It was twenty years ago

that this cartoon appeared on the cover of The American Archivist.  This recent article in the Atlantic is a positive reflection of the current efforts to preserve the American experience.

The Loyola High School Father's Library donated to the Ignatius House

The three thousand volume Loyola High School Fathers Library has found a new home at the Ignatius House Jesuit Novitiate in Culver City.  The novitiate is the first stage of a Jesuit’s formation, or maturation, as a religious and a minister.

The collection of philosophy and theology works began as a faculty library for Saint Vincent's and Los Angeles College, forerunners of present day Loyola High School, in the late 1880's.

Planning has already begun for the LA As Subject 7th Annual Archives Bazaar.

Executive Board member Florante Ibanez from Loyola Law School and Neil Bethke from Loyola High School paused recently at a forum of LA As Subject archivists held at the Greystone Mansion.

The date of Saturday October 13th has been set and for the fifth straight year USC will be hosting a gathering of artists, film writers, hipsters and all students of LA in a treasure trove of history browsing with archivists, curators, and librarians through the many archives and special collections of Los Angeles.

A few of the previous participants include the Autry Museum, Beverly Hills Public Library, Bison Archives, California African American Museum, Cal State Universities, Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, County of Los Angeles, Eighth & Wall Inc., Fairchild Photos, Filipino American Library, Getty Center, Huntington Library, Historical Society of Long Beach, Los Angeles Public Library History Department, Workman and Temple Homestead Museum, Japanese American National Museum, La Senora Research Institute, LA84 Foundation, Libraries of the Claremont Colleges, Loyola Marymount University, Mayme A. Clayton Library, Occidental College, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, Pico Rivera Heritage Society, Santa Monica Library, Seaver Center and Natural History Museum, Shildler Collection of Southern California Ephemera, Society of California Archivists, Southern California Genealogical Society, Southern California Library for Social Research, St. Vincent's Medical Center, UCLA Film & Television Archive and USC Special Collections among many others.

This event is always free and open to the public.

Bishop Conaty's books

The archive at Los Angeles Loyola High School is recovering some of Bishop Conaty's books donated to the school back in the early 1900's.  

 This is an 1872 French first edition of Latin chant published in Montreal with stamping from Montreal College.  There are dated annotations in Conaty's hand on the end papers.

7:30pm Strub Theater ---Trial by Fire! you are invited! Feb 23rd...

The Loyola Marymount University College of Communication and Fine Arts and Mayme A. Clayton Museum invite you to a rare reading performance of the George Dunne, S.J. (LHS ’22; LU’26) play Trial by Fire.

Recently “re-discovered” in the university archives, this courtroom drama depicts an overwhelming local racial tragedy and the staggering injustice that followed.  Based on a true story from a 1946 murder case in a Los Angeles suburb and directed by LMU’s Marieclare Costello, an extraordinary cast of twenty-eight students, alumnae and faculty are gathering tell this meaningful and shocking story.   In addition the audience is brought into the action of the play by serving as coroner’s jury and inquest spectators. 

On Thursday February 23^rd at 7:30pm in the Strub Theater on the beautiful Westchester campus of Loyola Marymount University join us for this first public performance of this powerful play in over fifty years.  Future dates are being lined up in a former Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom that now is home to the Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum. 

For more information contact Dr. Dean Scheibel at Loyola Marymount University or Neil Bethke at Loyola High School.   

Just received Jeffrey Head's new book, ---No Nails, No Lumber: The Bubble Houses of Wallace Neff.

http://www.californiahomedesign.com/blog/2011/11/30/no-nails-no-lumber

Before there was an LMU Hannon Library there was a Von der Ahe Library and before it was a library there were bubble houses...

George Dunne's Kings Pawn

The author's inscribed copy to his company was recovered today in the High School archives.  It will remain with The Fathers Library.