Calif., and at its other theaters, including The Improvisational Theatre, New Theatre for Now, and The Lab. New scripts are added to the...
A view of General George Smith Patton, Junior's office in the family house in San Marino. There is a low table in the center of the room covered with books, bowls, some papers, a bottle, and a lamp, and a desk with several drawers and niches...
The collection is single-item catalogued, arranged alphabetically by author then recipient. The collection's highlights include several letters from American jurists of the highest order, as well as a large group of invective-laden telegrams and...
A collection of historical cases that the Los Angeles Superior Court placed on long-term deposit at the Huntington Library in 1996. Additional material was subsequently transferred to the Huntington in 2002 and interfiled with the main collection....
Black and white photograph of architect's drawing of proposed new $2,500,000 building for the Otis Art Institute on Wilshire Blvd. near MacArthur Park, in Westlake district of Los Angeles. Photo appeared in newspaper in 1946. "The Otis Art...
A slightly elevated panoramic view of the oil field at Signal Hill. There are dozens of oil rigs, or derricks, most with sheds or circular structures nearby, distributed along dirt roads. A sign on one of the wells slightly left of center reads...
A series of three images showing a Union Pacific train at the "continuous rail" crossing in South Gate. The image on the left shows a crowd of onlookers at the South Gate station, watching as a train pulls in. The center image shows a crowd of...