Abstract Benjamin Levaco was a Russian-born Jew who moved to China with his family in 1915 at the age of four. He grew up in Harbin and Tientsin, and after graduating high school began working for a sausage casing company in the 1930s. After World War II, he opened his own casing company with plants in Shanghai, Hangchow, Tientsin and Peking. He fled China with his wife in 1950, immigrating to New York City. He retired in the Los Angeles area, and traveled to China multiple times in the 1990s before...

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Joel Harold Lieb worked as an engineer at Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell International from 1956 to 1989. The collection documents Lieb's career working at Rocketdyne on both the Apollo program and the Space Shuttle program for NASA.

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Joyce Linden lived with her family on a 15 acre ranch in Northridge, California in the late 1940s and 1950s. The collection consists of items collected by Linden related to the history of the San Fernando Valley and her family’s ranch in Northridge, including a Northridge land brochure, a label for the brochure written in 1960 which gives the history of the Linden’s Northridge ranch, and ribbons won at the San Fernando Valley Fair in the 1950s by Vivien Linden.

Abstract The Lisowski Family World War II Postcard Collection consists of 24 postcards and 2 accordion-style foldout letters containing military information and graphic illustrations about Camp Rucker in Alabama and the “Military Activities of the U.S. Army.” The postcards are written by sons Ben, Aleck, and Stan Lisowski to their parents Peter and Grasilda Lisowski. The postcards document the locations and activities of each person, including military training activities. There is also a single...

Abstract Major William J. Lodge served as a Statistical Officer in the VIII Fighter Command, 417th Night Fighter Squadron, of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. After the war, he settled in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles and worked for many years as an investigator for the California Labor Commissioner's Office, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. The William J. Lodge World War II Collection consists of aerial propaganda leaflets and...

Abstract The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (LACFL) is the umbrella organization for an alliance of hundreds of affiliated local labor unions and labor organizations in Los Angeles County, California. It was established in 1894 and operated under the name Los Angeles County Central Labor Council (LACCLC) for many years. Due to a split between the AFL and CIO on the national level the National CIO chartered the Greater Los Angeles CIO Council in May 1937, which maintained a separate existence...

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Millicent Farrington Lowry, also known as Mrs. R.B. Lowry, lived in Niagara Falls, New York. This diary documents her life on the homefront from 1943 through 1947. Lowry recorded daily activities covering rationing, comments on the war, meals, errands, the weather, and what was happening with her family members.

Abstract Baldo Loy worked for the Pacific Steamship Association as a Stevedore in 1923 and for the Moore Drydock Company in 1924. By 1935, he was a member of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, Local 9. He was "granted Honorable, withdrawel [sic] from this Local" on 26 January 1936. That same year, at the age of 36, he was issued a picket card by the Maritime Federation of the Pacific coast, serving the organization faithfully during the Maritime Federation Pacific...

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The collection consists of a wooden serving tray autographed by 66 internees that were placed into the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center internment camp in Shanghai by the occupying Japanese forces during World War II. The signatures, which appear on both sides of the tray, also include the identification numbers of the individuals.