Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography/History
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Carl Jacobson collection of Hollywood Anti-Nazi League records
Date (inclusive): 1925-1942, bulk 1937-1939
Collection number: 185
Creator:
Jacobson, Carl Ingold.
Extent:
4 boxes (2 linear ft.)
Abstract: Carl Ingold Jacobson was the City Councilman for the 13th District on the Los Angeles City Council from 1925-1933. The Hollywood
Anti-Nazi League for the Defense of American Democracy, commonly known as the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, was a Los Angeles-based
organization that conducted investigations and detailed surveillance into the political affiliations and daily activities
of organizations and individuals suspected to be supporting Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany, or the National Socialist movement.
The Carl Jacobson papers relate mainly to his election campaigns, state and local news, and his political and religious stances.
The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League records include papers relating to investigations about and surveillance of organizations and
individuals suspected by the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League to be supporting Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany, or the National Socialist
party at home or abroad.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
This collection documents what seemingly two disparate collections: the Carl Jacobson papers and the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League
records. There is no accession record or provenance information available for the collection, but in processing the collection
it was noted that Carl Jacobson may possibly have been a member of the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League. It was decided to keep
the collection together but to change the title of the collection from the Carl Jacobson Collection of Material about Jewish
Persecution to its current title.
Processing Information
Processed by Danielle Ruud, with assistance from Kelley Bachli and Lilace Hatayama, March 2012.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Carl Jacobson collection of Hollywood Anti-Nazi League records (Collection 185). UCLA Library Special
Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography/History
Carl Ingold Jacobson was the City Councilman for the 13th District on the Los Angeles City Council from 1925-1933. A resident
of the Lincoln Heights neighborhood with his wife and daughter Edna Jacobson since 1909, Jacobson was an engineer with the
Southern Pacific Railroad and chairman of the local Board of Adjustment of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineering before
embarking upon his career in public service. Upon first running for the position of councilman in 1925, Jacobson narrowly
lost the election. However, Jacobson was asked to take one of the recently-vacated seats on the City Council in the wake of
a bribery scandal in October 1925. Jacobson served for multiple terms as Councilman before losing the 1933 election to Darwin
William Tate.
The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League for the Defense of American Democracy, commonly known as the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, was
a Los Angeles-based organization active immediately preceding and during World War II. As part of the organization's routine
activities, the organization conducted investigations and detailed surveillance into the political affiliations and daily
activities of organizations and individuals suspected to be supporting Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany, or the National Socialist
movement.
Scope and Content
The collection is comprised of two series: the Carl Jacobson papers and the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League records. Within the
Carl Jacobson papers are newspaper clippings, transcriptions of speeches, and correspondence relating mainly to his election
campaigns, state and local news, and his political and religious positions. The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League records include
correspondence, publications, newsletters, newspaper clippings, photographs, negatives, interorganizational notes and detailed
surveillance notes about and by organizations and individuals suspected by the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League to be supporting
Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany, or the National Socialist party at home or abroad.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Carl Jacobson papers
- Hollywood Anti-Nazi League records
Within the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League records, files are arranged alphabetically according to the name of the individual or
organization being investigated, the names of which were transcribed from the original folders.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Jacobson, Carl Ingold --Archives.
Hollywood Anti-Nazi League --Archives.
City council members --California --Los Angeles --Archival resources.
Anti-Nazi movement --California --Los Angeles --Archival resources.
Genres and Forms of Material
photographs.