Esther Gillies papers
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Content Description
The Esther Gillies papers consist of minutes, correspondence, reports, newsletters, notes, public relations materials, and training materials from various social work organizations with which Gillies worked. Organizations represented in the collection include the California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (CAPSAC), Children's Center of the Antelope Valley (CCAV), the Drew Child Development Corporation, Children's Institute International Southern California Training Center (SCTC), the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), the Center for the Study of Child Maltreatment and Family Violence's A Child Interview Specialist Transdisciplinary Training (ACIST), and the Child Sexual Abuse Crisis Center (CSACC).
Dates
- Creation: 1977 - 2013
Creator
- Gillies, Esther (Person)
- California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (Organization)
- Children's Center of the Antelope Valley (Organization)
- Children's Institute International (Organization)
- Drew Child Development Corporation (Organization)
- Los Angeles County (Calif.). Dept. of Children and Family Services (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
The use of archival materials for on-site research does not constitute permission from the California Social Welfare Archives to publish them. Copyright has not been assigned to the California Social Welfare Archives, and the researcher is instructed to obtain permission to quote from or publish manuscripts in the CSWA's collections from the copyright holder.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Extent
12.13 Linear Feet (14 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Esther Gillies, January 22, 2018 and May 15, 2023.
Processing Information
This collection is minimally processed with box-level description.
Esther Gillies gave the initial donation of material in this collection to USC in 2018 (accession no. 2018-004). The material from accession no. 2018-004 is stored in box no. 1. Gillies donated the rest of the collection in 2023 (accession no. 2023-020). The material from accession no. 2023-020 is stored in box nos. 2-14.
Gillies wrote brief content labels on each box donated as part of accession no. 2023-020. During accessioning and re-boxing, the archivist re-used Gillies' box labels for the titles of this finding aid's box-level descriptive records.
Subject
- Gillies, Esther -- Archives (Person)
- California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children -- Archives (Organization)
- Child Sexual Abuse Diagnostic Center -- Archives (Organization)
- Children's Center of the Antelope Valley -- Archives (Organization)
- Children's Institute International -- Archives (Organization)
- Drew Child Development Corporation -- Archives (Organization)
- Los Angeles County (Calif.). Dept. of Children and Family Services -- Archives (Organization)
Genre / Form
Topical
- Child abuse -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
- Family social work -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
- Social service -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- Archival resources
- Social work with children -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
- Social workers -- California -- Archival resources
- Title
- Finding aid for the Esther Gillies papers
- Status
- Minimally Processed
- Author
- Sue Luftschein and Bo Doub
- Date
- 2018 March
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2023 May: Finding aid updated by Bo Doub to include material added to the collection from accession no. 2023-020 (housed in box nos. 2-14).
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