Nef, Elinor Castle. Papers 1891-1966

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Nef, Elinor Castle. Papers 1891-1966

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.NEFEC

Elinor Castle Nef (1894-1953) was the first wife of University of Chicago professor John U. Nef, Jr. and the daughter of a prominent Hawaiian family. She was a prolific diarist and letter writer, corresponding with many important artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. When she was not sharing in her husband's work and travel, she devoted her time to the writing of personal letters, notes, and essays some of which were edited and published posthumously by her husband in a book entitled Letters and Notes, Volume 1 (Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1953). Materials in the collection date between 1891 and 1966, with the bulk of the material dating between 1920 and 1953. The papers primarily document Elinor's extensive correspondence with artists and thinkers throughout the United States and Europe, and her written reflections on life in twentieth-century America.

Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library,

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6638012

Related Entities

There are 26 Entities related to this resource.

Boulanger, Nadia, 1887-1979

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gr7qj8 (person)

French composer and music teacher. From the description of [Letter] 1977 October 27 [to] Dear Mr. Wilson 1977. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 755584222 Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was a Parisian composer, music teacher and conductor. From the description of Nadia Boulanger American music scores, 1925-1937 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612769739 French composer and composition teacher. From the d...

Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x74dnm (person)

Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg was born on Sept. 13, 1874 in Vienna; began composing before he was nine years old; composed the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899), which he later scored for string orchestra, and became one of his most popular works; Austrian composers Alban Berg and Anton Webern began studying with him in 1904; his cantata Gurrelieder (begun in 1900) was received enthusiastically at its premiere in 1913; by 1909 he began creating atonal compositions, and in his Opus 25 Piano S...

Schnabel, Artur

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bq0swb (person)

Artur Schnabel was an Austrian pianist and teacher whose performances and recordings made him a legend in his own time and a model of scholarly musicianship to all later pianists. He lived in Berlin from 1900 and was a leading piano teacher at the State Academy of Music in Berlin from 1925 to 1933. Schnabel lived in the United States from 1939 until after World War II, when he returned to Switzerland. He specialized in the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Franz Schubert. As a ...

Hapgood, Norman, 1868-1937

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64m94vj (person)

Norman Hapgood: editor, diplomat, and author. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood (1894-1974): editor and translator. From the description of Papers of Norman Hapgood and Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, 1823-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132030 Norman Hapgood was an editor and critic, best remembered for his influential editorials for Collier's Weekly. Born in Chicago, he had a distinguished tenure as a student at Harvard University, culminating in a law degree. He practiced law...

Shils, Edward, 1910-1995

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63n2hp7 (person)

Historian Edward Potts Cheyney taught at the University of Pennsylvania. From the guide to the Drafts of chapters for "Freedom of inquiry and expression, " 1936-1938, 1936-1938, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Nef, Elinor Castle, 1894 or 1895-1953

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66h4xn2 (person)

Elinor Henry Castle Nef was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 28, 1894 to Henry Northrup Castle (1892-1895) and Mabel Wing Castle (1864-1950). Her grandfather, Samuel Northrup Castle (1808-1894), co-founded the influential firm Castle and Cooke. Her father was the youngest of nine children and a well-regarded political leader and editor of the Honolulu Pacific Commercial Advertiser and the Hawaiian Gazette. From 1889 to 1890, Henry was married to a German woman, Frida S...

Park, Robert Ezra, 1864-1944

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67h1h4j (person)

Sociologist. Ph. B., University of Michigan, 1887. Newspaper reporter in Minneapolis, Detroit, Denver, New York, and Chicago, 1887-1898. M.A., Harvard University, 1899. Ph. D., University of Heidelberg, 1904. Assistant in philosophy, Harvard University, 1904-1905. Secretary of the Congo Reform Association. Aide to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute. Professorial lecturer on sociology, University of Chicago, 1915-1923; professor of sociology, 1923-1929. Lecturer, Fisk University, 1936-194...

Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ns0wnx (person)

László Moholy-Nagy (1894-1946) was a painter, sculptor, photographer, designer, film maker, theorist and teacher who was a major figure in the Bauhaus movement, first in Germany and later instrumental in bringing the Bauhaus philosophy to the United States. His work spanned many genres. He was influenced by the Constructivists, Dadists and the Suprematists. In 1922 he was appointed to Bauhaus school of design in Berlin, staying until 1928. After working in commercial practice in Europe, he mov...

Castle, Henry Northrup, 1862-1895

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mg83mk (person)

Journalist and political leader in Honolulu. Attended Oberlin College. From the description of Papers, 1872-1927 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 41484336 From the description of Papers, 1872-1927 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52246322 Mabel Wing Castle was born June 19, 1864 to Leander Joseph and Zillah Annette Lovering Wing in Providence, RI. She attended Wellesley College, graduatin...

Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x34znv (person)

Russian-French painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed (1) and greeting cards signed (2) : Marseilles and St. Paul, to John Rewald, 1941 Jan. 3, 1967 July 18 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870508 Marc Chagall was a Russian-born painter working chiefly in France whose works frequently featured themes from Russian-Jewish folklore and from the Bible. From the description of Marc Chagall letter to D. Vaughan, 1967 February 21. (Pennsyl...

Redfield, Robert, 1897-1958

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66t0pvf (person)

Anthropologist. J.D., University of Chicago, 1924; Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1928. Assistant professor of anthropology, University of Chicago, 1928-1934; professor, 1934-1958; dean, Division of the Social Sciences, 1934-1946; chairman, Department of Anthropology, 1947-1949. Died 1958. From the description of Papers, 1925-1958 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52250075 The association of Robert M. Hutchins and Robert Redfield ...

Read, Conyers, 1881-1959

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ck2g9p (person)

Dimock, Marshall Edward, 1903-1991

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qr5bs8 (person)

Political science professor, government official. Dimock's positions included Second Assistant Secretary of Labor, 1938-1940, Associate Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1940-1942, and Director of Recruitment and Manning Organization of the War Shipping Administration, 1942-1944. From the description of Papers, 1936-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155522604 ...

Nef, John Ulric, 1899-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6000g69 (person)

Professor of economic history. Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago, 1929-1950; chairman and professor, Committee on Social Thought, 1945-1964. From the description of Papers, 1909- [ca. 1970]. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52246436 Writer, historian. From the description of Reminiscences of John Ulric Nef : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451879 ...

Shortall, Harrington, 1895-1984

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k64zmb (person)

Ruml, Beardsley, 1894-1960

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67w6s6f (person)

Educator and businessman. A.B., Dartmouth College, 1915. Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1917. Director, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, 1922-1929. Dean of Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 1931-1933; professor of education, 1931-1933. Treasurer, R.H. Macy & Company, 1934-1945; Chairman of the Board, 1945-1951. From the description of Papers, 1817- 1960. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52246985 Beardsley Ruml (1894-1960), probab...

Maritain, Jacques

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s184s9 (person)

Jacques Maritain, a French philosopher and man of letters, was French Ambassador to the Vatican from 1945 to 1948, professor of philosophyat Princeton University from 1948 to 1952 and continued to make his home in Princeton until 1960. His works include TRUE HUMANISM (1936, tr. 1938); ART AND SCHOLASTICISM (1920, tr. 1929); ON THE USE OF PHILOSOPHY (1961). From the description of The responsibility of the artist : typescript, ca. 1960 / by Jacques Maritain. (Peking University Library...

University of Chicago - History

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6432wtc (corporateBody)

Castle, Mabel Wing, 1864-1950

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fr09wt (person)

Mead, George Herbert, 1863-1931

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cc1dpb (person)

Philosopher, social psychologist, and educator. A.B., Oberlin College, 1883; A.B., Harvard University, 1888; graduate student of philosophy, Leipzig and Berlin, 1888-91. Instructor in philosophy, University of Michigan, 1891-93; assistant professor, 1893-94. Assistant professor of philosophy, University of Chicago, 1894-1902; associate professor, 1902-07; professor, 1907-31. Chairman of the Department of Philosophy, 1930. From the description of Papers, 1883-1964 (inclusive), 1883-19...

Dodd, William Edward, 1869-1940

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bv7jfn (person)

William Edward Dodd (1869-1940) was a historian and United States ambassador to Germany. From the guide to the William Edward Dodd Letters, ., 1911-1923, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Historian, diplomat, college professor. From the description of William Edward Dodd letter to Alfred Jackson Hanna [manuscript], 1895 December 2. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 502141954 Historian and ...

Gale, Henry Gordon, 1874-1942

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vx0kv4 (person)

Physicist. Born 1874 in Aurora, Illinois. Received A.B. from University of Chicago in 1896, Ph. D. in Physics in 1899. Joined University of Chicago faculty in 1899 in Department of Physics, full professorship in 1916, retired in 1940. Died 1942. From the description of Papers, 1889-1948. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 45478641 ...

Green, Constance Mclaughlin 1897-1975

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zc8m2p (person)

Born Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1897. A.B. Smith College, 1919; M.A. Mt. Holyoke College, 1925; Ph.D. Yale, 1937. Married Donald Ross Green. Taught history at the University of Chicago, and Mt. Holyoke and Smith Colleges. Authored the two-volume Washington: A History of the Capital, 1800-1950 (1962-63), for which she received the Pulitzer Prize for history. Other books include: American Cities in the Growth of the Nation (1965); Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology (1956); The Rise of Urba...

Van Pappelendam, Laura

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67j7nts (person)

Paepcke, Walter Paul, 1896-1960.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6668ts1 (person)

Businessman, philanthropist. Born 1896. B.A. Economics and History, Yale 1917. Founded Container Corporation of America. Died 1960. From the description of Papers, 1912-1961 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 222036781 ...

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qg9gvk (person)

Virginia Woolf (b. January 25, 1882, London, England–d. March 28, 1941, Ouse, River, Englnad) was a noted novelist and is now viewed as a pioneer of feminist literature. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, comprised of English artists, philosophers, and writers in the early twentieth century. She was also a co-founder and operator (along with husband Leonard Woolf) of Hogarth Press. Though she received little formal education, her father, a writer and editor with strong ...