Finding aid for the Gladys Waddingham collection 0593

Bo Doub

USC Libraries Special Collections

2021 March

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: Gladys Waddingham collection

Creator: Waddingham, Gladys

Identifier/Call Number: 0593

Physical Description: 33 Boxes

Date (inclusive): 1925-1996

Date (bulk): 1950-1970

Abstract: Gladys Waddingham (1900-1997) was an author and Spanish teacher at Inglewood High School. The Gladys Waddingham collection contains materials collected during Waddingham's travels to Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, and other countries -- mostly during the 1950s. Included in the collection are artifacts, clothing and textiles, antique pottery, visual grammar cards, sheet music, postcards, dolls, and other material.

Language of Material: Spanish; Castilian , English .

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Scope and Contents

Gladys Waddingham (1900-1997) was an author and Spanish teacher at Inglewood High School. The Gladys Waddingham collection contains materials collected during Waddingham's travels to Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, and other countries -- mostly during the 1950s. Included in the collection are artifacts, clothing and textiles, antique pottery, visual grammar cards, sheet music, postcards, dolls, and other material. Waddingham labeled many of the boxes in the collection with descriptions of each box's contents (see below for transcriptions).

Realia from Spain
Complete Tehuantepec Dress and 4 Oaxaca huipils
Guatemala Skirts
Clay Nativity Figures and Spanish Village
Realia from Mexico - some breakable
2 Antique pottery - Mexico / 2 gourds
Antique China poblana with beaded blouse - also a modern one
Mexico - Taxco dress - 2 woven white rebozos / black blouse
Dolls from Spain
15 Guatemala Dolls
5 feather pictures / 2 velvet paintings / Straw fan / Chocolate beater etc.
Fabrics from Guatemala
140 visual grammar cards
Very fine Mexican hat
Mexico - Palm fiber, Raincoat - Bought around 1950

Conditions Governing Access

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. 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 Manuscripts Librarian. 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.

Preferred Citation

[Box/folder no. or item name], Gladys Waddingham collection, Collection no. 0593, Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Gladys Waddingham, circa 1996

Processing Information

The collection is unprocessed. Box-level record titles were transcribed from Waddingham's box labels.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Guatemala -- Description and travel -- Archival resources

Mexico -- Description and travel -- Archival resources

Spain -- Description and travel -- Archival resources

Clothing

Cultural artifacts

Dolls (figurines)

Postcards

Sheet music

Realia

Textiles

Waddingham, Gladys -- Archives