Papers, 1912-1961 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1912-1961 (inclusive).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/222036781

Consists of biographical material, correspondence, subject files, financial documents, publications, scrapbooks, ledgers, newspaper clippings, a movie, and photographs. Includes information pertaining to the Container Corporation of America, a business founded by Walter Paepcke in 1926. In addition to materials that refer to Paepcke's paperboard container business, the papers also document some of his philanthropic, cultural, and educational interests. Included among them is the Goethe Bicentennial Foundation, which organized a festival in 1949 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Included among Paepcke's other cultural and educational activities are materials relating to the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. The AIHS, founded in 1950, became an intellectual and cultural center of continuing education that provided seminars, lectures, and forums conducted by leaders in commerce, industry, science, education, religion, and government.

66.5 linear ft. (133 boxes)

University of Chicago Library

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