Waddingham (Gladys) collection, 1925-1996, bulk 1950-1970

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Summary

Title:
Gladys Waddingham collection
Dates:
1925-1996, bulk 1950-1970
Creators:
Waddingham, Gladys
Abstract:
Gladys Waddingham (1900-1997) was an author and Spanish teacher at Inglewood High School. The Gladys Waddingham collection contains materials collected during Waddingham's travels to Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, and other countries -- mostly during the 1950s. Included in the collection are artifacts, clothing and textiles, antique pottery, visual grammar cards, sheet music, postcards, dolls, and other material.
Containers:
Box: 1
Box: 2
Box: 3
Box: 4
Box: 5
Box: 6
Box: 7
Box: 8
Box: 9
Box: 10
Box: 11
Box: 12
Box: 13
Box: 14
Box: 15
Box: 16
Box: 17
Box: 18
Box: 19
Box: 20
Box: 21
Box: 22
Box: 23
Box: 24
Box: 25
Box: 26
Box: 27
Box: 28
Box: 29
Box: 30
Box: 31
Box: 32
Box: 33
Extent:
33 Boxes
Language:
Spanish; Castilian , English .
Preferred citation:

[Box/folder no. or item name], Gladys Waddingham collection, Collection no. 0593, Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Background

Scope and content:

Gladys Waddingham (1900-1997) was an author and Spanish teacher at Inglewood High School. The Gladys Waddingham collection contains materials collected during Waddingham's travels to Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, and other countries -- mostly during the 1950s. Included in the collection are artifacts, clothing and textiles, antique pottery, visual grammar cards, sheet music, postcards, dolls, and other material. Waddingham labeled many of the boxes in the collection with descriptions of each box's contents (see below for transcriptions).

  • Realia from Spain
  • Complete Tehuantepec Dress and 4 Oaxaca huipils
  • Guatemala Skirts
  • Clay Nativity Figures and Spanish Village
  • Realia from Mexico - some breakable
  • 2 Antique pottery - Mexico / 2 gourds
  • Antique China poblana with beaded blouse - also a modern one
  • Mexico - Taxco dress - 2 woven white rebozos / black blouse
  • Dolls from Spain
  • 15 Guatemala Dolls
  • 5 feather pictures / 2 velvet paintings / Straw fan / Chocolate beater etc.
  • Fabrics from Guatemala
  • 140 visual grammar cards
  • Very fine Mexican hat
  • Mexico - Palm fiber, Raincoat - Bought around 1950

Acquisition information:
Gift of Gladys Waddingham, circa 1996
Processing information:

The collection is unprocessed. Box-level record titles were transcribed from Waddingham's box labels.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Bo Doub
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2021-03-18 13:24:08 -0700 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Preferred citation:

[Box/folder no. or item name], Gladys Waddingham collection, Collection no. 0593, Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Location of this collection:
Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Room 209
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189, US
Contact:
(213) 740-5900
specol@usc.edu
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