Karl M. Dallenbach papers, 1895-1969.
Collection Number: 2958
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Karl M. Dallenbach papers, 1895-1969.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2958
Abstract:
Documents his research in psychology, particularly in attention, sensation, and memory,
and his other professional activities.
Creator:
Dallenbach, Karl M., 1887-1971.
Quanitities:
18.1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Psychologist, professor.
Cornell University Ph.D. 1913; Karl M. Dallenbach taught at Ohio State University
from 1915 to 1916, and at Cornell from 1916 to 1948. He left Cornell, and taught at
the University of Texas until his retirement in 1969. He became editor of the American
Journal of Psychology in 1926 and remained editor until 1967. Dallenbach authored
more than 400 articles and monographs on such subjects as sensation, attention, perception,
cutaneous sensibility, taste, smell, memory, cognition, forgetting and the perception
of the blind.
Documenting his research in psychology, particularly in attention, sensation, and
memory, and his other professional activities is correspondence with Harold J. Bachmann,
Madison Bentley, Morton E. Bitterman, C. P. Boner, Edwin G. Boring, Albert P. Brogan,
Forrest Lee Dimmick, Isidore S. Finkelstein, Goldwin Goldsmith, J. Stanley Gray, G.
Stanley Hall, Margaret C. McGrade, Max F. Meyer, Robert B. Morton, Edwin B. Newman,
Theophilus S. Painter, Leo J. Postman, Harry H. Ranson, Thomas A. Ryan, E. C. Sanford,
Maryvenice E. Stewart, Edward B. Titchener, Walter S. Turner, Margaret Floy Washburn,
Harry P. Weld, Logan Wilson, and others; administrative records produced while he
was head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas, Austin, include
reports on buildings and budgets, research reports, staff and annual reports, minutes
of staff meetings, and correspondence with academic organizations; records concerning
his editorship of the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY include statements on editorial
policy decisions, correspondence on printing and advertising, financial and subscription
records, and manuscripts and galley proofs; other professional papers include reprints
of colleagues' articles, notes and articles on perception and facial vision, published
biographical articles on Edwin G. Boring and Edward B. Titchener, and photographs
of colleagues.
His personal correspondence with members of his family concern property settlements
and management, the establishment of a John W. Dallenbach fellowship, and his genealogical
research on the Dillenbach-Dillenbeck-Dallenbach family.
Receipts, leather bag, memorabilia, dogtags from World War I, including 1918 photo
of M.O.T.C., Company 28 from Camp Greenleaf.
Related collection:American Journal of Psychology. Records, #2997.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Karl M. Dallenbach papers, #2958. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Bachmann, Harold J.
Bentley, Madison, 1870-1955.
Bitterman, Morton Edward, 1921-
Boner, C. P.
Boring, Edwin Garrigues, 1886-1968.
Brogan, Albert P.
Dallenbach, John Wallace, 1918-.
Dimmick, Forrest Lee.
Finkelstein, Isidore S.
Goldsmith, Goldwin.
Gray, J. Stanley.
Hall, G. Stanley (Granville Stanley), 1844-1924.
McGrade, Margaret C.
Meyer, Max F. (Max Friedrich), 1873-1967.
Morton, Robert B., 1912-
Newman, Edwin B.
Painter, Theophilus S. (Theophilus Shickel), 1889-1969.
Postman, Leo Joseph.
Ranson, Harry H.
Ryan, Thomas Arthur, 1911-
Sanford, Emerson C.
Stewart, Maryvenice E.
Titchener, Edward Bradford, 1867-1927.
Turner, Walter S.
Washburn, Margaret Floy, 1871-1939.
Weld, Harry Porter, 1877-1970.
Wilson, Logan, 1907-1990.
Dallenbach family.
Dillenbach family.
Dillenbeck family.
University of Texas at Austin. Department of Psychology
Subjects:
Psychologists.
College teachers.
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States.
Senses and sensation.
Psychology.
Perception.
Memory.
Attention.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Genealogies.
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