University of Southern California
Organization
Found in 251 Collections and/or Records:
Dorothy Lillis Walker papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 0379
Abstract
Collection consists of photographs, correspondence, student materials, and books of poetry created and collected by Dorothy Lillis Walker. Dorothy Lillis Walker was a graduate of the University of Southern California, and taught English at Boyle Heights Junior High School.
Dates:
1920s-1930s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Louis Wann journals
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 5045
Abstract
Louis Wann was an American writer as well as a long-time professor of English language and literature at the University of Southern California. He began his long and geographically-diverse career after graduating from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana in 1908. He then began a three-year professorship at Robert College in Constantinople, Turkey. During that same period, Wann conducted graduate study at the University of Marburg in Germany, as well as at the University of...
Dates:
1908-1911
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Gerhard Weissler papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 5128
Abstract
Gerhard Weissler was a professor of physics at the University of Southern California from 1944 until 1988, and chairman of the university's physics department from 1951 to 1956.
Born in Germany in 1918, Weissler earned his degree in physics at the Institute of Technology, Berlin, but his politics resulted in his expulsion from Germany. He continued his education in California, earning his master's and PhD in physics at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1942 to 1944,...
Dates:
1918-1989; Majority of material found in 1978
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Alfred Wesson papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 5035
Abstract
Alfred "Al" Wesson is best known as the composer, while a student at USC, of "All Hail"-- USC's current alma mater song-- for a student fundraiser called "Campus Frolics of 1923". The other song he wrote for the opening of Frolics was "Cardinal and Gold" which also became a perennial favorite, played at Trojan football games and countless other university events. In addition to Wesson's musical ability, he served as the University's first...
Dates:
1924-1974
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Louis Cutter Wheeler papers
Collection
Identifier: 0265
Abstract
Collection consists of the papers and research materials of Dr. Louis C. Wheeler (1910-1980), American botanist and professor of botany within the USC Department of Botany in the School of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940s-1970s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Janet McCoy White '31 scrapbook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 5288
Abstract
Large scrapbook created by Janet McCoy White, Class of 1931, documenting her student life at USC.
Dates:
1927 - 1936
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Carol Mass Winn papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275049045892]
Identifier: 5271
Abstract
This collection consists of one copy of "Los Angeles Cookery" (1881), with clippings enclosed; a copy of an article from the Los Angeles Times (8/24/1980) on the cookbook; issues of "Wampus," magazine (12/1944, 2/1945, 1/1946, and 4-5/1947) published the USC Associated Students.
Dates:
1944 - 1947; 1881; 1980
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Carl B. Wirsching papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 5318
Abstract
This small collection consists of a photograph album that documents Carl B. Wirsching's life at USC, with a focus on athletics; Wirsching's two diplomas; a Skull and Dagger plaque; an honorary society key fob; a tag identifying him as a "Three Year Varsity Man"; a pole vault pin, and his Alumni Association president's ring. Wirsching graduated from USC in 1909, and earned his graduate degree in civil engineering from USC in 1919.
Dates:
1906-1919
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Wonderland Award Submissions collection
Collection
Identifier: 0293
Descriptive Summary
The Wonderland Award Submissions Collection is comprised of hundreds of student entries for the annual contest related to Lewis Carroll. The award was established in 2004 with the sponsorship of Linda Cassady. The primary purpose of the Award is to promote and encourage the use of the G. Edward Cassady, M.D. and Margaret Elizabeth Cassady, R.N. Lewis Carroll Collection, held in Doheny Library at USC.
Dates:
2005-
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Zeta Phi Eta records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5054
Abstract
The professional speech fraternity known as Zeta Phi Eta was founded in 1893 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The USC chapter was founded by Irene Phillips Kuhl in 1921. (The fraternity was officially named the National Professional Speech Arts and Speech Sciences Fraternity for Women; now it is known as the National Professional Fraternity in Communication Arts and Sciences, the oldest national group of its kind.
The seven boxes in this collection contain the...
Dates:
1894-1993
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
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- Correspondence 68
- Clippings (information artifacts) 42
- Photographs 41
- Universities and colleges -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 38
- Universities and colleges -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- Archival resources 38
- Scrapbooks 31
- Universities and colleges -- Students -- Archival resources 30
- Ephemera 29
- Programs (documents) 28
- Minutes (administrative records) 26
- Reports 25
- Universities and colleges -- Faculty -- Archival resources 25
- Administrative records 16
- Realia 15
- Manuscripts 14
- Printed ephemera 14
- Greek letter societies -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 12
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- Universities and colleges -- Alumni and alumnae -- Archival resources 12
- Pamphlets 11
- Universities and colleges -- California -- Los Angeles -- Administration -- Archival resources 11
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- College students -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 10
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- Annual reports 7
- Bylaws (administrative records) 7
- College presidents -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 7
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- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- Archival resources 6
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- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Archival resources 5
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- Reports, publications, studies, and documentation -- Archival resources 5
- Rosters 5
- School records 5
- Student publications -- Archival resources 5
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- American literature 4
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- College student newspapers and periodicals -- California -- Los Angeles 4
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- American literature -- 20th century -- Archival resources 3
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- Awards -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 3
- California, Southern -- History -- Archival resources 3
- College athletes -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources 3
- College sports -- Archival resources 3
- College student government -- Archival resources 3
- Commencement ceremonies -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources 3
- Diplomas 3
- Events -- California -- Los Angeles 3
- Exhibitions -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 3
- Forms (documents) 3
- Handbooks 3
- Lectures and lecturing -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 3
- Lectures series 3
- Library administration -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 3
- Moving images 3
- Newspaper clippings 3
- Oral histories (document genres) 3
- Research institutes -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 3
- Resumes (Employment) -- Archival resources 3
- Sheet music 3
- Sociology -- Research -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 3
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- Surveys (documents) 3
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- Thesis and dissertation 3
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