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Roman Robert Söllner illustrated notebook
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6207
Abstract
A notebook created in 1948 by Roman Robert Söllner, a German American soldier, containing hand-drawn and colored illustrations, original verse, and notes in German and English. Pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations accompany the verse and notes. The author of the notebook generally signs himself "Roman," but also as "Roman Roberts" and "Roman Robert Söllner." Ancestry.com includes a number of records for a Roman Robert Söllner (1925-1995) born in Germany and naturalized as an American...
Dates:
1948
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Bob Wade papers
Collection
Identifier: 6149
Content Description
The Robert A. Wade papers document Wade's career writing noir mysteries with his partner H. BIll Miller (who died in 1961) until Wade's death in 2012. THe collection inculdes personal and business correspondence, diaries, first editions of their books, ledgers, typescripts, draft manuscripts, hand-corrected galley proofs, dust jackets, scrapbooks, magazines, newspaper clippings, notecards, and rejection and fan letters.
Dates:
1938 - 2010
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
J.E. Woodhead papers
Collection
Identifier: 0004
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks of Woodhead's business and manufacturing career with the Lamb Knitting Machine Company; records of the Cosmic Publishing Company and the Western Society for Psychical Research; correspondence on the Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago; correspondence, indexes, catalogues, dealers' invoices pertaining to the John Edward Woodhead Library, parts of which were acquired by USC; and personal correspondence, photographs, and memorablia of the Woodhead...
Dates:
circa 1856-1920s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
World War I German-American Nurse's diary
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6129
Abstract
Diary of a German-American nurse who served in Europe during World War I. The first entry, dated September 1, 1914, was written on board ship and describes the beginning of her trans-Atlantic journey. The latest entry is dated May of 1916. In addition to the English-language entries (which make up the bulk of the diary) are entries and poems in German, some of which are in a different hand. The diary also includes some sketches, dedicated to "Olga" (presumably the author), as well as a...
Dates:
1914-1916
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections