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German Exiles collection

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Identifier: 6201

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Content Description

The German Exiles collection contains correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, event programs, and other material relating to various German exiles, including Lion Feuchtwanger, Alfred Adler, Bruno Frank, Emil Ludwig, Franz and Alma Werfel, and Thomas Mann. The German Exiles collection finding aid began as a description of purchased material, consisting of a letter and photographs of Alfred Adler, Bruno Frank, Emil Ludwig, Franz and Alma Werfel, and Thomas Mann (by Ernest Gottlieb and signed by Thomas Mann). Subsequently, Special Collections added additional German exiles-related material from various sources to the collection.

Dates

  • Creation: 1932 - 2007
  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1940 - 1950

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Advance notice required for access.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Extent

2.27 Linear Feet (3 boxes)

Language of Materials

German

English

French

Abstract

The German Exiles collection contains correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, event programs, and other material relating to various German exiles, including Lion Feuchtwanger, Alfred Adler, Bruno Frank, Emil Ludwig, Franz and Alma Werfel, and Thomas Mann. The German Exiles collection finding aid began as a description of purchased material, consisting of a letter and photographs of Alfred Adler, Bruno Frank, Emil Ludwig, Franz and Alma Werfel, and Thomas Mann (by Ernest Gottlieb and signed by Thomas Mann). Subsequently, Special Collections added additional German exiles-related material from various sources to the collection.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The materials in this collection were acquired from a number of sources (some unidentified) at different times. See this finding aid's file-level descriptive records for more detailed provenancial information.

Title
Finding aid for the German Exiles collection
Status
Completed
Author
Sue Luftschein
Date
2019 August
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Revision Statements

  • 2022 February: Finding aid updated by Bo Doub and Gabriel Rainstorm to include material added to the collection from accrual no. 2022-002 (housed in box nos. 2-3).

Repository Details

Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States