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George Preston Bacon Papers

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Call Number: MS047
Scope and Contents This collection includes notebooks, notes, a leatherbound scrapbook, and one VHS videotape from Bacon's time as a student and faculty member at Tufts in the Department of Physics, the College of Engineering and the Bromfield Pearson School.
Dates: 1930 -- 1939

Gerald R. Gill Papers

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Call Number: MS170
Overview Gerald R. Gill was a professor of American history at Tufts University from 1980 until his death in 2007. His research interests included African-American history, the history of the civil rights movement, pacifism, and the black student experience at Tufts. His papers document his teaching, research, university service, and scholarly activities, and include correspondence, subject files, teaching materials, and writings. There are also biographical materials, audiovisual materials, and...
Dates: 1921 -- 2007; Majority of material found within circa 1980s -- 2007

Gerhard Schmidt Oral Histories

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Call Number: MS161
Scope and Contents This collection consists of interviews conducted by Dr. Morris Cynkin with Gerhard Schmidt in the early 1970s. The original interviews are on audiocassettes. The collection also includes transcriptions of some of the tapes and mp3 files of the interviews. The interviews concern Schmidt’s early interest in medicine, his experience of antisemitism during the rise of National Socialism, his career after fleeing Germany in 1933, and his subsequent fellowships in Italy, Sweden, Canada, and the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1971 -- 1973; 1971 -- 2009

Hagop Martin Deranian Papers

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Call Number: MS061
Scope and Contents This collection contains the papers of Dr. Hagop Deranian, an Armenian-American dentist and historian. The bulk of the collection contains research and notes about the history of dentistry. Other items of note are correspondence related to the establishment of the Deranian Dental Museum, copies of books written and published by Deranian, and a documentary about the history of dentistry that features Dr. Deranian.
Dates: 1931 -- 2008

Howard Hunter Papers

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Call Number: MS167
Scope and Contents The collection consists of artifacts (including communion cups, plates, and drinking pitchers), correspondence, minutes, news clippings, photographs, and syllabi. Also included are Chinese Buddhist texts and a Bulletin from the Crane Theological School. The bulk of this material is dated from 1959 to 1996. Topics of this collection include the closing of the Department of Religion at Tufts University and the James A. Russell Lecture on Spiritual Life.
Dates: Majority of material found within 1959 -- 1996; 1844 -- 1996

Jeanne Penvenne Papers

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Call Number: MS238
Overview This collection contains the papers of Jeanne Penvenne, professor in the Tufts University Department of History from 1993-2018, including material by or about her colleague Gerald R. Gill (1948-2007).
Dates: circa 1995 -- 2018

John A. Holmes Papers

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Call Number: MS007
Scope and Contents This collection consists of typescript and handwritten manuscripts of poems and other writings, correspondence, notebooks, scrapbooks compiled by Holmes, family materials, and book and manuscript materials pertaining to Robert Frost, collected by Holmes. The bulk of the material dates from the period 1930-1960, when Holmes was most active in his writing career, and consists of manuscripts of poems, including many in multiple revisions. Correspondents include Robert Frost, Archibald...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1930 -- 1960; 1813 -- 1998

Jonathan Cohen Papers

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Call Number: MS111
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, research papers, articles, photographs, negatives (including one glass negatives), memoranda, manuscript drafts, grant reviews, and notes. The bulk of the materials date from 1950-1967. Materials relate to Cohen’s research on implants and joint and bone pathology, his work on the centennial history of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS), and his work with Dr. Sydney Farber, founder of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Correspondence concerns...
Dates: 1950 -- 2003

Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life Records

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Call Number: UA183
Overview This collection contains records created by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life as well as records created by related predecessor groups such as the Lincoln Filene Center.
Dates: 1975 -- 2018

Julian Knipp Papers

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Call Number: MS227
Scope and Contents This collection consists of Professor of Physics and Physics Chair Julian Knipp's papers, circa 1930-1988. Included are Physics class materials, circa 1960-1975, as well as notebooks from Professor Knipp's education and/or professorships at MIT, Purdue, and Iowa State College.
Dates: 1930 -- 1980