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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
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2013-074
Abstract
Editorial copy, organizational records, correspondence, clippings, flyers, photographs, and other material, 1975-2010, from Los Angeles journalist and AIDS activist, Paul Serchia. Materials document his involvement with AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) and the Los Angeles committee of the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
Dates:
1975 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1985 - 1995
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6002
Abstract
From August 1863 to July 1864, Samuel J. Smith, a private in the Confederate Army, kept a pocket diary noting daily events, camp life, news of his family, and the weather. Notable entries include his wounding and the death of his brother near Brandy Station on September 13, 1863, recovery at Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, the presence of African-American soldiers near his home while on leave, reunion with his regiment in April 1864, and the Battle of the Wilderness in May 1864.
Dates:
1863
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2008-029
Abstract
Journals and notebooks kept by Ware R. Smith, an openly gay teacher/professor and writer who died of AIDS in 1986. The bulk of the collection consists of Smith's fifteen journals and the loose items he stored in them, documenting his life experience from 1952 to shortly before his death. The collection also includes two notebooks of his writings from 1956-1958.
Dates:
1952-1986
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6207
Abstract
A notebook created in 1948 by Roman Robert Söllner, a German American soldier, containing hand-drawn and colored illustrations, original verse, and notes in German and English. Pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations accompany the verse and notes. The author of the notebook generally signs himself "Roman," but also as "Roman Roberts" and "Roman Robert Söllner." Ancestry.com includes a number of records for a Roman Robert Söllner (1925-1995) born in Germany and naturalized as an American...
Dates:
1948
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
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5045
Abstract
Louis Wann was an American writer as well as a long-time professor of English language and literature at the University of Southern California. He began his long and geographically-diverse career after graduating from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana in 1908. He then began a three-year professorship at Robert College in Constantinople, Turkey. During that same period, Wann conducted graduate study at the University of Marburg in Germany, as well as at the University of...
Dates:
1908-1911
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2013-014
Abstract
Diaries, correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, videocassettes and personal information, 1980-1994, of Daniel P. Warner, AIDS educator and co-founder of the Los Angeles Shanti Foundation. Materials in this collection primarily concern Warner's experience living with HIV and AIDS from the 1980s to the time of his death in 1993.
Dates:
1980 - 1994
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2006-003
Abstract
Journals and drafts of poetry, in particular the posthumously-published anthology, The Salt Ecstasies, and prose of the poet James L. White (1936-1981).
Dates:
1970-1981 (bulk 1979-1981); Majority of material found within 1979 - 1981
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