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Verle and Elizabeth Annis papers
Collection
Identifier: 5266
Abstract
The Verle and Elizabeth Annis papers contain photographs, pamphlets, postcards, correspondence, architectural designs, and other material created by Verle and Elizabeth Annis. Verle Lincoln Annis (1897-1983) was a scholar and professor of architecture at the University of Southern California until 1962. Verle Annis wrote The Architecture of Antigua Guatemala 1543-1773, published in 1968. Elizabeth Naomi Annis (née Reed) (1905-2000) was a writer, traveler,...
Dates:
1910 - 1978
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Boeckmann Center Iberian and Latin American map collection
Collection
Identifier: 0526
Abstract
This collection contains over 200 printed maps and small atlases, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, relating to the geographic areas of Latin America, including the Caribbean, and Spain and Portugal. Most are not widely held by other libraries, and some are unique to USC.
Dates:
1559 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1800s-1990s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
G. Edward Cassady, M.D. and Margaret Elizabeth Cassady, R.N. Lewis Carroll collection
Collection
Identifier: 0392
Abstract
The G. Edward Cassady, M.D. and Margaret Elizabeth Cassady, R.N. Lewis Carroll collection consists of photographs, correspondence, ephemera, realia, graphic materials, games, reference works, material from stage and film adaptations, and other archival material relating to children's literature author, mathematician, and writer Charles Dodgson (1832-1898), better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll. Most well known for his first children's novels, Alice's...
Dates:
1865 - 2021
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Vahakn Dadrian papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6213
Abstract
Vahakn Dadrian (1926-2019) was an Armenian-American sociologist and historian and one of the early scholars of the academic study of genocide. Dadrian was especially recognized as a leading expert on the Armenian Genocide. The Vahakn Dadrian papers contain Dadrian's research files on the Armenian Genocide. The collection includes copies of published legal papers with Dadrian's notes, maps of Turkey and Armenia, newspaper clippings, literature relating to Armenian Studies, copies of records...
Dates:
1843 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1990
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Lion Feuchtwanger papers
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
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Eduard Frank correspondence with Joseph Brod
Collection
Identifier: 6246
Abstract
The Eduard Frank correspondence with Joseph Brod consists of a collection of letters written between Eduard Frank and Joseph Brod from 1953 to 1981. Eduard Frank was born in historical Sudetenland, now part of the Czech Republic. After settling in Germany following World War II, Frank authored one book, Gustav Meyrink, Werk und Wirkung (1957) and served as editor on another book, Das Haus zur Letzten Latern: Nachgelassenes und...
Dates:
1953 - 1981
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
German Exiles collection
Collection
Identifier: 6201
Abstract
The German Exiles collection contains correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, event programs, and other material relating to various German exiles, including Lion Feuchtwanger, Alfred Adler, Bruno Frank, Emil Ludwig, Franz and Alma Werfel, and Thomas Mann. The German Exiles collection finding aid began as a description of purchased material, consisting of a letter and photographs of Alfred Adler, Bruno Frank, Emil Ludwig, Franz and Alma Werfel, and Thomas Mann (by Ernest Gottlieb...
Dates:
1932 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1950
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Madge Kennedy photographs and clippings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2535
Abstract
Collection consists of photographs and clippings of American theatre and film actress Madge Kennedy.
Dates:
1922 - 1929
Found in:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
Maralin Niska papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1014
Abstract
Collection consists of various vocal scores, press clippings, photographs, programs, awards, correspondence, scrapbooks, and recordings belonging to American soprano Maralin Niska (1926-2016).
Dates:
1915 - 2014
Found in:
USC Libraries Music Library
North Korean postcards and slides
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 3390
Abstract
Collection consists of travel brochures, slides, trading cards, and postcards of North Korea.
Dates:
1980s-1992
Found in:
USC Libraries East Asian Library