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C.C. Williams' Workingmen's Party of California and U.S. census materials
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Horace F. (Horace Francis) Page letters to C.C. Williams
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Series of letters written from Horace F. Page to C.C. Williams between January 1881 and July 1882 in response to the latter's seeking of a presidential appointment for a consulship. Page writes repeatedly to Williams that he is doing all he can to secure Williams such a position, and urges him to come to Washington or continue to wait patiently for a position to become available. Page also offers Williams a place in the pension office, which Williams declined.
mssHM 73673-73681
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M.R. Williams education materials
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Collection of letters and report cards relating to M.R. Williams and education in Los Angeles County from 1888-1910. Includes a variety of letters of recommendation and letters of appointment for Williams to various posts in the Los Angeles County School District, including those to the Board of Education, as head of the El Lugo School District, and as principal of Compton Public Schools. The letters were written by representatives of the El Lugo School District, Office of the Board of Education, Monrovia Schools, Santa Monica Public Schools, and Pasadena Public Schools. Also included are six reports cards for Williams' son, Manley, from Compton and Monrovia (1901-1905), a report card for Jessie Williams (Monrovia, 1909-1910), and a letter from the Compton School Alumni Committee thanking Mr. and Mrs. Williams for their assistance in putting on a play.
mssHM 72970-72986
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Julian, C.C
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Approx. 35 items: LAT news stories and editorials on the businessman and stock promoter C.C. Julian through the mid and late 1920s, ending with 1930. LAT "news" and editorials can both be described as anti-Julian. Also in the file is a 5-pp. segment from a Claremont College thesis submitted in 1929 by John Homer Williams, titled "Attitude toward C.C. Julian," which opens "The Times, one observes, gives special attention to those whom it dislikes. Care is taken to see that publicity given them is of an unfavorable character. C.C. Julian offers a case in point."
mssLAT
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Three pioneer padres of Baja California
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A manuscript work on the Spanish missions in Baja California, specifically dealing with the history and indigenous peoples and with three Jesuit priests: Eusebio Francisco Kino, Juan María de Salvatierra, and Juan de Ugarte. Preface is signed: Berkeley, California 1927.
mssHM 26537
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Legal documents in the People of the State of California vs. William Curlett
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Two of the documents concern a bribery charge against architect William Curlett in 1892. He was charged with trying to bribe members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to accept the bid of a certain furniture company to furnish a building he designed. The documents contain the testimony of several witnesses against Curlett.The third document is a signed contract between William J. Kennedy, athlete promoter, and boxer and actor Victor McLaglen (San Francisco, 1910).
mssHM 75103-75105
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Democratic Party printed material
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The collection is comprised of personal and professional papers of Lily Chen that deal with her personal life and document her 50-year career of service to her community. The papers highlight her social work with Los Angeles County, her campaign for and tenure on the Monterey Park City Council and as Mayor, and her activities with the Democratic Party, and her activism. The collection contains correspondence, personal diaries and journals, education and employment documents, travel and immigration records, fliers, political campaign material, newspaper and magazine clippings, personal notes, speeches, ephemera, photographs, and photograph albums. The personal papers consist of correspondence by family members and friends, much of it coming from China; immigration papers for Chen family members; material about Chen's education and employment, her work with Voice of Free China, and her time in the United States attending the World Youth Social Welfare Conference in 1956; and a large subseries of personal photographs. There are also three published biographies of Lily Chen. Also included are correspondence and other writings by Paul Chen, his father Chieh Ching Chen, and Lily Chen's father Yaolin Li. The professional papers deal with Lily Chen's campaign for Monterey Park city council and mayorship; her work against a petition in Monterey Park to declare English the official language of the city; the push-back against the use of malathion in Medfly spraying in Los Angeles County in the 1980s; Chen's attendance at the Democratic National Convention in 1996 and 2000; her efforts to bring an Olympic event to Monterey Park during the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles; and the Red Cross relief work after the Taiwan earthquake in 1999. There is also material related to, and some material written by several California and national Democratic leaders such as Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Walter F. Mondale, Tom Bradley, Gil Garcetti, Gray Davis, Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Al Glore, Jimmy Carter, Kenneth Hahn, Ed Edelman, Geraldine Ferraro, Gerald Ford, and Nancy Pelosi. There are also photographs of her with Ronald Reagan, George Deukmejian, and Michael Dukakis, as well as famous actors, prominent artists, performers, journalists, and broadcasters. There is also material related to Chen's work with other organizations such as the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Asian/Pacific Women's Network L.A., Pacific Council on International Policy, and the California Democratic Party Asian Pacific Caucus. Due to the nature of the collection, there is anti-Asian and anti-immigrant material that uses racist language and images.
mssChen