Research Catalog

Title

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve papers, 1898-1962

Author

Gildersleeve, Virginia Crocheron, 1877-1965

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

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Summary

Correspondence, notes, articles, reports, and speeches of Gildersleeve, including materials relating to the United Nations Conference in San Francisco, 1945, the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, the International Federation of University Women, the American Association of University Women, the American Council on Education, and the Near East College Association. The most note-worthy item in the collection is a letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, appointing Dean Gildersleeve to serve as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Charter Conference of the United Nations. The collection also contains some material relating to Barnard College affairs.

Subject

• Roosevelt, Franklin D, 1882-1945
• Buck, Pearl S (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973
• Catledge, Turner, 1901-1983
• Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959
• Eisenhower, Dwight D, 1890-1969
• Elmhirst, Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight
• Finley, John H, 1863-1940
• Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of, 1881-1959
• Highet, Gilbert, 1906-1978
• Kennedy, John F, 1917-1963
• Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 1902-1985
• MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982
• Marshall, George C, 1880-1959
• Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976
• Murray, Gilbert, 1866-1957
• Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971
• Park, Rosemary
• Rockefeller, Nelson A., 1908-1979
• Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994
• Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of, 1893-1972
• Shotwell, James T., 1874-1965
• Stassen, Harold E, 1907-2001
• Stettinius, Edward R., Jr., 1900-1949
• Thompson, Dorothy, 1893-1961
• Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
• Warren, Earl, 1891-1974
• Winchell, Walter, 1897-1972
• Barnard College. Office of the Dean
• Barnard College > Administration
• International Federation of University Women
• American Association of University Women
• American Council on Education
• Near East College Association (New York, N.Y.)
• United Nations Conference on International Organization (1945 : San Francisco, Calif.)
• Conversations on International Organization (1944 : Washington, D.C.)
• Women's colleges > New York (State) > New York
• World politics
• Universities and colleges > New York (State) > New York
• Education > Societies, etc
• Women college graduates > Societies and clubs
• Women college administrators

Access (note)

• This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
• This collection has no restrictions.

Cite As (note)

• Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Terms of Use (note)

• Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Source (note)

• Source of acquisition--Gildersleeve, Virginia C. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1964. Accession number--M-64.

Biography (note)

• Dean of Barnard College, 1911-1947.

Processing Action (note)

• Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 06/--/89.

OCLC

• 472459635
• ocn472459635
• SCSB-4796629

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries