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Jack Allen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0650
Abstract

The Jack Allen Collection is an accumulation of Allen’s productive life as an educator at George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee. The collection comprises five linear feet relating to Jack Allen’s career and writings.

Dates: 1941 - 2000
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections

Gerd Fraenkel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0155
Abstract

This collection contains material from Dr. Gerd Fraenkel, professor of English and Linguistics at George Peabody College in the 1960s and 1970s. Most of the materials concern Fraenkel's research into linguistics and various world languages.

Dates: circa 1950s-1980s
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections

Charles Edgar Little Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0260
Abstract

The Charles E. Little Papers are comprised of .84 linear feet and mostly relate to Peabody College and Vanderbilt University.

Dates: circa 1885-1945
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections

Louis Thurston Nicholas Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0314
Abstract The Papers of Louis Thurston Nicholas, which cover the years 1894-2006, consist of 208 linear feet of material and are concerned with Nicholas’s personal and professional life. Major series in the papers include Personal and Professional Correspondence; material relating to his activities in the National Association of the Teachers of Singing (NATS); Personal and Biographical papers; his Musical and Academic Career and programs from the George Peabody College Concert Series; ...
Dates: 1894 - 2006
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections

Bruce R. Payne Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0325
Abstract

The Bruce R. Payne Papers are comprised of nine boxes (3.78 linear feet) of correspondence and subject files related to Payne's tenure as President of Peabody College. The bulk of the papers consist of correspondence.

Dates: 1912 - 1937
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections

William H. Payne Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0326
Dates: multiple
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections

Peabody Dames Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0551
Scope and Content Note

This collection contains a miscellany of records (historical, financial, membership, press, and other) from this social club connected to George Peabody College for Teachers.

The collection is .84 linear feet and covers the years 1917 until 1974. In addition there is a scrapbook containing photographs, reports, yearbooks, and programs and which includes materials from the years 1953-1957.

Dates: 1917 - 1974
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections

Peabody Women's Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0715
Abstract

This collection includes records of the Peabody Women's Club from 1913-1977, and one cookbook published in 1996. These records include ledgers, club financial records, membership information, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and notes between members, both handwritten and typed.

Dates: 1913 - 1996
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections

Peace Corps Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0328
Scope and Content Note In 1961 Dr. Nicholas Hobbs, Professor of Psychology at George Peabody College for Teachers, was appointed as the Director of Recruitment and in 1962 as the Director of Research for the Peace Corps. This collection consists of the correspondence these positions required as well as the materials related to the collaborative efforts of Dr. Hobbs and colleagues around the country to develop test materials and evaluation techniques in order to recruit, select, and retain the best candidates for...
Dates: multiple
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections

Charles H. Stone Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0421
Abstract

This collection contains the professional correspondence relating to the career of Charles H. Stone, an educator in the field of librarianship. The majority of the correspondence relates to Stone’s tenure at George Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee.

Dates: 1919 - 1927
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections

Voices of Peabody

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0606
Scope and Content and History Note This Oral History Project was begun in the spring and summer of 2005 with the intention of making an archival record of diverse experiences of the Merger in 1979 of Vanderbilt University with George Peabody College for Teachers. This electronic archive and the transcriptions along with supporting materials include 27 interviews with faculty, staff, former students, and former Board Members both at Vanderbilt and Peabody and covers a range of questions including changes brought about at both...
Dates: multiple
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections

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