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Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Room 209
Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
Phone: (213) 740-5900
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Email: specol@usc.edu
Collections with online items: 12
Physical collections: 412
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18th Century Prints collection

This artificial collection consists of 18th century prints that have been mounted on paper. The prints depict images of writers, and actors and actresses, many in costume, including David Garrick, Mrs. Jordan, Charles Bannister, Mrs. Woffington, Mrs. Oldfield, Nancy Dawson,...

 
1952 Steel Crisis pamphlets

Collection of pamphlets from various unions and the United States government about the conflicts and strikes in the first administration of President Harry S. Truman.

 
1984 Los Angeles Olympics ephemera

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics ephemera contains promotional materials, ephemera and newspapers published during or for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, which were held in Los Angeles from July 28 to August 12, 1984.

 
19th century German poetry book

Notebook containing handwritten poems in German. Also includes a clipping and a ribbon commemorating a marriage. Entries and items date from 1839-1888. "Poesie" is printed on the cover.

 
19th century photographs collection

Tintype, ambrotype, daguerreotype, cartes-de-visite, and cabinet card portrait photographs of the Civil War period (soldiers and civilians).

 
19th century poetry scrapbook

Volume of clippings of poetry, pasted into Horatio N. Robinson's "A New Practical and Theoretical Arithmetic", published by E. Morgan & Co., Cincinnati, 1845. None of the clippings are dated, but can be assumed, based on some illustrations and the...

 
299. Infanterie-Division records

This collection consists of documents from the 299th Infantry Division of the German Wehrmacht. The 299th Infantry Division was formed in February 1940 as part of the 8th Wave. Its fought primarily in France from 1940 to 1941 and then...

 
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Abolish Cross-Filing in California records

This collection contains the records of the group formed by John B. Elliott to abolish the practice of cross-filing in California (Abolish Cross-Filing in California). Cross-filing is a practice that permits candidates for political office to register in multiple parties...

 
Actors and Actresses scrapbook

This bound scrapbook contains photographic portraits of theater and movie actors and actresses clipped from popular magazines in the years 1917 and 1918. Many are accompanied by brief blurbs about the individual's career. A bookplate on the inside cover indicates...

 
Aftermath of a flood in Japan photographs

A collection of nine photographs showing the aftermath of a flood in Japan circa the early 20th century. The photographs show destroyed buildings, people standing near debris, and small boats in a river.

 
Ahouse (John) collection on Exile Studies

Collection consists of research files related to the lives of European Jewish Émigrés to Los Angeles compiled by USC librarian John Ahouse. Materials include clippings, photographs, illustrations, and correspondence.

 
Air Mail clippings scrapbook

The Air Mail clippings scrapbook contains clippings, primarily from the the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Examiner, 1924-1931, that document the development of air mail service in the United States, Mexico and South America during that same period....

 
Air travel poster collection

This collection consists of one airline poster for the Pan American Airlines company, now known as Pan Am, in 1943.

Allan Hancock Foundation archive

The Allan Hancock Foundation Archive contains records of the Foundation set up at the University of Southern California by G. Allan Hancock for the purpose of furthering oceanographic studies. These records also include those materials from the library and museum...

 
Allied Control Council broadsides

The Allied Control Council or Allied Control Authority, also referred to as the Four Powers, was a military occupation governing body of the Allied Occupation Zones in Germany after the end of World War II in Europe. Following its establishment...

 
American advertising ephemera collection

A collection of advertising fliers, brochures, booklets and catalogs for household appliances and products, all aimed specifically at women, dating from the 1860s to the 1930s. The collection includes trade catalogs for heating sources, stoves, porcelain sinks, vacuums, "wear-ever" cookware,...

 
American Literature audio collection

Spoken word recordings by Archibald MacLeish, T.S. Eliot, Carl Sandburg, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Allen Ginsberg.

 
American literature broadsides collection

This collection includes some of the broadsides and examples of fine press and letterpress printing collected by USC Libraries Special Collections for its American Literature Collection.

 
American Literature ephemera

Collection consists of various literature publications, journals, posters and broadsides, articles, and other publications, related to 20th century American writers.

 
American Literature photograph collection

This small collection consists primarily of mounted (on 16 x 20" boards) photographs of late 19th and early 20th century American authors, literary scholars, and persons of note, including Walt Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, Louise Chandler Moulton, Joaquin Miller, Lyman...

 
American literature sheet music collection

This small collection of sheet music consists of music published between 1872 and 1940 (with the bulk published 1900s-1930s). The bulk of the music consists of lyrics written by significant American writers, including Booth Tarkington, Ring Lardner, Amy Lowell, Edna...

 
American Working Creed poster collection

This collection consists of posters about workers and freedom by the Saturday Evening Post, the Hoover Company, and the United States Rubber Company.

 
Anders (Günther) correspondence with Erna Budzislawski

Collection consists of correspondence in German of German-Austrian philosopher Günther Anders with Erna Budzislawski, an emigre living in Southern California.

 
Anonymous Hungarian Jew diary

Diary written by an unidentified Hungarian Jew. 66 entries from March 19, 1944 to January 17, 1945, describe the diarist's experiences while working for the Jewish Council in Budapest, as a prisoner of the Nyilas, working as a trench digger...

 
Anti-Nazi Bulletin collection (The)

Five issues of , published by the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights. The five issues in this collection are dated February, 1939; April, 1939; May, 1939; March, 1940; and June, 1940. The May 1939 issue covers the Non-Sectarian...

 
Arkatov (James) photographs

James Arkatov was a cellist who photographed famous concert soloists performing. This collection consists of black and white prints of the photographs he took between 1946 and 1999 of musicians and artists, as well as interviews of artists.

 
Army and Navy of the United States prints

Prints from a portfolio "Army and Navy of the United States", depicting various military scenes, primarily soldiers on horseback. The prints are hand colored. Three of the prints include artists signatures--Andre Castaigne and W.S. (William Sullivant Vanderbilt) Allen. They all...

 
Arthur de Carvalho photographs

The Arthur de Carvalho photographs consist of images of sculpture, temples, landscapes, and people, taken in China and India, by Dr. de Carvalho.

 
Arthur Goldstein Holocaust photographs

A collection of ten photographic prints taken by United States Army Lieutenant Arthur Goldstein upon the liberation of the Dachau and/or Buchenwald concentration camps in 1945. The photographs mostly show the human remains of deceased camp prisoners, including images of...

 
Ashenfelter (Orion) papers

A collection of nineteen letters written by Orion Ashenfelter to his family while on his tour of duty in the U.S. Navy, which began on January 29, 1900. Included in these letters is an eyewitness account of events during the...

 
Aviation clippings scrapbook

The Aviation clippings scrapbook contains clippings, primarily from the the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Examiner, 1924-1929, that document the development of aviation in the United States during that same period, including the aviation industry, aviation and the...

 
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B. (Steve) collection of personal advertisement responses

A collection of approximately 130 letters from around 90 different women, all written to one southern California man, Steve B., in response to personal ads he placed in the , , and international pen-pal services in the early 1990s. Most...

 
Bagley (Charles Leland) papers

This collection contains the personal papers of Charles Leland Bagley, along with records pertaining to the American Federation of Musicians. Bagley was a musician and lawyer who lived in Los Angeles and who was active in the AFM Local 47...

 
Barber School of Speech scrapbook

The Barber School of Speech scrapbook contains clippings, announcements, programs, notes, cards, and other types of printed ephemera, 1901-1980 (bulk 1922-1940), collected by Julia Barber, founder and director of the school. The scrapbook documents the activities of Mrs. Barber, a...

 
Barth (R. L.) papers

The R. L. Barth papers consist of manuscripts, paste-ups, chapbooks, and file copies of small press poetry published by the Robert L. Barth Press from the time of its founding in 1981 until the press ceased in the early 2000s....

 
Batons collection

Two conductors batons, 19th century, one from Germany, one from the United States.

 
Baum (Vicki) correspondence and film typescript

The Vicki Baum correspondence and film typescript consists of four typed letters signed "Vicki" on "Vicki Baum" letterhead, along with an unpublished draft for a film titled "Conspiracy (Working Title for Sands O' Life)." The correspondence is addressed to Baum's...

 
"Beatitude" #32 publication records

The "Beatitude" #32 publication records, 1980-1982, consists of typescripts, drawings, notes, and mockups for issue number 32 of "Beatitude", the San Francisco magazine of beat poetry. Drafts of poems by Janice Blue, Neeli Cherkovski, Louis Collins, Gregory Corso, Kirby Doyle,...

 
Beck (Nicholas) collection on Budd Schulberg

The Nicholas Beck collection on Budd Schulberg consists of material relating to Budd Schulberg (1914-2009)--the American screenwriter, television producer, and novelist--collected by Nicholas Beck (1932-2017). The collection includes material on Budd Schulberg's life, family, and works; the Watts Writers Workshop...

 
Bell (Susanne) jokes book

"Jokes from Two Decades, 1929-1949/Compiled by Susanne Bell" is a published book that Ms Bell completely covered with jokes clipped from newspapers and magazines.

 
Benner (Robert S.) collection of nautical charts

The Robert S. Benner collection of nautical charts consists of 22 nautical charts created in the late 17th century and mid-18th century. The majority of the nautical charts in the collection come from Francesco Maria Levanto's (1650-1718) , originally issued...

 
Berkes (Ross) papers

This collection includes the syllabi, records, publications, photographs, and grade books of Ross Berkes, professor of International Relations at USC from 1941-1991.

 
Berstl (Julius) papers

Literary archive of the German emigre author and playwright Julius Berstl (1883-1975). The collection includes typescripts, manuscripts, personal and professional correspondence, personal and biographical documents, theater memorabilia, and a small number of literary journals, both in English and in German....

 
Bieler Press broadsides

This collection consists of a single broadside, "Rabbits Do Not Know What They Want", printed by Bieler Press for Granary Books (1986) and a suite of broadsides "intended to be an introduction to three local publishers of literature who practice...

 
Bierce (Ambrose) correspondence collection

Letters from Ambrose Bierce to a variety of correspondents, including Samuel Loveman, B.J.S. Cahill, and Burnette G. Haskell. The collection also includes copies of some of Bierce's contracts with Neale Publishing, and pamphlets advertising his "Collected Works."

 
Bing (Dr. Richard J.) collection of music scores

Collection consists of the collected musical manuscripts of Dr. Richard J. Bing (1909-2010), composer and former Director of Experimental Cardiology and Scientific Development at the Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena, California.

 
Birnbaum (Milton) collection of printing ephemera

Collection consists of pamphlets, invitations, programs, press catalogs, correspondence, newsletters, and publications belonging to English professor Milton Birnbaum.

 
Black Lives Matter protest posters

A collection of four Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest posters gathered at BLM protests during 2020. The posters feature images of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Terence Crutcher, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Oscar Grant, Philando Castile, Walter Scott, Eric...

 
Black Panther Party publications

Newspapers published by the Black Panther Party and other writings and publications associated with the Black Panther Party.

 
Boden (Reynold) papers

Collected sermons of Rev. Reynold B. Boden (1893-1965), British-born lecturer at USC on comparative religion, 1936-1953.

 
Bodlander (Walter) collection of German exile materials

Wilhelm Loeb's German passport that indicates that he went to the German consulate in San Francisco to register the additional name "Israel"; collection of correspondence between Ernest Marcus and Alfred Neumann.

 
Bohannan (Paul) papers

Collection includes the records, field notes and recordings, academic publications, teaching notes, photographs, and materials related to research case studies of American cultural and social anthropologist and USC Dean of Social Sciences and Communications Paul Bohannan (1920-2007).

 
Bradbury (Ray) papers

Collection contains signed typescripts of Ray Bradbury's short stories "The Everlasting Clock," "The Man Upstairs," "Powerhouse," and "Skeleton." Also included in the collection are his introduction to Jules Verne's and six letters from Bradbury to Dorothy Faulkner, dated 1950-1962....

 
British manuscripts teaching collection

15 British manuscripts and manuscript fragments, dating from approximately 1540-1700.

 
British tourism poster collection

This collection consists of posters about tourism in Great Britain. They include photographs by Val Doone, Robert M. Adam, Photochrom Co. Ltd., Walter A. Scott, and S. K. Lazell.

 
Britton (Ira M.) papers

The Ira M. Britton papers consist of letters, photographs, certificates and notebooks created and collected by American serviceman Ira Britton during World War II. Britton served in both the the Royal Canadian Air Force and the United States Navy. Together,...

 
Broadside ballads collection

Collection of broadside ballads from England. Broadside (or broadsheet) ballads were one of the most common forms of printed material produced between the 16th and 19th centuries in England, Ireland, and North America. They centered on popular subject matter such...

 
Brown (Margaret De Motte) photographs

130 black and white photographs of historic Dutch houses and nearby landscapes in New York's Hudson Valley (Albany, Ulster, Dutchess and Westchester Counties) taken by photographer Margaret De Motte Brown in the 1920s. Each is signed. The images were used...

 
Bukowski (Charles) papers

The collection includes Charles Bukowski's (1920-1994) original poetry and short stories, along with drafts of Women, Factotum, Ham on Rye, Post Office, and Barfly; screenplays based on Bukowski's fiction; periodical appearances; tape recordings; and ephemera.

 
Burning Man collection

The Burning Man collection consists of approximately 75 pieces of ephemera, original art work, site newspapers, event maps and directories, press and media materials, and photographs from the Burning Man festival, circa 1998-2015. The Burning Man festival is an annual...

 
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Cadmus Editions records

Publisher's archives for the following Cadmus titles: A Short Guide to the High Places (Tom Clark, 1981) The Great Naropa Poetry Wars (Tom Clark, 1980) Nights We Put the Rock Together (Clayton Eshleman, 1980) Vision of the Fathers of Lescaux...

 
California Hands Across America records

The records of the California office of Hands Across America include correspondence, memoranda, promotional materials, newspaper clippings, and ephemera. Held on May 25, 1986, Hands Across America was a benefit event staged to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness.

 
California Historical Society collection of TICOR and C. C. Pierce photographs

The collection reflects the activities of the California Historical Society's Southern California Branch from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. The primary visual collection was the C.C. Pierce photographic collection, acquired by the Society from the Title Insurance and...

 
California Missions collection of inventories, reports, and other material

The twenty-one documents in this collection, primarily inventories, account books, and annual reports from five California missions, show economic and social aspects of life at the missions. The documents, written in Spanish and dated from 1791-1846, provide information about the...

 
California State Historical Resources Commission records

This collection includes binders of meeting agendas, records of projects, and pamphlets from the California State Historical Resources Commission.

 
Canal Zone Railroad crosstie

Section of railroad crosstie from the first railroad in Panama; "It was necessary to bore holes for the spikes owing to hardness [of the lignum vitae used for the tie]".

 
Carpe Diem Press records

The collection consists of the archives of the Carpe Diem Press, consisting of maquettes for books, ephemeral items, notes, art works, test prints, textile samples, and cover samples. Also included are posters and information about James hd Brown's work, and...

Cassady (G. Edward, M.D. and Margaret Elizabeth, R.N.) Lewis Carroll collection

The G. Edward Cassady, M.D. and Margaret Elizabeth Cassady, R.N. Lewis Carroll collection consists of photographs, correspondence, ephemera, realia, graphic materials, games, reference works, material from stage and film adaptations, and other archival material relating to children's literature author, mathematician,...

Chen (Theodore Hsi-en) papers

The Theodore Hsi-en Chen papers consist of administrative and faculty papers from Dr. Chen's chairing of the East Asian Studies Center and its predecessors from 1960 to 1971. The collection also includes material from the 1940s and 1950s, a scrapbook...

 
Cheung (Katherine Sui Fun) scrapbook and videos

A collection of videos and a scrapbook relating to Katherine Sui Fun Cheung (1904-2003), the first Chinese woman to obtain an international flying license. The scrapbook was created by Cheung and her daughter Dorothy Leschenko and consists of photographs, newspaper...

 
Chicago newspapers about William McKinley

This is a small collection of newspapers published in Chicago between 1898 and 1901 that contain front-page articles about President William McKinley, primarily his election and his assassination. Included are editions of the Chicago Daily Tribune, the Sunday Times-Herald, the...

 
Chilcote (Ronald H.) Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa papers

This collection consists of the pamphlets, press releases, reports, and communiqués related to the Angolan War of Independence compiled by University of California, Riverside Political Science professor emeritus Ronald H. Chilcote.

 
Christian Missionaries publications

Publications of French and German missionary groups, reporting on their work in Africa and the Far East. Collection includes extended runs of Nachrichten aus der Bruer-Gemeinde, Bruder (Missions-Blatt fur Kinder), and Les Missions d'Afrique for the period 1860-1925.

 
Church of Scientology publications, correspondence, and other material

A collection of printed and manuscript materials gathered and written by an unidentified New York woman in her early twenties while she was exploring the Church of Scientology during the 1960s. The collection includes 18 printed publications, 13 mimeographed policy...

 
Clark (Tom) papers

Drafts and galleys of Writer: A Life of Jack Kerouac and The Exile of Celine; Kerouac chronology; notes for the 1986 Olson Lectures; holograph notebooks; typescript poems and articles by Clark (b.1941).

 
Clayonian Literary Society Lecture Committee records

The Clayonian Literary Society was charged with inviting notable persons of the day to speak at its meetings. George Long Hutchings, a banker, was chairman of the Clayonian Society of Newark, New Jersey at least until 1871. Some of the...

 
Cleve family papers

A collection of family papers concerning a Jewish family who fled Austria and sought exile in the United States during the rise of Nazi power. Felix Merori Cleve, his wife Melitta Cleve, their son George Wolfgang Cleve, and Felix's sister...

 
Clifford (A.M.) papers

Economic surveys and "war loan" data, ca. 1943, from the office of Los Angeles investment counselor A.M. Clifford, one of the first investment counselors in the United States.

 
Collection on racism and religious intolerance in American advertising

A collection of sixty-one advertisements featuring racist stereotypes of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color -- along with a 1937 booklet advocating against marriages between two individuals of differing faiths and a 1950 flyer promoting the opening of a...

 
Conscientious objectors (Collection on)

A collection of brochures, newsletters, political questionnaires, pamphlets, position papers, and other material published by a variety of American organizations from throughout the country supporting citizens who claim the right to refuse to perform military service on the grounds of...

 
Corbett (Elizabeth) papers

Correspondence between novelist Elizabeth Corbett (b. 1887, Aurora, Ill., d. 1981, New York, NY) and Laura Burmeister; includes typescript poems.

 
Correspondence collection

This artificial collection was created by former USC librarians. It contains letters and related ephemeral material created by a wide variety of primarily American men and women of letters. Many of these are addressed to various University librarians--including Lloyd Arvidsen,...

 
Coudron (Victor) papers

Poems, plays, novels by French author Victor Coudron. The majority are manuscripts. Also includes notes made by the author, correspondence with an editor, and clippings.

 
Coulter Dry Goods Company records

Family history of B. F. Coulter, photographs, business correspondence, clippings; photographs of window and counter displays. The family business was founded in 1878 in Los Angeles and flourished until the 1960s.

 
Cray (Ed) papers

Ed Cray (b. 1933) is a veteran journalist and associate professor of journalism at USC. The collection includes Volumes 1-18 (1949-67) of the liberal West Coast political weekly/monthly Frontier Magazine, edited by Phil Kerby. Cray often wrote for the publication....

 
Crowl (Charles William) collection of German travel ephemera

Printed ephemera collected by the donor's aunt on a trip to Germany in 1936. Includes a guidebook for Hamburg, 2 postcards and a brochure for the Berlin Central-Hotel, events calendar for the week of July 7-13, 1936 for Berlin, a...

 
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Dadrian (Vahakn) papers

Vahakn Dadrian (1926-2019) was an Armenian-American sociologist and historian and one of the early scholars of the academic study of genocide. Dadrian was especially recognized as a leading expert on the Armenian Genocide. The Vahakn Dadrian papers contain Dadrian's research...

 
Das Blatt newsletter collection

Three issues of the newsletter, , published in Bogotá, Colombia by the Asociación Israelita Montefiore. The issues are dated: 1966 November 30; 1968 March 1; and 2019 November. The full title on the two issues from the 1960s is: "Das...

 
Das Gesundheitswesen Der Stadt Warschau report

Report prepared for the German government on diseases and healthcare problems in Warsaw from September 1939 though March 1942 and potential epidemic situations. The bombing of Warsaw left about 40% of the city without fresh water or functioning sewers. The...

 
Death to the Klan flyer

Flyer announcing a "Slideshow/Discussion about the KKK and the Black Nation's fight for liberation", November 9, [1981], at the New Valley Ministry in San Francisco, and a statewide anti-Klan conference and demonstration on November 14th and 15th . The events...

 
DeLay (Theodore S.) collection of Armed Forces Radio Service memorandums, reports, and other material

Research archive for a history of AFRS activity during World War II. The military radio service broadcast news and entertainment by shortwave wherever U.S. forces were engaged.

 
D'Elia (Lou) collection on George Hurrell

George Hurrell began his career as a photographer working for MGM during the Golden Age of Hollywood, during which time he photographed some of the most famous movie stars of the period, and as a result became one of the...

 
DeMott (Arthur E.) Civilian Conservation Corps photograph album

An album of photographs documenting Civilian Conservation Corps projects in California compiled by Arthur E. DeMott. Activities pictured in the photographs include the construction of "Dalton Camp F-126," construction at Tanbark Flats, and the building of a dam.

 
Deputy Judge Advocates Office, 7708 War Crimes Group, Headquarters European Command War Crimes Reviews and Recommendations collection

Copies of 7 "Review and Recommendations of the Deputy Judge Advocate for War Crimes" for United States vs Hans Altfuldisch et al, United States vs Friederich Becker et al, United States v. Josias Prince zu Waldeck et al, United States...

 
Der Politische Soldat: Politischer und Kultureller Informationsdienst für den Einheitsführer collection

The collection comprises a sequential run of all but seven issues of a Nazi Party periodical published by the Nationalsozialistische (NS) Führungsstab der Wehrmacht in cooperation with the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) toward the end of World War II. The...

 
DeStefano (Lorenzo) collection on the Hancock Pacific Expeditions

A collection of screenplay drafts, research notes, subject files, correspondence, photographs, books, audio and video tapes, and one 16mm film compiled by Lorenzo DeStefano for a film about G. Allan Hancock's expeditions to the Galapagos Islands during 1930s. DeStefano never...

 
Diary of a Nazi Girl report

Produced by Headquarters 52nd Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade, APO 654, US Army, this 13 typewritten, stapled pages, translated from German to English, is the second installment of the diary of a young girl in the Hitler Youth who lived in American-occupied...

 
Dick (Christian R.) collection of bookplates

Ex-Libris in ring binders, boxed, and in envelopes, collected by former USC librarian (Miss) Christian R. Dick (1883-1954); correspondence; index.

 
Dick Jones Picture Co. Charles M. Russell prints

11 prints of paintilgs by Charles M. Russell: The Strenuous Life; The Mad Cow; Cowboy Sport; The Cinch Ring; A Serious Predicament; Capturing the Grizzly; A Bronc to Breakfast; The SLick Ear; Jerked Down; Sagebrush Sport; Heads or Tails. Of...

 
Dime Novel catalogs and publications

Sales catalogs dedicated to American dime novels, and journals that contain, either whole or in part, articles devoted to dime novels and their authors.

 
Doolittle (Harold L.) collection of art prints

Prints by various artists, including John Taylor Arms and Arthur H. Heintzelman, from Harold L. Doolittle's collection; 41 prints from the Printmakers' Society of California (1922-64); about 150 prints by artists of the U.S. and Europe of the period 1915-1950;...

 
Dryer (John) Upton Sinclair photographs, clippings, and other materials

Photographs and clippings by and about Upton Sinclair, created and collected by photographer John Dryer in the 1960s. Included are photographs of Sinclair taken by Dryer; two reels of an interview of Sinclair conducted by Dryer; copies of celebrity letters...

 
Dundes (Alan) articles

Copies of articles written by Alan Dundes on various aspects of folkore and folkore history.

 
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Einstein (Albert) "Annalen der Physik" Papers collection

Included in this collection are On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, On a Heuristic Point of View about the Creation and Conversion of Light, On the Movement of Small Particles Suspended in a Stationary Liquid Demanded by the Molecular-Kinetic Theory...

 
Einstein (Sigmund) Gestapo document

Sigmund Einstein was born in Munich on July 20, 1899. He was a Jewish unskilled worker whose home and other assets were taken during the 1940s. This collection contains Gestapo documents regarding the seizure of his assets.

 
Elliott (Clyde E.) papers

This collection consists of story treatments, production materials, clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks, and photographs from American motion picture director, producer, and writer Clyde E. Elliott (1885-1959).

 
EPIC News periodicals collection

This collection consists of 1936-1946 issues of writer, activist, and politician Upton Sinclair's (1878-1968) and the End Poverty League's publication EPIC News.

 
Erna Reich papers

Papers of Erna (Sascha) Marcuse, nee Reich (1905-1967). They consist predominantly of her correspondence with a boyfriend, Emil Kuehne, during the early 1920s, but also include other miscellaneous personal effects from her years in Los Angeles. Erna Reich was a...

 
European fashion postcards collection

A collection of 98 postcards depicting primarily women's fashions, created from 1900 to 1924. The majority of these postcards are written in French and addressed to individuals in Brussels, Belgium. A few of the postcard images feature men and/or children....

 
European prints collection

This small collection consists of mostly 18th and 19th century European prints. Artists represented include Pierre Numa Basaget, Anne Claude de Caylus, George Follitt, Francois Jacques Dequevauviller, Edouard Hocquart, Gabriel Huquier, James Gabriel Huquier, Jean Francois Daumont, Georg Balthasar Probst,...

 
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Farie (Sophia) poetry notebook

Small notebook containing handwritten copies of poems, clippings of poems, and a few clippings of short essays. The book is inscribed inside the front cover and on one of the last pages with the owner's name, and the dates December...

 
Ferlinghetti (Lawrence) papers

Tapes, clippings, periodicals, correspondence of the San Francisco poet and publisher (b.1919); archives of the poetry journal Beatitude; draft and galleys of by Neeli Cherkovski (Doubleday, 1979); manuscripts by writer Charles Plymell (1935- ); a poster of Ferlinghetti at City...

 
Feuchtwanger (Martin) papers

Correspondence between Martin Feuchtwanger and his family, primarily his son Klaus. Also includes photographs of the family. Martin Feuchtwanger, younger brother of Lion Feuchtwanger, was a German writer, journalist and publisher. He was the editor of the Saale Zeitung, and...

Filipino American Library collection

The Filipino American Library collection consists of materials owned by the Filipino American Library in Historic Filipinotown that were transferred to the University of Southern California Special Collections in 2017. The collection is currently divided into two categories: (i) digitized...

 
Fire--Issue no. 2

Fire was a London-based poetry magazine, edited by Dr. Joseph H. Berke, an American-born psychotherapist based in London. It was part of the underground press movement of the 1960s and 70s. Issue no. 2 was produced in a run of...

 
Flournoy (William) collection of World War I letters, leaflets, and other material

This small collection, gathered by William R. Flournoy, father of former California State Controller Houston Flournoy, consists of letters from the front; leaflets from points-of-interest in England and France; copy of an Army field manual belonging to Flournoy.

 
Foley (Zoraya Filema) journal

A 30 page journal written between April 14 and June 1, 1907 by Zoraya Filema Foley. Foley was 14 years old when she wrote the journal. The entries describe her activities as a young lady of some means in early...

 
Foreign Tourism poster collection

This collection consists of foreign tourism posters about the countries of India and Guatemala.

 
Forthmann family photographs

This collection consists of photographs of members of the Forthmann family, one of the first prominent families in Los Angeles at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century. John Albert Forthmann I was a German...

 
Fox (Edward A.) letters

The Edward A. Fox letters consists of 33 letters written by Union Sergeant Fox to his mother Hannah J. Fox during the period August 1862-February 1863, and more than 50 letters and notes written to his fiancee (later wife) Jennie...

 
Frank (Eduard) correspondence with Joseph Brod

The Eduard Frank correspondence with Joseph Brod consists of a collection of letters written between Eduard Frank and Joseph Brod from 1953 to 1981. Eduard Frank was born in historical Sudetenland, now part of the Czech Republic. After settling in...

 
Frost (Larry) photographs

This collection contains photographs taken by Larry Frost. Formats include film negatives, prints, and slides. Subjects include buildings, wild life, and people.

 
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Garland (Hamlin) papers

The Hamlin Garland papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks, photographs, and memorabilia, by and about the American realist writer. Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who once held the title of "Dean of American Letters" and counted many...

 
Garrett (Henry) photograph album

Album of photographs, mostly cartes-de-visite, depicting members of the extended Garrett family from Ireland. The album also includes a few scenic photographs. Inscribed on the verso of the first page: "Henry Garrett's Family album/1876-1896".

 
Gebbie & Barrie engravings

31 engravings printed by Gebbie & Barrie for the U.S. International Exhibition, 1876, and published in their best-selling "Illustrated Catalogue of Masterpieces of the International Exhibition, 1876".

 
General Historical Manuscripts and Ephemera collection

This artificially created collection consists of notes, letters, documents, and photographs created by and for important historical figures, mostly American, from 1605, 1790 to 1928, and undated. Of particular historical interest are the letters written by Thomas Jefferson, William Smith,...

 
General Literary Manuscripts collection

The General Literary Manuscripts collection is an artificially created collection comprised chiefly of literary works and manuscript fragments of well-known writers and other public figures. The time covered is late 17th century to the first half of the 20th century.

 
General Music Manuscripts collection

This small, artifical collection consists of materials relating to 19th and 20th century musicians--sheet music, a photograph, a letter, clippings, programs, and a postcard.

 
German Army Uniforms and Insignia brochure

Informational brochure (in English) of German army and air force uniforms and insignia.

 
German cigarette cards on famous dancers of the world (Collection of)

Five albums of promotional sets of cigarette cards featuring pictures and text on famous dancers of the world, published by German cigarette companies in the 1930s. The contents of these albums were issued as collector's cards and distributed with cigarette...

 
German concentration camp prisoners letters

Two letters written by prisoners in the German concentration camps of Gross-Rosen and Sachsenhausen.

 
German Exiles collection

The German Exiles collection contains correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, event programs, and other material relating to various German exiles, including Lion Feuchtwanger, Alfred Adler, Bruno Frank, Emil Ludwig, Franz and Alma Werfel, and Thomas Mann. The German Exiles collection finding...

 
German friendship book (Poesiealbum)

German poesiealbum (friendship book), dated 1894-1899, filled with inscriptions from friends of the owner.

 
Gerrard (Saida) papers

The collection consists of costumes, manuscripts, programs, photographs, and clippings pertaining to choreographer/dancer Saida Gerrard from the 1930s through the 1970s.

 
Getty (J. Paul) collection

Clipping service scrapbooks on the later life of Getty (1892-1976), the construction of the Getty Museum in Malibu, and the settlement of his estate; clippings and photographs of the museum; album of letters, 1955-56, to Getty regarding his book, Collector's...

 
Gibson (John) and Kathy Riggins collection on the O. J. Simpson trial

A collection of files documenting the O. J. Simpson murder trial () as compiled by two journalists covering the trial at NBC News in Burbank: reporter John Gibson and producer Kathy Riggins. Gibson and Riggins were part of the NBC...

 
Goldstein (Charles) USC Mobile Dental Clinic records

This collection includes the files, records, photographs, and scrapbooks of clippings related to dentist Dr. Charles Goldstein and his work with the USC School of Dentistry Mobile Clinic from 1966-2008.

 
Goodbar (Lucretia May) poetry book

Small notebook containing typed poetry selections from "Out of My Heart to You" by Lucretia May Goodbar. The book contains 16 poems and appears to be a privately bound book created by the author as keepsakes for friends. Mixed Content...

 
Greene & Greene Virtual Archives

The Greene & Greene Virtual Archives (GGVA) contains images of drawings, sketches, photographs, correspondence, and other historical documents related to the work of the architects Greene & Greene.

 
Green's Diary Almanac

1 copy of Green's Diary Almanac from 1882-1883, published by G. G. Green, Woodbury, NJ. Green's Almanac was not a traditional almanac but rather a catalog for the company's products....

 
Guatemalan Civil War press photographs

A collection of 30 black and white press photographs of Guatemalan people impacted by the Guatemalan Civil War and the Guatemalan genocide, dating from the 1980s and 1990s. The images show indigenous life and customs, the impact of people being...

 
Gunter (Erica) papers

Collection of letters and photographs collected by Erica (Ricky) Gunter. The bulk of the letters (including telegrams) are from Richard (Dick) Paxton. Gunter was a German Jew who fled Nazi Germany with her brother. She met Paxton in 1944 or...

 
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Hacker (Friedrich) papers

Friedrich (Frederick) Hacker was a distinguished psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and cultural figure. Born in Vienna in 1914, Hacker left Austria soon after the Anschluss and made his way to Los Angeles via New York and Topeka, Kansas. In Los Angeles, Hacker...

 
Hard (Nina) papers

This collection documents the life of Nina Hard, a German dancer, who at one time worked with German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The collection consists almost primarily of personal photographs, with some documents such as letters and legal documents.

 
Harold C. Carey letters

6 letters written by Lieutenant Harold C. Carey, United States Navy, to his mother Thelma and his brothers Pat and Cortez who were living in Inglewood, California, 1942-1943. Letters are primarily concerned with personal and family matters. Such letters give...

 
Harper & Brothers school and family charts

A collection of eight visual teaching aids titled "School and Family Charts" published by Harper & Brothers in 1862. Each print measures approximately 23 by 33 inches. Topics covered in the charts include zoological and economical uses of animals; botanical...

 
Harris (William Torrey) papers

The William Torrey Harris papers, 1857-1909, consists of letters, manuscripts, typescripts, notes, and leaflets collected and created by noted 19th century educator, philosopher and lexicographer William Torrey Harris. In addition to letters from major philosophers of the period, including John...

 
Hawk (W. P. S.) photo-radiogram

A glass plate showing the first photograph sent by wireless radio. The envelope holding the glass plate states that this was the first photograph ever sent by wireless radio, transmitted April 29, 1925 from Honolulu to New York. The subject...

 
Hawkins (Anne) papers

This collection contains notebooks, galleys, drafts, and outlines for Anne Hawkins' books about the Pony Express, along with some of her correspondence. Hawkins was a stenographer who lived in Southern California and was the author of , and .

 
Hayes (Alfred) papers

The Alfred Hayes papers consist of 15 boxes of papers collected and/or created by Alfred Hayes and one box of papers belonging to Marietta Elliott, who was married to Alfred Hayes. Alfred Hayes worked as a screen and television writer,...

 
Heppenstall Company anti-Nazi poster

A poster titled "A Nazi is smart... he invents new ways to save time and raw materials. It's you against him." The poster was issued by the Heppenstall Company, Steel Forgings, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The poster measures 62 by...

 
Heras (Antonio) papers

This collection contains the papers of Antonio Heras, who was a professor of Spanish and Spanish Literature at USC from 1925-1950. Heras's papers include manuscripts and typescripts of his articles and stories, research notes, clippings, correspondence and diaries.

 
Hilde Wendland manuscripts and Plaut family memorials collection

Four manuscript books in German, created by Hilde Wendland for Stefanie Henders-Grunewald in 1920. Wendland hand-copied text from known poetry and fairy tales and hand-colored accompanying illustrations to create these manuscripts. Also included are two memorial works regarding brothers, Jacob...

 
Hill (Alice L.) papers

Photocopies of research by Alice Hill, daughter of Robert E. Hill (d. 1945), one of the owners and founder of the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company (Oklahoma City) and of property above the Oklahoma City pool [oil reserves], into the...

 
Hill (Gladwin) papers

This collection consists of Gladwin Hill's clippings files on the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers and the notes he took while covering their assassinations for in 1963 and 1968. Also included in this collection are magazines and newspapers with features...

 
Hirschman (Jack) papers

Manuscripts of Hirschman's (b.1933) Requiem and Hunger; typescript translations of Russian writer Alexander Kohan; Bukowski ephemera.

 
History of Hungary collection

Extended essays by various authors, in English or Hungarian, on the modern political history of Hungary, especially during World War II. The essays were gathered by Dr. Frank de Balogh, ca. 1965, as part of USC's "Living History" project.

 
Hitler (Adolph) last will and testament parody flyer

The Adolph Hitler last will and testament parody flyer is an illustrated parody of Hitler's will. The parody--titled "Last Will and Testament of Adolph Hitler Alias Adolph Schickelgruber"--addresses both individuals and nations, including Benito Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann...

 
Hoffman (Abbie) collection

Books, audio and video tapes, and a 1981 screenplay ("A Major Motion Picture") connected with the life of radical leader Abbie Hoffman.

 
Hoffman (Richard J.) print collection

This collection consists of printer Richard J. Hoffman's (1912-1989) personal collection of printed books and printmaking books. These books cover subjects such as lithography, typography, and printmaking. Hoffman was a printer and professor of printmaking and graphic arts in Los...

 
Holocaust Survivors of the Jewish Community of Pest register

Register containing the names, professions, dates of birth and addresses of nearly 54,000 survivors of the Holocaust and Nazi-era persecution in the Jewish community of Pest, Budapest. Budapest became a city in 1872, following the union of Buda and Pest....

 
Hoover Dam Project prints

3 matted prints depicting the construction of the Hoover Dam created by architect and artist William Woollett....

 
Horner (Harry) papers

The Harry Horner papers consist of correspondence, notebooks, sketchbooks, programs, clippings, scripts, and scrapbooks, 1924-2000, created and collected by director and production designer Harry Horner. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, both professional and personal. It also includes...

 
Howe (Harriet) papers

Harriet Abott Howe was a life-long writer who published poetry and short essays in Los Angeles and San Francisco newspapers and magazines during the 1890s, but after that does not seem to have been entirely successful in publishing her work....

 
Hoyningen-Huene (George) photographs

Black and white photographs, mounted, of archeological sites and fashion models by the magazine photographer and film designer George Hoyningen-Huene(1900-1968).

 
Hubert (Mrs. L.M.) 19th century popular culture scrapbooks

This fourteen volume scrapbook collection consists of clippings pasted into official reports issued by the US Post Office (the volume numbered 5 is only half filled with clippings, and as such the remainder of the report, "Report of the Pstmaster-General"...

 
Hughes (Rupert) papers

Collection consists of subject files, typescripts, correspondence, published articles and personal memorabilia of American novelist, biographer, screenwriter, and musicologist Rupert Hughes (1872-1956).

 
Hungarian Anti-Semitic legal documents

4 documents produced in Hungary in support of the enforcement of the Anti-Jewish Laws, which Hungary began enacting after 1938.

 
Huxley (Aldous) papers

This collection contains financial records of Aldous Huxley dated 1957-1962. Huxley was an English writer who moved to Los Angeles in 1937. He was most famous for his novel .

 
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Incunabula and book leaves

Collection of 163 individual, original leaves from incunabula and books dating from the 16th through the 18th centuries.

 
Incunabula and early printed book leaves collection

This collection consists primarily of individual leaves from incunabula, the majority of which are Bibles, German in origin, and dating from approximately 1470 to 1499. Also included are colored leaves from a printing of the Nuremburg Chronicles, and some single...

 
International Military Tribunal for the Far East records

Background reports, court documents, photographs, maps from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, May 1946 through February 1947, at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo.

 
Issler (Anne Roller) papers

This collection contains typescripts for Anne Roller Issler's work on Robert Louis Stevenson's time spent in San Francisco between December 1879 and May 1880. The work, , was published by Stanford University Press in 1949.

 
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Jackson (Felix) papers

Felix Jackson was a German born screenwriter, film and television producer, and novelist. During the war, he was active in the European Film Fund. This small collection consists of a gold record inscribed to Felix Jackson, of"Let Me Go Lover"...

 
Jackson (William Henry) photographs

These 25 mounted photographs, depicting views of Yellowstone National Park, and various lakes and mountains in Colorado, Montana, and Grand Teton National Park, were taken by renowned American photographer William Henry Jackson between 1871 and 1873. They represent part of...

 
Jacobsohn collection on Germany between the Wars

Collection consists of the print newspapers, pamphlets, and other ephemera gathered by Dr. Leo Jacobsohn (1881-1944) throughout the time he spent living in Berlin from 1909 to 1938, with materials primarily from 1914-1933.Overall, Jacobsohn's collections reflect German officialdom, shortages,...

 
"J'ai Toujours Ma Boule" throwing game set

"J'ai Toujours Ma Boule." Nouveau Tue-Boches. An unusual game, dating to the First World War, in which the aim is to launch a ball at five chromolithographed wooden heads representing the "Boche" (or Germans) and the leaders of the other...

 
Jani (Robert F.) papers

This collection consists of the personal and business papers of Robert F. Jani (1934-1989). He was a creator, director and executive producer of musical spectaculars, television productions, pageants and extravaganzas, celebrations, international events, parades, arena shows and sports events, world...

 
Japanese American Review collection

43 issues of the "Japanese American Review", a newspaper published in New York between 1939 and 1941. Includes two copies of a special Japan Day Edition (June 1939), which covers the Japan Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair....

 
Japanese photographs

23 photographs of life in Japan, circa 1880.

 
Jaskulski (Martin) papers

This collection consists mainly of personal documents regarding Martin Jaskulski, a German Jew, and provides a snapshot of the life of a German Jew before, during, and after World War II.. Much of the documentation relates to his work history...

 
Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics California political campaign ephemera

The Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics California political campaign ephemera consists of files containing primarily direct mail materials for various local and state of California political campaigns, 1993-2009.

 
Jitney Busses scrapbook

This small scrapbook contains clippings, from December 1914 to March 1915, documenting the controversy over lack of regulation of "jitney" buses in Los Angeles. Many of the clippings come from the Los Angeles Times, the Express, the Tribune, and the...

 
Johnny Tolbert letters

The Johnny Tolbert letters is a collection of 151 letters and four Western Union telgrams sent from United States Army soldier Johnny Tolbert (1924-1989), also known as Johnnie Clifton or J.C., to Ruth Mae Clennell (1925-2000) from San Pedro, California...

 
Joseph II and Louis Phélypeaux (Collection of posters on)

A collection of three posters portraying Joseph II (1741-1791) and Louis Phelypeaux (1705-1777). All of the posters incorporate reproductions of earlier paintings and engravings with French or Latin text describing the subject matter of the images. Two of the posters...

 
Journey from Zero to Infinity works of art

In the fall of 2009, USC's Doheny Memorial Library held an exhibition of twenty framed works of art created by Victor Raphael and Clayton Spada, the artists being inspired by rare works from USC Libraries' Special Collections. When the exhibition...

 
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Kalt (Elisabeth) correspondence

A collection of 16 letters between Dr. Elisabeth Kalt (1903-1961) and her husband Bertram Kalt ranging from July 23, 1940 to January 20, 1943. Dr. Kalt was a female psychiatrist who began her career in 1933, as the Nazi Party...

 
Kaplan (Allan) and Robert Kaplan political memorabilia collection

The Allan Kaplan and Robert Kaplan political memorabilia collection consists of posters, ephemera, and realia documenting national and local political and campaigns. The bulk of the material dates from the late 1960s-early 1970s and documents the brothers' earliest political activism....

 
Kaplan (Robert) political campaign, ballot measure, and fundraising papers

Robert Kaplan is an internationally known campaign, communications and fundraising consultant and advisor who has planned, designed, positioned, directed and executed more than 250 fundraising and capital campaigns, grassroots, voter outreach and other communications programs for a variety of interests....

 
Kellman (George) papers

The George Kellman papers contain correspondence, clippings, newsletters and publications, memoranda, and notes and writings by George Kellman during his tenure as Director of the Fact-Finding Division of the American Jewish Committee (New York Chapter) during the 1950s and 1960s....

 
Kiess (Paul) papers

This collection contains the personal papers of Dr. Paul Kiess. The collection contains personal correspondence and correspondence with Christian organizations in the US, photographs, newspaper clippings, outlines for Dr. Kiess' speeches, and ephemera. Dr. Paul Kiess, a Protestant, was a...

 
Kline (Samuel H.) papers

Samuel Kline (1837-1917) was a Boston businessman who retired to San Diego, California in 1902. His papers include his detailed memoirs in which he wrote about his two-hundred-year family history, his childhood in upper New York State, his experiences in...

 
Klinger (Walter A.) papers

The Walter A. Klinger (1912-2003) papers consists of photographs, correspondence, clippings, and typescripts that document the pre-war Austrian lives of Walter, his wife Hertha, and father Adolf; their emigration via Trinidad in the early 1940’s; and from their lives in...

 
Kohnstamm (Oskar) papers

Papers of Dr. Oskar Kohnstamm, M.D. (1871-1917). The collection is predominantly made up of Dr. Kohnstamm's published work and research in medical journals. It also includes materials that concern both Dr. Kohnstamm and the Sanatorium Dr. Kohnstamm, which he established;...

 
Kortner (Fritz) "Ein Traum, kein Leben" annotated script

A heavily annotated script for a work by Fritz Kortner (1892-1970), one of Austria's best-known character actors and the nation's foremost performer of Expressionist work. Kortner titled this early working draft , but he later renamed the work and turned...

 
Koske (Walter) prison diary

A prison diary written by Walter Koske, a documented member of the Nazi resistance. Walter Koske was one of twelve members of the illegal resistance cell Mix & Genest (named after the electronics company they worked for) who were arrested...

 
Kossack family papers

Kossack family photograph album, official Nazi party family tree document, and one page of a letter.

Krause (Lucjan) Warsaw Uprising postcards

A collection of approximately 75 postcards and handmade cards sent from schoolchildren in Poland to Lucjan Krause (1928-2022), a member of the Polish underground resistance who fought in the Warsaw Uprising (1944). The cards, mostly written by Polish schoolchildren in...

 
Krueger (June and Gilbert) collection of Civil War letters

The collection consists chiefly of letters addressed to Lovina Obriham of Freeport, Winneshiek County, Iowa, from her brothers, Edwin C., Charles J., Frank W., and Harlow H. Obriham, her cousin and future husband, Chales L. Beebe, and other Union soldiers...

 
Krueger stammbuch

Stammbuch (friendship album) of a young German girl from Berlin named Krueger, 1830s-1840s, filled with poetry, locks of hair, and drawings....

 
Ku Klux Klan ephemera collection

The Ku Klux Klan ephemera collection consists of two notices promoting public events held by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), two blank petition forms for membership in the KKK, and one informational pamphlet regarding the KKK's attitudes toward immigration --...

 
Kuhn (Bob) 1984 Olympics photographs, ephemera and realia

Photographs and negatives, press passes, press kits, Sports Illustrated magazines, created and collected by photographer Bob Kuhn for the 1984 Olympics.

 
Kunc (Frank James) photographs of the Dachau concentration camp

54 photographs taken by Frank James Kunc (1923-1986) showing the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945. The photographs show the human remains of deceased camp prisoners, trains and other vehicles around the camp, views of the countryside surrounding...

 
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La C.C.B. presente Adolf Eichmann poster

Poster with skulls and a hand with a five pointed star grabbing another skull. "Adolf Eichmann" is printed in white letters.

 
Lantern slides collection

This collection consists of around 750 3" x 4" lantern slides on the history of California, reproduced from engravings, drawings, and photographs from the late 19th century.

 
L'Aurore newspaper

January 13, 1898 issue of L'Aurore in which Emile Zola's letter to the President of the Republic in defense of Alfred Dreyfus, who was accused of treason by the French Army.

 
Left Literature collection of pamphlets and periodicals

Pamphlets, books, and periodicals from Socialist and Communist publishers in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., 1930s-1950s. Subjects include fascism, atomic weapons, race and labor relations.

 
Leo Braudy papers

Typescripts and galleys of Dr. Braudy's early monographs "Narrative form in history and fiction: Hume, Fielding & Gibbon" (1970), "Focus on Shoot the piano player" (1972), and "The world in a frame: what we see in films" (1976). Copies of...

 
Lerner (Arthur) collection on Poetry Therapy

This collection contains publications pertaining to poetry therapy collected by Arthur Lerner, as well as a small amount of his correspondence. Lerner was one of the pioneers of the use of poetry therapy techniques as a form of psychological therapy.

 
Lessing (Erich) Hungarian Revolution photographs

Photographs created by Austrian photographer Erich Lessing, documenting the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The photographs were printed in 2006 for an exhibition held at USC Libraries' Doheny Memorial Library commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution.

 
Lichtig & Englander letters

Letters to the Hollywood agency Lichtig & Englander, many addressed directly to Harry Lichtig, from novelists, screenwriters, editors, actors and actresses. Some of the letters have notes inscribed by the firm regarding action taken. The letters describe the routine business...

 
Lichty (Lenna) collection on Federico Schroeder Inclan

Draft biography of the Mexican playwright by Lenna Lichty; research notes; letters, 1960-80, from Inclan to Lichty; typescripts of various works by Inclan. Inclan was born in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1910. He studied humanities and electrical engineering at the...

 
Liebenfeld Foundation documents

The Liebenfeld Foundation documents consist of two proclamations discussing the volunteers for the Bochum synagogue, the Jewish women's group; a proclamation about the Moses and Regine Liebenfeld Stiftung; a photograph, possibly of the interior of the synagogue at Bochum; a...

 
Liniger (Geraldine) photograph album

A photograph album compiled by Geraldine Liniger of Medford, Oregon to document her 1950 trip to a Brethren youth work camp in Kassel, Germany, where she helped build homes for refugees displaced by World War II. The album begins with...

Lipton (Lawrence) papers

The Lawrence Lipton papers, 1883-2009 (bulk 1950-1975), consist of correspondence, interviews, manuscripts, typescripts, audio recordings, clippings, periodicals, photographs, motion pictures, and ephemera, created and collected by Beat Generation chronicler, novelist, and poet, Lawrence Lipton. The collection documents Lipton's prolific work...

 
Locke (Josephine) papers

The collection consists of notes, guidebooks, prints, and photographs created and collected by Josephine Locke on her travels in Europe and the Far East. In addition to notebooks filled with Locke's observations on the art she viewed, many of the...

 
Locklin (Gerald) papers

Gerald Locklin is an American poet and Professor Emeritus of English at California State University, Long Beach and the poetry editor of Chiron Review. From 1965 through 2007, he taught creative writing, 20th-century literature, and literary theory at California State...

 
Lomas (Donald F.) papers

The Donald F. Lomas papers, 1985-2005, were created and collected by Lomas as part of his work with various social service agencies in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, and the San Gabriel Valley.

 
London (Jack) papers

The Jack London papers consists of correspondence, typescripts and manuscripts, financial records, pamphlets, photographs, and clippings created and collected by American author Jack London. Also included is a bibliographic card file created for a course on bibliography and research at...

 
Lone Pine digital images and inventory

A collection of forty-eight digital image files stored on a compact disc, along with a printed inventory describing each image. The images show the town and surrounding area of Lone Pine, California, including images of the Owens Valley and Owens...

 
Longstreet (Stephen) papers

Typescripts, manuscripts, galleys, artwork, letters, financial records, and personal material created and collected by writer and artist Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002) over the course of his long career.

 
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce banquet photograph

A mounted photograph showing a large group of people, including Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) and Andrew James Copp, Jr. (1880-1971), seated at a Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce banquet in 1910. The photograph is captioned: "Mr. Andrew Carnegie / Honored Guest...

Los Angeles Corral of Westerners records

The Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners was founded in 1946 and promotes the study and understanding of Western history through publications and events. This collection contains correspondence, financial and publication records, photographs, artifacts, scrapbooks and drafts of articles documenting...

 
Lowry (Robert) papers

Typescripts and galleys of various books by American journalist, editor, and novelist Robert Lowry (1919-1994).

 
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Maidenberg (Harry F.) scrapbooks

This collection contains six scrapbooks containing clippings, photographs, and ephemera documenting the early history of California. The scrapbooks were compiled by Harry F. Maidenberg, who was an insurance salesman in Los Angeles.

 
Mailer (Norman) papers

Speeches, correspondence, tape recordings, drafts and galleys connected with Mailer's campaign for mayor of New York City in 1969.

 
Mansback (Arthur) papers

The Arthur Mansback papers consists of letters, postcards, telegrams, photographs, training materials, and printed ephemera created and collected by Private Arthur Mansback during his tour of duty in the United States Army Expeditionary Forces in France during the second half...

 
Manuscript leaves removed from antiphonaries

A collection of two manuscript leaves removed from two different antiphonaries. Each leaf consists of two pages of handwritten music for use in a liturgical choir. Both leaves were likely created some time between the 14th and 16th centuries. One...

 
Martinez (Harold) correspondence

26 letters written by Mexican-American solider Harold Martinez between June 1944 nd March 1946 while serving in the military during World War II. Addressed to his brother George, also in the army, and his mother, the letters begin when Harold...

 
Maskerade: Ein Wiener Stuck mit Musik script

Collection consists of a script for the stage production of Maskerade, written by Walter Reisch with music by Georg Kreisler.

 
Massary (Fritzi) correspondence

This collection contains the correspondence of Fritzi Massary with her colleague and friend Violet Oldak. It also includes one letter from Liesl Frank, Fritzi's daughter, to Violet Oldak; a newspaper clipping about Fritzi Massary; an enclosed letter from Lili Darvas...

 
McCabe (Hilton H.) papers

The Hilton H. McCabe papers consist of correspondence, reports, photographs, clippings, legal documents and maps documenting McCabe's judicial work with allotments, guardianships and conservatorships of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in and around Palm Springs, California. McCabe, a...

 
McElderry (Bruce Robert) papers

Research files of Prof. Bruce Robert McElderry (b. 1900) (USC English Dept.) for his biography of critic Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1856) (Twayne, 1972). Collection contains working copies of Beerbohm's books.

 
McMillin (John S.) papers

Letters, documents, testimony regarding Capt. John S. McMillin, his command of the Union steamer "Silver Wave" during the Civil War, and his steam capstan patent.

 
Medals and medallions collection

British, French, Belgian medals from World War I; other medallions.

 
Mercer (Bernice B.) collection of Christopher Morley material

16 items relating to the author Christopher Morley (1890-1957) collected by Bernice B. Mercer (identified in the collection as Mrs. Theodore Mercer). Items in the collection include Alfred P. Lee's Christmas folder [circa 1930] containing by Christopher Morley; an announcement...

 
Mierendorff (Marta) papers

The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and ephemera regarding the lives and work of many German-speaking emigre artists in Southern California. One focus of the collection are German Expressionist Theater director Leopold Jessner (1878-1945) and his brother-in-law, the actor...

 
Mills (William Hathorn) papers

Composition books containing religious and inspirational verses by Mills (1848-1930), an "English clergyman residing in San Bernardino," ca. 1912-1920.

 
Mineral King Development records

The collection consists of environmental reports, correspondence, scrapbooks, and other ephemera pertaining to the controversial 1960s development of a 16,000 acre tract of the Sequoia National Forest in Tulare County, California. The materials were created and collected by conservation activists...

 
Mirano (Virgil) 3D photography collection

The Virgil Mirano 3D photography collection comprises the library of Virgil Mirano (1937-2018), the cinematographer and visual effects specialist best known for his work on (1988), (1982), and (1987). The collection contains books, magazines, and promotional material that incorporate 3D...

 
Mitteilungsblatt der Hitachduth Olej Germania we Olej Austria

Two issues of the weekly newsletter of the German and Austrian Immigrant's Association based in Tel Aviv. Issue No. 7 is titled and the issue dated "Mai II" is titled . Both issues were published in 1939 and include both...

 
Morantz (Paul) papers

Collection consists of the casefiles, correspondence, ephemera, and recordings of USC alumnus and California attorney, Paul Morantz (1945-2002). Paul Morantz (1945-2022) was an American attorney who specialized in litigating against cults, and self-help groups raising the issue of brainwashing.

 
Morning Post and Gazetteer

Issue No. 9166, Thursday, May 24, 1798. Published in London, printed by C. Smith.

 
Morning Telegraph collection

The Morning Telegraph (1839-1972) was a broadsheet newspaper published in New York City. It was devoted primarily to theatrical and horse racing news. The issues in this collection consist of Section III of the paper, which was dedicated to photographs...

 
Morse (Willard) collection on Ambrose Bierce

Book reviews, journal and newspaper articles (originals and photostats) by and about Ambrose Bierce, journalist and author of The Devil's Dictionary and Tales of Soldiers & Civilians (1891). Willard S. Morse (1856-1935) was a mining executive in the West and...

 
Morse (Willard) collection on American literature

Clippings, articles, letters about various American authors, including but not limited to Edith Tatum, Lafcadio Hearn, F. Scott Fitzgerlad, various Southern writers and poets....

 
Morse (Willard) collection on Edgar Lee Masters

Book reviews, journal and newspaper (originals and photostats) by and about Edgar Lee Masters, and an extensive type- and handwritten bibliography of Morse's holdings on on Masters, author of the Spoon River Anthology. Willard S. Morse (1856-1935) was a mining...

 
Morse (Willard) collection on Henry Van Dyke

Book reviews, journal and newspaper (originals and photostats) articles by and about Henry Van Dyke, and a typewritten bibliography on Van Dyke (1852-1933), minister and author of popular Christmas sermons, essays, and short stories. Willard S. Morse (1856-1935) was a...

 
Morse (Willard) collection on Sinclair Lewis

Book reviews, journal and newspaper (originals and photostats) articles by and about Sinclair Lewis, and an extensive type- and handwritten catalog of Morse's holdings on Lewis, author and novelist, who was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for...

 
Morse (Willard) collection on Thomas Nelson Page

Book reviews, journal and newspaper (originals and photostats) articles by and about Thomas Nelson Page, and a typewritten bibliography of works by and about Page, author of short stories, novels, essays, and poetry, who is best known for his role...

 
Morse (Willard) collection on Vincent Starrett

Book reviews, journal and newspaper (originals and photostats) articles by and about Vincent Starrett, and a typewritten bibliography on Starrett (1886-1974), the author of mysteries and horror stories of the "Chicago Renaissance." Willard S. Morse (1856-1935) was a mining executive...

 
Morse (Willard) collection on William Dean Howells

Book reviews and periodical appearances (originals or photostats), and an extensive typewritten catalog of Morse's holdings on William Dean Howells, author, editor, and critic, who was widely acknowledged during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the "Dean of...

 
Mosk (Richard M.) Warren Commission papers

Richard M. Mosk was a California Court of Appeal Justice who over more than three decades of public service investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, chaired the Motion Picture Classification and Rating Administration that provides the parental ratings...

 
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Nash (John Henry) brochures, folders, and fine books

This small collection consists of announcements, brochures, pamphlets, greeting cards, poems, sketches, fine books, folders, and engravings by various hands designed and printed by San Francisco fine printer John Henry Nash. Nash was a well-known designer, typesetter and printer working...

 
National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism records

Letters, documents, leaflets, clippings created by the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism in New York in 1933. Organized by Workers International Relief in 1933 following the accession to power of Adolf Hitler in Germany, its aim was...

 
National Republic collection

The was a nationalist, anti-radical magazine, which focused on political affairs in the United States involving national security and communist activities. Originally titled , this magazine was published by the National Republic Publishing Co. in Washington, D.C. from March 1905...

 
Neumark (Zenon) papers

The Zenon Neumark papers consist of a legal documents, identification cards, photographs, diary pages, letters, and postcards, documenting Neumark's life during and after World War II. Zenon Neumark is the author of "Hiding in the Open: A Young Fugitive in...

 
Neuruppin Institute psychiatric file on Fritz Seelig

The Neuruppin Institute psychiatric file on Fritz Seelig consists of a psychiatric file documenting one of the first victims of involuntary sterilization at the Neuruppin Institute () in Berlin. Fritz Seelig was recommended to the Neuruppin Institute at the age...

 
Newspaper headlines collection

American newspaper front pages and other clippings for the San Francisco earthquake, the 1918 Armistice, the Lindbergh kidnapping, the war years 1940-45, etc.

 
Nuremberg Trial records

The Nuremberg Trial records contain transcripts, case files, and other records documenting the Nuremberg Military Tribunals spanning 1946 to 1949. The majority of the collection consists of typed copies of case files of documentary evidence. The files are generally written...

 
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O'Grady (Frank) photograph collection

The Frank O'Grady photograph collection contains approximately 220 photographic prints of newsworthy events produced by the Underwood & Underwood photo syndicate for potential publication in various New York City newspapers in 1919. The collection was assembled by Francis (Frank) O'Grady,...

 
"Our Colored Citizens" pamphlet

"Our Colored Citizens: How They Have Been Officially Recognized Both in War and Peace by the Republican Party" is an 8 page pamphlet describing how the Republican Party had been working to enfranchise African-Americans in American government and politics and...

 
Oxford Almanacks

A collection of six prints of the , published by the Oxford University Press between 1836-1894 and 1965. Each print features a calendar, an image, and lists of university offices, heads of colleges, and professors. The almanacs in this collection...

 
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Paciolan Systems records

Paciolan Systems, Inc. began as a small computer software development company specializing in ticketing for college athletics. In its past four decades of history, the company grew, developed, and merged with other companies-- and now is once again known as...

 
Parker (Cecile R.) letter and liberated woman die-cut

The Cecile R. Parker letter and liberated woman die-cut consists of two items relating to women's history during the American Victorian and Edwardian eras. The first item is an 1874 letter from Cecile R. Parker to Mrs. Evaline Price regarding...

 
Phelps (Eugenia F.) paper cutting, paper weaving, and card sewing albums

Three accordion-fold albums, each demonstrating one of the "gifts" (educational forms of play) devised by kindergarten originator Friedrich Wilhelm Frobel. Each album bears the name of Eugenia T. Phelps (b. 1894), a kindergarten teacher in the New York City public...

 
Pierce (Bessie Frances) diaries and journals

The Bessie Frances Pierce diaries and journals consist of nine diaries and journals and one commonplace book of notes from religious classes spanning 1900 to 1931. Pierce authored every item in the collection except for one of the diaries, which...

 
Pinkus (Gerhard and Marianne) papers

Gerhard and Marianne Pinkus emigrated from Germany to Los Angeles in the 1930s and began to collect art in the 1940s. After accumulating a small collection of choice (and sometimes rare) finds, Gerhard and Marianne became a major force in...

 
Poets Garden records

The Poets Garden records contains publications, letters, diaries, and memorabilia of the literary group created by Los Angeles poet Ruth Le Prade. The collection also contains materials relating to the poet Edwin Markham (1852-1940) and the labor and socialist activist...

 
Poland poster collection

This collection consists of posters about Poland. They include information about Poland and its place in the United Nations, as well as a poster by M. Zulawski about Poland's position as the first country to fight during World War II.

 
Political pamphlets collection

The Political pamphlets collection contains published documents from various sources that discuss conflicts and related politics from the mid-twentieth century, with the majority of the documents dated from the 1930s to the 1970s. The documents primarily concern the politics before,...

 
Port of Los Angeles and Santa Monica bluffs photographs

A collection of eight photographic prints of Los Angeles, CA taken between 1906 and 1907. Seven of the photographs are dated January 1, 1906. The 1906 photographs show the Port of Los Angeles in the San Pedro Bay. The eigth...

 
Postwar German postcards and photographs

Postcards and photographs depicting historic landmarks, churches, landscapes and people in Germany in the postwar period. Also includes some postcards from the United States and France.

 
Powell (Lawrence Clark) collection

Articles, pamphlets, offprints, and minor bibliophile publications by and about Lawrence Clark Powell, former UCLA librarian (1906-2000).

 
Presidential campaign ephemera

Fliers, speeches, buttons, etc. primarily from the 1960 party conventions and the presidential campaigns of Kennedy and Nixon; also contains George C. Wallace campaign materials from 1968. Miscellaneous World War I-era political buttons, including buttons for Herbert Hoover and Charles...

 
Printing and paper samples collection

This small collection consists of fine press keepsakes, clippings, magazines, paper samples, and prints, that presumably served as a teaching or reference collection on printing, both type and image, and use of paper.

 
Private Schools & Colleges, Southern California, brochures and pamphlets

A bound volume of pamphlets and brochures advertising private schools and colleges in the Los Angeles area for the academic years 1897-1898 and 1898-1899. Included are brochures for St. Agatha's Boarding and Day School for Girls; Classical School for Boys;...

 
Product labels and packaging collection

A collection of 610 product labels and packaging created between 1929 and 1930. The material in this collection had been sent to the United States Patent Office by companies to copyright their artistic and literary creations. After the U.S. Patent...

 
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R.A. Rowan & Co. records

R.A. Rowan & Co. was one of the Los Angeles area's earliest and most long-lived real estate development firms, spanning almost a hundred years of the twentieth century. Robert A. Rowan was responsible for founding the company in 1904; the...

 
Radical newspapers collection

Issues of Berkeley Barb, S-B Gazette, Grassroots, and others from 1966-1976.

 
Railroad commemorative stone

Section of rail . . . of the first rail-road in America (1826, Massachusetts), attached to a granite block.

 
Railway poster collection

This collection consists of railway travel posters for railways in London, Wales, Scotland, and Sweden.

 
Rakower (Ettel) postcard

1 postcard sent to Grete Brewer in Vienna from Ettel Rakower in Theresienstadt concentration camp, April 3, 1944.

Ransenberg (Rolf) papers

Correspondence and personal documents, 1937-1947, created and collected by Rolf Ransenberg. Consisting chiefly of correspondence from the Ransenberg family in Wanneman, Germany to their son Rolf in the United States, the papers also contain along with some personal documents of...

 
Ransohoff (Marta) correspondence with Greta Rosenthal

The Marta Ransohoff correspondence with Greta Rosenthal contains approximately 195 letters sent from Marta Ransohoff to her daughter Greta Rosenthal between 1940 and 1941. Also included is an immigration document titled "Wichtige Anmerkungen über die zur Einwanderung am praktischsten Beweismittel"...

 
Refugees Bulletin (Menekultek Ertesitoje)

Published in Debrecen, the provisional capital of partly liberated Hungary, "Menekultek Ertesitoje" was dedicated to helping the surviving Hungarian Jews locate missing relatives. The journal was founded by three survivors of forced labor camps. This is the first issue of...

 
Reich and Hayman family papers

This collection contains the personal papers of Dr. Joseph Reich and members of his extended family. It contains photographs and artifacts as well as correspondence, legal documents, and some ephemera, mostly from the period from World War I to World...

 
Reissner (Eric) papers

The Reissner papers consist of more than 200 letters, many of them in German, written to Eric Reissner (1913-1996), a German-born mathematician. Correspondents include Reissner's father, Hans, a prominent German aeronatuical engineer whose avocation was mathematical physics; Bernhard Hermann...

 
Remisoff (Nicolas) papers

The Nicolas Remisoff papers includes more than 400 original works, consisting of full-size watercolor drawings, some black and white drawings, and numerous oil paintings. The earliest dated drawing is from 1921. The archive covers all aspects of Remisoff's career and...

 
Rexall Drugs Merchandising records

This collection consists of the files kept by Joseph A. Hailer over the course of his 60-year career with Rexall Drugs. Most of the files are from his later years with the company, when he was in charge of marketing...

 
Rexroth (Kenneth) papers

The papers of Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and activist, comprise manuscripts, notes, printed material, publications, correspondence, ephemera, and artwork related to poetry, writing, speaking engagements, and teaching, primarily from the last decade of his life; also included are correspondence, manuscripts,...

 
Reynolds (D. M.) papers

The D. M. Reynolds Papers provides an inside view of electoral politics with a number of letters from former President Herbert Hoover, circa 1943 about Reynolds' efforts to support then-governor of Ohio, John Bricker, as a Republican candidate for national...

 
Rice (Craig) papers

Personal and business correspondence; typescripts, ca. 1950-55. Craig Rice (Georgiana Ann Randolph) (1908-1957) published her first book, 8 Faces at 3, in 1939. She married several times; one was to Beat writer Larry Lipton. She became an enormously popular writer...

 
Rieder (Howard) papers

The collection consists of audiotape recordings and CD transfers of original KUSC-FM broadcasts, 1948-1952, and scripts of several broadcasts; and research materials for Rieder's 1961 master's thesis, "The Development of the Satire of Mr. Magoo." These latter include CDs of...

 
Rifkind (Emilie Michel) collection of H.L. Mencken letters

The collection consists of letters written by H.L. Mencken to Louis Michel, Mrs. Louis Michel, and their daughter Emilie Michel Rifkind. Also included are Mencken's wedding announcement and calling card, a clipping from the Baltimore Sun about a piece by...

 
Right-wing political pamphlets collection

A collection of pamphlets, brochures, flyers, magazines, newspapers, and printed ephemera discussing various right-wing political topics, including anti-communist activities, the American Nazi Party and white supremacy, anti-semitism, racism, conservative economic policies, and religion. Also includes a few left wing publications.

 
Robinson (Elizabeth) collection of Bowen and Van Allen family papers

Letters and manuscripts between and created by members of the Bowen and Van Allen families from the 1820s through the 1860s. Correspondents and authors are: Rev. Charles Bowen; his wife Jane Wilson Bowen; her brother David Wilcox; Rev. Bowen's daughter...

 
Robinson family papers

Letters, documents, and postcards addressed primarily to Louis, Abraham and Harold Robinson, U.S. residents who were attempting to aid Jewish relatives in Poland to flee persecution under the Germans in Europe. The collection includes documents describing and explaining the American...

 
Rolfe (Lionel Menuhin) papers

Articles (some photocopied), ca. 1964 - present, on Southern California literature, politics, entertainment, and Jewish subjects, by journalist Lionel Rolfe (b.1942); includes preliminary studies for Rolfe's Literary L.A., research materials, and related materials by writer Nigey Lennon (b. 1954).

 
Romney (Edana) Papers

The Edana Romney papers consists almost exclusively of Ms. Romney's research materials for her unproduced screenplay on the life of Sir Richard Burton. Included are journals, notebooks, photocopies of the script at various stages of completion, audiotapes, and correspondence, as...

 
Roos (Joseph) papers

This collection contains papers documenting the activities of Joseph Roos (1905-1999) from his retirement from the Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council in 1969 until his death in 1999. These papers include correspondence, research files, memoranda and publications....

 
Ríos-Bustamante (Antonio) papers

This collection contains the research files, bibliographic records, publications, exhibit proposals, and various committee and organization materials of Chicano Movement scholar and activist Dr. Antonio Ríos-Bustamante.

 
Rose (David) papers

David Rose (1910-2006) was a well-known courtroom sketch artist whose work documented some of the most notorious trials of the last half of the twentieth century: Klaus Barbie, Patty Hearst, Sirhan Sirhan, members of the Manson family, John Z. De...

 
Rozsa (Miklos) collection of music letters, photographs, and other material

The 123-piece collection of rare letters, documents, photographs and manuscripts spanning three centuries of musical history was collected by Miklos Rozsa. Most of the correspondence relates to the composition, performance and business of music. Other writings deal with the mundane...

 
Runic Stone replica

Plaster replica of a stone with runic inscriptions (10th century Denmark), with transliteration and translation.

 
Ruskin Art Club records

The Ruskin Art Club was founded October 12, 1888, and is the oldest women's club in Los Angeles. Its original purpose was to study the technique and history of engraving and etching, inspired by founding member Mary E. Boyce's own...

 
Russell (Bruce) drawing on nuclear arms

A signed drawing by American editorial cartoonist Bruce Russell (1903-1963) relating to the elimination of nuclear arms. The drawing depicts a vulture representing "International Fears and Jealousies" perched on a nuclear weapon near a crumpled sign reading "How to Eliminate...

 
Russian propaganda poster collection

This collection consists of Russian propaganda posters with text printed in Russian.

 
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Samuelian (Janet) papers

Papers of the Armenian-American journalist, covering the years 1986-2005 when Ms. Samuelian wrote interviews and reportage for The Armenian Observer and The Armenian Reporter International weekly newspapers and for Armenian International Magazine. Her research files for her book "Kero Antoyan:...

 
Sandburg (Carl) Collection

Collection consists of articles, clippings, photographs, and various books by American poet and biographer Carl Sandburg (1878-1967).

 
Scandinavian travel poster collection

This collection consists of posters on travel to Norway, including a poster by artist A. J. Green.

 
Schaefer (William) recordings

Collection consists of reel-to-reel audio recordings of various USC ensembles under the direction of William Schaefer.

 
Schnurmann (family) papers

Alfred Schnurmann (born 1905 in Mulhouse, Alsace-Lorraine) was the son of a prosperous Jewish wool merchant. Alfred attended the university at Konstanz and worked as a salesman of textiles and clothing, settling in Berlin. In 1930 he married Hetta Hertel...

 
Schramm family papers

This collection contains the documents of the Schramm family, a family of Bessarabian Germans who were moved to German territory during World War II. The documents include pre-war military papers; resettlement documents; naturalization and employment papers; and some letters, including...

 
Science fiction journals collection

Incomplete runs of Astounding Fact and Fiction, Analog, and Galaxy. The collection also includes a selection of Galaxy sicence fiction novels.

 
Scottini (John F.) diaries, photographs, and ephemera

A collection of two diaries, photographs, a published book, and ephemera relating to John F. Scottini (1894-1972), a Los Angeles man who served as a Private with the 364th Infantry during World War I. The diaries recount Scottini's day to...

 
Searles (Anna Hawley) collection of Edwin Diller Starbuck and Herbert L. Searles papers

The collections consist of publications; publications proofs; research notes; correspondence files; lecture notes and course assignments; receipts and cancelled checks; photograph, half-tone blocks, and transparencies; a scrapbook; and personal artifacts representing the personal papers and research of Edwin Diller Starbuck...

 
Several (Michael) collection on Los Angeles Public Art

The Michael Several collection on Los Angeles Public Art consists of materials related to public art in Los Angeles. The collection dates from 1903-2000 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1980-2000. The collection includes article clippings, public records,...

 
Sexism board game

A board game, titled Sexism, published in 1971 in Seattle, Washington, created by Houger & McCaw (Carolyn Houger and Martin McCaw), and sold by the National Organization of Women (NOW). According to the game's designer, Carolyn Houger, the game was...

 
Share (Hansi) papers

Hansi Share, creator of the Monica Doll, was a Jewish emigre to the United States from Germany. In Germany, she was married to Hermann Ploschitzki, co-owner of Karstadt, a German department store chain, who died in 1932. She was subsequently...

 
Shipping Lines poster collection

This collection consists of advertisement posters of ship routes to various countries including France, Germany, Java, and India.

 
Shneidre (Peter) papers

This collection contains the papers of Peter Shneidre, who ran the small poetry press Illuminati Press and who published a number of small poetry periodicals. Shneidre was also a nationally published poet and he corresponded with a number of poets...

 
Shroyer (Frederick) papers

This collection contains the papers of Frederick Shroyer, who was a professor of English and American Literature at California State University--Los Angeles. His papers include typescripts of some of his novels and two unpublished manuscripts.

 
Shulman (Irving) papers

This collection contains the papers of the novelist, screenwriter, and biographer Irving Shulman, who is best known for writing the screenplay for "Rebel Without a Cause". His papers include manuscripts and typescripts of screenplays, short stories, novels, and biographies.

 
Sinclair (Upton) correspondence

Letters between Upton Sinclair and Martha Boaz, Dean of the Library School at the University of Southern California, regarding a lecture SInclair delivered at the School in 1962. Also included are transcripts of the lecture (one of which includes handwritten...

 
Söllner (Roman Robert) illustrated notebook

A notebook created in 1948 by Roman Robert Söllner, a German-American soldier, containing hand-drawn and colored illustrations, original verse, and notes in German and English. Pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations accompany the verse and notes. The author of the notebook generally...

 
Smith (Samuel J.) Civil War diary and snuffbox

From August 1863 to July 1864, Samuel J. Smith, a private in the Confederate Army, kept a pocket diary noting daily events, camp life, news of his family, and the weather. Notable entries include his wounding and the death of...

 
Social Justice magazine

Social Justice was published by Father Charles Coughlin's National Union for Social Justice (NUSJ) that was to publicizing the NUSJ's platform, which called for monetary reforms, nationalization of major industries and the railroads, and the protection of worker's rights. Coughlin...

 
Society of California Pioneers records

This small collection consists of documents produced by the Society of California Pioneers in support of election activities. The Society of California Pioneers established in 18590 in San Francisco, and was dedicated to the study and enjoyment of the art,...

 
South Central L.A.: Inside Voices recordings collection

Collection consists primarily of Umatic tapes of interviews for the American documentary (1994), which depicted interviews and self-documentation of residents of South Central Los Angeles in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Also present are project files, which...

 
Space Race tabletop game

The Space Race tabletop game is a midcentury educational game based on the Space Race of the 1950s and 1960s between the Soviet Union and the United States, housed inside of a hinged wooden box illustrated with planets and Soviet...

 
Spanish notarial documents

A bound collection of documents that together make up a log of entries made by notaries in Granada, Spain.

 
Spanish-American War collection

This small collection consists of photographs and various printed ephemera about the Spanish American War.

 
Speakers' Club of Los Angeles records

This collection contains the records of the Speakers' Club of Los Angeles for the years 1931-1935. Established in 1931, the club aimed to facilitate cooperation between government officials and agencies and the public.

 
Speier (Hermine) papers

Correspondence of German Jewish archaeologist Dr. Hermine Speier (1898-1989), the first woman employed by the Vatican, who converted to Catholicism and worked under Church protection. The majority of the correspondence is with Speier's lover, Italian airship navigator General Umberto Nobile,...

 
Sprinkle (Annie) collection

Printed work of the performance artist Annie Sprinkle.

 
Stamps and stamp catalogs collection

Stamp collections (generalist and U.S.) in albums formerly belonging to Charles F. Weiss, Elsie E. Behrens, and USC President Rufus B. von KleinSmid; stamp catalogs 1903-1940.

 
Standard Oil Company "See Your West" Scenic Views collection

This small collection consists of photographic prints depicting scenes in the western United States and Canada distributed by Standard Oil Company through Standard and Chevron gas stations. Beginning in 1938, the Standard Oil Company began distributing annually 25 collectible photographic...

 
Standley (Admiral William H.) papers

These papers document both the personal and professional life of Admiral William H. Standley (1872-1963), naval officer, United States government official and diplomat, and California civic leader.

 
Stanley (Sydney) collection of pop-up book ephemera

The Sydney Stanley collection of pop-up book ephemera consists of production and promotional materials for pop-up book production, as well as clippings, photographs, and related printed ephemera including pop-up Christmas cards, created and collected by pop-up book collector Sydney Stanley....

 
Stereograph collection

Collection of stereographic views of Europe, the Middle East, India, South Asia, and South America. Also includes some stereograph portraits, miscellaneous and unidentified landscapes, and hunting scenes. Publishers include Keystone View Company, Underwood & Underwood, I.W. Taber, John P. Soule,...

 
Stereographic Library collection

12 boxes of stereographic views, pre-1920s, classified by countries and geographical areas; some miscellaneous views; stereopticon viewers. From the library of Cecil B. DeMille.

 
Stevenson (Lionel) typescripts

This collection consists of two typescripts of the "The Ordeal of George Meredith," a biography by Lionel Stevenson (1902-1973) published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1953.

 
Stewart (George H.) scrapbooks

Collection consists of three scrapbooks created by George H. Stewart containing personal social mementos like tickets, souvenir menus, and acknowledgments and newspaper clippings on political topics.

 
Stoddard (Alexander J.) papers

This collection contains the papers of Alexander J. Stoddard (1889-1965). His papers include correspondence, reports, speeches, photographs, and clippings documenting his tenures as Superintendent of Schools in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Denver.

 
Stravinsky (Igor) correspondence on The Rake's Progress

The Igor Stravinsky correspondence on consists of correspondence, dated May 1950 to May 1951, between Stravinsky and his lawyer in New York, L. Arnold Weissberger, concerning the mounting of his opera, . The letters discuss business matters pertaining to the...

 
Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry publications

This small collection consists of 6 documents produced during the mid 1970s by the Student Struggle for Soviety Jewry, an organization based in New York City that was the first American organization created to help free Russian Jews.

 
Sutler-Cohen (Sara) collection of punk and heavy metal music flyers

126 primarily Bay Area and Los Angeles area punk and heavy metal music flyers, ephemera and posters collected by Sara Sutler-Cohen, a member of the scene in the mid 1980s and early 1990s. Among the bands represented in the collection...

 
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Temperance postcards collection

36 temperance postcards published by A. T. Cook, Seesdman, Hyde Park, New York; the majority were designed by J. O. Hulbert. Temperance postcards were widely distributed by the Women's Christian Temperance Union in the 19th and early 20th centuries to...

 
Tobin (Vivian) papers

This collection contains photographs, correspondence, and ephemera related to Vivian Tobin's performance as Alice in the first American theatrical production of "Alice in Wonderland" in 1915.

 
Trow (W. Duane) papers

Notes for articles by Waldo Duane Trow (1880-1963) on scientific pioneers, inventors, etc.; childhood scrapbook from Montana, ca. 1900; letters to public officials, including Presidents from Coolidge to Truman, on social isues, national defense, etc.

 
Twisted Magazine collection

The Twisted Magazine collection contains three issues, comprising a complete run, of the Seattle-published early punk fanzine that covered major punk acts along with future local legends in the emerging punk scene of the Pacific Northwest. --also titled "Twisted Magazine,"...

 
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University of California loyalty oath collection

The University of California loyalty oath collection consists of five pamphlets and one letter pertaining to the U.C. Berkeley loyalty oath controversy of 1949-1951. The collection documents anti-Communist movements in the early 1950s, their impact on higher education, and Ernst...

 
University of Southern California Max Kade Institute videotapes collection

This collection consists of recordings of lectures, interviews, and panel discussions of visiting scholars and special guests of the Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies.

 
University of Southern California oral histories

Tapes and transcripts of interviews conducted by librarian Dr. Robert Knutson on behalf of the University between 1960-70.

 
USC Library of Aeronautical History A. F. Miller collection on aviation

The A.F. Miller collection on aviation is one of several such collections acquired for USC Special Collections' Library of Aeronautical History beginning in the 1960s. At that time, several airline officials and retired pioneers of the airline industry donated historical...

 
USC Library of Aeronautical History Earl X. Brown collection on aviation

This collection consists of scrapbooks and clippings chronicling the early innovations of manned flight compiled by Earl X. Brown.

 
USC Library of Aeronautical History Early Aviation scrapbook

Scrapbook from 1911 with clippings about the early years of aviation and early aviators....

 
USC Library of Aeronautical History George T. Cussen collection on aviation

The collection consists of Cussen's personal scrapbook pages, books and photographs pertaining to the commercial aeronautic industry from the 1930s to the 1950s, and a collection of World War I & II war effort posters and maps. George Cussen worked...

 
USC Library of Aeronautical History Leach Corporation aviation prints

The USC Library of Aeronautical History Leach Corporation aviation prints consists of prints of historical aircraft distributed by the Leach Corporation as part of their series "Heritage of the Air". Also included is a letter from the president of the...

 
USC Library of Aeronautical History Morrow Aircraft scrapbook

Photograph album of parts for Morrow Aircraft Corporation planes....

 
USC Library of Aeronautical History Women's International Association of Aeronautics records

Biographies of early woman aviators, correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, scrapbooks, instructional materials; copies of Aerogram, the WIAA publication; personal archives of Elizabeth L. McQueen (Mrs. Ulysses Grant McQueen, d.1958), founder of W.I.A.A. in 1929 and the Women's Aeronautic Association of California,...

 
USC Southern California Studies Center (SC2) records

This collection consists of research documents, publications, newsletters, media coverage, grant information, and project proposals related to the University of Southern California's Southern California Study Center (SC2) for the duration of its existence (1995-2003).

 
Ussher (Bruno David) collection of photographs

Celebrity photographs (classical music and films) autographed to Ussher in the 1930s; Ussher was a musicologist/music critic.

 
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Van Wyck (William) papers

Two scrapbooks, typed poems, correspondence, memoirs, and drafts of published works by William Van Wyck.

 
Vazzana (Anthony) papers

This collection includes teaching materials, audio recordings of performances and compositions, correspondence, sheet music and scores, binders of composition projects, and materials related to the USC Composition Forum of USC educator and composer Anthony Vazzana (1922-2001).

 
Victorian broadsides, manuscripts and pamphlets collection

A collection of broadsides, pamphlets and manuscripts that collectively provide a picture of life in England for both rich and poor during the long 19th century.

 
Victorian letters collection

One letter sent by George Worms to his father, May 4, 1845, and 9 letters sent by Charles Stuart Cochrane to his solicitor, F.B. Robinson, over the course of 1831. The letter from Worms is writtenfrom a hotel in Dover...

 
Victorian manuscripts collection

The collection consists of 4 manuscripts: a book of "receipts" for common ailments and common recipes; the manuscript has some pages inserted. A manuscript of questions and answers; the book is turned upside down to read the questions and the...

 
Victorian manuscripts teaching collection

This small collection consists of a letter from Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton to Mrs. Ford; an engraving of Margaret Caroline Rudd; an engraving of William Dewell; and an indenture on vellum, the settlement of the marriage of Sir William...

 
Vintage advertising labels collection

Collection of 186 advertising labels from primarily Los Angeles and Los Angeles-area companies. The labels were created for products as diverse as perfume bottles, toiletries and other personal care items; candies and food items; equipment; trading posts; pesticides; film; hotels;...

 
Voltaire correspondence

A collection of correspondence to and from Voltaire, as well as three pages of poetry written by Voltaire. Many letters in the collection are either to or from Frederick the Great, who was the King of Prussia from 1740-1786. The...

 
Von Schnorrer zum geheimen Commerzienrath [Jewish caricatures] postcards

8 postcards in original folder, depicting anti-Semitic Jewish caricatures. The front of the folder is stamped "Aus dem judenreinen Gasthof Wutachthal Oberlauchringen, Baden" (from the Jew-free hotel Wutachthal..."). The hotel's name is also stamped on the side margin of each...

 
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Wade (Bob) papers

The Robert A. Wade papers document Wade's career writing noir mysteries with his partner H. BIll Miller (who died in 1961) until Wade's death in 2012. THe collection inculdes personal and business correspondence, diaries, first editions of their books, ledgers,...

 
Wagner and Hubner families correspondence with the Wenger family

The Wagner and Hubner families correspondence with the Wenger family consist of 49 letters sent to Clayton P. Wenger and Suie S. Wenger, a Mennonite couple in Pennsylvania involved in charitable work among displaced and impoverished families in Austria during...

 
Wallace (Irving) papers

This collection contains the papers of the screenwriter and novelist Irving Wallace (1916-1990). His papers include correspondence, research notes, proofs, and typescripts for some of his stories, screenplays, and novels.

 
Walt Disney Productions and Walt Disney ephemera

This small collection of Walt Disney and Disney Company related ephemera consists of newsletters, posters, book jackets, clippings, prints, comic books, small books, drawings, and miscellaneous printed ephemera that feature Walt Disney-created characters. The material dates from the 1930s and...

 
Warga (Wayne) papers

Collection contains the papers of Wayne Warga (1937-1994), an entertainment reporter and ghostwriter. His papers include correspondence, research files, novel galleys and typescripts, and taped interviews. He wrote about John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Aaron Spelling and Charles Rosendahl, along with...

 
Warren (Tatjana M.) papers

This collection contains correspondence between Tatjana M. Warren and German poets Helmut Maria Soik and Ernst Meister. The collection also contains some manuscripts of Meister's and Soik's works.

 
Watters (Bill) collection of 19th and 20th century autographs and documents

This small collection contains an authorization for the Secretary of State to transfer information to the President of the Republic of Costa Rica pertaining to an individual's citizenship, signed by James Buchanan on February 4, 1858; an autograph with note,...

 
Watts Writers' Workshop stories, lesson books, and other material

The Watts Writers’ Workshop was founded in 1965 by Budd Schulberg. This collection contains clippings about the workshop and works by Jimmie Sherman, one of the Workshop’s members.

Wayne Thom Photographer negatives, photographs, and other material

The Wayne Thom Photographer negatives, photographs, and other material contains the record of Wayne Thom's prolific career as an architectural photographer and graphic designer. The bulk of the collection consists of Thom's professional photographic work, beginning with his earliest work...

 
Webb (Charles Harper) papers

The Charles Harper Webb papers consist of drafts of poetry and prose, correspondence, publications featuring Webb's work, and ephemera from poetry events created and assembled by the American poet and professor, Charles Harper Webb (born 1948). The majority of the...

 
White (William) collection on John P. Marquand

Books, magazine and anthology appearances by novelist John P. Marquand (1893-1960) together with bibliographic notes on Marquand assembled by Prof. William White.

 
Wibberley (Leonard) papers

This collection contains the papers of the author Leonard Wibberley (1915-1983). Wibberley wrote over 100 books over the course of his career. His papers include manuscripts, galleys, and typescripts for books written by him.

 
Wilbur (Richard) poems and photograph

This small collection contains "Two Riddles from Aldhelm," 1975, broadside edition, numbered 41 of 100, signed; "Teresa", 1976, press proof, signed; a photograph of Wilbur at the Grolier Club, 1970, photograph by Elsa Dorfman for her book, "Elsa's Housebook". The...

 
Wilder (Thornton) letters

This collection consists of correspondence between Elfrida “Elfy” Stoeger-Joseph, her former husband Rudolph “Rudy” Joseph, and Thornton Wilder, 1945-2011. The correspondence of this collection ranges from about 1945 to 1974, which also corresponds to the years of Elfy and Rudy's...

 
Wilson (Dr. H.A. and Gertrude) correspondence

The Dr. H.A. and Gertrude Wilson correspondence consists of correspondence, publications, calling cards, and clippings, created and collected by Dr. H.A. Wilson and his wife Gertrude. Many of the letters addressed to Gertrude were written both before and after their...

 
Wilson (Henry L.) Papers

Correspondence, clippings, publications, photographs from the career of diplomat Henry Lane Wilson (1859-1932), with particular reference to U.S. relations with Mexico, including the "El Chamizal" border dispute....

 
Wisconsin clippings scrapbook

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings. Subjects include political and social events in Wisconsin and the United States, obituaries, statistics, and cartoons.

 
WITN-TV letters to Santa Claus

775 letters written to Santa Claus by children living in eastern North Carolina in 1964. The letters were sent to NBC affiliate WITN-TV (Channel 7) in Wilmington, NC, which had promised to forward the letters on to Santa. Many were...

 
Wolff (Harry K. Jr.) papers

Harry K. Wolff Jr. was a Jewish lawyer from San Francisco who was a member of "C" Battery 120 AAA Gun Batallion, 3rd Army. His unit was initially under the command of General Omar Bradley, and ultimately General George Patton....

 
Women of the Ku Klux Klan ephemera

The Women of the Ku Klux Klan ephemera comprise sixteen pieces of ephemera relating to membership in the Women of the Ku Klux Klan (WKKK) in Little Rock, Arkansas and St. Louis, Missouri. Most of the material in the collection...

 
Woodhead (J.E.) collection of Roycroft Press and Elbert Hubbard materials

This small collection contains letters, essays, broadsides, clippings, and photographs, created by and for Elbert Hubbard, an American writer, publisher, and philosopher, and founder of the Arts and Crafts community of Roycroft. The materials were collected by J.E. Woodhead in...

 
Woodhead (J.E.) papers

Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks of Woodhead's business and manufacturing career with the Lamb Knitting Machine Company; records of the Cosmic Publishing Company and the Western Society for Psychical Research; correspondence on the Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago; correspondence, indexes, catalogues,...

 
Work Around the World Educational Club for International Police records

Scrapbook, share certificates, and other documents relating to the founding of Work Around the World Educational Club for International Police (WAWEC), by Captain Walter Wanderwell in 1932, to monitor world disarmament and provide educational opportunities overseas.

 
World War I and World War II ephemera collection

This collection includes pamphlets, booklets, posters, periodicals, and literature regarding the United States involvement and sentiments of World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War.

 
World War I ephemera from Germany

Miscellaneous household packages and containers from Germany, ca. 1918; cloth samples; emergency German coinage from the end of the war.

 
World War I German-American Nurse's diary

Diary of a German-American nurse who served in Europe during World War I. The first entry, dated September 1, 1914, was written on board ship and describes the beginning of her trans-Atlantic journey. The latest entry is dated May of...

 
World War I pamphlets collection

World War I pamphlets, mostly British or American, on military strategy, diplomacy, occupied countries, the home front, economic effects of the war, atrocities, the "clean peace," religion and the war, the navy, war crimes, censorship, speeches by leaders such as...

 
World War I photograph albums

5 photograph albums containing over 500 photographs and related ephemeral items. The first three albums were created by photojournalist Robert Sennecke and are propagandistic in nature, with images from the front showing officers, war heroes, weaponry, politicians, and soldiers; all...

 
World War I posters collection

This collection consists of World War I posters by American artists Howard Chandler Christy, Gerrit A. Beneker, and Victor Clyde Forsythe.

 
World War II anti-Jewish documents

Three sets of documents aimed at, or documenting, the fate of Jews in Europe during World War II. Two of the documents (bound correspondence from Gestapo Headquarters and the list of partisan Jewish doctors) are in German; the broadside is...

 
World War II collection of maps and memorabilia

German maps and aerial reconnaissance data from the bombing raids on England.

World War II collection of posters

Collection consists of posters promoting American values and the war effort, 1941-45; pamphlets and ephemera.

 
World War II photograph albums and report

13 photograph albums and one report containing over 1700 individual photographs. Ten are personal albums of Nazi serviceman; one is the personal album of an American serviceman depicting American allied forces. Two albums are of official Nazi party or press...

 
Wright (Kenneth L.) papers

This collection contains the correspondence of Veramay Spencer and her U.S. Army boyfriend Kenneth Wright beginning in the year of 1953 and ending in 1955. It also includes letters from his mother Mrs. Carl C. Wright and friends that he...

 
Wright (Richard R., Jr.) films

The Richard R. Wright Jr. films comprise a collection of 13 moving images created circa the 1920s through the 1960s. Richard Robert Wright Jr. (1878-1967) was an African American sociologist, social worker, and minister for the African Methodist Episcopal Church....

 
Wurmser (Major Alfred G.) collection of Nuremberg Trial documents

This collection of documents on the Nuremberg Trials was collected by Captain (later Major) Alfred G. Wurmser, a staff member of the British War Crimes Executive. The collection contains signatures of defendants and legal staff, letters, photographs, a report, and...

 
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Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs publications and ephemera

Keepsakes, bibliographies, and printed ephemera produced and collected by members of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs. The two bibliophilic societies have sponsored the printing of announcements, keepsakes, and letterpress items by their members, to be distributed amongst the memberships as...

 
Zine collection

Zines, flyers, and printed ephemera produced across the United States and internationally from 1981 to 2019. Also included are flyers, stickers, and cards. Topics covered by the zines created in the United States include straight edge vegans, death metal devotees,...

 
Zinner (Christa) photographs

Christa Zinner was a well-known fashion and advertising photographer from the 1940s through the 1970s. Her photographs appeared in many popular magazines and newspaper supplements including Ebony, Look, Life, Harpers Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, TV Guide, etc. The collection consists of...