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Gloria Watson Curtis Kliene Collection

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Identifier: OCH-GWCK
Abstract

Gloria Watson Curtis Kliene was a British national born and raised in Shanghai, China. During World War II Gloria and her family were interned by the Japanese at the Yu Yuen Road Camp and the Yangtzepoo Camp from February 1943 until April 1945. The collection consists of materials related to Gloria's life in Shanghai, such as identification documents, internment notices, and personal mementos.

Dates: 1927-2008
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

William Knight Collection

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Identifier: TBC-WKC
Abstract William B. Knight, also known as Bill Knight, was a news photographer and cameraman. Beginning his career at the Los Angeles Mirror, the afternoon counterpart of the Los Angeles Times, Knight worked for the Los Angeles Mirror for almost a decade before moving to television news and becoming a cameraman for KTLA. During his time as a photojournalist, Knight captured a wide range of events,...
Dates: 1950-1984
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Erik J. Koch Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OCH-EJK
Abstract Erik J. Koch was born in Denmark in 1895, and traveled to China in 1923 to work as a sea captain. The collection contains various documents belonging to Koch related to his time in China, including his Foreigners’ Resident Certificate, receipts and documents from various doctors in Shanghai, business cards, master’s certificates, and records related to his service on various ships. Also included is a certificate of competency for a wireless course offered by the Russian Mercantile Marine...
Dates: 1923-1948
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Dr. Leon Kolb William Hogarth Engravings Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-LKH
Abstract

William Hogarth was a famous English painter, printmaker, satirist and editorial cartoonist who lived during the early 18th century. The collection consists of a number of engravings by or in the style of Hogarth.

Dates: 1721-1837
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

John A. Kouns Collection

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Identifier: TBC-JAK
Abstract The John A. Kouns Collection is the life work of social justice photographer John Alexander Kouns. The collection documents the Farmworker Movement in California and the Civil Rights Movement nationally. It also consists of images from peace and protest movements as well as the senior commmunity in the San Francisco Bay Area and North Bay. A small portion of the collection contains personal materials that date from 1884, as well as freelance industrial and sports photography. A majority of...
Dates: 1884-2019; Majority of material found within 1958-2000
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Kraemer-Milligan Family Collection

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Identifier: SC-KMF
Abstract John Thomas Milligan raised white Leghorn chickens on his Oakgrove farm near Stithton, Kentucky. He migrated to the San Fernando Valley in 1922 and started The California White Leghorn Breeding Farm in the Lankershim area of the Valley (now North Hollywood). Mr. Milligan's daughter, Wilhelmina C. Milligan, married Edgar W. Kraemer, whose father, Herman Kraemer was also in the poultry business in the San Fernando Valley. The collection consists primarily of photographs, histories of the...
Dates: ca. 1913-1993
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Rena Krasno Collection

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Identifier: OCH-RKC
Abstract Rena Krasno was born in Shanghai in 1923. Her parents, two stateless Russian Jews, fled Russia two years before her birth. Krasno grew up in a Jewish community in Shanghai, but fled to Israel in 1949 just before communist forces took control of Shanghai. She held a prestigious position as translator for the United Nations, and was a published author. Krasno wrote several books about World War II in Shanghai, her life in Japan, and her Jewish heritage, as well as essays regarding Jewish and...
Dates: 1922-2009
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Realm of California Records

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Identifier: SC-KRC
Abstract During the 1910s, the Klan, which had been defunct since the concluding decades of the 19th century, was revived in Atlanta, Georgia and spread across the country within a decade. The Klan's revival was due in part to urbanization and industrialization. Many Klansmen in the 1920s – 1940s were lower to middle class whites who sought to protect their jobs and neighborhoods, both from black migrants moving out of the South and new immigrants arriving in industrial...
Dates: 1921-1947
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Truman C. Kuehn White Rock Advertisement Collection

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Identifier: SC-TKWR
Abstract

The Truman C. Kuehn White Rock Advertisement Collection consists of an original color advertisement for White Rock Mineral Water produced in 1907 and published in Puck, and correspondence between Kuehn, the Los Angeles Times and the Coca Cola Bottling Company of Los Angeles regarding the advertisement.

Dates: 1907-1962
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Captain Alv Kulstad and George Kulstad Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OCH-AGK
Abstract

The Captain Alv Kulstad and George Kulstad Collection contains correspondence, 3D objects, monographs, serials, ephemera, and research materials related to the maritime career of Peter Alv Kulstad and the lives of his wife Helen (Nellie Thomas) Kulstad and children George Kulstad and Olav E. Kulstad in Shanghai in the first half of the 20th century. The bulk of the materials date from 1920-1949.

Dates: 1916-2012
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

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