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Kenneth Funsten research collection
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Kenneth Funsten research collection
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A collection of letters, manuscripts, and printed material assembled by Kenneth Funsten related to the California poet Bert Meyers. Funsten wanted to publish a tribute to Meyers so in May and June 1979 sent letters to various poets, friends, colleagues, and students of Meyers requesting their help. The collection contains copies of Funsten's letters, letters and memoirs in response, and printed material related to Meyers collected by Funsten. Significant persons in the collection include: Sam Bluefarb, Alvaro Cardona-Hine, Dennis Cooper, French R. Fogle, Leland Hickman, George Hitchcock, Denis Levertov, Oscar Mandel, Odette Meyers, Robert Mezey, John B. Nomland, Maximillian E. Novak, Robert Peters, William Pillin, Benjamin Saltman, Ann Stanford, and the West Coast Poetry Review.
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Kenneth Hahn collection
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The collection is the administrative, political, and personal papers of LA County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn. It includes papers from his term on the LA City Council and his various campaigns for office covering the period of about 1945 to 1993, with major emphasis on his tenure as Supervisor, from 1953 to 1993. It contains correspondence, reports, drafts of legislation, internal memoranda, photographs, audiotapes, maps, motion pictures, videotape and campaign ephemera. The following list of subjects is incomplete (please see the collection finding aid for a complete list of subjects covered in the papers): Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Robert F. Kennedy's assassination and the case against Sirhan Sirhan, LA County Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner, the investigation into Marilyn Monroe's death, California law and legislation, courts, crime, city planning, health services and mental health, the Human Relations Commission, race relations, social services, military and veterans affairs, museums, public works, the Sheriff's Department, education, schools and universities, earthquake issues, parks, urban affairs, the Los Angeles International Airport, professional sports in LA (including the Dodgers baseball team, their move to LA and the construction of their stadium), the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the LA Memorial Sports Arena, drugs and narcotics, freeways, California government, United States government, water supply, air pollution, public transportation and the County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Watts riots, the riots in 1992 after the Rodney King decision, labor issues, the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital, as well as Culver City, Gardena, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lynwood, and Torrance, California. The following list of participants is incomplete: Fletcher Bowron, Tom Bradley, Edmund G. Brown, Jerry Brown, George Bush, Jimmy Carter, Alan Cranston, George Deukmejian, Bob Dole, Ed Edelman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Clair Engle, Gerald Ford, Daryl Gates, J. Paul Getty, James K. Hahn, Augustus F. Hawkins, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, Edward Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Stanley Mosk, Ralph Nader, Walter F. O'Malley, Ronald Reagan, Norman Schwarzkopf, John Van de Kamp, Earl Warren, Sam Yorty, California's District Attorney, Grand Jury, Legislature and Superior Court, the County Public Library, and the following Los Angeles County offices: Air Pollution Control District, Board of Supervisors, Commission on Human Relations, County Counsel, Dept. of Health Services, Dept. of Public Social Services, Dept. of Public Works, Dept. of Urban Affairs, Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Commission, Office of Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner and the Los Angeles County Earthquake Commission.
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Kenneth D. Sender collection
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The Kenneth D. Sender collection consists of Xerox copies of the microfilm, which is in the custody of the New Mexico State Records Center & Archive. Box 6 consists of an English translation / summary completed by Haydee Noya.
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Kenneth Fung notes
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This collection consists of personal and professional papers of Kenneth Y. Fung. These papers include personal and business correspondence (including letters by immigration lawyer Y. C. Hong and Chinese rights activist, educator, and newspaper editor Walter U. Lum), documents, notes, immigration case files, notebooks, sympathy cards, newspaper clippings, copies of U.S. Senate bills, photographs and negatives, books, objects, and art, from 1890 to 2004 and the bulk covering 1915 to Fung's death in 1952. Also included are materials related to the Chinese American Citizens Alliance from 1923 to 1943. The majority of the collection deals with Fung's immigration work as a lawyer and Chinese Americans' rights advocacy, but a lot of the collection is personal in nature and provides details about his personal life and the Fung family and their lives in San Francisco, Chinatown, and the surrounding Bay Area of California.
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Margaret M. Herbring Research Material: M. M. Herbring & Kenneth L. Ball: autograph & typewritten notes and photostats, 40 pieces, ([1970-1973])
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The collection consists of manuscripts (by and about Lawrence), correspondence (including over 150 letters by Lawrence), photographs, drawings, reproductions and ephemera. Also included in the collection is research material of various Lawrence collectors and scholars. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Tom W. Beaumont, Brian Carter, Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Doubleday and Company, Inc.,Theodora Duncan, David Garnett, Robert Graves, H. Montgomery Hyde, Augustus John, Jonathan Cape (Firm), Phillip Knightley, Pat T. Knowles, A.W. Lawrence, Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, John Mack, Edwards H. Metcalf, Jeffrey Meyers, Robert Payne, Raymond Savage, Bernard Shaw, Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend Shaw, Clare Sydney Smith, Sir Ronald Storrs, Lowell Thomas, and Jeremy Wilson.
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Margaret M. Herbring Research Material: M. M. Herbring & Kenneth L. Ball: autograph & typewritten notes and photostats, 78 pieces, ([1963-1969])
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The collection consists of manuscripts (by and about Lawrence), correspondence (including over 150 letters by Lawrence), photographs, drawings, reproductions and ephemera. Also included in the collection is research material of various Lawrence collectors and scholars. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Tom W. Beaumont, Brian Carter, Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Doubleday and Company, Inc.,Theodora Duncan, David Garnett, Robert Graves, H. Montgomery Hyde, Augustus John, Jonathan Cape (Firm), Phillip Knightley, Pat T. Knowles, A.W. Lawrence, Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, John Mack, Edwards H. Metcalf, Jeffrey Meyers, Robert Payne, Raymond Savage, Bernard Shaw, Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend Shaw, Clare Sydney Smith, Sir Ronald Storrs, Lowell Thomas, and Jeremy Wilson.
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