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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...

Abstract Barbara Le Lièvre kept a diary while living in Washington D.C. and Paris, France in 1945, during the final days of World War II. Early entries in the diary highlight Le Lièvre's daily activities in Washington D.C. and New York, including her attendance with her husband, Lucien, at a formal reception at the French Embassy in Washington where she met the new French ambassador to the U.S. She often refers to world events in her entries, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death and VJ...

Abstract The League of Women Voters of Glendale/Burbank, a chapter of the League of Women Voters of the United States, is a grassroots nonpartisan political organization encouraging the informed and active participation of citizens in government through voter registration, public education, and advocacy. The materials in the collection document the chapter’s activities throughout its existence (1941-2020) and include administrative operational files, as well as project and program files. There are...

Abstract In 1921 the League of Women Voters, a national organization, merged with an existing women's organization in California, the California Civic League, which already had chapters in many cities throughout the state. Women in Los Angeles established a chapter that same year, and participated in the first statewide League of Women Voters convention in California in 1922. The League of Women Voters of Los Angeles Collection documents the Los Angeles League's...