Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); C. Doris Hellman Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
COinS Metadata
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Summary Information
At a Glance
| Bib ID: | 4078882 View CLIO record |
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| Creator(s): | Hellman, Clarisse Doris, 1910- |
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| Title: | C. Doris Hellman Papers,
[ca. 1925]-1973
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| Physical description: | ca. 27,000 items (61 boxes)
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| Language(s): | In English
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| Access: |
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This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least two business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
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Arrangement
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into 16 series:
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Description
Scope and Content
The correspondence, manuscripts, notes, speeches, documents, and related printed materials of Hellman, reflecting her specialty as an historian of 16th and 17th century astronomers and astronomy as well as ancient, medieval, and Renaissance science. Included in her professional correspondence are numerous letters from George Sarton and Lynn Thorndike. College records, class materials and class notes document the development of her academic career beginning with her undergraduate career at Vassar. Numerous lecture notes, class notes and working papers reflect her teaching, research and lectures at New York University, Cornell, the Columbia University Renaissance Seminar, and her active participation in professional organizations such as the History of Science Society. Of particular interest are eight boxes of notes and related printed materials concerning astronomy, astronomers, and the history of science.
Series I: Cataloged Correspondence
Series II: Uncataloged Correspondence
Series III: Manuscripts
Series IV: Speeches
Series V: Publication File
Series VI: Name File
Series VII: George Sarton
Series VIII: History of Science
Series IX: Meetings, etc.
Series X: National Science Foundation
Series XI Education
Series XII: Biographical
Series XIII: Photographs
Series XIV: Jewish Foundation for the Education of Girls
Series XV: Printed Materials
Series XVI: May 1974 Gift
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Using the Collection
Offsite
Access Restrictions
This collection has no restrictions.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least two business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Restrictions on Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); C. Doris Hellman Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries. Rare Book and Manuscript Library; machine readable finding aid created by Columbia University Libraries Digital Library Program Division
Processing Information
Cataloged 07/--/89 Christina Hilton Fenn
Machine readable finding aid generated from MARC-AMC source via XSLT conversion June 26, 2009
Finding aid written in English.
2010-02-11
Legacy finding aid created from Pro Cite.
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Subject Headings
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History / Biographical Note
Biographical Note
Historian. Hellman (1910-1973) was Professor of Social Studies at Pratt Institute, 1951-1956; and Professor of history, Queens College, 1957-1973. (Vassar College A.B., 1930; Radcliffe College A.M., 1931; Columbia University Ph.D., 1933). She was married to Morton Pepper.
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