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Violet Atkins Klein Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-VAK
Abstract
Violet Atkins Klein wrote novels, short fiction, and scripts for radio and television. The collection documents the writing process, including research materials and drafts. The legal materials document Klein's interaction with the publishing industry, and her efforts to have script ideas produced.
Dates:
1935-1967
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Kliene Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: OCH-KFC
Abstract
The Kliene Family Collection includes publications, research materials, photographs, and artifacts that reflect the Kliene brothers’ participation and interest in the Boy Scouts in Shanghai, the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, and their own family history in China. Albert and Fernande Kliene, along with their sons Albert (Bert), Denis, and Ronald, lived in Shanghai from 1922 to 1947. All three brothers were active members of the British Boy Scouts Association, serving with the 9...
Dates:
1878-2012
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Gloria Watson Curtis Kliene Collection
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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