Abstract The Daily News is the second-largest circulating newspaper in Los Angeles, California, and primarily reports stories pertinent to the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. The collection contains the morgue, or inactive, files of the Daily News relevant to the Bustop Campaign, especially press coverage and other research. The collection consists primarily of court documents collected by the Daily...

Abstract The Daughters of the American Revolution Don Jose de Ortega Chapter Collection documents community engagement and social networks of a subset of Los Angeles women in the last quarter of the 20th century. The Don Jose de Ortega Chapter is part of the national lineage-based membership organization Daughters of the American Revolution. Scrapbooks and newsletters document the Chapter's local historical preservation efforts, philanthropic work, and aspects of San...

Abstract The Daughters of the American Revolution Fernanda Maria Chapter Collection documents the administration and activities of the Northridge based local chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and reflects a segment of San Fernando Valley social life in the 20th and early 21st centuries. The hereditary based organization's educational, patriotic, historic preservation, and genealogy activities are reflected primarily through...

Abstract The Jack Davis Photograph Collection primarily consists of images of individuals, social and business groups’ activities, and significant personal or social events of the predominantly Black community of Los Angeles, particularly South Los Angeles, from the 1950s to the 1980s. Jack Davis, born in Texas in 1920, was a Black professional photographer and teacher who owned Modern Arts Studio of Photography on Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles. Studio portraits, churches and social clubs’...

Abstract Ed Davis was appointed Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department in 1969. He was elected State Senator in 1980 for California’s 19th District, and re-elected again in 1984. This small collection of primarily published material contains correspondence, mailings, newspaper clippings, newsletters, pamphlets, reports, studies, and related documents covering special topics. Of particular significance are the state reports on hazardous waste, and toxic substances and legislative proposals from...

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The collection consists of articles by Charlene Day on gender identity and crossdressing, book and movie reviews authored by Charlene Day, still images of a computer program created by Day, a video recording including still photographs and moving images of Charlene Day, and materials related to the Alpha Chapter of The Society for the Second Self (Tri-Ess) which was a support group for heterosexual crossdressers and their significant others.

Abstract Bob de Vries is an Old China Hand, whose Dutch father was involved in the Holland China Trading Company. He lived in Shanghai, and was interned by the Japanese at the Chapei internment camp during World War II. The collection contains items collected by de Vries related to his experiences in China, including newspaper and magazine pictorials of Shanghai, photocopied photographs of the Chapei camp with captions, a story with accompanying photographs written by De Vries about his father and...

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The Ludmilla Debs Collection contains photographs and documents recording the academic career of Debs while she was a student in Tientsin, China.

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Louis Gerald DelFiandra served in the United States Marin Corps for six years, with two of those years in China. The Louis Gerald DelFiandra China Marines Collection contain photographs, correspondence, and ephemera related to "Jerry" DelFiandra's United States Marines service in China post-World War II, as well as his involvement with China Marines reunion activities.

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The collection consists of photographs of the Mayne R. Denman family of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Denman worked for the Smith Premier Typewriter Company in eastern Ohio and West Virginia. There is a Los Angeles address on one of the photographs.