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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Dorothy Lillis Walker papers
creator:
Walker, Dorothy Lillis
Identifier/Call Number: 0379
Identifier/Call Number: 1056
Physical Description:
1 linear foot.
1 bankers box
Date (inclusive): 1920s-1930s
Abstract: Collection consists of photographs, correspondence, student materials, and books of poetry created and collected by Dorothy
Lillis Walker. Dorothy Lillis Walker was a graduate of the University of Southern California, and taught English at Boyle
Heights Junior High School.
Container: 1
Dorothy Lillis Walker was a graduate of the University of Southern California, and taught English at Boyle Heights Junior
High School.
Collection consists of photographs of Dorothy Lillis Walker and her sister Helen Walker; negatives of young Clifford Truesdell;
correspondence between Dorothy Walker and "Lois" throughout the 1920s; correspondence between Helen Walker Truesdell and "Lois"
early 1930s; typed inventory of objects donated to USC by Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III of Johns Hopkins University; Dorothy
Walker's illustrated notebook for a botany class; hardback book "The Poets of the Future" (1918) (which includes one of Walker's
poems and several from other USC students); another hardback book "University of Southern California Poems" (1930) (which
includes several poems by both Dorothy Walker and Helen Walker Truesdell; and a negative album plus several envelopes of
negatives.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for 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.
[Box/folder# or item name], Dorothy Lillis Walker papers, Collection no. 379, University Archives, Special Collections, USC
Libraries, University of Southern California
The Dorothy Lillis Walker Papers were donated to USC by her nephew, Clifford Truesdell in 1992.
Helen Walker Truesdell papers, Collection no. 5038, University Archives, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of
Southern California
The collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American poetry -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Books
Correspondence
Photographs
Walker, Dorothy Lillis -- Archives
Truesdell, Helen Walker, 1898-1987 -- Archives
Truesdell, C. (Clifford), 1919-2000 -- Archives
University of Southern California -- Students