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Walter Wolf papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5383
Abstract
Collection consists of course instruction materials, student assignments, publication materials, correspondence, and business records of the Comprehensive Cancer Center from Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Walter Wolf (1931-2015).
Dates:
1960s-1980s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Harry K. Wolff Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: 6128
Abstract
Harry K. Wolff Jr. was a Jewish lawyer from San Francisco who was a member of "C" Battery 120 AAA Gun Batallion, 3rd Army. His unit was initially under the command of General Omar Bradley, and ultimately General George Patton. Wolff was also called upon to represent American soldiers in military tribunal proceedings as a Judge Advocate, bore witness to the aftermath found at both Ohrdruf and Dachau concentration camps, and was one of the officers responsible for over 30,000 Nazi soldiers and...
Dates:
1929-1945; Majority of material found in 1944-1945
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Dr. Joseph Wolpe papers
Collection
Identifier: 0197
Abstract
The papers, book manuscripts, articles, notes, and audiotapes and video tapes of Dr. Joseph Wolpe, the important South African-born American psychiatrist who helped usher in behavior therapy. Wolpe is probably best known for urging his colleagues to view psychotherapy as an applied science in which the effectiveness of treatment is evaluated through controlled experiments.
Dates:
1940-1997
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Woman's Building newsletter and brochures
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7101
Abstract
A collection of two serial publications issued by the Woman's Building (Los Angeles) between 1976 and 1981: four issues of a recurring brochure for the Extension Program at the Woman's Building and nine issues of Spinning Off: A Newsletter Of Women's Culture Presented By The Woman's Building. The Woman's Building was a non-profit arts and education center created by and for women in Los Angeles, California. Active from 1973 to 1991, the Woman's Building...
Dates:
1976 - 1981
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Women At Work records
Collection
Identifier: 0417
Abstract
The Women at Work records, 1978-2014, document the founding, and programmatic and fundraising activities of this social service non-profit agency. Women at Work was founded in 1979 as the Women's Public Policy Research Center (WPRCC) to study issues surrounding women in the labor force. In 1980, the name was changed to "Women at Work". The founding members, Barbara Burke, Marge Leighton, and Betty Ann Jansson, served as co-executive directors of the organization, which is headquartered in...
Dates:
1978-2014
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Women aviator photographs
Collection — Pamphlet-Binder: 1
Identifier: 6285
Abstract
The Women aviator photographs consist of eleven photographic prints depicting several women who were trailblazers that overcame the various social and economic barriers preventing women from participating in aviation. The collection features a mix of individual portraits and group shots of women aviators standing in front of their crafts or behind the cockpit. Included are photographs of Alicia Patterson, an American aviatrix who, accompanied by Elizabeth Chase of Chicago, flew from Sydney...
Dates:
1920 - 1939; 1950 - 1959
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Women of the Ku Klux Klan ephemera
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6259
Abstract
The Women of the Ku Klux Klan ephemera comprise sixteen pieces of ephemera relating to membership in the Women of the Ku Klux Klan (WKKK) in Little Rock, Arkansas and St. Louis, Missouri. Most of the material in the collection is undated, though at least one item is dated in 1927. Following are brief descriptions of each item in the collection: "Constitution and Laws of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan" (46 pp.); "The Code of the Flag" booklet (16 pp.); "Installation Ceremonies" ritual...
Dates:
1920s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Wonderland Award Submissions collection
Collection
Identifier: 0293
Descriptive Summary
The Wonderland Award Submissions Collection is comprised of hundreds of student entries for the annual contest related to Lewis Carroll. The award was established in 2004 with the sponsorship of Linda Cassady. The primary purpose of the Award is to promote and encourage the use of the G. Edward Cassady, M.D. and Margaret Elizabeth Cassady, R.N. Lewis Carroll Collection, held in Doheny Library at USC.
Dates:
2005-
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
J.E. Woodhead collection of Roycroft Press and Elbert Hubbard materials
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0162
Abstract
This small collection contains letters, essays, broadsides, clippings, and photographs, created by and for Elbert Hubbard, an American writer, publisher, and philosopher, and founder of the Arts and Crafts community of Roycroft. The materials were collected by J.E. Woodhead in the course of his book collecting activities. In addition to publications produced by Hubbard's Arts and Crafts community, Roycroft, and by the Roycrofters, it also contains letters from the Hubbards to the J.E....
Dates:
1896 - 1915
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
J.E. Woodhead papers
Collection
Identifier: 0004
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks of Woodhead's business and manufacturing career with the Lamb Knitting Machine Company; records of the Cosmic Publishing Company and the Western Society for Psychical Research; correspondence on the Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago; correspondence, indexes, catalogues, dealers' invoices pertaining to the John Edward Woodhead Library, parts of which were acquired by USC; and personal correspondence, photographs, and memorablia of the Woodhead...
Dates:
circa 1856-1920s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections