Margaret Tuttle papers and photographs, 1908-1979.

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Margaret Tuttle papers and photographs, 1908-1979.

The Margaret Tuttle papers and photographs include programs, publications, and newspaper clippings related to Ms. Tuttle's involvement with the University of Kentucky. It includes materials documenting the naming and dedication of the King Library and materials from the Alumni Association. The reunion materials are related to the UK Class of 1919 of which Tuttle was a member. The collection includes fifteen photographs that appear to have belonged to Tuttle's father and document chemistry students or students at UK in general. There is a small group of personal materials that also belonged to Margaret Tuttle. See the series descriptions for more specific information.

0.82 cu. ft. 4 boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7008762

University of Kentucky Libraries

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King, Margaret I. (Margaret Isadora), 1879-1966.

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"She has built the library up from one that could be housed in a single room to a library that now contains more than 400,000 volumes and is fourth or fifth in size among the libraries of the South. It would be impossible to estimate the value of her contribution to the University of Kentucky." (Board of Trustees Minutes 6/25/1948:48). This is how President Donovan described Margaret I. King in 1948. As the University's first librarian, King played a vital role in the development an...

Tuttle, Franklin Elliott, 1864-1950

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Tuttle, Margaret Helmsing, 1895-1988.

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Margaret Helmsing Tuttle was born on June 25, 1895 in State College, Pennsylvania. Ms. Tuttle moved to Lexington in 1906 when her father, respected chemistry professor Dr. Franklin Elliott Tuttle, took a position at the University of Kentucky. Ms. Tuttle received her A.B. in 1919 from UK and her B.S. in Library Science in 1932 from the University of Illinois. Ms. Tuttle began working for the UK Library in 1926. Ms. Tuttle made a noteworthy contribution to the library whe...

University of Kentucky.

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The University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY is a land grant institution founded in 1865. The University evolved through three stages before becoming the University of Kentucky in 1916: the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Kentucky University, 1865-78, a private, denominational institution in Lexington created by an act of the legislature on February 22, 1865; the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Kentucky, 1878-1908; and State University, Lexington, 1908-1916. A statute in 1916 changed ...