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The Herbert G. Klein papers contain detailed records of the day to day activities of Herbert G. Klein, University of Southern California alumnus and trustee, journalist, editor and first White House Director of Communications. Included are records from all phases of Klein's long career: his early career as a journalist with Copley Newspapers in Alhambra and San Diego; his work with Richard Nixon, beginning with the Vice Presidential campaign of 1956; and his subsequent career as a media professional and author.

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Postcards depicting the homes and environs of some of the first families of Los Angeles as well as other locations.

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The Historical California Topographical Maps collection contains over 700 maps of California quadrangle maps issued by the United States Geological Survey. The maps cover the entire state of California in three sizes -- 15-minute, 30-minute, and 60-minute. Included are multiple editions of the same maps from as early as 1886 and as recent as 1977. The maps were digitized primarily from three physical collections -- the University of Southern California (USC), the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL). Many of these maps are not in the USGS National Center in Reston, Virginia, …

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The city of Los Angeles became the epicenter of a public relations scandal on March 3, 1991, when an amateur cameraman captured on video four uniformed LAPD officers beating motorist Rodney G. King. In addition to generating public outrage, the incident cast a dark shadow over the LAPD and called into question the integrity of the nation's third largest municipal police force. Subsequently, the ten member Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department was formed to conduct a full and fair evaluation of all aspects of the LAPD's structure and operations related to the use of force when making …

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The historical images in the International Mission Photography Archive come from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections held at a number of centers in Britain, Europe, and North America. The photographs record missionary endeavors and reflect the missionaries’ experience of communities and environments abroad. There are examples of the physical influence the mission presence brought –seen in churches and their surrounding settlements-- as well as examples of the cultural impact of mission teaching and Western influence, including schools, hospitals, training programs, Christian practices, and Western technology and fashions. The pictures document indigenous peoples' responses to missions and the history of indigenous …

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This collection of photographs from the Hearst Collection of the Los Angeles Examiner in the USC Regional History Collection, documents the incarceration of Japanese Americans in California during World War II. These 222 photographs provide a glimpse into the lives of Japanese immigrants and native born Japanese Americans (a.k.a. Nisei) residing in California from 1921 to 1958, with primary emphasis on 1941-1946. Much of the coverage documents scenes of: the mass removal and incarceration process; life in camps at Manzanar, Santa Anita, Tanforan, and Tule Lake; post-war repatriation to Japan. The original captions from the photographs, many of which were …

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The Japanese Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection includes materials in Japanese that date from the 13th to the mid-19th century.

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Jerry Berndt Collection is a collection of 774 photographs shot by Jerry Berndt. These photographs were created under the auspices of Center of Religion and Civic Center (CRCC), USC. Jerry Berndt is an American photojournalist based in Paris. His photographs are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the International Center of Photography (New York York), and the Bibliotheque National (Paris).

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The collection is comprised of the reports created as a result of two seminars and a conference related to a critque of the McCone Report following the 1965 Los Angeles civil unrest. In addition to the reports directly related to the seminars and conference, the materials include documents from training programs for U.S. Air Force Security and Law Enforcement Officers for 1965, 1966, and 1967. These publications were the result of work done through USC with Air Force Law Enforcement personnel to help them establish skills in administration and in dealing with race relations, relative to the work done on …

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The documentary record of the Korean experience in America remains dispersed and difficult to access. The Korean American Digital Archive brings more than 13,000 pages of documents, over 1,900 photographs, and about 180 sound files together in one searchable collection that documents the Korean American community during the period of resistance to Japanese rule in Korea and reveal the organizational and private experience of Koreans in America between 1903 and 1965.

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