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Esther Miller Ball and Willard D. Ball Jr. photo album
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0112
Scope and Contents
Photographs of the Panama Canal, California, and Washington, DC. Pomona College 1921
Dates:
1917 - 1921
Berlin photographs collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0122
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook/photo album dealing with Berlin between 1951-1954. Includes James B. Conant, U.S. Ambassador to Germany.
Dates:
1945 - 1954
Boileau (Burdette) photograph album Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0136
Scope and Contents
Russia, Siberia, Manchuria, Philippines, China, etc. Pomona College 1934
Dates:
1917 - 1917
Samuel J. Carroll Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0169
Scope and Contents
Banking and family papers of Samuel J. Carroll. 1900-1930. Includes commonplace book, diploma, correspondence, and photo album.
Dates:
1869 - 1927
Elliott (Raymond Morgan) Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: H-Mss-0292
Scope and Contents
The Raymond Morgan Elliott Papers focus on Mr. Elliott’s interest in Russian history, particularly what became of the Czarist royal family. Original photographs of Siberia, diaries and correspondence date from the time when, as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, Mr. Elliott was with the American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia, September 2, 1918 to August, 1919. Miscellaneous manuscript notes, articles, and notebooks; and clippings, accompany a few books on early twentieth century Russian...
Dates:
2009 - 2009
Kenzo Robert Koike Papers,
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-1048
Abstract
Kenzo R. Koike was a Japanese American, born in 1920 in Seattle, Washington. At the age of 12, his family moved to Los Angeles, where he attended middle school, high school, and college. In 1942, the Koike family was removed from their Los Angeles home and sent to Heart Mountain Relocation center in Wyoming. By 1943, Kenzo Koike was drafted into the United States Army, where he served as a translator in Japan from 1945 to 1946. This collection includes documents and photographs from Koike’s...
Dates:
1921-1967 and undated; Majority of material found within 1921 - 1948
William McPherson Papers
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0524
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, photographs, account books and journals, land and tax records, manuscripts, scrapbooks, notes, transcripts, reports, newspapers, clippings, promotional materials, and ephemera, relating to the family, life, career, and intellectual pursuits of Orange County, California, avocado rancher and historian William McPherson (1885-1964). Family papers document the McPhersons' settlement in Orange County in the 1870s, and their involvement in local agriculture, first in the...
Dates:
1664/65-1970.; Majority of material found within 1884 - 1945
Arthur Millier Archive
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-1100
Abstract
This collection contains materials relating to Arthur Henry Thomas Millier, Los Angeles Times art critic, and his family. Highly active in the early twentieth century Los Angeles art scene, Millier was responsible for helping to establish the reputations of California artists such as Emil Kosa and Millard Sheets, among others. This archive contains correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, and other personal materials from the Millier family. Items of note include original etchings...
Dates:
1921 - 1975
Oriental Study Expedition Archive
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0591
Abstract
The Oriental Study Expedition Archive contains records and memorabilia from a year-long expedition embarked in 1929 by ten Pomona College students to immerse themselves in Chinese life, culture, and religion. The students traveled and studied throughout China, primarily in the Guangdong province, Shanghai, and Beijing, and visited Hawaii, Japan, and Korea as well. The collection includes correspondence, diary entries, dispatches, photographs, photo albums, newspaper clippings, articles,...
Dates:
1919-1989 and undated
Ken Tamura Papers
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-1052
Abstract
This collection consists of a variety of materials from Ken Tamura’s life. Ken Tamura was 2nd generation Japanese American born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, in 1923. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, his family was sent to a relocation center in Pomona (California), and then relocated to Heart Mountain internment camp in Wyoming. In 1942, an old friend was able to sponsor Ken Tamura to leave the internment facility, and he moved to Chicago. In 1944, he was drafted by the United...
Dates:
1893-2014