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Robert B. Jay Collection
Collection
Identifier: OCH-RBJ
Abstract
The Robert B. Jay Collection consists of photographs, maps, correspondence, and research materials collected by Jay related to World War II-era China. Of particular note is a toy Chinese Yo-Yo and original photographic prints possibly depicting the Tientsin flood of 1939.
Dates:
1937-2001
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Joseph Jedeikin Collection
Collection
Identifier: OCH-JJC
Abstract
Joseph Jedeikin was born in Kobe, Japan to a Russian mother and Latvian father. After living in Switzerland as a child, his family moved to Shanghai in 1940 to escape German persecution against Jews which they felt would eventually reach them if they stayed in Europe. The family lived in the French Concession, and Jedeikin attended the Public and Thomas Hanbury School before graduating in 1945 and leaving China in 1946 to attend university in America. The collection consists of Jedeikin’s...
Dates:
1942-1944
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
James Jeffrey Collection
Collection
Identifier: TBC-JJP
Abstract
James Wesley Jeffrey, Jr. was a Black photographer born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1945 who lived most of his life in Los Angeles. For most of his career he worked as a commercial photographer but also shot documentary and fine art photography for special projects and exhibits. The collection primarily consists of negatives (predominantly black-and-white 35mm and 120mm), contact sheets, slides, color transparencies (predominantly 4x5), prints, audiovisual materials, ephemera, proposals,...
Dates:
1940-2011
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Foster H. Jenkins Voyage to San Francisco Journal
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SC-JFJ
Abstract
Manuscript journal by Foster H. Jenkins of a voyage from Boston to San Francisco aboard the barque Orion in 1849.
Dates:
1849-1864
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Dale Jennings Scrapbook Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-DJS
Abstract
Scrapbooks in the collection primarily consist of advertisements clipped from periodicals and newspapers, as well as photographs. Each volume has a theme, and was created between 1950 and 1996.
Dates:
1950-1996
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Jensen Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: OCH-JFC
Abstract
The Jensen Family Collection documents the lives of Manley Charles Jensen, his wife Sara Ludavica Haug, and the early years of their children Johan Waldemar Haug Jensen and Manley Charles Jensen, Junior. Manley C. Jensen, Senior was an American born in San Francisco, but his career took him initially to the Philippines and then to Dairen and Shanghai, China. He worked for Standard Oil for a number of years, before returning to the United States in the early...
Dates:
1880-1994
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Walter Jerome La Novia Ranch Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-WJN
Abstract
Walter Jerome lived on a ranch in Zelzah, California (now Northridge) with his wife Helen and his children in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He kept a diary from November 27, 1927 to January 15, 1930, in which he chronicled daily life on the ranch.
Dates:
1927-1930
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles Oral History Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: URB-JFSOH
Abstract
The Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles Oral History Project consists of 50 interviews of Jewish immigrants in the Los Angeles area. The goal of the project was to study and evaluate the life experiences of persons who came to the United States during one of the three waves of Jewish immigration - the period from 1900-1945, the years after the Holocaust, and the period of Russian immigration in the late 1970s. The life stories taken during the project reveal a rich folklore of the Jewish...
Dates:
1979-1981
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Community Relations Committee Collection, Part 1
Collection
Identifier: URB-CRC1
Abstract
In response to the spread of organized anti-Semitism in the United States during the 1930s, leaders of Los Angeles' Jewish community formed a special defense organization known as the Los Angeles Jewish Community Committee. The committee later changed its name to the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Community Relations Committee. The collection documents the committee's efforts to combat prejudice and educate the public through cooperation with both Jewish and non-Jewish...
Dates:
1921-1937
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Community Relations Committee Collection, Part 2
Collection
Identifier: URB-CRC2
Abstract
In response to the spread of organized anti-Semitism in the United States during the 1930s, leaders of Los Angeles' Jewish community formed a special defense organization known as the Los Angeles Jewish Community Committee. The committee later changed its name to the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Community Relations Committee. The collection documents the committee's efforts to combat prejudice and educate the public through cooperation with both Jewish and non-Jewish...
Dates:
Circa 1920-1950
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives