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Hits at politics : a series of cartoons
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Political cartoons
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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.
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Political cartoons and images
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The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay, and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. Series 2. Henry E. Huntington and his family includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and physical objects. There is material related to the Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and the Pacific Electric Railway Company as well as other businesses in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley, California. This material includes business records, account books, annual reports, correspondence, maps, tracts, balance sheets, and others. There is also material related to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens including auction catalogs, invoices, receipts, and bills for art and rare books, and information regarding a lawsuit about Huntington's estate tax after his death, and the passing of Proposition 15, in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. There is also material related to Collis P. Huntington and his business interests and Arabella Huntington. Also included are the blueprints for the Huntington's San Marino residence. Series 3. Correspondence contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning 1794 to 1970. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.
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American political cartoons
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The American political cartoons collection contains approximately 530 prints relating to politics in the United States from 1767 to the 1950s, with the bulk of the items dating from 1840 to 1870. Most are engravings, but some lithographs are also included. The collection highlights both well-known and less recognized American public figures. Subjects include American governance, presidents and politicians, political corruption, social misfortunes, and the American Civil War, as well as caricature and cartooning in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Notable printers represented in the collection are Henry R. Robinson, Currier & Ives, and E. W. Kemble. There is also a set of 58 cartoons from San Francisco based satirical magazine The Wasp; all are from 1881 and most are illustrated by George Frederick Keller.
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Departments - Editorial - Political cartoons
Manuscripts
1 item: cartoon, probably from 1911, captioned, "Oh well, there'll be enough votes to elect Alexander without mine." Presumably deals with the mayoral election pitting Socialist Job Harriman against LAT-backed George Alexander.
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