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...

Abstract The Los Angeles City Planning Commission Collection (LACPC) documents an important transitional period in the history of urban planning in Los Angeles, which is characterized by a movement from Citywide comprehensive planning toward community and region-based planning over the last half of the twentieth century. The collection includes records and publications which document the day-to-day business of LACPC, city planning in specific geographic areas,...

Abstract The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (LACFL) is the umbrella organization for an alliance of hundreds of affiliated local labor unions and labor organizations in Los Angeles County, California. It was established in 1894 and operated under the name Los Angeles County Central Labor Council (LACCLC) for many years. Due to a split between the AFL and CIO on the national level the National CIO chartered the Greater Los Angeles CIO Council in May 1937, which maintained a separate existence...

Abstract This collection of training materials from Fort Benning during World War II was created by an unnamed enlisted man in the United States Army. It consists of combat training pamphlets, Conference Course Training Bulletins, and other materials, including maps and a handwritten notebook kept by the trainee with notes on first aid, use of photographs and maps in surveillance, indirect targeting, combat intelligence, use of hand grenades, tactical training for individual soldiers, supplies,...

Abstract The Sylvia Maehrischel Collection consists of items collected by Maehrischel that relate to her experience as an Old China Hand. The collection is primarily made up of articles on the topic of Jewish refugees in China, as well as issues of the Old China Hands newsletter The Hongkew Chronicle. Also included is a letter from Bill and Elly Grasse, a program for the Silver Jubilee of the Association of Far Eastern Jews in...

Abstract Margarita Piel McCoy began her work in the planning industry in 1959 when she was elected a member on the planning board for Sudbury, Massachusetts. McCoy attended Wells College and Northwestern University in 1940, then transferred to Boston University where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in English in 1944. After finishing graduate school at the University of Southern California in 1970, McCoy went on to become the first full-time female planning professor and the first female department...

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Milton W. Meyer is a professor emeritus of history at California State University, Los Angeles, and has written multiple books on the history of Asia. The collection contains items collected by Meyer related to the history of China, including a map of Changsha, a 1947 article and letter written by Dr. Orient Lee on Chinese history, and a five part manuscript on Chinese history and culture written by Herbert E. House.

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The Military Geographic Information on European and Asiatic Russia Collection contains sets of maps and booklets with geographic information on Russia, the greater Soviet Union area, and one group of materials related to Southeast France. The materials were created by Army General Staff in the German Department for War Maps and Surveying in Berlin for military use during World War II.

Abstract Catherine Rose Mulholland, granddaughter of William Mulholland, former Chief Superintendent of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, was a historian, writer, civic leader, and public speaker in the San Fernando Valley and the greater Los Angeles area, where she spent much of her life. The Catherine Mulholland Collection documents her personal and professional life, chronicles the life of her grandfather, William Mulholland, and provides a unique...

Abstract Julian Nava served as the Envoy (Attache España) of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (LAOOC) to the Spanish Olympic Committee (Comité Olímpico Español - COE) for the 1984 Summer Olympics and preceding 10-week-long adjunct Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival. The Spanish Olympic Committee was founded in 1912 to develop, promote, and protect the Olympic Movement in their country and support Spanish athletic participation in the Olympics. The collection documents the 1984 Los Angeles...