The East Asian Maps Collection consists of 1079 maps of China, Japan, Korea, Manchuria, and other areas in East Asia. The maps were produced between 1800 and 1960s. A majority of them produced by the Office of Strategic Service, the American Map Society, the National Geographic Magazine, and government agents or commercial publishers in China, Great Britain, and Japan. Some of the maps were once highly classified and produced in limited quantities.
Donald R. Borcherdt, known as "Donn" to his friends and colleagues, received his B.A. from UCLA in music in 1956. He earned his M.A. in music with a specialization in ethnomusicology in 1962, and by 1966 had advanced to doctoral candidacy in music with a specialization in ethnomusicology. Borcherdt conducted field research in Mexico in 1960, 1961, and 1963-1964 and in Chile in 1966-67. Borcherdt also hosted the weekly radio program, "Many Worlds of Music," in 1960-1962, on KPFK in Los Angeles. In 1961, Borcherdt, started a student-run mariachi class, Conjunto Mariachi or Conjunto Uclatlán [the land of UCLA], in the then Institute (now Department) of Ethnomusicology at UCLA, making UCLA the first academic institution in the United States to offer mariachi classes. In 1967-1968, Borcherdt made a final fieldwork trip to Mexico to continue his studies on mariachi music in Jalisco and Michoacán. He died unexpectedly in Mexico in 1969. The Ethnomusicology Archive holds his complete collection, including fieldwork recordings, field notes, these photos, and nearly 2,000 index cards filled with the outline of his dissertation. As Professor Lauryn Salazar concluded in her own dissertation, "had he lived to finish his dissertation, it would have been a seminal work within the field." Salazar, Lauryn Camille. 2011. "From Fiesta to Festival: Mariachi Music in California and the Southwestern United States." PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles.
The KTLA Newsfilm Collection held at the UCLA Film & Television Archive represents a significant resource for researchers interested in Los Angeles news and local coverage of national events. KTLA has been a prominent independent television station in the Los Angeles area for more than 60 years, with the scope of the KTLA Newsfilm Collection at UCLA primarly encompassing the period of the late 1960s through the end of the 1970s. Despite the growing prominence of television news during this era, many local broadcasters did not fully recognize the long-term historical value of their newsfilm collections, and the industry discarded much local TV news footage, making the surviving KTLA newsfilm collection at UCLA a unique and vital moving image resource for research.<br/><br/>
This curated collection of 65 KTLA newfilm holdings documents a selection of people, places, and issues relevant to marginalized communities in Los Angeles between 1970 and 1980. Marked by the international trauma of the devastating war in Vietnam and the national political upheaval of Watergate, this period saw great strides in social movements for equality for marginalized communities and continued legacies of institutionalized oppression, discrimination, and prejudice. The news segments selected for the Diverse Communities of Los Angeles (1970-1980) KTLA Television Newsfilm project are intended to help illuminate the challenges facing marginalized communities and related public policies during this critical period in Los Angeles history.
James Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) was a screenwriter who became one of the Hollywood Ten and was blacklisted by the motion picture industry (1947). He was one of the first blacklisted writers to emerge from the underground when he received screen credit for his work on the 1960 releases of Spartacus and Exodus. The collection consists of materials related to Trumbo's career as a screen writer and novelist. The majority of material in the collection includes scripts, correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, and notes.
