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The Ewer Travel Collection contains travel ephemera, journals, and scrapbooks related to the early 20th century travels of Florence and Bernard Ewer around the world.

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The Harry Fryman Collection documents Fryman's work in the early 20^th century hospitality industry through maps, receipts, and photographs related to Los Angeles hotels and cafes. Both his work as a Southern California land developer and the role of Fryman Ranch in silent film production are documented through photographs and advertisements.

Abstract The Robert Gohstand Shanghai Tourist Postcards and Ephemera contains postcards and other travel ephemera collected by Robert Gohstand for inclusion in the Old China Hands Archives. Although the postcards and ephemera were created in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, many of the images printed on the postcards document places and people from early 20th century China, including World War II. Most items relate to Shanghai, although there are also references to Harbin and Peking...

Abstract Fred M. Greguras served as a United States Marine in Vietnam in 1970 with Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, before entering the field of law and becoming a partner at a law firm in California. The Fred M. Greguras California Military Places Collection reflects his research interest in the history of the U.S. Marines and American military sites through research materials, photographs, documents, and collected ephemera that focus on United...

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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.

Abstract The Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Community Relations Committee Collection, Part 4, documents the CRC’s activities primarily from 1950 to the late 1970s. CRC continued to function as the Public Relations arm of the organized Jewish community. This collection documents the CRC’s activities mostly under the leadership of Joseph Roos, until his retirement in 1969, and Charles Posner, as well as a smaller number of files from later leadership. It documents the committee's...

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...

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Paul Kayser was a U.S. Marine who led a two-day rescue mission in China during World War II to recover kidnapped Marines. The collection includes the map used by Kayser during this mission, along with two photographs of Kayser, and a Scuttlebutt article featuring the story.

Abstract Alex D. Kennedy was born in Shanghai in 1930. He was the fourth son of Colonel Dimitry Vasilivich and Ekaterina Nikitichna Kochneff, and attended both the Public & Thomas Hanbury School and St. Francis Xavier’s College in Shanghai. The collection contains items saved by Kennedy that relate to his experience living in Shanghai, and visiting China and Hong Kong multiple times later in life, including articles, brochures, a book of illustrations, postcards, maps, yearbooks, programs,...

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...