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Gladys A. papers

 Collection
Identifier: 7062
Abstract

The Gladys A. papers contain diaries of Gladys A., a young woman who participated in sex work in and around Downtown Los Angeles. The diaries span from the day she arrived in LA in January of 1949 through 1953, detailing the daily experiences of her first five years in the city. The collection also includes photographs of Gladys with unidentified individuals, correspondence from her family in Michigan, memorabilia from her Catholic high school, and other miscellaneous personal items.

Dates: 1944-06-09 - 1979
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Nicholas Beck collection on Budd Schulberg

 Collection
Identifier: 6136
Abstract The Nicholas Beck collection on Budd Schulberg consists of material relating to Budd Schulberg (1914-2009)--the American screenwriter, television producer, and novelist--collected by Nicholas Beck (1932-2017). The collection includes material on Budd Schulberg's life, family, and works; the Watts Writers Workshop -- a creative writing group initiated by Budd Schulberg following the 1965 Watts Riots; correspondence between Beck and Schulberg's extended family; archival documents by and about...
Dates: 1913 - 2017
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

Poets Garden records

 Collection
Identifier: 0110
Abstract

The Poets Garden records contains publications, letters, diaries, and memorabilia of the literary group created by Los Angeles poet Ruth Le Prade. The collection also contains materials relating to the poet Edwin Markham (1852-1940) and the labor and socialist activist Eugene Debs.

Dates: 1876-1971
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

John A. Sanborn papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0027
Abstract

This collection contains the diaries kept by John A. Sanborn (1850-1942) between 1909 and 1942. Sanborn was a farmer who lived in Covina and Compton, California.

Dates: 1909 - 1942
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

John F. Scottini diaries, photographs, and ephemera

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6283
Scope and Contents A collection of two diaries, photographs, a published book, and ephemera relating to John F. Scottini (1894-1972), a Los Angeles man who served as a Private with the 364th Infantry during World War I. The diaries recount Scottini's day to day experiences as a soldier leaving the United States to fight in Europe, marching from place to place, and encountering danger along the way. A section of one of the diaries has several pages devoted to the names of unit comrades with their addresses,...
Dates: 1900 - 1919
Found in: USC Libraries Special Collections

Bob Wade papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6149
Content Description

The Robert A. Wade papers document Wade's career writing noir mysteries with his partner H. BIll Miller (who died in 1961) until Wade's death in 2012. THe collection inculdes personal and business correspondence, diaries, first editions of their books, ledgers, typescripts, draft manuscripts, hand-corrected galley proofs, dust jackets, scrapbooks, magazines, newspaper clippings, notecards, and rejection and fan letters.

Dates: 1938 - 2010
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

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Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 1
Cassady, G. Edward, Dr. 1
Cassady, George, Dr. 1
Cassady, Linda 1
Cassady, Margaret Elizabeth, R.N. 1
Chevaillier, Alzire A. (Alzire Adrienne) 1
Cheyney, Ralph 1
Cosmic Publishing Company 1
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) 1
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898 1
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 1
Gaw, Ethelean Tyson 1
Hamilton, Florence 1
Kwan, Moon 1
Lamb Knitting Machine Company 1
MacManus, Seumas 1
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940 1
Mayne, Eric 1
Miller, Bill, 1920-1961 1
Miller, Juanita Joaquina 1
Miller, Wade 1
Morgan, Angela 1
National Letter Return Association 1
Norris, Gordon W. 1
O'Donnol, Dion 1
Price, Ruth Clay 1
Reynolds, Adeline de Walt, 1862-1961 1
Sanborn, John A. 1
Schulberg, B. P., 1892-1957 1
Schulberg, Budd (1914-03-27-2009-08-05) 1
Scott, John Milton 1
Scottini, John Frank, 1894-1972 1
Sherry, Ruth Forbes 1
Standing Bear, Luther 1
Tenniel, John, 1820-1914 1
Trent, Lucia 1
Wade, Bob, 1920-2012 1
Wells, Wesley Robert 1
Western Society for Psychical Research 1
Whitaker, Robert 1
Woodhead, J.E. (John Edward) 1
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
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