| 1 | Author: | Schloss, Gerd T. | Add to Favorites | | Title: | Dr. Gerd T. Schloss papers,
1900-2007 ead | | | Date(s): | 1900-2007 | | | Abstract: | Dr. Gerd T. Schloss was a microbiology
professor at the University of Arizona whose research revolved around microbiology,
pathology, and cancer research. Schloss fled his German homeland during World War II, was a
refugee in Switzerland, and then emigrated to the United States with his wife, where he
would settle in Tucson as a working doctor. The collection contains Schloss' personal and
professional correspondence, diaries, personal papers and family history research,
professional papers on research, subject files on areas on interest to Gerd in his personal
life, as well as many of Schloss' publication. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Medical colleges -- Faculty | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | World War, 1939-1945 | Physicians -- Arizona -- History | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
2 | Author: | Ragsdale family | Add to Favorites | | Title: | Ragsdale Family Papers
1900-2022
1943-2021 ead | | | Date(s): | 1900-2022 | | | Abstract: | The Ragsdale Family Papers house photographs, correspondence, articles, clippings, interviews, and other materials documenting Lincoln and Eleanor (Dickey) Ragsdale and their families; businesses run by Ragsdale family members, including the Ragsdale Mortuary, the Universal Memorial Center, and the Valley Life Insurance Company; Lincoln Ragsdale's service with the Tuskegee Airmen; and Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale's involvement with the Civil Rights Movement and various civic organizations in Phoenix. Sets of identified and unidentified photographs that are potentially, but not definitively, related to the Ragsdale family are also present. | | | Repository: | Arizona State University Library
Black Collections | | | Subjects: | African Americans -- Civil Rights -- Arizona -- Phoenix | African Americans -- Social Conditions | Baptists, Black -- Arizona -- Phoenix | Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Arizona -- Phoenix | African Americans -- Religious life | Civil rights demonstrations -- Arizona -- Phoenix | World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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