The Upton Sinclair collection from the library of Dr. and Mrs. Elmer Belt : catalogue prepared for the donation to Occidental College / by Kate Trauman Steinitz and Margot Archer. 1950.

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968

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Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1878. Sinclair was an American author, novelist, journalist, and political activist who wrote many books in several genres. He is most well-known for his exposé, The Jungle regarding conditions in Chicago's meat packing plants, which influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. Much of Sinclair's writing was related to the economic and social conditions of the early twentieth century. He was heavily in...

Occidental College

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Steinitz, Kate Traumann, 1889-1975

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American artist and librarian born in Germany. From the description of Papers on Kurt Schwitters, 1914-1974. (National Gallery of Art Library). WorldCat record id: 122546712 Artist, art historian, journalist, lecturer, photographer, and author; Los Angeles, Calif. She also served as librarian and curator of the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana, University of California, Los Angeles. Steinitz was born in Beuten, Silesia, Germany (now Poland) and she died in Los Angeles in 1975....

Archer, Margot

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Belt, Elmer, 1893-1980

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George Washington Corner worked as an anatomist, endocrinologist, and medical historian. From the guide to the George Washington Corner papers, 1889-1981, 1903-1982, (American Philosophical Society) Biographical Note Elmer Belt, M.D. (1893-1980), was a Los Angeles area urologist, bibliophile, and humanist who was instrumental in the founding of the School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). An avid ...