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Black Film Promotional Material Collection

Collection

Identifier: FMA-WUA-wua00353

Scope and Contents This significant collection of non-film promotional material documents how blacks were portrayed in films from 1915 to 1980.The collection contains ca. 2,700 promotional items including photographic stills, programs, trade advertisements, advertising materials, advertising supplements, lobby cards, pressbooks, and posters, representing approximately 400 films, ranging in date from 1915 to the 1980s.While most of the material is of American origin, there are a small number...

Found in: Film & Media Archive

Bryan Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms019

Scope and Contents The Bryan Family Papers consists of correspondence between members of the Bryan, Lamme, and Sterigere families, business associates, and friends, including one letter books of Charles W. Bryan, Sr. (1863-1927); business papers, including legal papers of David Sterigere, Sr., steam boating papers, and engineering papers of C.W. Bryan, Sr.; historical research materials, including published articles of C.W. Bryan, Sr.; clippings and photographs related to stream boating, politics, family...

Found in: Manuscripts

Raymond Federman Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms044

Scope and Contents The Raymond Federman Collection includes extensive draft and proof materials toward Federman's books including Double or Nothing, Amer Eldorado, Aunt Rachel's Fur, and Shhh. Also, materials relating to his critical work on Samuel Beckett, short stories, poems, essays, extensive correspondence, unpublished works, reel-to-reel audio recordings, student...

Found in: Manuscripts

William H. Gass Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms051

Scope and Contents

The William H. Gass Papers consist largely of his own manuscript material: manuscripts and proof material toward his books, drafts of various stories, essays, and reviews, interviews, and a miscellaneous assortment of notes and other materials. Also present is a substantial amount of professional correspondence, primarily with universities, magazines, and publishers, as well as with his colleagues in academia and in the literary community.

Found in: Manuscripts

Albert Schweitzer Letters

Collection — Box: VMF 18, Folder: 2

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf224

Scope and Contents

1960 November 18. Schweitzer to Hans Reiner. Typed letter [carbon], 1 page

1960 December 3. Hans Reiner to Schweitzer. Typed letter signed, 1 page

Schweitzer thanks Reiner for sending a copy of his book, Der Sinn unseres Daseins, on the meaning of existence, and the two go on to discuss ethics.

Found in: Manuscripts

Gert von Gontard Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms121

Scope and Contents

Gert von Gontard’s Papers are part of a larger collection given to Washington University in 1980 by his widow, Hildegard. The collection includes von Gontard’s extensive book collection and is highlighted by his collection of over 1300 books, manuscripts, and memorabilia relating to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Also, present is a file of letters from von Gontard’s colleagues in the literary and arts communities.

Found in: Manuscripts

Walter M. Goldschmidt Papers

Collection

Identifier: WUA-06-wua00510

Scope and Contents The Walter M. Goldschmidt Papers includes approximately 400 letters written by Goldschmidt to his parents, Herman and Gertie Goldschmidt, during his time in the European Civil Affairs Division, 1943-1946, in England, France, Belgium and Germany. Topics of note include a visit to the Goldschmidt hometown in Biebesheim, Germany, the concentration camp in Flossenbürg, Germany, and finding the parents of Fred Katz in Brussels. (Katz was living with Goldschmidt's parents in Chicago after fleeing...

Found in: University Archives

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