Finding Aid for the Emil Otto Toews Collection of Material about Georg Kerschensteiner, ca. 1910-1955

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Finding Aid for the Emil Otto Toews Collection of Material about Georg Kerschensteiner, ca. 1910-1955

Collection number: 2003

UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections

Manuscripts Division



Los Angeles, CA
Processed by:
Manuscripts Division staff
Encoded by:
Caroline Cubé
Online finding aid edited by:
Josh Fiala, November 2003
© 2003 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Emil Otto Toews Collection of Material about Georg Kerschensteiner,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1910-1955
Collection number: 2003
Creator: Toews, Emil Otto, 1902-
Extent: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Dept. of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language: English.

Administrative Information

Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Restrictions on Access

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Emil Otto Toews Collection of Material about Georg Kerschensteiner (Collection 2003). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4233874 

Scope and Content

Collection consists of slides, paintings, an audiotape, and articles, pamphlets, and books by or about Kerschensteiner, assembled by Emil Otto Toews in the preparation of his 1955 UCLA doctoral dissertation on Bavarian educator Georg Kerschensteiner. The books comprise six duplicates of fifty-three items also donated with the collection which have been physically separated from it and individually catalogued. Also includes the dissertation and a charcoal portrait of Kerschensteiner.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Toews, Emil Otto, 1902- --Archives.
Kerschensteiner, Georg, 1854-1932.
Educators--Germany--Archival resources.


Box 1

Bronze medal with head of Kerschensteiner.

Physical Description: 11 cm.
Box 1

1 box with colored slides (43).

Box 1

Typescript: An introduction to the nature and possible uses of the “Kerschensteiner Collection.”

Physical Description: 10pp.
Box 1

A tape of the above typescript spoken by Dr. Toews.

Box 1

19 articles and pamphlets relating to Kerschensteiner, German and English, v.p., v.d.

Box 1

2 photocopies of newspapers articles, New York Times and New York Daily Tribune, December 4, 1910, relating to Herschensteiner.

Box 1

Dissertation: The life and professional works of Georg Michael Kerschensteiner (1854-1932).

Box 1

13 articles and pamphlets by Kerschensteiner.

Box 1

53 books by and about Kerschensteiner (catalogued).

Physical Description: (6 duplicates in box).
Box 1

Original watercolor by Kerschensteiner.

Physical Description: 17.5 × 27.5 cm. (framed: 61 × 74 cm.).
Box 1

Charcoal portrait of Kerschensteiner by Oscar Graf.

Physical Description: 26 × 34 cm. (framed: 61 × 74 cm.).