Hougland (Willard) Papers, 1946

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Title:: Willard Hougland Papers,
Dates:: 1946
Creators:: Hougland, Willard
Abstract:: Willard Hougland was a writer, publisher, anthropologist, impresario, businessman and gourmet cook. He also ran a rare book store and art gallery in the South Bay area of Los Angeles County. The collection contains correspondence, a short story, a poem, and signed typescript copies of materials presented for consideration to Willard Hougland while assistant to the director at the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and as editor of the New Mexico number of the Southwest review.
Extent:: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Language:: English.
Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Willard Hougland Papers (Collection 664). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Scope and content:: Collection contains signed typescript copies of materials presented for consideration to Willard Hougland, assistant to the director, Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and editor of the New Mexico number of the Southwest review, 1946. Also contains related correspondence, including letters from Joseph O'Kane Foster, Haniel Long, Robert Nathan, Edward Teller, and Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as a typescript short story from Foster and a poem from Long.
Biographical / historical:: Hougland was originally from Kansas City; became writer, publisher, anthropologist, impresario, businessman and gourmet cook; served as assistant to the director, Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico; edited the New Mexico number of the Southwest Review, 1946; moved to California, where he ran a rare book store and art gallery in the South Bay area of Los Angeles County; died in 1958 in Monterey, California.
Acquisition information:: Gift of Willard Hougland, 1956.
Physical location:: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

Subjects:: Periodical editors--New Mexico--Santa Fe--Archival resources.
Museum curators--New Mexico--Santa Fe.
Manuscripts for publication.
Names:: Hougland, Willard--Archives.

Collection Guide Author:: Processed by Manuscripts Division staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Alight Tsai and Caroline Cubé
Date Prepared:: © 2002
Date Encoded:: Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, September 2001 . Frontmatter gathered from MARC record. Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Alight Tsai and Caroline Cubé.

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Restrictions:: COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Terms of access:: Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Willard Hougland Papers (Collection 664). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library

Box 951575

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US