MARC Record from Library of Congress

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100 1 $aWertham, Fredric,$d1895-1981.
245 00 $aFredric Wertham papers,$f1818-1986$g(bulk 1945-1975).
300 $a82,200$fitems.
300 $a222$fcontainers plus$a2$foversize.
300 $a90$flinear feet.
506 1 $aRestrictions apply.
506 $aRestrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
520 8 $aCorrespondence, memoranda, writings, speeches and lectures, reports, research notes, patient case files, psychiatric tests, transcripts of court proceedings, biographical information, newspaper clippings, drawings, photographs, and other materials pertaining primarily to Wertham's career in psychiatry.
520 8 $aTopics include abused children, censorship, civil rights, the physiological effect of drugs, freedom of speech, juvenile delinquency, pornography, race relations and racism, sex crimes, violence, violence in comic books, mass media, motion pictures, and television, and violent crime. Includes materials relating to Wertham's testimony as an expert witness in desegregation cases; his work in New York, N.Y., with the Lafargue Clinic, a psychiatric clinic for African Americans, and the Quaker Emergency Service Readjustment Center for sexually maladjusted individuals; and his art collection particularly paintings by El Lissitzky. Also includes notes, drafts, and related materials for Wertham's major works including Seduction of the Innocent (1954); a patient case file, correspondence, and writings by or about Wertham's patient, psychoanalyst Horace Westlake Frink, and correspondence between Frink and Sigmund Freud; and correspondence, writings, and other papers relating to Wertham's mentors, Emil Kraepelin and Adolf Meyer, and to his Lafargue associate, Hilde Mosse. Correspondents include Taylor Caldwell, Emil Arthur Gutheil, Langston Hughes, Ernest Jones, Alfred C. Kinsey, Ida Macalpine, Thomas Mann, Arthur Miller, Ella Winter, and Richard Wright.
541 $cGift,$aestate of Florence Hesketh Wertham,$d1987-1988.
545 0 $aPsychiatrist.
546 $aCollection material in English and German.
555 8 $aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010146
600 10 $aCaldwell, Taylor,$d1900-1985$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aFreud, Sigmund,$d1856-1939$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aFrink, Horace Westlake,$d1883-1936$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aGutheil, Emil Arthur,$d1899-1959$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHughes, Langston,$d1902-1967$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aJones, Ernest,$d1879-1958$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aKinsey, Alfred C.$q(Alfred Charles),$d1894-1956$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aKraepelin, Emil,$d1856-1926.
600 10 $aLissitzky, El,$d1890-1941.
600 10 $aMacalpine, Ida$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aMann, Thomas,$d1875-1955$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aMeyer, Adolf,$d1866-1950.
600 10 $aMiller, Arthur,$d1915-2005$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aMosse, Hilde L.
600 10 $aWinter, Ella$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWright, Richard,$d1908-1960$vCorrespondence.
610 20 $aLafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)
610 20 $aQuaker Emergency Service Readjustment Center (New York, N.Y.)
650 0 $aAbused children.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xPsychology.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xSegregation.
650 0 $aArt$xCollectors and collecting.
650 0 $aCensorship.
650 0 $aCivil rights.
650 0 $aComic books, strips, etc.$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aDrugs$xPhysiological effect.
650 0 $aFreedom of speech.
650 0 $aJuvenile delinquency.
650 0 $aPornography.
650 0 $aPsychiatric clinics$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
650 0 $aRace relations.
650 0 $aRacism.
650 0 $aSex (Psychology)
650 0 $aSex crimes.
650 0 $aViolence$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aViolence in mass media.
650 0 $aViolence in motion pictures.
650 0 $aViolence on television.
650 0 $aViolent crimes.
656 7 $aPsychiatrists.$2itoamc
700 12 $aWertham, Fredric,$d1895-1981.$tSeduction of the innocent.$f1954.
852 $aLibrary of Congress$bManuscript Division$eWashington, D.C. 20540 USA$ndcu$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
856 4 $3Finding aid$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010146
856 4 $3Finding aid (PDF)$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010146.3