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Lion Feuchtwanger papers
Collection
Identifier: 0204
Abstract
Lion Feuchtwanger (1884-1958) was a celebrated German-Jewish novelist and outspoken enemy of the Nazis. He began his literary career as a theater critic and turned his talent to writing plays in the 1910s and 1920s. He first became internationally known for his historical novel Jud Süss published in 1925. In 1933, he went into exile in Southern France and in 1941 he emigrated to the United States. He was an important figure in intellectual and artistic circles in Los Angeles during the...
Dates:
1906 - 2006; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1958
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Ivanyi, Laszlo diary
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2012-131
Abstract
Typescripts of Ivanyi Laszlo's diary, one in the original French and one English translation. The diary documents his life and reflections on his past, 1963-1967. Additional comments were added and included in the typescripts through 2008. Laszlo, an accomplished artist and pianist, escaped Hungary after the fall of the 1956 revolution. He relocated to Paris, France, where he was introduced into Parisian high society.
Dates:
1963-2008
"J'ai Toujours Ma Boule" throwing game set
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 6186
Abstract
"J'ai Toujours Ma Boule." Nouveau Tue-Boches. An unusual game, dating to the First World War, in which the aim is to launch a ball at five chromolithographed wooden heads representing the "Boche" (or Germans) and the leaders of the other Central Powers, consisting of Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire, with the goal of knocking the heads over to reveal the word "Kamerad!" printed to the base of each figure. The game was produced by Perplexité in Paris, circa 1916. This...
Dates:
circa 1916
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Collection of posters on Joseph II and Louis Phélypeaux
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275049038863]
Identifier: 6243
Abstract
A collection of three posters portraying Joseph II (1741-1791) and Louis Phelypeaux (1705-1777). All of the posters incorporate reproductions of earlier paintings and engravings with French or Latin text describing the subject matter of the images. Two of the posters relate to Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor and use visual works by Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787) and Theodorus Vallery. One poster portrays Louis Phelypeaux, comte de Saint Florentin--who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in...
Dates:
circa 1764-1970
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
L'Aurore newspaper
Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31275056491229]
Identifier: 6257
Abstract
January 13, 1898 issue of L'Aurore in which Emile Zola's letter to the President of the Republic in defense of Alfred Dreyfus, who was accused of treason by the French Army.
Dates:
1898 January 13
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Andrew M. Schwartz collection on cross-dressing
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Coll2008-060
Abstract
Postcards, photographs, and other materials, the majority portraying cross-dressing in entertainment. The materials include a series of advertising cards, 1882-circa 1892, satirizing Oscar Wilde and "Aesthetics", a 1917 publicity still of Julian Eltinge in the film The Clever Mrs. Carfax, a 1919 program for his Vaudeville Review, a postcard autographed in 1919 by "Marina, transformiste", and an undated postcard of Émile Grandsart,...
Dates:
circa 1880-1919
Shipping Lines poster collection
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275053880291]
Identifier: 6012
Abstract
This collection consists of advertisement posters of ship routes to various countries including France, Germany, Java, and India.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930s-1960s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Space Race tabletop game
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 6187
Abstract
The Space Race tabletop game is a midcentury educational game based on the Space Race of the 1950s and 1960s between the Soviet Union and the United States, housed inside of a hinged wooden box illustrated with planets and Soviet and U.S. rockets. Players are intended to use the game's revolving spring-loaded wooden launcher to launch small plastic rockets into target cups representing various planets and rockets. The Space Race officially began on August 2, 1955, when the Soviet Union...
Dates:
circa 1960s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Voltaire correspondence
Collection
Identifier: 6006
Abstract
A collection of correspondence to and from Voltaire, as well as three pages of poetry written by Voltaire. Many letters in the collection are either to or from Frederick the Great, who was the King of Prussia from 1740-1786. The correspondence between Voltaire and Frederick, as well as all the other correspondence in the collection covers such topics as freedom of expression in 18th Century France and wars which were going on in Europe at the time. Voltaire was sick and apparently bed-ridden...
Dates:
1741 - 1777
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
World War II Anti-Jewish documents
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 6116
Abstract
Three sets of documents aimed at, or documenting, the fate of Jews in Europe during World War II. Two of the documents (bound correspondence from Gestapo Headquarters and the list of partisan Jewish doctors) are in German; the broadside is in French.
Dates:
1937-circa 1945
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections