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Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0552
Abstract
Collection consists of the manuscripts, financial records, land documents, and other records from the Curiel family, pertaining to the operation and upkeep of their hacienda.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1843-1940s
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0025
Abstract
Civil service documents of the teaching career of a Welsh-born American (b.1874) in various Philippine Islands schools, ca. 1900-1925.In 1903 a young couple, Adam and Agnes Derkum, left Los Angeles to work as teachers in the Philippine Islands. A quarter of a century later, having held a number of different assignments in various provincial schools, the Derkums returned to this city with the four children they had raised overseas. Adam Derkum, who had studied at USC, later gave...
Dates:
circa 1900-1925
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0563
Abstract
This collection consists of a signed photograph of Porfirio Díaz (1830-1915), president of Mexico from 1876 to 1911.
Dates:
1897
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6191
Abstract
This collection consists of story treatments, production materials, clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks, and photographs from American motion picture director, producer, and writer Clyde E. Elliott (1885-1959).
Dates:
1908 - 1961
Collection — Box: N107
Identifier: 0343
Abstract
Miss English was USC President Rufus B. von KleinSmid's long time secretary. This collection contains a photograph of a young Miss English, a 1941 booklet commemorating her 20th anniversary as secretary, letters congratulating her upon her retirement in 1964, and other correspondence.
Dates:
1921 - 1967
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0143
Abstract
Tapes, clippings, periodicals, correspondence of the San Francisco poet and publisher (b.1919); archives of the poetry journal Beatitude; draft and galleys of Ferlinghetti: A Biography by Neeli Cherkovski (Doubleday, 1979); manuscripts by writer Charles Plymell (1935- ); a poster of Ferlinghetti at City Lights Bookstore; and other material.
Dates:
circa 1950s
Collection
Identifier: 0362
Abstract
Ralph Fertig, former Associate Professor in the USC School of Social Work, has worked toward social justice as a civil rights lawyer, social worker, federal administrative judge, and activist. His papers consist of his authored essays and personal narratives, collected clippings, correspondence and institutional records from political organizations and initiatives that he led (includeing Southern California Americans for Democratic Action, Humanitarian Law Project, and University Synagogue),...
Dates:
1929 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1948 - 2009
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
Collection
Identifier: 0206
Abstract
This archive contains the correspondence of Marta Feuchtwanger, wife of German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger, who survived her husband by almost thirty years. Marta Feuchtwanger remained an important figure in the exile community and devoted the remainder of her life to promoting the work of her husband. The collection contains Marta Feuchtwanger's personal correspondence, texts and manuscripts by her and others, royalty statements received for the works of her husband, correspondence with...
Dates:
1536 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1987
Collection
Identifier: 5286
Abstract
This collection consists of the papers of Gelya Frank (born 1948), an American author and anthropology professor at the University of Southern California.
Dates:
1970 - 2017