Collection of Materials about Joseph Scott LSC.0776
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Title: Collection of Materials about Joseph Scott
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0776
Physical Description:
2.5 linear feet
(4 boxes)
Physical Description:
7 audiovisual carriers
(7 records)
Date (inclusive): 1910-1950
Abstract: Joseph Scott (1867-1958) practiced law in Los Angeles, California, was the president of the school board (1906-11), director
(1907-18) and president of the board of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce (1910), a member of the Charter Revision Committee
(1902), president of the Los Angeles Community Chest (1931-35) and of the California Conference of Social Work (1935-36),
and dean and dean emeritus of Loyola of Los Angeles School of Law. The collection consists of Scott's correspondence, photographs,
pamphlets, newspaper and magazine ephemera, banquet programs, and audio recordings.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Acquired by Doyce B. Nunis, July 1960.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9942328113606533
[Identification of item], Collection of Materials about Joseph Scott (Collection 776). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Scott was born on July 16, 1867 in Penrith, England. He attended Ushaw College in Durham and University of London, after which
he came to the U.S. in 1889. He earned his AM (1893) and LL.D, from the St. Bonaventure College, Allegheny, New York (1914).
In 1894 he was admitted to the bar and began practice in Los Angeles, California thereafter. Scott was president of the school
board from 1906 to 1911. Scott was also an active member of the board of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, serving as its
director from 1907 until 1918 and as its president in 1910. In 1902 Scott was a noted member of the Charter Revision Committee.
He was president of the Los Angeles Community Chest from 1931 until 1935 and of the California Conference of Social Work from
1935 to 1936. Scott was also dean and dean emeritus of Loyola of Los Angeles School of Law; and he was appointed Privy Chamberlain
of the Sword and Cape by Pope Pius XII. Scott died on March 24, 1958.
Collection consists of correspondence, pictures, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine ephemera, banquet programs relating to
the career and organizational leadership of Joseph Scott. Also included are seven master records of the America First Committee
and Senator B.K. Wheeler. Correspondence contains letters to Scott from Herbert Hoover, Earl Warren, and William G. McAdoo,
and telegrams to Scott from Cardinal Pacelli and Montini Sostituto.
Items in this collection have been arranged according the document type. The correspondence in the collection is grouped together
according to individual correspondents.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Lawyers -- California -- Los Angeles
Civic leaders -- California -- Los Angeles
Civic leaders
Lawyers
California -- Los Angeles
Scott, Joseph, 1867-1958
box 1, folder 1
box 1, folder 2
box 1, folder 3
box 1, folder 4
box 1, folder 5
Publications 1900-1927
Connolly, C.P. "Joe Scott, Orator". The Columbiad. March 1917.
New Haven, Conn: Knights of Columbus National Organ.
Scott, Joseph. "Through the Gates Ajar." 1927. An Address before The Sunset Club Squirrel Inn, Sunday Morning, June 19,
1927. Private Circulation.
Scott, Joseph and Anderson & Anderson. April 10th, 1900. In the Supreme Court of the State of California: James Cussen (Plaintiff
and Respondent) vs. The Southern California Bank, a Corporation Defendant and Appellant - Brief on behalf of the Respondent.
Los Angeles: Bowers & Candy, Law Printers.
Includes a duplicate copy of "Through the Gates Ajar."
box 1, folder 6
box 1, folder 7
box 1, folder 8
Photographs and photographic postcards 1904-1952
Pictures and Portraits of Joseph Scott and family, friends, colleagues, and dignitaries. J. Scott on "Bright Angel Trail",
Grand Canyon, Arizona, June 26, 1909. "Pricking Coconut Milk at Mazatlan", n.d. Bishop Cartwell, n.d. J. Scott at Camp Elliot,
n.d. Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco, CA., 1910. Hillhurst Park, Los Angeles, n.d. The Explosion of the Russian
Gunboat Korietz at Chemulpo port, Korea, Febraury 9, 1904. Scott family portrait, Pasadena, CA., 1949. Chaplin trial, n.d.
84th birthday celebration, 1951. 27th Annual Outing September 15, 1940. Uplifter Ranch, Sept. 19, 1931. Dedication to Mount
Verne May 16, 1930. Americanism Parade, Beverly Hills, CA., August, 6, 1944. Our Lady of Guadalupe ceremonies, December 14,
1942. Special Naval Ceremonies, San Diego, CA., August 3, 1946. Los Angeles Coliseum, May 4, 1952. Dedication of the new Hall
of Justice, Pasadena, CA., n.d.
box 1, folder 9
Photographs 1938-1941
Pictures of Joseph Scott at various events with other political and religious dignitaries. Boys' Week with Chairman Joseph
Scott and the Boy Officials. Third Annual Lincoln Anniversary Banquet of the Lincoln Clubs of Arizona, Phoenix Arizona, February
14. Dinner at Victor Hugo, April 26, 1938. J. Scott with Col. Charles Decker, n.d.
box 2
Photographs 1926-1938
Unframed rolled photographs, including portraits, group pictures and some scenic views. Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, n.d..
State Convention for the Knights of Columbus, San Francisco, CA., June 1, 1926. 56th International Convention for the Knights
of Columbus, August 16-18, 1938. Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Excursion, Teotihuacan, Mexico, n.d.
box 3
Photographs 1938-1945
Collage of beach of photographs, portraits, group photographs of the Sunset Club. 50th Anniversary Los Angeles Chamber of
Commerce, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA., October 12, 1938. All-America Football Conference, California Club, Los Angeles,
CA., December 4, 1944. Annual Banquet - Friends Sons of St. Patrick of Los Angeles, California Club, Los Angeles CA., March
17, 1941. Sunset Club - Christmas Jinx, December 28, 1945.
Includes a portrait of Raymond J. Kelly, Commander of the American Foreign Legion, 1939–1940.
box 4
12" master recordings 1941
Physical Description: 7 audiovisual carriers(7 records)
America First Committee, June 20, 1941, Pasadena and Hollywood Bowl, J. Scott and C. A. Lindberg; America First Committee,
Hollywood Bowl, June 22, 1941, J. Scott and Senator Clark; and St. Charles, Illinois, September 1, 1941, Senator B.K. Wheeler.