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Title: Wonderland Award Submissions collection
Collection number: 0293
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
40.0 Linear feet
Date: 2005-
Descriptive Summary: The Wonderland Award Submissions Collection is comprised of nearly 250 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.
Related archival materials exist in the G. Edward Cassady, M.D. and Margaret Elizabeth Cassady, R.N. Lewis Carroll Collection,
which also contains more than 3000 rare books, early pamphlets, letters, and other items related to the work of Lewis Carroll.
Most of these items have been catalogued individually through USC Libraries library catalogue; some of the ephemera and more
recent articles and clippings are included in the archival materials and are described in a separate finding aid. (See Other
Finding Aids note).
A separate finding aid exists for the archival materials in the G. Edward Cassady, M.D. and Margaret Elizabeth Cassady, R.N.
Lewis Carroll Collection of Ephemera. The link to it on the USC Libraries website can be found here:
http://www.usc.edu/libraries/finding_aids/records/finding_aid.php?fa=0392
Since the beginning of the award contest in 2005, all award submissions became part of the G. Edward Cassady, M.D. and Margaret
Elizabeth Cassady, R.N. Lewis Carroll Collection of the USC Libraries. To avoid confusion with the Lewis Carroll collection
bequeathed to USC by George Cassady, the Wonderland Award projects were removed from that collection and assigned their own
separate collection title and number. Each year, the contest submissions are added to this collection following the award
ceremony in the spring.
[Identification of item], Wonderland Award Submissions collection, Collection no. 0293, Special Collections, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California
All requests for permission to publish or quote from these materials must be submitted in writing to Special Collections.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the copyright owner, as stipulated in the Wonderland
award submissions guidelines.
The collection is open for research use. Advance notice is required for access.
The Wonderland Award is an annual multidisciplinary competition that encourages new scholarship and creative work related
to Lewis Carroll (1832-1898). The award was established in 2004 with the sponsorship of Linda Cassady.
The first award was made in the spring of 2005; speaking at that event was the great-granddaughter of Alice [Liddell], Vanessa
St. Clair. Since then, there have been almost 250 student submissions and the success of the program prompted USC to open
the competition to students from other Southern California colleges and universities for the 2011 award. With continued sponsorship
of Linda Cassady and strong support from the USC Libraries, it is planned that the eighth annual Wonderland Award in 2012
will be open to students from all schools in California.
The collection consists of almost all of the student projects for the Wonderland Award contest from 2005 through 2011 including
the artist's statement that is submitted along with the student's project. The collection includes paintings, essays, stories,
sculptures, video presentations, games, scrapbooks, a quilt, and many other types of assemblages based on Lewis Carroll and
his creations, especially Alice.
The collection is arranged chronologically beginning with the 2005 competition.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 -- Archives
Cassady, Linda -- Archives
University of Southern California. -- Awards
Alice (Fictitious character: Carroll)--Archives
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Contests
Fantasy literature--Archival resources
Wonderland Awards--Archives