Photographs
Subject
Subject Source: Tgmi
Found in 312 Collections and/or Records:
Paul Kelly Los Angeles Typographical Union, Local 174 Collection
Collection
Identifier: URB-LATU-PK
Abstract
Paul Kelly was president of the Los Angeles Typographical Union, Local 174, during which time Local 174 was a member of the Herald Examiner Joint Strike-Lockout Council. The Herald Examiner Strike took place in Los Angeles, California from 1967-1977 and was one of the longest strikes in recent times. The collection consists of 75 items that include a broadside, brochure, bulletin, calendar, notices, two films, and sixty-five...
Dates:
1944-1972; Majority of material found within 1967-1972
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Alex D. Kennedy Collection
Collection
Identifier: OCH-ADK
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,...
Dates:
1923-2002
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Kistler Printing and Lithography Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-KPL
Abstract
William A. Kistler established a printing business in Los Angeles in 1910. After World War I he purchased a lithography firm where both he and his son practiced lithography for several years. The collection contains the commercial work of Kistler Printing and Lithography from the 1920s to 1970s, including proof sheets and paste-ups from Fifty Photographs (1947), First Penthouse Dwellers of America (1938), and ...
Dates:
1922-1975
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
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
Captain Alv Kulstad and George Kulstad Collection
Collection
Identifier: OCH-AGK
Abstract
The Captain Alv Kulstad and George Kulstad Collection contains correspondence, 3D objects, monographs, serials, ephemera, and research materials related to the maritime career of Peter Alv Kulstad and the lives of his wife Helen (Nellie Thomas) Kulstad and children George Kulstad and Olav E. Kulstad in Shanghai in the first half of the 20th century. The bulk of the materials date from 1920-1949.
Dates:
1916-2012
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives