Loomis Havemeyer papers 1901-1971

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Loomis Havemeyer papers 1901-1971

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0632

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, personal papers, diaries and journals, photographs, and scrapbooks relating to the life and career of Loomis Havemeyer. The collection documents Havemeyer's childhood, his experiences at Hill School, undergraduate and graduate studies at Yale University, as well as his lengthy career as an instructor and an administrator at the university. Details regarding Havemeyer's personal life are recorded primarily in his diaries and in his autobiographical writings. The papers also include travel diaries of Loomis Havemeyer's sister, Julia Loomis Havemeyer, which record in detail her summer travels abroad.

8.5 linear feet

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Havemeyer, Loomis, 1886-1971

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Loomis Havemeyer was born in Rye, New York, on June 7, 1886, to Charles W. Havemeyer and Julia Ida Loomis Havemeyer. He attended the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and in 1907 entered Sheffield Scientific School. After receiving a Ph.B. in philosophy (1910S), Havemeyer studied anthropology under Albert Galloway Keller at Yale University and received his M.A. in 1912 and his Ph.D. in 1915. From 1915 to 1954, Havemeyer held many positions in both academic and administrative capacities at ...