Fonds 1091 - George Williams Brown fonds

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Reference code

UTA 1091

Title

George Williams Brown fonds

Date(s)

  • ca. 1920-1959 (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

4.81 m of textual and graphic records (37 boxes plus oversized material)

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Name of creator

(1894-1963)

Biographical history

Born in Glencoe, Ontario, 1894; BA 1915 (Vic), MA (Chicago), PhD (Chicago) 1924; professor in the Department of History, 1925-1963 and Professor Emeritus, 1963; general editor, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1959-1963; editor, University of Toronto Press, 1946-1953; editor, Canadian Historical Review, 1926-1946. Died in Toronto, 18 October, 1963.

Archival history

Donated to Rare Book Library, April, 1964. Transferred to University Archives, 1972.

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Scope and content

Personal records of George Brown, including personal and professional correspondence, course notes (?), lecture notes in Canadian and American history, including mimeographed ones prepared for the Prisoner of War camps in Canada during World War II (1943-1944); research notes, drafts of articles and offprints; bibliography cards; glass-plate negatives and card index to photographs.

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Accruals

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Unarranged

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Open

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B1972-0023

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Dates of creation revision deletion

Added to AtoM by Karen Suurtamm, Summer 2015

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