University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA 90089-0012) Susan Luftschein (Project Director: July 2017 to May 2022) Rachel Mandell (Co Project Director: February 2019 to October 2019) Deborah Ann Holmes-Wong (Co Project Director: October 2019 to May 2022)
PW-259144-18
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Preservation and Access
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$270,000 (approved) $262,901 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/1/2018 – 6/30/2021
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L.A. as Subject Community Histories Digitization Project
Digitization of around 17,000 items including paper materials, historic photographs, video recordings, and cultural objects from collections held by six community archives in the L.A. as Subject research alliance.
The L.A. as Subject Community
Histories Digitization Project will make publicly accessible via the USC
Digital Library and Digital Public Library of America collections held by 6
community archives from the L.A. as Subject research alliance: the Filipino
American Library, the First AME Church of Los Angeles, the Go for Broke
National Education Center, the Pasadena Museum of History, the Southern
California Library, and the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum. The 6
collections document the experiences of post-WWII Filipino immigrants; videos
of 400 sermons by Rev. Dr. Cecil "Chip" Murray at a socially engaged
African-American church in South Los Angeles; firsthand perspectives of
Japanese-American WWII veterans in 1,100 video oral history interviews; the
daily lives of late 19th and early 20th century African-American,
Asian-American, and Latino communities; and Jewish women's groups. The project
will publish 2,950 hours of video and 15,000 photos and pages of paper
materials.
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