Finding Aid for the Philip Durham Index and Bibliography Collection LSC.1220
Finding aid prepared by Kayla Landesman, January 1981; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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Online finding aid last updated 2004.
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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Philip Durham Index and Bibliography collection
Creator:
Durham, Philip
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1220
Physical Description:
5.5 Linear Feet
(11 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): 1960-1977
Abstract: Philip Durham (1912-1977) was a professor in the English department at UCLA (1953-77), and a Fulbright professor of American
literature (1955-56). The collection consists of Professor Philip Durham's indexes of various pulp magazines and the beginnings
of several bibliographies, a history of
Black mask and a Dashiell Hammett bibliography.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item], Philip Durham Index and Bibliography Collection (Collection 1220). UCLA Library Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Biography
Durham was born February 7, 1912 in Portland, Oregon; BS, Linfield College, 1935; MA, Claremont Graduate School, 1946; Ph.D,
Northwestern University, 1949; faculty member, Elmhurst College, 1949-51; instructor (1953-55), assistant professor (1955-61),
associate professor (1961-66), professor (1966-76), and professor emeritus (1976-77), UCLA Department of English; Fulbright
professor of American literature, University of Helsinki (1955-56); wrote several books, including
American fiction in Finland (with Tauno F. Mustanoja, 1960),
Down these mean streets a man must go: Raymond Chandler's knight (1963),
The Negro cowboys (with Everett Jones, 1965), and
The western story: fact, fiction, and myth (1975); died March 27, 1977.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of Professor Philip Durham's indexes of various pulp magazines and the beginnings of several bibliographies,
all done on 4 × 6" cards. The
Black mask index was completed by Professor Edward Hagemann. The collection also contains a history of
Black mask and a Dashiell Hammett bibliography.
Expanded Scope and Content
The collection consists of some of Professor Durham's works in progress at the time of his death. It includes indexes of various
pulp magazines and the beginnings of several bibliographies, all done on 4 × 6" cards. Professor Durham was a member of the
English Department faculty at UCLA. The
Black Mask index was completed by Professor Edward Hagemann at a later date.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
-
All story weekly,
Argosy,
Argosy--
All story weekly,
Cavalier (Boxes 1-3).
- Poetry in
Argosy (Box 4).
- Index of authors in various pulp magazines (Box 5).
-
Black mask (Boxes 6-7).
- Index and bibliography (Box 7A).
-
Cowboy stories (Box 8).
- Indexes--work in progress (Box 9).
- Willa Cather bibliography (Box 10).
- Card file notes toward works in progress (Box 11).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American fiction -- 20th century -- Bibliography -- Archives.
American periodicals -- Indexes -- Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles--Faculty -- Archives
Hagemann, E.R. (Edward R.)
Durham, Philip--Archives.
All Story Weekly,
Argosy,
Argosy-All Story Weekly,
Cavalier
box 1
Index of authors: A - Flynn.
box 2
Index of authors: Fo - M.
box 4
Index of authors: A - Riggs.
box 5
Index of authors: Ro - Wright.
Index of Authors in Various Pulp Magazines
box 5
Detective Story: Cave - Kendrick.
box 5
Flynns: Brennan - Thompson.
Black Mask
General note
The material in these boxes can not be copied without the written consent of Professor E.R. Hagemann.
box 6
Index of authors: Adams - Frost.
box 7
Index of authors: Garbett - Provost.
box 7/A
Index and bibliography.
Scope and Contents note
Black Mask index of authors: Rainey - Zastrow.
History of
Black Mask.
Dashiell Hammett bibliography.
Cowboy Stories (Works in Progress)
box 8
Index of authors: A - Maverick.
General note
(Box has list of subject areas covered)
box 9
Indexes (works in progress).
Scope and Contents note
Cowboy stories index of authors: Mead - Zogbaum; additional indexes.
Adventure index of authors: Adams - Watkins.
box 10
Willa Cather: Bibliography of articles and books by and about her (work in progress).
box 11
Card file notes toward works in progress.