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Ethnic Groups - Blacks
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California - History
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Approx. 15 items: miscellaneous historical articles, reproductions of early maps, lists of state governors, various events, a glossary of California (place) names, related items; multiple pages copied from California - a remarkable state's life history by John W. Caughey, 1970; copy of multi-page article, American Heritage, 6-7-/1979, pp. 63 - 77, "To a distant and perilous service"; complete issue of Westways, 7/1976, w/ notecard, "Westways issue entirely dedicated to California...(incl.) early California...early Los Angeles"; 9 black and white postcards featuring historic images of the city of Corona, California circa 1890-1930.
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Ethnic Groups - Chinese
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Approx. 20 items: LAT copies, news clips, feature stories and editorials, on the Chinese community and their interaction with other citizens of Los Angeles; complete issue, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Quarterly, Fall 1967, including article, "The Chinese in Los Angeles"; 2-pp. copied from L.A. City Historical Society Newsletter, 3/1988, "Bing cherries, Pebble Beach and Lotus"; tear sheet, (L.A.) Downtown News, 6/6/1988, cover story on Chinatown.
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Ethnic Groups -- Blacks
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Correspondence regarding African Americans, including a proposed American Press Institute seminar for editors and publishers of African American newspapers. Includes correspondence to/from Harry Chandler and L. D. Hotchkiss. File of L. D. Hotchkiss.
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Women
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30+ items: LAT articles on "firsts" achieved by Los Angeles and California women ; 1893 LAT editorial, "The Nude in Life," on subject of modesty and morals ; 5-pp. chronological list of LAT stories dealing with women (incl. many poems by Mrs. H.G. Otis ; 11-pp. report (connected possibly to USC) on women's achievements in and around Los Angeles, and the information covers the period up to the 1970s ; article copy, Westways, 1/1974, "Magic in Los Angeles."
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San Fernando Valley
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50+ items: large collection of LAT articles and material from books and magazines including Travel & Leisure, Westways, California Historical Society Quarterly, etc., on the history of San Fernando Valley, land and water deals, etc. Notable items: 25-pp. copied from book, History of the San Fernando Valley, Frank Keffer, 1934 ; tear sheet, Westways, 4/1963, "Wheat ruled the Valley" ; tear sheet, Westways, 5/1963, "The Men who opened the Valley" ; 24-pp. copied from The California Historical Society Quarterly, 3/1968, incl. article, "Pioneering land development in the Californias..." with material on Harrison Gray Otis and Harry Chandler ; tear sheets from Westways, 4/1974, "A. Workman's Ranch," includes information of early Valley pioneers including Isaac Lankershim and Isaac Van Nuys ; tear sheet, Travel & Leisure, 8/1976, "The Valley" ; 14-pp. sheets copied from The San Fernando Valley, book, ca. 1976.
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Ethnic Groups - American Indians
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Approx. 15 items: a collection of LAT article clips and copies on various aspects of American Indians. The earliest examples are from 1886, 1888, and 1889, exhibiting a wide range of attitudes towards "the indian problem." Also a 1973 "rereading" and fresh review, by Robert Kirsch, of the novel Ramona (1885) and a 6-pp. excerpt copied from West of the West, by Robert Kirsch and William S. Murphy.
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