Pierce, Bessie Louise. Papers 1839-1974

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Pierce, Bessie Louise. Papers 1839-1974

Bessie Louise Pierce, Professor of history, University of Chicago, 1929-53. Advisor to the W.P.A. Foreign Language Press Survey in Chicago, 1936-1940. Director of the History of Chicago Project 1929-1973.Contains correspondence, reports, manuscripts, reviews, speeches, chapter drafts from A History of Chicago, manuscripts of unpublished textbooks in history, diaries, memorabilia, photographs, and administrative records of the History of Chicago Project. Includes correspondence with publishers Alfred A. Knopf and Holt Rinehart and Winston. Other correspondents include Ray Billington, William Dodd, Charles Merriam, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Blake McKelvey, and Zane Miller. Also contains Pierce family letters and documents, 1839-1911.

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Dodd, William Edward, 1869-1940

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A.B., University of Iowa, 1910. A.M., University of Chicago, 1918. Ph. D., University of Iowa, 1923. Associate in history, University of Iowa, 1919-22; assistant professor, 1922-26; associate professor, 1926-29. Associate professor of history, University of Chicago, 1929-53. Advisor to the W.P.A. Foreign Language Press Survey in Chicago, 1936-1940. Director of the History of Chicago Project 1929-1973. From the description of Papers, 1839-1974 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Libra...

Merriam, Charles Edward, 1874-1953

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McKelvey, Blake, 1903-2000

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