Finding Aid for the Otto Maull Papers, 1910-1930
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UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Otto Maull Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1910-1930
Collection number: 1466
Creator: Maull, Otto, b. 1887
Extent: 7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: Otto Maull (1887-1957) was a German geologist and author who spent time in Latin America, which resulted in the publication
of
Die Landschaften Mittel-Brasiliens: Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise 1923 (1925) and
Vom Itatiaya zum Paraguay: ergebnisse und erlebnisse einer forschungsreise durch Mittelbrasilien (1930). The collection consists of manuscripts, notes, pamphlets, reprints, offprints, newspapers, magazines, and clippings
mostly in German, about South America, and one folder about Canada.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Otto Maull Papers (Collection 1466). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
Biography
Maull was a German geologist and author who spent time in Latin America, which resulted in the publication of
Die Landschaften Mittel-Brasiliens: Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise 1923 (1925) and
Vom Itatiaya zum Paraguay: ergebnisse und erlebnisse einer forschungsreise durch Mittelbrasilien (1930); he died in 1957.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of manuscripts, notes, pamphlets, reprints, offprints, newspapers, magazines, and clippings mostly in
German, about South America, and one folder about Canada. Much of the collection concerns Brazil, including German schools
in Brazil and travel. Also includes materials relating to German organizations in Brazil and other South American countries,
and institutes in Germany with a Latin American orientation.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Maull, Otto, b. 1887--Archives.
Authors, German--20th century--Archival resources.
Latin America--Description and travel.
Genres and Forms of Material
Manuscripts for publication.
Container List
Box 1, Folder 1
Issue of the
London Times.
June 21, 1967
Box 1, Folder 2
Typescripts (in German); clippings from German newspapers.
Box 1, Folder 3
Newspaper clippings; correspondence (in German) (“notizien un aufsatze [sp?]”).
Box 1, Folder 4
Offprints, pamphlets, newspaper clippings
re North America (in German).
Box 1, Folder 5
Newspaper clippings, offprints (in German).
Box 2, Folder 1
Handwritten notes
re South America (in German) (“Sudamerika Vorlesung”).
Box 2, Folders 2-3
Offprints (in German)
re South America.
Box 2, Folder 4
“Deutsche Siedlungen” [?].
Box 3, Folder 1
“Deutsche Siedlungen” [sp?].
Box 3, Folder 2
Offprints/clippings
re Peru (in German).
Box 3, Folder 3
Offprints/clippings
re Brazil (in German).
Box 3, Folder 4
Offprints/clippings
re Canada (in German).
Box 3, Folder 5
Offprints
re Central and South America (in German and Spanish).
Box 4, Folder 3
“Brazilien: Kleine Arbeiten” [sp?].
Box 4, Folders 4-5
Clippings, offprints
re Brazil (in German).
Box 5, Folder 1
Proofs (?)
re Brazil (in German).
Box 5, Folders 2-3
Typescripts (in German)
re Brazil.
Box 5, Folder 4
Offprints (in Portuguese)
re Brazil.
Box 5, Folder 5
News clippings (in German)
re Brazil.
Box 5, Folder 6
Newspapers and magazines (German)
re Brazil.
Box 6, Folder 1
“Brasilien Virtschaft und Verkehr” [sp?].
Box 6, Folder 2
“Brasilien” (mostly reprints).
Box 7, Folder 1
“Brasilien” (mostly reprints).
Box 7, Folder 2
“Wirtschaft und Verkehr” [sp?].
