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SCA Blog posts tagged with: correspondence

Detail of a father's signature from the Richard Embleton Correspondence Collection

Fathers in the Archives

June 10, 2025

Detail from the cover of War Heroes Comic, Chase Craig Collection

Heroes

November 26, 2024

Psychological Warfare Branch graphic, ca. 1941-1945, Psychological Warfare Branch Scrapbook

The Library Innovation Grant Program & Metadata Remediation

July 23, 2024

Detail from Molina for Supervisor 1990-1991 campaign mailer, Frank del Olmo Collection, Box 148 Folder 18

Gloria Molina

March 12, 2024

American Planning Association California Chapter Collection

November 15, 2022

Envelope for letter from Alton Flanders to Mrs. Jason Coppernoll

Not so Distant: A Letter from 1919

April 28, 2020

Posted envelope to William J. Sell

The Power of the Post

April 14, 2020

Julian Nava and Mexican President, José López Portillo, ca. 1980

Julian Nava Collection

April 7, 2020

Registering for evacuation at San Francisco

Japanese-American Internment and Civil Rights

November 26, 2019

Diagrams showing various positions of the left hand, identical to images in the method of famed European guitarist and composer, Fernando Sor

Method Books and the Classical Guitar in America

November 5, 2019

Undated identification form for Setty Sondheimer

Jewish Experiences in China during World War II

December 11, 2018

First two pages of The Photograph

The Violet Atkins Klein Papers

October 26, 2018

Portrait of a boy

John M. Sell Civil War Collection

October 9, 2018

My dear Mrs Shrader: I am writing to request that a special meeting of the YWCA Board be called to reconsider the Board actions taken on March 18th, protesting the signing of the loyalty affidavit, and to take action to sign the affidavit. Sincerely, Norma Woode

Deeds, Not Words: Women's Organizations and Loyalty Oaths

October 2, 2018

Invitation to The American West Exhibit

The Carl S. Dentzel Collection

September 25, 2018

Hand colored sketch of Fairgrounds by Fei Pai Yee

Community Fairs

September 4, 2018

Santa Monica Mountains' and Seashore fundraising postcard

The Susan B. Nelson Collection

June 26, 2018

Marian elementary school

On the Eve of Suffrage: The Philanthropic and Educational Work of the Reseda Woman's Club, 1918-1920

May 7, 2018

Van Norman Reservoir following the Sylmar Earthquake, ca. 1971

A Look Back at the Sylmar Earthquake

February 6, 2018

Invitation to participate in a fundraiser for Canoga Park High School's War memorial, 1934

The Canoga Park High School Collection

December 12, 2017

Arm band identifying Gloria Watson Curtis Kliene as a British national

Civilian Internment in China, 1941-1945

December 5, 2017

Cover and first page of The Jazz Review, featuring Mimi Clar's article, "The Negro Church: Its Influence on Modern Jazz," November 1958

The Mimi Melnick Collection

October 31, 2017

Owensmouth Women's Club's entry in Armistice Day Parade, 1929

Canoga Park Women's Club Collection

September 12, 2017

How to Treat Your Face by Susanna Cocroft

Corresponding Culture: Bringing American Culture to Shanghai Through Distance Learning

August 29, 2017

Image from Picus campaign door hanger

Joy Picus Collection

February 7, 2017

Booklet, They Got the Blame: The Story of Scapegoats in History

Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Community Relations Committee Collections

January 31, 2017

Drink Cultura, image from cover of Chicanismo by José Antonio Burciaga

Celebrating Culture Clash

November 1, 2016

Seal of the International Refugee Organization (IRO) in 1950

Documented Refugee Experiences

October 11, 2016

Sam Yorty and Brad Pye, Jr. at City Hall, 1970

Brad Pye, Jr., Los Angeles Sports Journalist and Community Advocate

February 9, 2016

Portrait, Isaac Newton Van Nuys

Van Nuys, Then and Now

December 15, 2015

Crop from a cartoon drawing done for Peggy Gilbert

Peggy Gilbert Collection

November 17, 2015

Driving permit issued to Stephan Strauss, ca. 1939

Wartime Jewish Émigrés

November 10, 2015

War is a Crime, anti-war campaign photo

Voices and Vices: The Reverend Wendell L. Miller Collection

April 28, 2015

Dr. John Money

The Jan Dailey and John Money Correspondence Collection

February 13, 2015

Daguerrotype of John Brown

The John Brown Letter

December 15, 2014

Illustration from My Story Of The War: A Woman’s Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as a Nurse in the Union Army by Mary Livermore

The Stiles E. Forsha Collection

September 30, 2014

Cover, Edwin Booth: Recollections by his Daughter and Letters to Her and to His Friends

The Edwin Booth Family Collection

September 16, 2014

ILWU march, ca. 1934

The Longshore Strike of 1934

July 15, 2014

Letterhead on letter from the Grand Dragon

Ku Klux Klan, Realm of California Collection

June 17, 2014

Vice President Hubert Humphrey addressing student protesters

The Campus Unrest Collections

April 29, 2014

Cover, Comisión Femenil San Fernando Valley: Viva la Mujer--Women Activists

Comisión Femenil San Fernando Valley Collection

March 14, 2014

Portrait of Dr. Tatiana Belitsky

Dr. Tatiana Belitsky Collection

January 28, 2014

Sailor Identification Booklet, 1947. Olaf Torgersen Collection

Early 20th Century Shipping in the Far East

November 26, 2013

Censor approval stamp

The Great War

November 12, 2013

Mulholland Orchard Company

Happy 100th Birthday, Los Angeles Aqueduct!

November 5, 2013

Maj. James C. Magee (front row center) poses with his battalion staff at British Embassy compound billet, Peking 1945

China Marines

September 24, 2013

Advertisement, "Remember Mother with Christopher’s Chocolates.

Mothers in the Archives

May 7, 2013

Mothers of East Los Angeles water conservation advertisement

Environmental Collections

April 23, 2013

Los Angeles aqueduct opening day, 1913

California Water Collections

February 5, 2013

Mickey Cohen reading Underwood's book

Agness M. Underwood Collection

January 29, 2013

Union soldier with tattered US flag

John M. Sell Civil War Collection

December 3, 2012