Abstract: In response to the spread of organized anti-Semitism in the United States during the 1930s, leaders of Los Angeles' Jewish community formed a special defense organization known as the Los Angeles Jewish Community Committee. The committee later changed its name to the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Community Relations Committee. The collection documents the committee's efforts to combat prejudice and educate the public through cooperation with both Jewish and non-Jewish...

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This is a handwritten travel diary of a young Englishwoman's first visit to the United States. It dates from April to June of 1895 and begins with her voyage on the "Teutonic" to New York. The journal includes her train journey across the United States. The second half of the journal is concerned with her stay in San Francisco, and a visit to the Hotel Del Monte in Pebble Beach.

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Ariadne "Ari" Kane founded the Outreach Institute for Gender Studies. The Ari Kane Outreach Institute for Gender Studies Collection contains various documents, audio and video tapes, photographs, and awards. These items document the work conducted by Kane’s institute and the annual coordination of Fantasia Fair, considered the longest running annual event for cross-dressers, transgender, and gender questioning people in the world.

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The Lawrence Kaufman Collection consists of photographs taken shortly after the 1994 Earthquake by Mr. Kaufman, CSUN Service Recognition pins, and a cow bell.

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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.

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...

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...

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The Truman C. Kuehn White Rock Advertisement Collection consists of an original color advertisement for White Rock Mineral Water produced in 1907 and published in Puck, and correspondence between Kuehn, the Los Angeles Times and the Coca Cola Bottling Company of Los Angeles regarding the advertisement.

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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 20^th century. The bulk of the materials date from 1920-1949.

Abstract Aristide Joseph "A.J." Laurent was a U.S. Airman, writer, publisher, printer, and pioneer activist for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) communities. He clandestinely co-founded The Advocate—the oldest and largest LGBT publication in the United States—in the basement studios of ABC Television in 1967, two years prior to the infamous Stonewall Riots of NYC which marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement in America. Consisting...