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The Pavel Ilyin Soviet Sailors Collection contains dozens of small wooden sailors collected by Pavel Ilyin during his travels across the Soviet Union with his father, children's author Mikhail Ilyin.

Abstract The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) primarily represents dock workers on the West Coast of the United States. The union was established in 1937 and the Los Angeles Chapter, Local 13, was established shortly thereafter. The collection documents the establishment and development of the local as well as many of the goals and achievements of unionism on the Pacific Coast. Topics of interest include labor/management relations, labor conditions on the waterfront, the sudden...

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International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU), Local 56 Records document the business operations of the ILWU Local 56 Ship Scalers and Painters Union and the ILWU Southern California Regional Office. Both organizations are based in San Pedro, California.

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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...