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Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7101
Abstract
A collection of two serial publications issued by the Woman's Building (Los Angeles) between 1976 and 1981: four issues of a recurring brochure for the Extension Program at the Woman's Building and nine issues of Spinning Off: A Newsletter Of Women's Culture Presented By The Woman's Building. The Woman's Building was a non-profit arts and education center created by and for women in Los Angeles, California. Active from 1973 to 1991, the Woman's Building...
Dates:
1976 - 1981
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll2014-126
Abstract
Artwork, administrative records, event records, financial records, promotional materials, and publications of the Woman’s Building in Los Angeles from its founding in 1973 to its dissolution in 1991. The Woman’s Building was one of the nation’s first nonprofit arts and educational centers dedicated to the development of women’s identity, sensibility, and creativity.
Dates:
1964-1992, 2011
Collection
Identifier: 0417
Abstract
The Women at Work records, 1978-2014, document the founding, and programmatic and fundraising activities of this social service non-profit agency. Women at Work was founded in 1979 as the Women's Public Policy Research Center (WPRCC) to study issues surrounding women in the labor force. In 1980, the name was changed to "Women at Work". The founding members, Barbara Burke, Marge Leighton, and Betty Ann Jansson, served as co-executive directors of the organization, which is headquartered in...
Dates:
1978-2014
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6259
Abstract
The Women of the Ku Klux Klan ephemera comprise sixteen pieces of ephemera relating to membership in the Women of the Ku Klux Klan (WKKK) in Little Rock, Arkansas and St. Louis, Missouri. Most of the material in the collection is undated, though at least one item is dated in 1927. Following are brief descriptions of each item in the collection: "Constitution and Laws of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan" (46 pp.); "The Code of the Flag" booklet (16 pp.); "Installation Ceremonies" ritual...
Dates:
1920s
Collection
Identifier: 0293
Descriptive Summary
The Wonderland Award Submissions Collection is comprised of hundreds of student entries for the annual contest related to Lewis Carroll. The award was established in 2004 with the sponsorship of Linda Cassady. The primary purpose of the Award is to promote and encourage the use of the G. Edward Cassady, M.D. and Margaret Elizabeth Cassady, R.N. Lewis Carroll Collection, held in Doheny Library at USC.
Dates:
2005-
Collection
Identifier: 3327
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of Harriet Wood (1917-2001), a devout American Christian who worked in South Korea from 1966 to 1978. Materials include journals kept by Wood in Korea, photographs and slides, correspondence, writings, and Bible and devotional material.
Dates:
1935 - 1990
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0162
Abstract
This small collection contains letters, essays, broadsides, clippings, and photographs, created by and for Elbert Hubbard, an American writer, publisher, and philosopher, and founder of the Arts and Crafts community of Roycroft. The materials were collected by J.E. Woodhead in the course of his book collecting activities. In addition to publications produced by Hubbard's Arts and Crafts community, Roycroft, and by the Roycrofters, it also contains letters from the Hubbards to the J.E....
Dates:
1896 - 1915
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
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0112
Abstract
Scrapbook, share certificates, and other documents relating to the founding of Work Around the World Educational Club for International Police (WAWEC), by Captain Walter Wanderwell in 1932, to monitor world disarmament and provide educational opportunities overseas.
Dates:
1932
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0367
Abstract
This collection includes pamphlets, booklets, posters, periodicals, and literature regarding the United States involvement and sentiments of World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War.
Dates:
1914-1970