Thanks for your patience during our recent outage at scalar.usc.edu. While Scalar content is loading normally now, saving is still slow, and Scalar's 'additional metadata' features have been disabled, which may interfere with features like timelines and maps that depend on metadata. This also means that saving a page or media item will remove its additional metadata. If this occurs, you can use the 'All versions' link at the bottom of the page to restore the earlier version. We are continuing to troubleshoot, and will provide further updates as needed. Note that this only affects Scalar projects at scalar.usc.edu, and not those hosted elsewhere.
Hidden Histories: Discovering Los Angeles' LGBTQ+ CollectionsMain MenuHidden Histories: Discovering Los Angeles' LGBTQ+ CollectionsWelcome to Hidden Histories!Discovering Los Angeles' LGBTQ+ Collections!What is Hidden Histories?A partnership between ONE Archives at USC and L.A. as Subject, Hidden Histories' goal is to create a centralized resource of LGBTQ+ archival material for researchers and community members.Participating InstitutionsL.A. as Subject member institutions from across Southern California have joined with ONE and LAAS to collaborate on this project.Topical GuideCollections from participating institutions organized based on the subject or topic of the materials.
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
1media/Clark logo copy.png2023-11-10T10:16:27-08:00Ani Bennett-Fradkinbea891b1967b8f7e799c5b31ec050238ed1dc55a4181425plain2024-03-28T15:14:21-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a rare book and manuscript library that is open to all researchers who wish to conduct research with its holdings. The library specializes in the study of England and Western Europe from the Tudor period through the eighteenth century and from the mid-Victorian to late Edwardian periods, with a focus on Oscar Wilde and his circle.
LGBTQ+ topics and themes represented in the collections held by the Clark Library include Bisexual people and Gay men.
The founder of the Clark Library, William Andrews Clark, Jr. was a queer man living in Los Angeles from 1910-1934, and whose partner, Harrison Post, also worked at the library. The story of Clark and Post's lives are told in our collections largely through archival silence—most of their personal papers and correspondence do not survive (Clark's exist nowhere, some of Post's papers are in private hands).
Hedley Hope-Nicholson was a barrister and eccentric. He attended Oxford University as a young man, and later returned there after his separation from his wife. His circle of friends at Oxford was heavily male-dominated, and included well-known characters such as 'Colonel' George Kolkhorst and writer John Betjeman. He was fascinated with heraldry, genealogy, and religious spectacle, and collected religious artifacts and relics. In addition to a long-standing fascination with King Charles I, he was also a great fan of the Russian ballet. Materials in this series comprise correspondence to a wide variety of family and friends, diaries and notebooks, photographs, legal documents, and financial materials.
This collection contains visual material created by Charles Ricketts, an English printer and artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Ricketts was born on October 2, 1866 in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1882, at the age of sixteen, he met his lifelong partner, artist and lithographer, Charles Haslewood Shannon.
This collection contains visual material created by Charles Shannon, an English artist, printer, and lithographer active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Shannon was born on April 26, 1863 in Quarrington, Lincolnshire, England. He studied wood engraving at the Lambeth Art School from 1881-1885. It was in this period he met his lifelong partner, artist and printer, Charles de Sousy Ricketts.
Oscar Wilde & his Literary Circle Collection
Oscar Wilde was born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. He attended Trinity College Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1878, Wilde won the Newdigate prize for the poem "Ravenna." He subsequently established himself in London society as a champion of the new Aesthetic movement, advocating "art for art's sake," and publishing reviews and poems. He married Constance Lloyd in 1884; they had two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan Holland. In 1891 he met and began a love affair with the poet, Lord Alfred Douglas.
Material described in this finding aid represents the main correspondence portion of the Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circle collection at the Clark Library. The collection includes letters by Wilde, his wife, his mother, Lord Alfred Douglas, More Adey, Christopher Millard, Robert Ross, and Adela Schuster, among many others.
This finding aid describes confirmed or probable forgeries of Oscar Wilde's work and correspondence, in addition to describing materials about Wilde forgeries, dating primarily from the 1920s.
This finding aid describes literary and miscellaneous manuscripts related to or composed by Oscar Wilde and his literary circle. Significant manuscripts include drafts of Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and a chapter of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Set of newspaper clipping albums compiled by Christopher Sclater Millard between 1909 and 1927, containing news articles and other clippings related to Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas, and the larger Wilde circle of colleagues and interests.
This finding aid describes a wide-ranging collection of material relating to Oscar Wilde and to his literary and artistic circle in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Great Britain.
Contact the Clark Library
For more information about the Clark Library's LGTBQ+ collections and holdings, including citation and copyright information, please contact Rebecca Fenning Marschall.
✉ Email: rfenning@humnet.ucla.edu ☎ Call: 310-794-5291 The Clark Library is an L.A. as Subject member. For more information about L.A. as Subject, visit their website here.
This page has paths:
12023-12-11T10:44:25-08:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0Participating InstitutionsBeth McDonald11This page should private and not easily visible to visitorsplain14430952024-03-18T09:15:04-07:00Beth McDonald0fdc6d8696ca8ca12c571f0f59d3d5703e5e4ab0