Edgar Finley Shannon papers [manuscript], 1878-1995 (bulk 1920-1995)

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Edgar Finley Shannon papers [manuscript], 1878-1995 (bulk 1920-1995)

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Papers of Edgar F. Shannon include family correspondence, correspondence and research on family genealogy, speeches; audio and videotapes, phonograph records, scrapbooks and photograph albums, newsclippings, obituaries and memorial programs, photographs, social calendars and guestbooks and memorabilia. Topics of interest include student unrest and the strike of 1970 particularly an exchange with Governor Linwood Holton on the Vietnam War controversy; advice from Peter Low on legal issues in cluding student discipline, employee strikes, demonstrations, and admission of African Americans; Shannon's selection as president and his retirement in 1974; and the admission of women to Washington and Lee. Other topics include Snannon and Duncan family genealogy; the Rockefeller Commission on the CIA; the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation the Life Executive Space Tour; renovations at Carr's Hill' travel to Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Sweden and Norway; Tennyson scholarship; and naval service. The papers contain naval reserve service records; audiocassette of Dumas Malone receiving the Phi Beta Kappa Award for distinguished service to the humanities, 1982; a videocassette concerning the 1995 Campaign for the University of Virginia; a micro-audiocassette labeled "Speech"; to reel to reel tapes Prologue to an Inauaguration [of Frank L. Hereford], 1974; 3 copies of a phonograph record Inaugural Exercises University of Virginia October 6, 1959; and a computer disk labelled "Edgar Shannon Archive 95-97. " There is also one udated, unlabelled phonograph record (which plays inward out) with a critical speech about higher education in Virginia where there is too much duplication including "Four half-baked women's colleges." The reverse side contains a reading from Tennyson's 'Ulysses" and a speech supporting the New Deal.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Malone, Dumas, 1892-1986

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American historian and editor. From the description of Address books [manuscript] ca. 1925-1934. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647963645 Historian, biographer, University of Virginia professor. From the description of Papers of Dumas Malone [manuscript], 1913-1986. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816236 Professor of History at the University of Virginia; Editor of the "Dictionary of American biography," and biographer of ...