Finding aid for the John Ahouse collection on Exile Studies 6274

Marissa Chavez and Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated

USC Libraries Special Collections

2023 February

Doheny Memorial Library 206

3550 Trousdale Parkway

Los Angeles, California 90089-0189

specol@usc.edu

URL: http://libraries.usc.edu/locations/special-collections

Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections

Title: John Ahouse collection on Exile Studies

Creator: Ahouse, John

Identifier/Call Number: 6274

Physical Description: 1.56 Linear Feet 2 boxes

Date (inclusive): c. 1990s-2003

Abstract: 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.

Language of Material: English.

Container: 1

Container: 2

Biographical / Historical

John Ahouse was a librarian and curator of USC's American Literature Specialized Libraries and Archival Collections.

Scope and Contents

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. Pamphlets and other materials from the L.A. European Jewish Émigrés of the 1930s and 1940s exhibit and the Skirball Cultural Center 2005 exhibit pamphlet are also present. The German Exiles in Los Angeles Guided Tour Map of houses of notable émigrés including those of Bertolt Brecht, Heinrich Mann, Salka and Berthold Viertel, Thomas Mann, Aldous Huxley and Emil Ludwig, Hanns Eisler, Vicki Baum, and Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger.

Conditions Governing Access

Advance notice required for access.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. 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.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of John Ahouse via Claude Zachary, circa 2019.

Preferred Citation

[Box/folder no. or item name], John Ahouse collection on Exile Studies, Collection no. 6274, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Audiocassettes

Clippings

Correspondence

Exiled Jewish authors -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources

Jewish artists -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources

Jewish refugees -- California, Southern -- Archival resources

Jewish refugees -- Europe -- 20th century -- Archival resources

Pamphlets

Photographs

Photographs -- 20th century -- Archival resources

Ahouse, John -- Archives

Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960

Brecht, Bertolt

Eisler, Hanns

Feuchtwanger, Lion

Feuchtwanger, Marta

Huxley, Aldous

Ludwig, Emil, 1881-1948

Mann, Heinrich

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955