Mikhailo Oleksiiovych Vetukhiv Papers, 1900-1959

Summary Information

At a Glance

Description

Summary

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, subject files and printed material of Mykhailo O. Vetukhiv (1903-1959), geneticist and founding president of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. from 1949 until his death in 1959. The correspondence includes letters from such Ukrainian scholars and emigre community leaders as Dmytro Chyzhevs'kyi, George Shevelov, Andrii and Mykola Livyts'kyi, Ivan Kedryn-Rudnyts'kyi and M. Shlemkevych. The manuscripts are of Vetukhiv's published and unpublished articles and include a considerable amount of notes. The collection also contains manuscripts of, and notes for, speeches which Vetukhiv delivered, as well as invitations, announcements and clippings regarding these lectures. The documents are primarily personal; the photographs are chiefly of public events in Ukrainian communities both in Europe and the United States. Close to half of the collection consists of subject files, including extensive material on professional meetings Vetukhiv attended, on his scientific research and on the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. for the period 1949-1959. Among the printed material are articles by Vetukhiv as well as clippings of articles about him and about issues affecting Ukrainians in the United States.

Using the Collection

Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Permission from Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States required for use.

This collection is located on-site.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

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.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Nataliia Vetukhova and Lada Turkalo. Method of acquisition--gift; Date of acquisition--1960-1964.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Collection-level record describing unprocessed material made public in summer 2018 as part of the Hidden Collections initiative.

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