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Title: Rita Fikkert Collection
Dates: ca. 1937-1951
Collection Number: Bernath Mss 26
Collector:
Fikkert, Rita
Collection Size:
1.6 linear feet
(4 document boxes)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: SRLF.
Language:
English.
Collection is stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Rita Fikkert Collection. Bernath Mss 26. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Gift of Rita Fikkert, 1969.
Ruth Fikkert grew up in the Netherlands, was educated in part in the U.S., worked for the YWCA in California and New York,
and had extensive training and experience in housing issues. Much of the material in the collection apparently came to the
YWCA offices where she worked.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains correspondence, pamphlets, reports, articles, newspapers, flyers, tracts, and clippings from the World
War II and post-WWII era, relating primarily to wartime relations with other countries; wartime mobilization of resources;
support organizations; housing, labor, discrimination, and women's issues within the U.S.; propaganda; and censorship.
Some journals from the collection, such as
Foreign Policy Reports and
Voice of Freedom, have been transferred to the main stacks of the UCSB Davidson Library and can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries
online catalog.
A related Rita Fikkert Collection in the Performing Arts section of UCSB Special Collections [PA Mss 8], focuses on costume
and costume design.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
World War, 1939-1945.