George Peabody College for Teachers--History

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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 and University Archives

Douglas P. Davis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0102
Abstract

This collection contains two typed copies of the essay Recollections of the Early History of Peabody College by Douglas P. Davis, and two cassette tapes of the same essay. It also contains an appendix to the essay, a magazine ad, and correspondence.

Dates: 1926; 1980-1981
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives

Minnie Elvie Sutcliff Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0563
Dates: 1907 - 1909
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives

Voices of Peabody Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.0606
Abstract This collection contains 30 interviews conducted from 2005-2006 documenting the diverse experiences of the merger of Vanderbilt University with George Peabody College for Teachers in 1979. There are interviews with faculty, staff, former students, and former Board Members both at Vanderbilt and Peabody. The collection covers a range of questions including changes brought about at both institutions by the merger and reactions to the announcement of the merger and coverage by the news...
Dates: 2005 - 2006
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives

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