David (Mack) Collection (2037) Collection consists of 550 items of sheet music dating from 1924; screenplays and miscellaneous material including budgets, correspondence, contracts and advertising brochures related to films that composer Mack David (1912-1993) had worked on.
Davis (Luther) Collection (2021) Collection consists of Scripts and production material for the 1969 television production of Arsenic and Old Lace by writer Luther Davis.
De Wolfe (Billy) Collection (2118) Collection consists of clippings, scrapbooks, vaudeville photo album, musical arrangements, posters, awards, stills from stage, motion pictures, and television covering the period 1925-1974 from actor Billy De Wolfe (1907-1974).
Dean (Jessie E.) papers (0410) Jessie E. Dean was employed by the Los County Department of Charities from 1919 to 1943, and served as Supervisor in the successive Divisions of Outdoor Relief, County Welfare and Indigent Relief. A citation of appreciation from her fellow workers, found in this collection, noted that she was the first, or "near first" trained social worker to practice in Los Angeles. Certainly she was a founding member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Association of Social Workers, begun in 1923, and also of its journal "The Lens", published from 1926-37. A 1916-17 bulletin of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, annotated in Dean's handwriting, indicates that she studied there and was taught by Edith Abbott and Sophonisba Breckinridge. The collection, made up of a miscellany of professional papers accumulated during Dean's career and preserved by a co-worker on her retirement, reflects the high level of personal dedication, social conscience, and moral conviction characteristic of social workers of her generation. A strong teaching ethic is evident in the detailed instructional outlines she compiled for the training of new "visitors" and student social workers. The collection contains descriptive annual reports for the County Welfare Division, from 1921-32 and for 1935, written by Dean for delivery to the Board of Supervisors by her Superintendent. In effect these long accounts are vivid essays on social welfare conditions prevailing in Los Angeles during the hectic population increase of the 1920s followed by the Depression. The gradually changing tone of the reports, as professional social workers found themselves transformed into emergency relief dispensers, indicates the difficult adaptation required of Dean and her co-workers in the early 1930s. Also included in the collection is a manuscript draft of a critical account of County Welfare operations in 1925, journals, reprints, pamphlets, articles, sermons, seminar notes and transcripts, reports, teaching materials and book excerpts and outlines, together with some examples of intake forms used by Dean's office during the Depression.
Defore (Don) Collection (2075) Collection consists of 31 screenplays, 9 reels of TV film, 16 radio transcriptions of late 1940â??s programs. Also movie magazines, publicity materials, playbills, pressbooks, clippings, photos, business papers and personal items, of actor Don Defore (b. 1917). Collection covers the years 1947-1967.
DeMille (Cecil B.) Collection (2099) Collection consists of scrapbooks, stills, and property appraisal. 17 stereopticon slides from Fool's Paradise, all related to the work of director Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959). Collection covers years 1920-1952.
DeMille (William C.) Collection (2008) Collection consists of scripts and essays written by director, writer, producer William C. DeMille (1878-1955) and his wife writer Clara Beranger (1886-1956). Also includes clippings, playbills, correspondence and miscellaneous production materials covering the years 1896-1953.
Derkum (Adam C.) Papers (0025) Civil service documents of the teaching career of a Welsh-born American (b.1874) in various Philippine Islands schools, ca. 1900-1925. In 1903 a young couple, Adam and Agnes Derkum, left Los Angeles to work as teachers in the Philippine Islands. A quarter of a century later, having held a number of different assignments in various provincial schools, the Derkums returned to this city with the four children they had raised overseas. Adam Derkum, who had studied at USC, later gave a collection of letters and documents about their Philippine years to the University.
Devine (Andy) Collection (2080) Collection consists of radio and television scripts for Wild Bill Hickock from 1951-1957, and related to the actor Andy Devine (1905-1977).
Dieterle (William) Papers (2017) Collection consists of Advertising and publicity stills; research materials, outlines, memos, correspondence, clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous production items from 1935-1950 and related to the work of director William Dieterle (1893-1972).
Dime Novel catalogs and publications (0128) Sales catalogs dedicated to American dime novels, and journals that contain, either whole or in part, articles devoted to dime novels and their authors.
Documents of the Korean National Association Building (3302) The Korean National Association building dedicated in Los Angeles in 1938, served as the headquarters for several Korean organizations. Among these were the Korean National Association (Kungminhoe) itself, the United Korean Committee in America, the Korean Chamber of Commerce in America, the Korea Relief Society, and the newspaper Sinhan Minbo (New Korea). The documents in this collection are the records that have remained in the KNA building to the present day and document many of the major events of the first 60 years of Koreans in America. Additional information and an inventory may be accessed at:
http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/findingaids/knadocs/index.html
Doniger (Walter) Collection (2034) Collection consists of television scripts and set drawings covering 1963 - 1968 episodes of Peyton Place, and related to writer, producer director Walter Doniger (b. 1917)
Doolittle (Harold L.) collection of art prints (0032) Prints by various artists, including John Taylor Arms and Arthur H. Heintzelman, from Harold L. Doolittle's collection; 41 prints from the Printmakers' Society of California (1922-64); about 150 prints by artists of the U.S. and Europe of the period 1915-1950; 38 original prints by Doolittle.
Drug Abuse and Alcoholism collection (0442) This artificially created collection contains research reports, information guides, and Los Angeles County and California state program proposals for drug and alcohol abuse prevention that were acquired by the Social Work Library of USC's School of Social Work. The holdings span the years 1952 to 1973, a time when drug abuse increased in California and the United States as a whole.
DuBay (William H.) papers (0391) In 1966, William H. DuBay was suspended from the Los Angeles Archdiocese for opining his criticism of the Roman Catholic church. The collection includes materials related to DuBay's controversial tenure as a Roman Catholic priest and his suspension.
Dundes (Alan) articles (6007) Copies of articles written by Alan Dundes on various aspects of folkore and folkore history.
Dunne (Philip) Collection (2041) Collection consists of notes for each film writer, director, producer Philip Dunne (1908-1992) worked on; 5 reels of taped self interviews; working copies of 15 novels adapted for the screen.