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Vahakn Dadrian papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6213
Abstract
Vahakn Dadrian (1926-2019) was an Armenian-American sociologist and historian and one of the early scholars of the academic study of genocide. Dadrian was especially recognized as a leading expert on the Armenian Genocide. The Vahakn Dadrian papers contain Dadrian's research files on the Armenian Genocide. The collection includes copies of published legal papers with Dadrian's notes, maps of Turkey and Armenia, newspaper clippings, literature relating to Armenian Studies, copies of records...
Dates:
1843 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1990
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Lorenzo DeStefano collection on the Hancock Pacific Expeditions
Collection
Identifier: 6215
Abstract
A collection of screenplay drafts, research notes, subject files, correspondence, photographs, books, audio and video tapes, and one 16mm film compiled by Lorenzo DeStefano for a film about G. Allan Hancock's expeditions to the Galapagos Islands during 1930s. DeStefano never completed his film, but his research for the project--which began in the 1970s--forms a significant collection of documentation on the people and events involved in the Hancock Expeditions.
Dates:
1930s-1980s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Friedrich Hacker papers
Collection
Identifier: 6208
Abstract
Friedrich (Frederick) Hacker was a distinguished psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and cultural figure. Born in Vienna in 1914, Hacker left Austria soon after the Anschluss and made his way to Los Angeles via New York and Topeka, Kansas. In Los Angeles, Hacker founded the Hacker Clinic in Beverly Hills (1945) where he treated numerous Hollywood filmmakers and actors and where he socialized with other well-known members of the German-speaking émigré community. Hacker went on to become a...
Dates:
circa 1940s-1980s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections