Records of the Joint Committee on Materials for Research, circa 1930-1940.

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Records of the Joint Committee on Materials for Research, circa 1930-1940.

Correspondence, minutes and agenda of meetings, and papers relating to the committee's surveys of materials for research in the social sciences and the humanities. Includes information on library and archives projects, permanence of paper stock, union catalogs, offset reproductions, microreproductions, other duplicating techniques, sound reproduction, and copyright. Correspondents include Robert C. Binkley, Solon J. Buck, Robert T. Crane, Augustus Frederick Kuhlman, Waldo G. Leland, Harry Miller Lydenberg, Thomas P. Martin, Arthur H. Quinn, Joseph Marius Scammell, Theodore R. Schellenberg, James T. Shotwell, and Vernon D. Tate.

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Joint Committee on Materials for Research

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Joint committee of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, concerned with the enlargement, improvement, and preservation of materials for research in the social sciences and humanities. From the description of Records of the Joint Committee on Materials for Research, circa 1930-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131175 ...

Tate, Vernon Dale (1909- ).

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Historian, librarian, and archivist; editor of the Journal of Documentary Reproduction, 1938-1942; Secretary, National Microfilm Association, 1946-1948; Director of Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1946-1956; President, American Documentation Institute, 1948-1949; Executive Secretary, National Microfilm Association, 1952-1973; Librarian, U.S. Naval Academy; 1956-1967; in 1963 named a Fellow of the National Microfilm Association; Archivist, U.S. Naval Academy, 1967-1969; Archivis...

American Council of Learned Societies. Meeting

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Founded in 1919 to promote advancement of the humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies represents about 30 societies and association. Serves as the spokesgroup for the International Union of Academics. The Council publishes "Speculum" and "The Journal of the History of Ideas", and also helps administer the Fulbright Program. From the description of Collection, 1956-1964. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 23196764 ...

Buck, Solon Justus, 1884-1962

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Historian, archivist. From the description of Reminiscences of Solon Justus Buck : oral history, 1955. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309731781 Biographical Note 1884, Aug. 16 Born, Berlin, Wis. 1900 1906 A...

Shotwell, James T., 1874-1965

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of James Thompson Shotwell : oral history, 1952. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734188 From the description of Reminiscences of James Thompson Shotwell : oral history, 1949. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122608356 American historian. From the description of A visit to the Canadian battle fields : typescript, 1919. (Unknown). WorldC...

Schellenberg, T. R. (Theodore R.), 1903-1970

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Chief, Division of Agriculture Department Archives of the National Archives. From the description of Methods of coordinating the work upon records by the Department of Agriculture and the National Archives [manuscript], 1939. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647976442 Historian, archivist, author; of Kansas, Virginia. Theodore Roosevelt Schellenberg was the son of A.L. & Sarah Schellenberg. He was born in 1903 in Reno County, Kan. He...

Crane, Robert Treat, 1880-

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Executive director of the Social Science Research Council (U.S.) From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1932. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 236166022 ...

Binkley, Robert C. (Robert Cedric), 1897-1940

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Martin, Thomas Powderly, 1887-1963.

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Quinn, Arthur Hobson, 1875-1960

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Professor of English and Drama at the University of Pennsylvania (1895-1945). Received this collection as a gift from Lewis George Sterner, and in turn donated it to the library. From the description of Correspondence from Lewis George Sterner, 1930. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 212911456 Arthur Hobson Quinn was on the faculty of the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscript...

Kuhlman, Augustus Frederick

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Lydenberg, Harry Miller, 1874-1960

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Harry Miller Lydenberg (1874-1960) was the third director of the New York Public Library, from 1934 to 1941. Prior to becoming director, he worked at the Library for nearly forty years including serving as the administrative assistant to John Shaw Billings, the first director, in 1899, Chief Reference Librarian from 1908 to 1927, and assistant director from 1928 to 1934. He was active in various professional organizations and continued to work with international library groups after his retireme...

Social Science Research Council (U.S.)

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Scammell, J. M. (Joseph Marius), 1888-

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Leland, Waldo Gifford, 1879-1966

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of Waldo Gifford Leland : oral history, 1955. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309726749 Leland earned his Harvard AM in 1901. From the description of Notes in Government 4, lectures by E. H. Strobel, 1901-1902. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074498 From the description of Notes in Economics 10, 1900-1901. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074440 ...