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InnerCity Struggle Collection

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Identifier: MS-2015-009
Abstract InnerCity Struggle (ICS) works with youth and community residents to promote safe, healthy and non-violent communities in the Eastside of Los Angeles. ICS began as a project of Proyecto Pastoral at Dolores Mission and launched as its own independent community organization in 1994. The founding Executive Director María Teixeira, led the organization forward based on a vision of building and promoting a safe, healthy and non-violent community in Boyle Heights by organizing and mobilizing...
Dates: 1985 - 2017

Glenn Jordan Collection of Light Opera Scores and Scripts

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Identifier: MS-2015-011
Abstract Glenn Jordan was the executive director of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera from 1971 until his death in 1976. He directed and/or produced as many as 250 productions throughout his long career in theatre. After receiving degrees from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Minnesota, Jordan began work in the theatre business. He directed musicals for the tent theatre in Lambertville, New Jersey and from there went on to establish more tent theatres around the country before...
Dates: 1907 - 1986

Otto Klemperer Collection of Musical Scores

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Identifier: MS-2016-005
Abstract Otto Klemperer was a German conductor and composer born in Breslau, Germany on May 14th, 1885. After studying at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt and the Stern Conservatory in Berlin until 1918, he became one of the leading German conductors of his generation. Klemperer had already been a conductor at the German Opera in Prague in 1907 through the recommendation of his friend, Gustav Mahler. He went on to hold a number of prominent positions in Hamburg, the Strasbourg Opera, the Cologne...
Dates: 1774 - 1959

Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Collection

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Identifier: UA-2015-007
Abstract Los Angeles County High School of the Arts, also known as LACHSA is a Visual and Performing Arts high school established in 1985 by Caroline Leonetti Ahmanson. Ahmanson was an American fashion consultant, businesswoman and philanthropist. LACHSA is a model small learning community fully integrated within the campus of California State University, Los Angeles, offering direct connection to higher education. The school serves 600 culturally and socioeconomically diverse teens from more than 80...
Dates: 1983 - 1991

The Los Angeles Poets Collection

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Identifier: MS-2015-013
Abstract

The Los Angeles Poets Collection was established and developed to make available representative and significant poetry produced in Los Angeles for the benefit of students and scholars, present, past, and future.

Dates: 1982

McGrath Sacred Music Collection

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Identifier: MS-1992-001
Abstract Geraldine Biggs McGrath was born in October 8th, 1929 to Richard Keys Biggs, a prominent organist and composer, and Lucinne Gourdon Biggs. Her parents were pioneers in bringing traditional Roman Catholic Church music to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. They moved to California, where the rich church music environment influenced McGrath into pursuing choir and Gregorian chant. She graduated from Mount Saint Mary's College in Los Angeles in 1951 with abachelor of music degree in choral...
Dates: 1908 - 1985

Jimmy McHugh Musical Scores Collection

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Identifier: MS-1989-001
Abstract

The Jimmy McHugh Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 550 songs from the late 19th century to the early 1970s.

Dates: 1894 - 1969

Mexican-American Baseball in Los Angeles Exhibit Collection

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Identifier: UA-2011-001
Abstract Mexican-American Baseball in Los Angeles: From the Barrios to the Big Leagues was a collaborative event developed by the Baseball Reliquary, a Pasadena based nonprofit organization, and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. The project focused on the historic role that baseball played within the Mexican-American communities of Los Angeles County and the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. In addition to the exhibition (March 26-June9, 2006), the CSULA Univeristy Library hosted a reception...
Dates: 2005 - 2007

Carlos Montes Papers

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Identifier: MS-2014-001
Abstract The East Los Angeles Archives (ELAA) is comprised of collections which document the lives and events of a historical community central to the social, political, and cultural history of the Chicano/Latino community in the United States. The ELAA is a program that advances scholarship in Chicano/Latino studies and Los Angeles history through its varied collection of primary research materials. This archives has a special interest in materials documenting the Chicano and Civil Rights movements...
Dates: 1948 - 2014

Motion Picture and Television Script Collection

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Identifier: MS-1970-001
Abstract

This collection was donated by the Theater Arts Department of the California State University, Los Angeles in the late 1970s. Titles include; "Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies," a 1971 screenplay by Claudia Salter from an original screen story by Steven Spielberg, and "Terror town," an Alfred Hitchcock Hour teleplay.

Dates: 1926 - 1985