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Stan Williams collection
Collection — Item: Acc2010.009
Identifier: Coll2014-034
Abstract
A manuscript and accompanying CD-ROM, and seven photographs from a 1971 issue of Life Magazine documenting Stan Williams and the Hoover Street Commune, a communal residence for core activists from the Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front.
Dates:
1971, 2010
Wilson Aero Corp. photograph album
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7045
Content Description
Photograph album with 24 photographs depicting Wilson Aero Corp.'s motion picture work. Photographs include on the set images of Dawn Patrol (1930), the comedy short Plane Crazy (1930), and Paul Sloane's War Correspondent (1932) starring Jack Holt. The album documents much of the activity of the Wilson Aero Corp. and may have functioned as a sales tool--glamourous images of film shoots, various planes, and photographs of the turret camera mount that allowed for 360 degree in-air tracking...
Dates:
circa 1932
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Gertrude Wilson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0498
Abstract
Gertrude Wilson (1895-1984) was considered a pioneer in the development of social-group work as a specialty within social work. She eventually became involved in the American Association for the Study of Group Work where the field of social-group work was just emerging. Beginning in 1935, Wilson headed the social-group work department of the University of Pittsburgh's School of Social Work, where she remained for a dozen years, ultimately becoming Associate Dean. There she wrote and...
Dates:
1935 - 1981
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Henry Lane Wilson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0002
Abstract
Correspondence, clippings, publications, photographs from the career of diplomat Henry Lane Wilson (1859-1932), with particular reference to U.S. relations with Mexico, including the "El Chamizal" border dispute.
Dates:
1910 - 1940
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Window display photographs on the Symbionese Liberation Army shootout
Collection — Pamphlet-Binder: 1
Identifier: 7163
Scope and Contents
A collection of 13 color photographs showing people gathered in front of an unknown storefront where photographs of the May 1974 shootout between the Los Angeles Police Department and the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) are offered for sale. The people gathered in front of the store, which is almost certainly in Los Angeles, includes law enforcement officers in uniform and civilians looking at the photographs for sale. Signs on the storefront's window read "SLA-LAPD photo story as it...
Dates:
1974 June
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Claire Windsor collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2167
Abstract
This collection consists of Claire Windsor (1892-1972) photographs, letters, and newspaper clippings in scrapbooks. Windsor was an American actress during the silent film era.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1920s-1972
Found in:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
Eva L. Winsett collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5192
Abstract
This collection consists of scrapbooks, photographs, and publications from Eva L. Winsett (1896-1991), an alumna of the University of Southern California.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940s; 1992 - 1996
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Leif Wivelsted photographs of Cuba
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0557
Abstract
Collection consists of 11 color photos taken by Danish photographer Leif Wivelsted on a trip to Cuba.
Dates:
2001
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
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