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Finding Aid for the Collection of Material about Carey McWilliams, 1925-1948
2023
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Title: Collection of Material about Carey McWilliams
Date (inclusive): 1925-1948
Collection number: 2023
Extent:
2 boxes (1.0 linear ft.)
Abstract: Carey McWilliams (1905-1980) was a lawyer, author, and editor of
The Nation. Some of his books include:
Ambrose Bierce: A Biography (1929),
Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California (1939),
Brothers Under the Skin: African Americans and Other Minorities (1943),
Southern California Country: An Island on the Land (1946), and
The Education of Carey McWilliams (1979). The collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings by and about McWilliams. Also includes some pamphlets and
magazines.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library 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 UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. 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.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Unknown, ca. 1973.
Processed by Yasmin Damshenas in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Megan Hahn Fraser,
August 2011.
[Identification of item], Collection of Material about Carey McWilliams (Collection 2023). UCLA Library Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4232757
Carey McWilliams was born December 13, 1905 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He received his JD from the University of Southern
California and became an attorney at Black, Hammack & McWilliams, Los Angeles, 1927-38. He would go on to serve as chief of
the Division of Immigration and Housing, State of California, 1938-42. He worked as an editor at
The Nation from 1945 to 1975. Some of his books include:
Ambrose Bierce: A Biography (1929),
Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California (1939),
Ill Fares the Land: Migrants and Migratory Labor in the United States (1942),
Brothers Under the Skin (1943),
Prejudice: Japanese-Americans, Symbol of racial intolerance (1944),
Southern California Country: An Island on the Land (1946),
A Mask for Privilege: Anti-Semitism in America (1948),
The Education of Carey McWilliams (1979). He died on June 27, 1980 in New York City.
The collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings by and about the California lawyer and author Carey McWilliams. It
also includes some pamphlets and magazines. The clippings focus heavily on reviews of his work such as
Mask of Privilege,
Ill Fares the Land,
North from Mexico, and
Southern California Country: An Island on the Land. They also touch on the Thomas Jefferson award he received, as well as his dealings with the Committee on Un-American Activities
in the 1940s. The collection also contains a number of McWilliams's published articles, reviews and commentaries.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
McWilliams, Carey, 1905-1980.
Authors, American --Sources.
clippings.
Carey McWilliams papers, 1894-1982 (Collection 1319)
. Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
Carey McWilliams papers, 1930-1940 (Collection 1243)
. Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
Carey McWilliams correspondence, 1924-1975 (Collection 1356)
. Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
Collection of materials by and about George Sterling, ca. 1901-1935 (Collection 276)
. Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
Carey McWilliams collection of material about Ambrose Bierce, 1842-ca. 1914 (Collection 277)
. Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
Carey McWilliams collection of material about Mary Hunter Austin, 1868-1934 (Collection 278)
. Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
Honorable in all things oral history transcript: the memoirs of Carey McWilliams [oral history transcript] / Carey McWilliams,
interviewee. UCLA Oral History Department interview, 1978
. Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.