Finding Aid for the David Pablo Boder Papers, 1938-1957
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Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Finding Aid for the David Pablo Boder Papers, 1938-1957
Collection number: 1238
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
Contact Information
- Manuscripts Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
- Processed by:
- Anne Caiger, September 1979
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, June 2003
© 2003 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: David Pablo Boder Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1938-1957
Collection number: 1238
Creator: Boder, David P. (David Pablo), 1886-1961
Extent:
38 boxes (19.0 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: David P. Boder (1886-1961) was a psychology professor at the Lewis Institute (now Illinois Institute of Technology) (1927-52),
the trustee and executive director of the Psychological Museum in Chicago (1937-57), and the psychological consultant with
the war training program of IIT during World War II. He collected interviews with displaced persons in camps of France, Switzerland,
Italy, and Germany and studied victims of the Kansas City Flood (1951). In 1952, Boder became a research associate in psychology
at UCLA. The collection consists of correspondence, transcripts, manuscripts and printed items related to Boder's research
on displaced persons, and materials related to his tenure as the Director of the Psychological Museum in Chicago.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
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Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
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- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], David Pablo Boder Papers (Collection 1238). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Biography
Boder was born in Libau, Latvia, November 9, 1886; educated at Teachers College, Vilna, Lithuania, the University of Leipzig
(was briefly a student of Wilhelm Wundt), and the Psycho-Neurological Institute of St. Petersburg, 1907-12; MA, University
of Chicago, 1927; Ph.D, Northwestern University, 1934; was professor of psychology, National University of Mexico while also
director of psychological research and services at Penal Institutions, Federal District of Mexico, 1921-25; immigrated to
U.S., 1926; married Dr. Dora Neveloff, 1925; staff psychologist, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, 1927-33; instructor and
professor, Lewis Institute (now Illinois Institute of Technology), 1927-52; head, Department of psychology and philosophy,
Lewis Institute, 1935-40; trustee and executive director of Psychological Museum, Chicago, 1937-57; psychological consultant
with war training program of IIT during World War II; collected interviews with displaced persons in camps of France, Switzerland,
Italy, and Germany; studied victims of Kansas City Flood, 1951; Director of Psychology and Research, Department of Mental
Hygiene, Chicago Board of Health; participant in organization of Mental Hygiene Clinic, Ida B. Wells Public-Housing Project,
May-October 1952; became research associate in psychology, UCLA, 1952; fellow, American Psychological Association; died December
18, 1961.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, transcripts, manuscripts and printed items related to Boder's research on displaced
persons. Includes materials related to his tenure as Director of the Psychological Museum in Chicago as well as his involvement
with other professional interests.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Work on displaced persons (Boxes 1-16).
- Psychological Museum (Boxes 17-20).
- Professional correspondence (Boxes 21-24).
- Writings by and about Boder (Boxes 25-26).
- Research maerial (Boxes 27-30).
- Tests (Boxes 31-34).
- Non-print material (Boxes 35-38).
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Boder, David P. (David Pablo), 1886-1961--Archives.
Psychological Museum (Chicago, Ill.).
Psychologists--Archival resources.
Refugees--Research.
World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Research.
Related Material
Topical autobiographies of displaced people: recorded verbatim in displaced persons camps: with a psychological and anthropological
analysis
/ by David P. Boder. 16 vol. [Chicago?: The author?], c. 1950-1957. Available at Department of Special Collections, UCLA.
Container List
Materials
re Work on Displaced Persons
Correspondence and Papers: 1945-47; 1948-53
Box 1
1)
re Boder's trip to Europe to interview displaced persons, 1945-47.
Box 1
2)
re project to analyse the interviews, 1948-53.
Box 2
Correspondence
re
Topical autobiographies..., 1950-57.
Boxes 3-4
The D.P. Story: transcripts of interviews with holograph corrections.
Box 5
Notecards
re
The D.P. Story.
Box 6
Topical autobiographies... Sets of microcards.
Box 6
Materials
re The tale of Anna Kovitzka. [Part of
Topical Autobiographies...].
Box 7
Topical autobiographies...: transcripts and other material.
Box 8
Topical autobiographies...: transcripts and other material
Boxes 9-12
Topical autobiographies... [First - fifth series and index) 1950-57.
Physical Description: 1 vol.
Note
Stack copy is *D808 B63t
Box 13
Topical autobiographies... Sets of microcards.
Box 14
Materials
re development of a traumatic lexicon for assessment and evaluation of catastrophic events, 1954.
Box 15
Notebooks in diary form, 1947-51, n.d.
Box 16
Miscellaneous, mostly notebooks and manuscripts.
Materials
re Psychological Museum
Box 17
Correspondence, bank statements, clippings, programs and papers, 1938-40s.
Box 18
Correspondence and papers, 1940s.
Box 19
Correspondence, bank statements, clippings and papers, 1940s.
Correspondence and Papers
re:
Box 20
2) merger of the Lewis Institute and the Armour Research Foundation Professional Correspondence.
Box 21
1953-54 (alphabetical within each year).
Box 22
1955-57 (alphabetical within each year).
Box 24
Contents of an alphabetical file folder - Miscellaneous.
Writings by and about Boder
Box 25
Writings by Boder.
Physical Description: Mostly printed but includes some lectures in mimeographed, typescript form.
Box 26
Miscellaneous writings by and about Boder.
Box 26
Memorabilia, personal documents and photographs.
Abstract: Photographs are mostly snapshots but also include black and white group picture entitled, Meeting of the Society of Experimental
Psychologists, Princeton, Spring, 1916, with key to persons.
Box 27
Offprints, reprints and articles by various authors.
Boxes 28-30
Miscellaneous published items; also (Box 30) includes dissertations by others than Boder.
Boxes 31-34
Test forms, directions and other test material, including (Box 34) pamphlets written in Russian.
Box 35
Tape recordings, mostly unidentified.
Box 36
Films, mostly unidentified.
Boxes 37-38
Wire recordings, mostly unidentified.
