Finding Aid for the Carl Jacobson collection of Hollywood Anti-Nazi League records, 1925-1942, bulk 1937-1939
Processed by Danielle Bass, March 2012; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
UCLA Library Special Collections
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Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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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.
Carl Jacobson papers.
1925-1933
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Los Angeles (Calif.) Politics and government
Box 1, Folder 1
Politics, Speeches
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 1, Folder 2
Papers relating to Carl Jacobson's Terms on City Council
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 1, Folder 3
Newspaper Clippings
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 1, Folder 4
Third Los Angeles Institute of Public Affairs
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Content
Includes papers and transcriptions of speeches given at the 1928 meeting of the Third Los Angeles Institute of Public Affairs.
Speeches given include "The Reconstruction of the Map of Europe" by Colonel Lawrence Martin, "The Latin-American Attitude
Towards the United States" by Professor James. B. Lockey, and "The Present System of Taxation in California" by W.J. Carr.
Hollywood Anti-Nazi League records
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Anti-Nazi movement
Germany--Politics and Government--1933-1945
Box 1, Folder 5
Anti-Nazi Information
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Content
Includes pamphlets, publications, and a "Wanted" poster for Adolf Hitler.
Box 1, Folders 6-7
Boycott Investigations
Physical Description:
2 folders
Scope and Content
Includes pamphlets, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and publications regarding labor and labor movements and economic
boycotts against Nazi Germany and Japanese-made products.
Box 1, Folder 8
Inter-Racial. 1937
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Content
This folder contains publications, papers and newspaper clippings regarding race relations and eugenics in the United States.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Race Relations--United States
Box 2, Folders 1-2
Miscellaneous
Physical Description:
2 folders
Scope and Content
Includes a variety of pro-Nazi publications gathered by the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League.
Investigations
Arrangement
This subseries contains files for individual investigations and surveillance conducted by the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League,
arranged alphabetically by the name of the individual or organization under investigation.
Box 2, Folder 3
Actioneers
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 2, Folder 4
Altruist's Trust
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 2, Folders 5-7
American Defense, Harvard Group
Physical Description:
3 folders
Scope and Content
Includes many transcripts of speeches given by and on behalf of the American Defense, Harvard Group.
Box 2, Folder 8
American Rangers
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 2, Folder 9
American Middle Class Alliance
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 2, Folders 10-11
Canadian Unity Party
Physical Description:
2 folders
Scope and Content
Includes a membership application and newsletters published by the political party, including a reprint of "The Protocols
of the Elders of Zion."
Box 2, Folder 12
Coughlin, Father
Physical Description:
1 folder
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Coughlin, Charles E., Father, (1891-1979)
Box 3, Folder 1
Fry, Mrs. L.
Physical Description:
1 folder
Note:
Mrs. L. Fry is the pen name of Paquita Louise de Shishmareff.
Box 3, Folders 2-4
German-American Bund
Physical Description:
3 folders
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence, a membership application, photographs, negatives, publications by, and surveillance about the meetings
and activities of the German-American Bund and individual members of the Bund. The photographs depict events and speakers
at the 1939 German Day Rally in Hindenberg Park.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
German American Bund.
Box 3, Folders 5-8
German Boys
Physical Description:
4 folders
Scope and Content
Includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, testimony, and internal notes regarding the legal case of Hans Kurth and Gunther
Habermann, German refugees fleeing Nazi Germany.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Refugees
Box 3, Folder 9
High School and College Investigations
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence regarding the investigation of an unnamed student club at George Pepperdine University and a 1939
Pepperdine University course catalog.
Box 4, Folder 1
Jeffers, Dr. Joe
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence and transcriptions of speeches and sermons given on the radio station KGER by Dr. Joe Jeffers, pastor
of Kingdom Church.
Box 4, Folder 2
Lahn, Dr. Robert
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 4, Folder 3
Nationalist Press Association
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 4, Folder 4
National Legion of the Mothers of America
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 4, Folder 5
Ten Million Americans
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 4, Folders 6-7
Thomas, Martin Luther
Physical Description:
2 folders
Scope and Content
Includes correspondence, publications, and transcripts of sermons given by Martin Luther Thomas, founder of the Christian
American Crusade.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Thomas, Martin Luther
Box 4, Folder 8
Thorkelson, Representative Jacob
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 4, Folder 9
True, James
Physical Description:
1 folder
Subjects and Indexing Terms
True, James L.
Box 4, Folder 10
United States Flag Association
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 4, Folder 11
Vindicators
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 4, Folder 12
Winrod, Reverend Gerald K.
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Content
Includes publications and newsletters edited by Reverend Gerald K. Winrod, the editor of Defender Publications.