Rita Fikkert Collection

Processed by D. Tambo

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Phone: (805) 893-3062

Fax: (805) 893-5749

Email: special@library.ucsb.edu

URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/

Guide to the Rita Fikkert Collection, ca. 1937-1951

Collection number: Bernath Mss 26

Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara

Contact Information:

Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone: (805) 893-3062
Fax: (805) 893-5749
Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/

Processed by:

D. Tambo

Date Completed:

18 August 2003

Encoded by:

David C. Gartrell

Descriptive Summary

Title: Rita Fikkert Collection

Dates: ca. 1937-1951

Collection Number: Bernath Mss 26

Collector: Fikkert, Rita

Collection Size: 1.6 linear feet (4 document boxes)

Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections

Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010

Physical Location: SRLF.

Language: English.

Access Restrictions

Collection is stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.

Publication Rights

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

Preferred Citation

Rita Fikkert Collection. Bernath Mss 26. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Rita Fikkert, 1969.

Biography

Ruth Fikkert grew up in the Netherlands, was educated in part in the U.S., worked for the YWCA in California and New York, and had extensive training and experience in housing issues. Much of the material in the collection apparently came to the YWCA offices where she worked.

Scope and Content of Collection

The collection contains correspondence, pamphlets, reports, articles, newspapers, flyers, tracts, and clippings from the World War II and post-WWII era, relating primarily to wartime relations with other countries; wartime mobilization of resources; support organizations; housing, labor, discrimination, and women's issues within the U.S.; propaganda; and censorship.

Some journals from the collection, such as Foreign Policy Reports and Voice of Freedom, have been transferred to the main stacks of the UCSB Davidson Library and can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.

A related Rita Fikkert Collection in the Performing Arts section of UCSB Special Collections [PA Mss 8], focuses on costume and costume design.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

World War, 1939-1945.

Series 1. Biographical Information

Box 1: 1

Biographical Information, ca. 1943

Series 2. Correspondence

Box 1: 2

Correspondence, ca. 1938-1947

Series 3. Organization Files

Additional Note

Includes bulletins, pamphlets, tracts, flyers, articles.

Box 1: 3

American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, 1949

Box 1: 4

American Committee for Christian German Refugees, 1939

Box 1: 5

American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations, Inc., 1946

Box 1: 6

American Friends of German Freedom, n.d., 1943

Box 1: 7

American Friends Service Committee, 1945

Box 1: 8

American Jewish Committee, 1941

Box 1: 9

American National Red Cross, ca. 1942-1945

Box 1: 10

American Outpost in Great Britain, 1945-1946

Box 1: 11

American Student Union, ca. 1940

Box 1: 12

American Women's Voluntary Services, n.d.

Box 1: 13

Atlantic Union Committee, 1949

Box 1: 14

Berkeley Defense Council, 1943

Box 1: 15

Blue Triangle Club (YWCA - Oakland, CA), n.d., 1942

Box 1: 16

California Housing and Planning Association, n.d., 1942

Box 1: 17

California League of Women Voters, 1942

Box 1: 18

California State Relief Administration, 1939

Box 1: 19

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1943

Box 1: 20

Christian Mobilizers, n.d.

Box 1: 21

Civilian Defense Council, n.d.

Box 1: 22

Committee to Protest Against Mass Slayings (Berkeley, CA - committee included Robert Gordon Sproul), 1941

Box 1: 23

Common Council for American Unity, 1940

Box 1: 24

Commonwealth, 1940-1942

Box 1: 25

Communist Party, U.S.A., ca. 1939-1943

Box 1: 26

Community Chest of San Francisco, 1947

Box 1: 27

Democratic Party of Alameda County (CA), 1942

Box 1: 28

Educational Policies Commission, n.d.

Box 1: 29

Federal Union, Inc., 1947

Box 1: 30

Food for Victory Campaign, 1942

Box 1: 31

Foreign Policy Association, 1940, 1942

Box 1: 32

Free French Movement in America, 1941, 1942

Box 1: 33

German American Congress for Democracy, Inc., n.d.

Box 1: 34

German Library of Information, 1940-1941

Box 2: 1

Headquarters Western Defense Command and Fourth Army - Public Proclamations, 1942

Box 2: 2

Institute for Propaganda Analysis, Inc., 1939-1941

Box 2: 3

Institution for the Chinese Blind, n.d., 1942

Box 2: 4

International Rescue and Relief Committee, Inc., 1942

Box 2: 5

Japanese American Review, July 12, 1941

Box 2: 6

Jewish National Welfare Fund, 1937

Box 2: 7

Kiplinger Washington Agency, n.d., 1942

Box 2: 8

Massachusetts Civic League, Inc., n.d.

Box 2: 9

National Conference of Christians and Jews, Inc., 1942

Box 2: 10

National Council of American Soviet Friendship, Inc., 1946

Box 2: 11

National Refugee Service, Inc., 1940, 1941

Box 2: 12

National Women's Trade Union League of America, 1945, 1947-1950

Box 2: 13

New York Woman's Council, ca. 1947

Box 2: 14

Office of Price Administration, 1944

Box 2: 15

Pacific Coast School for Workers (Berkeley, CA), 1940

Box 2: 16

Polish Information Center, ca. 1940

Box 2: 17

Post War Problems Club (San Diego, CA), n.d.

Box 2: 18

Progressive Citizens of America (San Francisco), ca. 1947

Box 2: 19

Public Affairs Institute, 1951

Box 2: 20

Tax Institute, 1942

Box 2: 21

Town Hall, Inc., 1939-1941

Box 2: 22

Union Labor Party (San Francisco), 1946

Box 2: 23

United States Steel Corporation - "Steel in the War," 1946

Box 2: 24

Women's Interests Section, Bureau of Public Relations, War Department, 1946-1947

Box 2: 25

Workers Defense League, 1942

Box 2: 26

World Affairs Council of Northern California, 1950

Box 2: 27

World Federalists, 1942

Box 2: 28

Y.W.C.A., ca. 1937-1940

Series 4. Photograph

Box 2: 29

Photograph (possibly of Rita Fikkert, and man in uniform, Hermosa Beach, CA), 1944

Series 5. Subject Files

Box 3: 1

Argentina, 1946

Box 3: 2

Atomic Bomb (includes The United States Strategic Bombing Survey - The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki), n.d., 1945-1946

Box 3: 3

Automobile Industry, 1942

Box 3: 4

Censorship, 1941

Box 3: 5

Cold War, 1951

Box 3: 6

Credit Unions

Box 3: 7

Czechoslovakia, 1941

Box 3: 8

Documents (facsimiles from the National Archives, re surrender of Germany and Japan), 1945

Box 3: 9

Egypt, ca. 1951

Box 3: 10

Farmworkers, 1948, 1951

Box 3: 11

Fifth Column Fears and Intolerance, ca. 1940-1947

Box 3: 12

Greece, 1946

Box 3: 13

Housing, ca. 1940-1945

Box 3: 14

Israel, 1951

Box 3: 15

Italy, 1941-1942

Box 3: 16

Jewish Immigrants (in the U.S.), 1939

Box 3: 17

Labor, ca. 1941-1943

Box 3: 18

Loyalty Oath (California), 1951

Box 3: 19

Marshall Plan, 1947

Box 3: 20

Netherlands, 1942-1944

Box 4: 1

Nisei during World War II, 1942-1944

Box 4: 2

Pamphlets against War, ca. 1940-1942

Box 4: 3

Pamphlets in Favor of U.S. War Effort, ca. 1940-1941

Box 4: 4

Prejudice, 1945

Box 4: 5

Propaganda, ca. 1941-1944

Box 4: 6

Rationing, n.d., 1942

Box 4: 7

Spain, 1941

Box 4: 8

Unions, n.d., 1941, 1942

Box 4: 9

United Nations, n.d., 1945, 1948

Box 4: 10

USSR, 1939, 1941-1942

Box 4: 11

War Bonds, n.d., 1942-1943

Box 4: 12

War Maps, n.d.

Box 4: 13

Wartime Britain, n.d., 1941

Series 6. Miscellany

Box 4: 14

Miscellany, ca. 1938-1951