Finding Aid for the Eshref Shevky papers, 1945-1970
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Title: Eshref Shevky papers
Date (inclusive): 1945-1970
Collection number: 1279
Creator:
Shevky, Eshref
Extent:
8 document boxes (4 linear ft.)
Abstract: Eshref Shevky served in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of California Los Angeles. He contributed
to dozens of research studies related to California land use policy and social area analysis, including the Central Valley
Project prepared for the California Housing and Planning Association, and the "Los Angeles Neighborhood Study" prepared for
the American Council of Race Relations and the Haynes Foundation. The collection consists of materials related to his extensive
research about population, crime, employment and housing in Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s, including research files,
drafts of his written work, census analysis and land use maps, and meeting minutes and planning documents from the Committee
for the Study of Intercultural Tensions and the California Housing and Planning Association.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Professor Leonard Broom, March 1981.
[Identification of item], Eshref Shevky papers (Collection 1279). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4233772
Eshref Shevky served in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of California Los Angeles. He contributed
to dozens of research studies related to U.S. domestic and foreign policy, as well as California land use policy and social
area analysis. He worked on the Central Valley Project (exploring water reclamation, flood control and the impacts of the
Shasta and Friant dams on local communities) prepared for the California Housing and Planning Association, and on the "Los
Angeles Neighborhood Study" prepared for the American Council of Race Relations and the Haynes Foundation. He served on the
"Mayor's Special Committee on the Housing Emergency" in 1945 and conducted extensive research about population, crime, employment
and housing in Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s. His published books include "The Social Areas of Los Angeles: Analysis
and Typology" (1949), "Your Neighborhood, A Social Profile of Los Angeles" (1949) and "Social Area Analysis: Theory, Illustrative
Application and Computational Procedures." (1955). Collection includes his research files, drafts of his written work, and
journals and periodicals related to methodology and the study of anthropology.
Collection consists of research materials, mostly regarding the socio-economic history of Los Angeles and the Central Valley
of California, drafts of his written work, correspondence, meeting minutes, and several maps and area studies he produced.
Includes research materials and manuscripts related to his work with the Central Valley Project (exploring water reclamation,
flood control and the impacts of the Shasta and Friant dams on local communities) prepared for the California Housing and
Planning Association, minutes and papers from his work with the Committee for the Study of Intercultural Tensions, and research
materials and manuscript drafts related to the "Los Angeles Neighborhood Study" prepared for the American Council of Race
Relations and the Haynes Foundation. Also includes journals and periodicals related to the study of anthropology, and articles
and clippings about foreign affairs.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Shevky, Eshref--Archives.
McWilliams, Carey, 1905- .
John Randolf Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation--Officials and employees--Archival resources.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions.
Box 1
Anthropology Materials (Box 1 of 2) ca.1950s
Articles about ethical and methodological questions related to the study of anthropology and a copy of manuscript "Indian
Land Use and Occupancy in California" prepared by professors from UCLA, the Rand Corporation, University of Indiana, University
of Illinois and Columbis University.
Box 2
Anthropology Materials (Box 2 of 2) 1950s
Copies of sections of "Indian Land Use and Occupancy in California," course materials from "Sociology 117," various articles
on anthropology and foreign affairs, research on farm policy and Los Angeles health districts, and meeting minutes from June
18th, 1952 meeting with Drs. Harvey Hoijer, Andrew Martinet, Brew, Forde and Lounsbury
Box 3
Research Materials - Los Angeles County (Box 1 of 3) 1944-1970
twelve Congressional Reports and Studies issued 1960 to 1961; studies from Farm Security Administration and the U.S. Dept.
of Agriculture, studies of land use in the Central Valley and hospital and health care access in Los Angeles County c. 1970,
and population and land use in Los Angeles county; maps of "The Near East" (Burma, Thailand, Indochina, Malaysia) and areas
in Washington state
Box 4
Research Materials - Los Angeles County (Box 2 of 3) 1950-1970
Congressional studies from 1960 to 1961 about unemployment, debt management, housing problems and the economy; pamphlets published
by the World Almanac and the Journal of Educational Sociology; County of San Bernardino, Probation Department's Annual Report
(1969); and issues of the Bi-Monthly Review of Urban America about the riots in Newark (1967)
Box 5
Research Materials - Los Angeles County (Box 3 of 3) 1947-1972
Studies from "Poverty and Human Resources Abstracts," course materials and student dissertation "Adherence to Work Rules:
A Case Study of Professional Theatrical Actor in the Los Angeles Area" by Kenneth Louis Lloyd (1972), issues of "Scientific
Monthly" and "City - Magazine of Urban Life and Environment"
Box 6
Research Materials - Race Relations in Los Angeles (Box 1 of 2) 1945-1957
Correspondence regarding policies at the UCLA faculty center; "The White Reaction Study" (analysis of reactions to the Watts
riots of 1965) by Richard T. Morris and Vincent Jeffries 1967; research documents related to the Central Valley including
tax returns and land ownership records. Also includes meeting minutes and correspondence from Shevky's work with the Committee
for the Study of Intercultural Tensions including a letter from member Carey McWilliams about the community of Belvedere and
studies of "social violence" by member Jakob Zeitlin (1945), and meeting minutes and research materials from Shevky's work
with the Mayor's Special Committee on the Housing Emergency, including studies of restrictive covenants and public housing
by the American Council of Race Relations and Shevky's analysis of area census tracts, crime rates, school districts, employment
and housing.
Box 7
Research Materials - Central Valley Project 1944-1945
Research materials related to the Central Valley Project, conducted on behalf of the California Housing and Planning Association,
1944-1945. Includes correspondence with the Haynes Foundation, Carey McWilliams, Louis Barlett, George P. Moran, and the California
Housing and Planning Association, research notes and clippings, articles and notes about legislation of public utilities in
California, planning meetings minutes, and clippings and population statistics about the Central Valley and drafts of various
memos and reports written for the Project, including "Outline of an Economic Survey of the Los Angeles Industrial Area with
Emphasis Upon the Problems of Post-War Readjustment." Also includes a series of maps about land and water use in the Central
Valley created by Shevky.
Box 8
Research Materials - Race Relations in Los Angeles (Box 2 of 2) c. 1940s
Box contains research materials about minority populations and neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Includes compiled statistics
about the spatial distribution of minority populations, compiliations of demographic data about various minority populations
(age, gender ratios, ethnicity), and other research materials. Box also contains correspondence, drafts and research materials
related to two studies in which Shevky was involved: the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce's Research Committee (1947) and the
American Council of Race Relations' "Los Angeles Neighborhood Study." Box also contains several maps, including "An Industrial
Survey of the City of Los Angeles and Continguous Territory" from 1909.