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League of Women Voters of Glendale/Burbank Collection

 Collection
Identifier: URB-LWVGB
Abstract The League of Women Voters of Glendale/Burbank, a chapter of the League of Women Voters of the United States, is a grassroots nonpartisan political organization encouraging the informed and active participation of citizens in government through voter registration, public education, and advocacy. The materials in the collection document the chapter’s activities throughout its existence (1941-2020) and include administrative operational files, as well as project and program files. There are...
Dates: 1941-2021
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

League of Women Voters of Los Angeles Collection

 Collection
Identifier: URB-LWVLA
Abstract In 1921 the League of Women Voters, a national organization, merged with an existing women's organization in California, the California Civic League, which already had chapters in many cities throughout the state. Women in Los Angeles established a chapter that same year, and participated in the first statewide League of Women Voters convention in California in 1922. The League of Women Voters of Los Angeles Collection documents the Los Angeles League's...
Dates: 1911-2017
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Kyle K. Lee Record Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: OCH-KKL
Abstract

The Kyle K. Lee Record Collection contains LP records collected by Lee of both instrumental Chinese music and recordings of multiple Peking (Beijing) Operas.

Dates: Circa 1951-Circa 1989
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Hassina and Deeptha Leelarathna Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: TBC-LLP
Abstract Hassina and Deeptha Leelarathna founded the first Sri Lankan newspaper in the United States. Founded in 1978, the paper, Sri Lankan Express, served as a voice for the Sri Lankan diaspora, and reported on everything from the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka to the issues being faced by the Sri Lankan communities in the U.S. Committed to serving their community, the pair also hosted a weekly two-hour radio program in Sinhalese and English titled ...
Dates: 1977-1988
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Legal and Financial Documents on Slaves and Slavery in the United States Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-SSUS
Abstract

Purchased by the library in the late 1970s, this collection consists of bills of sale, bonds, writs, promissory notes, summons, wills of slave owners, and inventories of slaves. It also includes some criminal cases involving slaves and an anonymously authored play with characters who are slaves. Well over half the documents concern the state of Alabama with Lawrence County particularly well represented. The documents are organized by state and arranged by counties.

Dates: 1756-1869
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Lehman Family Papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: URB-LFR
Abstract

The Lehman Family Papers include a marriage license and baptismal record from Salems Evangelical Church, a German church in Los Angeles, California.

Dates: 1909-1912
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Leicester Peace Society Letter

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SC-LPS
Dates: 1910 February 16
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Sidney Lens Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-SLP
Abstract

Sidney Lens was born in 1912. Lens was an American labor leader, political activist, and author. The collection consists mainly of photographs, and also includes one newspaper article as well as a letter from photographer Stefan Merken to Shirley Lens.

Dates: ca. 1956-1970
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Norman Leonard and William H. Carder Collection

 Collection
Identifier: URB-NLWC
Abstract Mr. Leonard served as counsel for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union through several phases of labor disagreements including such issues as civil rights, racial discrimination, hiring and registration disputes, and management's unfair labor practices. The files of Leonard and Carder consist of legal cases brought before the court by their firm over the period 1951 to 1983. The documents found within the collection substantiate the process of labor arbitrations through National...
Dates: 1942-1983
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Benjamin M. Levaco Papers

 Collection
Identifier: OCH-BML
Abstract Benjamin Levaco was a Russian-born Jew who moved to China with his family in 1915 at the age of four. He grew up in Harbin and Tientsin, and after graduating high school began working for a sausage casing company in the 1930s. After World War II, he opened his own casing company with plants in Shanghai, Hangchow, Tientsin and Peking. He fled China with his wife in 1950, immigrating to New York City. He retired in the Los Angeles area, and traveled to China multiple times in the 1990s before...
Dates: Circa 1900-1999
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

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