University of Southern California Digital Library
University of Southern California Digital Library
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Email: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/contactus
- Website: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/
The USC Digital Library (USCDL) helps fulfill the mission of the USC Libraries to actively support the discovery, creation, and preservation of knowledge and develop collections and services that support and encourage the academic endeavors of faculty, students, and staff.
Spanning a wide range of visual media, the USC Digital Library offers digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, as well as audio and video recordings. Encompassing the subject strengths of the vast collections of the libraries at the University of Southern California, these materials represent the applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences. A portion of the images contained in the USC Digital Library come from the collections of collaborating institutions which, like USC, have valuable archival collections that are of interest to a wide range of people
Collections at this institution
Carl Maston Papers
USC alumnus Carl Maston was an influential Los Angeles mid-century modern architect. Upon graduation, Maston worked for the offices of Floyd Rible, A. Quincy Jones, Fred Emmons, Phil Daniel, and Allied Architects before opening his own office. His homes, shopping centers, military housing units, and university buildings can be found throughout Southern California. Known for his stark, no-frills modern buildings such as the Maston (or Marmont) Residence and Hillside House, his career spanned over 40 years in public and private sectors. The bulk of the collection consists of architectural project files as well as architectural photographs by longtime-collaborator Julius Shulman.
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71 Items
Cassady Lewis Carroll Collection
The Cassady Lewis Carroll Collection consists of publications, correspondence, and other materials by and related to Lewis Carroll and come from the Cassady (G. Edward, M.D. and Margaret Elizabeth, R.N.) Lewis Carroll collection. The collection continues to grow as Dr. Cassady donates additional material. San Francisco pediatrician George Cassady loved the Alice in Wonderland books so much that he read them to his sons at bedtime and incorporated Alice quotes into his lectures at medical conferences. In 2000, he gave his extensive collection of vintage books and spin-off items to his alma mater, USC, and funded the creation of an …
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45 Items
China Society of Southern California Collection
The China Society of Southern California has held meetings and events in Los Angeles since 1935, focusing on promoting an appreciation of Chinese culture. The collection consists of the Society’s foundation documents (constitution, by-laws), its Bulletin, meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records and various other records of their activities over the course of the last eighty years (1935-2015). The collection came to the University through connections made by Clayton Dube, Associate Director of USC’s U.S.-China Institute. Representatives of the China Society of Southern California, including its President (2014), Robert Lee, visited USC to discuss the donation of the material.
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193 Items
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Collection, ca.1880-1933
The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Collection documents artifacts systematically excavated from two sites in Southern California. The first site is represented by about 1,040 color images of artifacts from the original Los Angeles Chinatown; an additional 150 images document artifacts from the site of a Chinese laundry in Santa Barbara. These two outstanding Chinese Historical Society of Los Angeles artifact collections are among the largest and best documented assemblage of cultural materials on Chinese settlement in the United States. Excavated from unmixed dated sites with developed historical context, the collections represent tremendous research potential.
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1,182 Items
Crystal City Collection
The Crystal City Collection documents a detention camp for Japanese in Crystal City, Texas, formed secretly to gather and house Japanese, German and Italian citizens in the United States and Latin America, to be used for prisoner exchange for Americans and others in Japanese detention. This distinguishes it from "relocation" camps, which were largely for American citizens of Japanese descent.
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131 Items
Dance Heritage Video Archive
With generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the USC Libraries and the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance created the Dance History Video Archive (DHVA) collection. The collection preserves culturally significant recordings that document global and U.S. dance traditions, creative work by outstanding choreographers and performers, and performances that helped to advance the art form. The DHVA collection continues the work begun by the Dance Heritage Coalition’s Dance Preservation and Digitization Project to address the challenges faced by dance artists, choreographers, performers, and companies in preserving a record of their work and helping to share it as broadly …
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283 Items
"Dick" Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987
The "Dick" Whittington Studio was the largest and finest photography studio in the Los Angeles area from 1924 to 1987. Specializing in commercial photography, the Whittington Studio took photographs for nearly every major business and organization in Los Angeles; in so doing, they documented the growth and commercial development of Los Angeles. Clients included Max Factor, the Broadway, Bullock's, and May Co. department stores, the California Fruit Growers Association, Signal Oil, Shell Oil, Union Oil, Van de Kamp's bakeries, Forest Lawn, Sparkletts Water, CBS, Don Lee Television, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, real estate developers, construction companies, automobile, aircraft, and railroad …
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14,513 Items
Dunbar Economic Development Corporation Collection, 1880-1986
The Dunbar Economic Development Corporation (Dunbar EDC) collection contains photographs and artifacts which document the Vernon-Central neighborhood of Los Angeles which is the historic core of the California African American community. The Dunbar EDC was founded by local community members to implement a holistic approach to addressing the lack of employment opportunity and prosperity existing in the Vernon-Central area.
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34 Items
Edward H. Fickett, FAIA, Collection
The Edward H. Fickett Collection contains a selection of items digitized from the archives of the architectural office of Edward H. Fickett (1916-1999), FAIA, in Special Collections, USC Libraries. The physical collection contains 664.04 linear feet of architectural drawings, renderings, and photographs as well as other material stored in 360 boxes, including 99 long boxes, 163 document boxes, 2 banker's boxes, an additional 96 boxes of various sizes; and 52 flat file drawers. Another set of renderings is stored in flat folders. In addition, there are 4 3-D models of Fickett projects. The entire physical collection dates from 1945-2013. Examples …
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76 Items
Edward L. Doheny Family Collection
The Edward L. Doheny Family Collection is comprised of materials acquired from the family of the namesake of Doheny Library, the main library on the campus of the University of Southern California.
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146 Items
