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Manuscripts

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Michael A. Arbib papers

 Collection
Identifier: 5315
Abstract Papers of Michael A. Arbib, Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science; University Professor; Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience and Psychology; Director, USC Human Brain Project. Prof. Arbib has based his career on the argument that we can learn much about machines from studying brains, and much about brains from studying machines. He has thus always worked for an interdisciplinary environment in which computer scientists and...
Dates: 1970-2016

Catherine Beers papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 5125
Abstract

Dr. Catherine Beers was a professor of zoology at the University of Southern California in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. This small collection consists of published and unpublished works by Beers, student papers, roll books, and clippings related to her work on heredity and other subjects.

Dates: 1925-1947

Boys Work Survey records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5109
Abstract

This collection consists of the records and research done for the 1925 Boys Work Survey, conducted by the University of Southern California Social Research staff and sponsored by the Rotary Club of Los Angeles.

Dates: 1925

Frank Burrill papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 5037
Scope and Contents Frank Burrill was an alumnus of the University of Southern California (class of 1929) who documented his life and and the times he lived in in a two-volume manuscript titled "The Ups and Downs of an Immigrant Lad's Life". The manuscript was self-published in 1992 and a copy of it given to the University of Southern California. According to the donation letter in 1993, another copy was given to the Oakhurst Branch Library in Madera County, where Burrill and his wife Dorothy moved in the...
Dates: 1990

Adam C. Derkum papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275038201514]
Identifier: 0025
Abstract Civil service documents of the teaching career of a Welsh-born American (b.1874) in various Philippine Islands schools, ca. 1900-1925.In 1903 a young couple, Adam and Agnes Derkum, left Los Angeles to work as teachers in the Philippine Islands. A quarter of a century later, having held a number of different assignments in various provincial schools, the Derkums returned to this city with the four children they had raised overseas. Adam Derkum, who had studied at USC, later gave...
Dates: circa 1900-1925

Ada English papers

 Collection — Box N107
Identifier: 0343
Abstract

Miss English was USC President Rufus B. von KleinSmid's long time secretary. This collection contains a photograph of a young Miss English, a 1941 booklet commemorating her 20th anniversary as secretary, letters congratulating her upon her retirement in 1964, and other correspondence.

Dates: 1921 - 1967

Marta Feuchtwanger papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0206
Abstract This archive contains the correspondence of Marta Feuchtwanger, wife of German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger, who survived her husband by almost thirty years. Marta Feuchtwanger remained an important figure in the exile community and devoted the remainder of her life to promoting the work of her husband. The collection contains Marta Feuchtwanger's personal correspondence, texts and manuscripts by her and others, royalty statements received for the works of her husband, correspondence with...
Dates: 1536 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1987

Helen Addison Howard Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 0174
Abstract

Typescript and galleys of Howard's American Indian Poetry (Twayne, 1979). Howard received an M.A. from USC in 1933.

Dates: 1979

Carol Muske-Dukes papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0349
Abstract

The Carol Muske-Dukes papers consist of the literary works, academic files, and personal papers, photographs, and correspondence of Carol Muske-Dukes, California poet laureate and USC professor of creative writing. The materials cover the period from early 1957 to 2023.

Dates: 1957 - 2023

Jonathan B. Postel papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0292
Abstract

The archives of the office of Dr. Jonathan B. Postel. Dr. Postel (1943-1998) was director of the Computer Networks division at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California, and director of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.

Dates: 1943 - 1988