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The Captain Charles Jackson Papers documents Jackson's personal life and military career in the United States Marine Corps from 1934 to 1955.

Abstract The Vera Jackson Collection documents the life of Black photographer and teacher Vera Ruth Jackson. Jackson worked as a staff press photographer during the 1940s for the California Eagle, a popular black newspaper in South Los Angeles owned by Charlotta Bass. The collection largely focuses on her photography from the California Eagle, her travels, and her teaching, as well as her privately collected photography. It also...

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This collection brings together materials documenting the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Abstract Joseph Jedeikin was born in Kobe, Japan to a Russian mother and Latvian father. After living in Switzerland as a child, his family moved to Shanghai in 1940 to escape German persecution against Jews which they felt would eventually reach them if they stayed in Europe. The family lived in the French Concession, and Jedeikin attended the Public and Thomas Hanbury School before graduating in 1945 and leaving China in 1946 to attend university in America. The collection consists of  Jedeikin’s...

Abstract James Wesley Jeffrey, Jr. was a Black photographer born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1945 who lived most of his life in Los Angeles. For most of his career he worked as a commercial photographer but also shot documentary and fine art photography for special projects and exhibits. The collection primarily consists of negatives (predominantly black-and-white 35mm and 120mm), contact sheets, slides, color transparencies (predominantly 4x5), prints, audiovisual materials, ephemera, proposals,...

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Walter Jerome lived on a ranch in Zelzah, California (now Northridge) with his wife Helen and his children in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He kept a diary from November 27, 1927 to January 15, 1930, in which he chronicled daily life on the ranch.

Abstract The Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Community Relations Committee Collection, Part 4, documents the CRC’s activities primarily from 1950 to the late 1970s. CRC continued to function as the Public Relations arm of the organized Jewish community. This collection documents the CRC’s activities mostly under the leadership of Joseph Roos, until his retirement in 1969, and Charles Posner, as well as a smaller number of files from later leadership. It documents the committee's...

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.