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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was a contemporary American poet, author, musician, well-known Abraham Lincoln scholar, and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes. The materials in the collection primarily document events featuring or celebrating Carl Sandburg’s career, including correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, scrapbooks, personal and press photographs, record albums, autographed memorabilia and ephemera, and writings by and about Carl Sandburg.

Abstract The Santa Susana Mountain Park Association (SSMPA) was formed as a non-profit group in 1971 to preserve the Santa Susana Mountains and the Simi Valley Hills as open space during the rapid urban development of the Santa Clarita, Santa Clara, Simi, and San Fernando valleys. The SSMPA has acted as a citizens' lobbying group to obtain state and federal legislation, local governmental support, and favorable public policy to conserve wilderness areas. The collection consists of administrative...

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John B. Sawyer was American Vice Consul in Shanghai, China, from 1921 to 1938. The collection consists of photographs Sawyer took of China while stationed in Shanghai.

Abstract System Development Corporation (SDC) was founded in 1956 in Santa Monica, California. SDC specialized in information technology and systems sciences. Herbert Saxon held a number of key management positions at SDC. The collection is largely focused on Herbert Saxon’s work on a specific SDC project: the Emergency Command Control Communication System (ECCCS) for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The ECCCS was an automated police dispatching system designed to relieve congested radio...

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The Lee C. Schlegel World War II Collection documents the experiences of United States Army soldier, Lee Cyrus Schegel, whose enlistment period spanned the first three years of United States involvement in World War II. The collection consists of approximately two-hundred photographic prints, a scrapbook, two diaries, and a small amount of personal papers.

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Eric J. Schmidt taught at the Shanghai American School and was interned by the Japanese in the Chapei camp outside of Shanghai during World War II. The collection contains drawings and photographs depicting life at Chapei camp, an oral history interview with Schmidt, and scenes filmed in Shanghai and the surrounding area post-World War II.

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The Elizabeth T. Scott Notebook is a research notebook kept by Scott from 1950 through 1960 containing research she gathered on the history of the San Fernando Valley and the Santa Monica Mountain area of Los Angeles County, California covering the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries in the area.

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The James Sefton World War II Correspondence Collection contains materials collected by Dr. James E. Sefton that document the lived experiences of American military servicepeople in the first half of the 20th century. Correspondence, photographs, and ephemera document the everyday lives of American soldiers, and the many ways that they communicated with the home front, especially during World War II.

Abstract John M. Sell of Erie, Pennsylvania enlisted in the 83rd Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers July 29, 1861. He was commissioned First Lieutenant on August 27 and promoted to Captain on September 4 the following year. Captain Sell was struck in the left leg by a solid shot at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, and died from effects of amputation the next day.  The collection consists of correspondence between Captain John Sell and his parents, brothers William and Charles, and sister Sarah during...

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The collection consists of a photograph of the Engineers Company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, taken around 1930.