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Collection
Identifier: 6164
Abstract
A collection of family papers concerning a Jewish family who fled Austria and sought exile in the United States during the rise of Nazi power. Felix Merori Cleve, his wife Melitta Cleve, their son George Wolfgang Cleve, and Felix's sister Fanny Suhrkamp-Cleve, were Austrian-Jewish emigres who fled to the United States after the Nazi Anschluss of Austria. This collection contains professional and personal correspondence and papers prior to their departure, correspondence and papers related...
Dates:
1910s-1980s
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2011-021
Abstract
Typescripts and editorial content, correspondence, advertising information, personnel records, distribution records, financial records, notes, negatives, and publicity material, 1972-1979, from the bi-monthly gay and lesbian newsmagazine, Coast to Coast Times and its predecessor Pacific Coast Times, based in West Hollywood, California.
Dates:
1972-1979
Collection
Identifier: 2041
Abstract
Collection consists of notes for each film that writer, director, producer Philip Dunne (1908-1992) worked on; 5 reels of taped self-interviews; working copies of 15 novels adapted for the screen.
Dates:
1935 - 2000
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
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
Collection
Identifier: 0200
Abstract
The Hamlin Garland papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks, photographs, and memorabilia, by and about the American realist writer. Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who once held the title of "Dean of American Letters" and counted many of the prominent literary figures of his time as friends. This collection holds close to 10,000 of Garland's letters, which are now digitized and available via the USC Digital Library. Garland's literary notebooks...
Dates:
1850 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1940