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Susan Orlean collection on Rin Tin Tin
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2692
Abstract
Collection consists of the research files and other materials related to author Susan Orlean’s book Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend (2011) Simon & Schuster.
Dates:
c.1920s-2011
Found in:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
John F. Scottini diaries, photographs, and ephemera
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6283
Scope and Contents
A collection of two diaries, photographs, a published book, and ephemera relating to John F. Scottini (1894-1972), a Los Angeles man who served as a Private with the 364th Infantry during World War I. The diaries recount Scottini's day to day experiences as a soldier leaving the United States to fight in Europe, marching from place to place, and encountering danger along the way. A section of one of the diaries has several pages devoted to the names of unit comrades with their addresses,...
Dates:
1900 - 1919
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
University of Southern California Library of Aeronautical History George T. Cussen collection on aviation
Collection
Identifier: 0053
Abstract
The collection consists of Cussen's personal scrapbook pages, books and photographs pertaining to the commercial aeronautic industry from the 1930s to the 1950s, and a collection of World War I and World War II war effort posters and maps. George Cussen worked the Santa Fe Railway for eight years before a brief stint at Maddux Air Lines in 1929. From 1932 to 1940, he worked for Transcontinental and Western Airlines as a traffic manager, alternating between Los Angeles and San Francisco...
Dates:
1918 - 1963
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
World War I pamphlets collection
Collection
Identifier: 0039
Abstract
World War I pamphlets, mostly British or American, on military strategy, diplomacy, occupied countries, the home front, economic effects of the war, atrocities, the "clean peace," religion and the war, the navy, war crimes, censorship, speeches by leaders such as H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Arthur Balfour and some items unrelated to the war.
Dates:
circa 1912-1917
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
World War I posters collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6015
Abstract
This collection consists of World War I posters by American artists Howard Chandler Christy, Gerrit A. Beneker, and Victor Clyde Forsythe.
Dates:
1917 - 1918
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections