Abstract Robert and Eva Tharp were both born in China to missionary parents, and both took on missionary work in China individually and after they married in 1938. After the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, Robert was imprisoned by the Japanese, and after his release 8 months later the Tharps moved to India where they worked as liaisons between Chinese and Indian citizens and for the British government. They returned to China to continue their mission work, but were forced to flee to America in the wake...

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The Bianca Todd Collection contains photographs, portraits, pastels, pen and ink drawings, pencil sketches, and art clippings related to Todd's work as an artist in the first half of the 20th century.

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Olaf Torgersen was born in 1885 in Larvik, Norway. He left Norway in 1914 to work as a sea captain in China and Hong Kong, where he captained a number of ships until returning to Oslo, Norway, with his wife in 1951. The collection contains the personal and professional papers of Torgensen, including identification cards and passports, his master's certificates and records related to his service on various ships, and personal correspondence, ephemera, and articles.

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Helen Traubel was an American opera singer, best known for her Wagnerian roles. This small collection consists of a letter from the office of Pope Pius XII to Helen Traubel thanking her for a phonograph record that she presented to him, two photographs of Helen Traubel, and one photograph of Helen Traubel with her husband.

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This collection of two scrapbooks, created by an unknown individual, consists of travel photographs and picture postcards of Canada and Asia taken in 1919.

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The David Trutt Gilbert and Sullivan Ephemera Collection contains promotional ephemera for the late 19th century comic opera works created by dramatist William Schwenck Gilbert and composer Arthur Seymour Sullivan between 1871 and 1896. The playbills, posters, music scores, advertising trade cards, souvenir items, and other ephemeral items document the popularity and continued performances of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Abstract Agness Underwood was a Los Angeles newspaper woman for forty-two years. During the 1930s and 1940s she was one of the city's best-known court and police reporters. In 1947, she became city editor of the Herald Express, a post she held for seventeen and a half years. During that time, she was the only woman city editor of a major American metropolitan newspaper. No man had ever held the job more than four years, and during her editorship she helped push the...

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Document and photographs relating to plans for a parade and celebration to commemorate the opening of the new Union Passenger Terminal at Los Angeles, California.

Abstract The photo album was compiled by an unknown creator and contains 58 linen-backed black and white silver gelatin 5” x 7” photographs. The album is titled “Engineer Combat Battalion Equipment, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1940” and contains photographs documenting the equipment used by Engineer Combat Battalions. The images depict pontoon bridge construction equipment, assault boats, camouflage, drafting and sketch tools, demolition tools, electric lighting, searchlights, trailers, photography...

Abstract The University Archives Photograph Collection consists of photographs, negatives, and slides from the early 1950s through the early 2000s. This is an artificial collection, created by assembling photographs from related collections. The images document the history of California State University, Northridge, beginning with its inception in 1954 to the present day. The majority of the collection depicts campus buildings,...