Papers, 1944-1984.

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Papers, 1944-1984.

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The Anthony Nicholas Brady Garvan papers, 1944-1984, primarily document the professional and academic activities of Garvan with a smaller grouping of papers relating to family financial investments, his children, and interests in hunting and travel. The professional correspondence files, 1948-1984, mostly relate to Garvan's tenure as Department Chair. It should be noted that some correspondence in this series could be considered either personal or professional in nature. Letters between Garvan and Harold Hochschild are exemplary of the overlap of personal and professional interchanges characteristic of this collection. Hochschild and Garvan shared interests in the art and architecture of the Adirondacks. Garvan wrote An Adirondack Winter: Ten Paintings by Jonas Lie, an Adirondack Museum Catalogue, 1971, for works his family donated to a museum founded by the Hochschilds. Hochschild contributed to Garvan's academic pursuits by establishing the Hochschild Fund for the American Civilization Department. Hochschild, Murray Murphey, and Vartan Gregorian are among the principal correspondents. Academic Papers, 1944-1983, include rosters of students, courses taught, lists of graded course work, research papers, and requests for letters of recommendation. A good deal of the collection is devoted to the projects on which Garvan worked. These projects document the different subject matter which became the focus of his exploration of cultural transmission through time and space in industrial America. The Index of American Cultures, the Historical Salvage Council, and historic preservation efforts are included among these projects. There is material for the various libraries and archives, 1961-1983, for which he served as a board member, in particular the Library Company of Philadelphia. There are files for museum efforts, 1960-1980, including his work for the Smithsonian Institution. Writings, articles, talks, and papers, 1944-1973, finish out the professional papers. The personal papers include material on his children and their education, 1961-1980; his interest in hunting and dogs, 1950-1981; travel, 1950-1968; finances, 1950-1981; and bibliocards, 1971-1972.

54 cubic ft.

University of Pennsylvania, Archives & Records Center

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University of Pennsylvania, Archives & Records Center

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University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of American Civilization.

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Library company of Philadelphia

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This collection includes unmarked ballots found in books that are part of the Library Company's collections. The books in which they were found are not identified. Since the mid 1980s, the Library Company no longer separates such materials without tracking the connection through accession numbers. This collection gathers items from several sources, and is open to new additions. From the description of Things left in books collection. Ballots, 1851-1864. (Library Company of Philadelph...

Historical Salvage Council (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Gregorian, Vartan

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Vartan Gregorian, sixteenth president of Brown University, was unanimously elected at a special meeting of the Corporation on August 31,1988. Born in Tabriz, Iran, on April 8, 1934, he attended an Armenian-Russian school until he was fifteen, when he left Tabriz with fifty dollars and a letter of introduction from a French Vice Consul and entered the Collège Arménien in Beirut, Lebanon. In 1955 he received a degree in Armenian studies. The next year he was awarded a scholarship for study oversea...

Murphey, Murray G.

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Andrew Lewis is the only living child of C.I. Lewis. From the description of Interview with Andrew Lewis about C.I. Lewis : cassette tapes, 2001 Sept. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863843 ...

Index of American Culture.

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Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)

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Hochschild, Harold K., 1892-1981

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Garvan, Anthony N. B.

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Anthony Nicholas Brady Garvan was born on October 4, 1917 in Kamp Kill Kare, his family home at Raquette Lake, New York, to Francis Patrick Garvan and Mabel Brady Garvan. Garvan was a graduate of Hotchkiss School in 1935. He received his B.A. in 1939 and M.A. in 1942 from Yale University. A Ph.D. was awarded from Yale in 1948 after service with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Garvan's academic career included an assistant professorship a...