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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: USC Pacific Asia Museum history archives
Creator:
Pacific Asia Museum
Identifier/Call Number: 5377
Physical Description:
35.46 Linear Feet
37 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1971-2015
Abstract: The USC Pacific Asia Museum history archives consist of institutional records of the USC Pacific Asia Museum (PAM), which
was founded in 1971 and became part of the University of Southern California in 2013. The collection includes event programs,
administrative files, photographs, photograph albums, press releases, program and outreach files, memoranda, building blueprints,
renovation designs, PAM newsletters, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, audiovisual material, and records from PAM's various
councils and committees. PAM events and programs that are documented in the collection include the Festival of the Autumn
Moon, Family Free Day, language classes, volunteer events, exhibitions, Rank and Style, costume events, Tiny Treasures, open
houses, and Woven Wonders. PAM was founded in 1971 by the Pacificulture Foundation, which purchased "The Grace Nicholson Treasure
House of Oriental Art" from the City of Pasadena. The museum's mission is to "create inspiring encounters with the art, history
and culture of Pacific Asia to promote intercultural understanding in the service of elevating our shared sense of humanity."
PAM's volunteers, docents, and members of PAM's Service Council were integral in assembling and preserving much of the material
in the USC Pacific Asia Museum history archives. The museum credits one such docent, Margaret "Sunny" Stevenson, with contributing
a significant amount of work toward organizing and preserving the material in the USC Pacific Asia Museum history archives.
Language of Material:
English
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The USC Pacific Asia Museum history archives consist of institutional records of the USC Pacific Asia Museum (PAM), which
was founded in 1971 and became part of the University of Southern California in 2013. The collection includes event programs,
administrative files, photographs, photograph albums, press releases, program and outreach files, memoranda, building blueprints,
renovation designs, PAM newsletters, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, audiovisual material, and records from PAM's various
councils and committees. PAM events and programs that are documented in the collection include the Festival of the Autumn
Moon, Family Free Day, language classes, volunteer events, exhibitions, Rank and Style, costume events, Tiny Treasures, open
houses, and Woven Wonders. PAM was founded in 1971 by the Pacificulture Foundation, which purchased "The Grace Nicholson Treasure
House of Oriental Art" from the City of Pasadena. The museum's mission is to "create inspiring encounters with the art, history
and culture of Pacific Asia to promote intercultural understanding in the service of elevating our shared sense of humanity."
PAM's volunteers, docents, and members of PAM's Service Council were integral in assembling and preserving much of the material
in the USC Pacific Asia Museum history archives. The museum credits one such docent, Margaret "Sunny" Stevenson, with contributing
a significant amount of work toward organizing and preserving the material in the USC Pacific Asia Museum history archives.
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All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special
Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the USC Pacific Asia Museum via Raphael Gatchalian, September 8, 2022.
[Box/folder no. or item name], USC Pacific Asia Museum history archives, Collection no. 5377, University Archives, Special
Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Most of the material in this collection was originally housed in boxes labeled "Museum History Archives" before the collection
was reboxed during accessioning.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Art museums -- California -- Pasadena -- Archival resources
Art, Asian -- Archival resources
Asia -- Study and teaching -- Archival resources
Asian Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
East Asia -- Study and teaching -- Archival resources
Intercultural communication -- Asia -- Archival resources
Museum archives -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Museum outreach programs -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Museums and children -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Volunteer workers in museums -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Administrative records
Blueprints
Memorandums
Moving images
Negatives (photographic)
Newsletters
Newspaper clippings
Photograph albums
Photographs
Press releases
Programs (documents)
Scrapbooks
Slides (photographs)
Nicholson, Grace, -1948 -- Archives
Pacific Asia Museum -- Archives