© 2006 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Carl Becker papers,
1898-1956.
Collection Number:
14-17-132
Creator:
Carl Lotus, Becker
1873-1945.
Quantity:
24.7 cubic
ft.
Forms of Material:
N/A
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
Abstract:
Includes correspondence with former students
and other historians concerning the study and writing of history, especially
Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles Homer Haskins; papers relating to Ezra
Cornell and the early history of Cornell University; lectures; reviews;
articles; notes on European and American history and for a bibliography of
Becker's writings; six letters to Elias R. B. Willis, a Cornell librarian and
friend, concerning the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, the state and its role (1925),
contrasts between Cornell University and the University of Chicago (1929), John
Jay Chapman, his friend George Gemmill, and a poem satirizing academicians
(1924); an undated letter to Laurence Bradford Packard; an autographed book;
reprints; and biographical information including letters to and from Becker,
photographs, and reminiscences about Becker by friends, relatives, and former
students.
Language:
Collection material in English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes correspondence with former students and other historians
concerning the study and writing of history, especially Frederick Jackson
Turner and Charles Homer Haskins; papers relating to Ezra Cornell and the early
history of Cornell University; lectures; reviews; articles; notes on European
and American history and for a bibliography of Becker's writings; six letters
to Elias R. B. Willis, a Cornell librarian and friend, concerning the
MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, the state and its role (1925), contrasts between Cornell
University and the University of Chicago (1929), John Jay Chapman, his friend
George Gemmill, and a poem satirizing academicians (1924); an undated letter to
Laurence Bradford Packard; an autographed book; reprints; and biographical
information including letters to and from Becker, photographs, and
reminiscences about Becker by friends, relatives, and former students.
SUBJECTS
Names:
Becker, Carl
Lotus,1873-1945.
Chapman, John Jay,
1862-1933.
Cornell, Ezra.
Gemmill, George.
Haskins, Charles Homer,
1870-1937.
Packard, Laurence Bradford.
Stewart, John Hall.
Turner, Frederick Jackson,
1861-1932.
Willis, Elias R. B.
Cornell University--History.
Cornell University--Faculty.
Cornell University.
Titles:
Guardian (Manchester,
England).
Subjects:
History--Study and
teaching.
Historiography.
Historians.
College teachers.
Places:
United States--History.
Europe--History.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photoprints.
Reminiscences.