Abstract The Harold Hambrick Photograph and Video Collection is a small collection of photographs and videos that largely document Watts and the South Los Angeles area within the time period of 1966 to 2005, and primarily the 1990s and 2000s. Harold Hambrick was an African American businessman and active community member in Watts and surrounding areas. For over 40 years he held many roles at the Watts Health Foundation (WHF), and in the late 1990s he became President of the Los Angeles Black Business...

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The Iain Hamilton Collection documents perspectives from a uniformed LAPD officer based out of the West Valley Division for the majority of his career. This includes his daily work as a police officer, and his engagement with significant moments in late 20th century Los Angeles history, including the 1984 Olympics, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

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Anna Jane Hardy lived in Dorset, Vermont and worked at the United Service Organization (USO). The collection consists of 15 letters Jane Hardy received between 1944-1946, and a 1944 newsletter titled GSO Tattler which mentions a going away party for Jane.

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The Herbert B. Harris Travel Scrapbooks consist of two books, The Pageant of Chinese Historyby Elizabeth Seeger and Peking by Juliet Bredon, used as travel scrapbooks. Photographs, newspaper clippings, and notes document a trip to China in 1937 and are throughout the two publications.

Abstract The Harris-Wheeler Collection documents the efforts of Alvin S. Harris, an amateur erotic photographer, and Richard "Dick" Oliver Wheeler, an enthusiast, to collect, share, and sell cross-dressing and sexual fetish materials, including literature, photographs, periodicals, catalogs, and other types of sexually explicit content. Notable figures represented in the collection include Irving Claw, John Willie, Louise Lawrence, and Christine Jorgensen....

Abstract The Bill Harvey Collection features a variety of subjects representative of most of Harvey’s professional career as a publicity, commercial news, business, and freelance photographer. His wide range of subjects include World War II promotions, the Republican National Convention, KTTV, insurance groups, and travel companies. The collection consists of largely photographic materials in the format of negatives and prints. It also contains ephemera, index cards, memorabilia, correspondence,...

Abstract Bess Lomax Hawes is the daughter of famed folklorist John A. Lomax. Ms. Hawes had an active musical career as a singer, instrumentalist and songwriter. Her career as an educator began in 1954 when she became an instructor in guitar, banjo and folk music in the extension division at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1963, she joined the Anthropology Department at San Fernando Valley State College. The material contained in this collection consists of folkloric data collected...

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Mabel Haynes was born in Shanghai in 1918, and lived and worked in Shanghai and Hong Kong until 1949, when she and her husband fled from the new Communist regime. The collection consists of items collected by Haynes related to Shanghai and the Old China Hands experience, including correspondence, articles, and photographs.

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The Heart Mountain incarceration camp was established by the U.S. government’s War Relocation Authority (WRA) to incarcerate Japanese Americans during World War II. This collection brings together materials documenting the Heart Mountain incarceration camp including meeting minutes, camp laws, and correspondence.

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Julien Heimendinger was a Renault salesman, with exclusive contracts to sell Renault vehicles in Shanghai in the 1930s. The collection consists of exclusivity contracts from 1934-1936 between Heimendinger and Renault, a letter from Renault offering discounts on certain Renault vehicles, and photographs of Heimendinger, Renault cars, and service stations in Shanghai.