Ludwig Marcuse papers
Scope and Content
Collection includes personal and business correspondence, manuscripts and published articles, and personal documents and photographs, and pencil drawings dating from Marcuse's years in France, 1933-1940 and Los Angeles, 1940-1950.
Dates
- 1925 - 2012
- Majority of material found within 1933 - 1950
Creator
- Marcuse, Ludwig (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
The collection contains published materials; researchers are reminded of the copyright restrictions imposed by publishers on reusing their articles and parts of books. It is the responsibility of researchers to acquire permission from publishers when reusing such materials. The copyright to unpublished materials belongs to the heirs of the writers. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Extent
16 Linear Feet (16 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection includes personal and business correspondence, manuscripts and published articles, and personal documents and photographs, and pencil drawings dating from Marcuse's years in France, 1933-1940 and Los Angeles, 1940-1950.
Arrangement
The papers are arranged by type of material:
Box 1A contains correspondence A-J.
Box 1B contains correspondence K-Z. Readers' Reactions to Marcuse's books and articles, Birthday Greetings, Liebesbriefe, and Unidentifiable Correspondence
BOX 2A: Book reviews A-N
BOX 2B: Book and lecture reviews O-Z
BOX 3A: Essays and outlines A-G
BOX 3B: Essays and outlines H-M
BOX 3C: Essays and outlines N-Z
BOX 3D: Unidentifiable essays, notes and outlines (small box)
BOX 4A: Articles by Marcuse A-M
BOX 4B: Articles by Marcuse N-Z
Also at back of box: Theater Reviews and Book ReviewsProcessing information
Original inventory compiled by Maruta Taube.
- Authors, German -- 20th century -- Biography -- Archival resources
- Brecht, Bertolt -- Archives
- California, Southern -- Emigration and immigration -- Archival resources
- Clippings
- Correspondence
- Ephemera
- Exiles -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Exiles -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Exiles' writings, German -- California -- Archival resources
- Feuchtwanger, Marta -- Archives
- Frank, Liesl -- Archives
- Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Archival resources
- Jewish Club of 1933 -- Archives
- Jewish refugees -- California, Southern -- Archival resources
- Jewish refugees -- Europe -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Jews -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Jews, German -- California, Southern -- Archival resources
- Kesten, Hermann -- Archives
- Knef, Hildegard -- Archives
- Mahler, Alma -- Archives
- Mann, Heinrich -- Archives
- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 -- Archives
- Marcuse, Ludwig -- Archives
- Marcuse, Sascha -- Archives
- Neumann, Robert -- Archives
- Philosophers -- 20th century -- Biography
- Philosophers -- Germany -- Archival resources
- Philosophers -- Germany -- Correspondence
- Philosophers -- United States -- Archival resources
- Photographs
- Typescripts
- Von Hofe, Harold -- Archives
- Walter, Bruno -- Archives
- Wedekind, Kadidja -- Archives
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Archival resources
- Zweig, Arnold -- Archives
- Zweig, Stefan -- Archives
Creator
- Marcuse, Ludwig (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aids for Ludwig Marcuse papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Michaela Ullmann
- Date
- 2010
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- October 2010: Finding aid edited and encoded by Sue Luftschein
- 2021 August: Finding aid updated by Bo Doub: created a new container record (listed under "Unprocessed material") after finding an unprocessed box during Grand Archives stacks shelf-reading.
- 2021 November: Finding aid updated by Bo Doub to include material regarding a radio broadcast that had been separated from the collection.
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu