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Collection
Identifier: 0175
Abstract
Typescripts, manuscripts, galleys, artwork, letters, financial records, and personal material created and collected by writer and artist Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002) over the course of his long career.
Dates:
1922 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1990
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0535
Abstract
This small collection contains three manuscripts and ten letters by Argentine writer Leopoldo Lugones (1874-1938). There are three handwritten manuscripts, which were published in the Argentine newspaper La Nacion. Lugones's letters date from 1900 to the 1930s and recipients include Uruguayan novelist Carlos Reyles and Argentine historian Rómulo Zabala.
Dates:
1900-approximately 1930s
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6240
Abstract
A collection of two manuscript leaves removed from two different antiphonaries. Each leaf consists of two pages of handwritten music for use in a liturgical choir. Both leaves were likely created some time between the 14th and 16th centuries. One of the leaves begins with the chant: "Protector noster aspice Deus," an Introit chant from the Mass from Dom. 14.p Pentecost: Pentecost V, XIV. The other leaf begins with the chant: "Stabant juxta crucem Jesu mater eius," an Introit chant from the...
Dates:
circa 1350-1550
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0596
Abstract
The papers of William Michael Mathes (1936-2012), a historian and expert on Spain and Mexico, especially the Baja California Peninsula. The Mexican government awarded Mathes the Order of the Aztec Eagle in 1985. An alumnus of the University of Southern California, Mathes earned his Master of Arts in history from USC in 1962. Between 1961 and 1991, Mathes contributed seven volumes to Dawson's Book Shop's Baja California travels book series, also held by USC's Special Collections. The W....
Dates:
1960 - 2012
Collection
Identifier: 0214
Abstract
The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and ephemera regarding the lives and work of many German-speaking emigre artists in Southern California.
One focus of the collection are German Expressionist Theater director Leopold Jessner (1878-1945) and his brother-in-law, the actor and director Fritz Jessner (1889-1946), both of whom left Germany in the 1930s to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews. The collection also includes more extensive materials on Walter...
Dates:
1933 - 1985
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0169
Abstract
Typed draft of Mitchell's The Campaign of the Century (Random House, 1992) on the 1934 EPIC campaign in California.
Dates:
circa 1992
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0138
Abstract
Book reviews, journal and newspaper (originals and photostats) articles by and about Sinclair Lewis, and an extensive type- and handwritten catalog of Morse's holdings on Lewis, author and novelist, who was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Willard S. Morse (1856-1935) was a mining executive in the West and Mexico. He was later made a director and member of the executive committee of the American Smelter Securities Company, Chilean Exploration Company, and Braden...
Dates:
1907 - 1952
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0507
Abstract
This collection consists of the materials from the non-profit educational organization Comité La Verdad Sobre Cuba, The Truth About Cuba Committee, operating under the name Movimiento Anticomunista Catolico Unido.
Dates:
1964 - 1970
Collection
Identifier: 0349
Abstract
The Carol Muske-Dukes papers consist of the literary works, academic files, and personal papers, photographs, and correspondence of Carol Muske-Dukes, California poet laureate and USC professor of creative writing. The materials cover the period from early 1957 to 2023.
Dates:
1957 - 2023
Collection
Identifier: 0275
Abstract
Papers of Barbara G. Myerhoff, a University of Southern California professor and noted anthropologist, consist of manuscripts, notes, printed material, publications, audiotapes, correspondence, and photographic material related to her teaching, field research, and publishing activities.
Dates:
1911 - 1985; Majority of material found within 1969 - 1984