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Preliminary Inventory of the Corinne Lathrop Gilb papers
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Title: Corinne Lathrop Gilb papers
Dates: 1945-2005
Collection number: 2007C28
Creator:
Gilb, Corinne Lathrop, 1925-
Collection Size:
220 manuscript boxes.
(88 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: The collection contains correspondence, speeches and writings, notes, studies, reports, teaching and research materials, and
printed matter, relating to political science, interdisciplinary approaches to American and world history, the history of
law, urban history, the history of automobile and high technology industries, and city planning in Detroit.
Physical location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Box 83 Closed. Use copies of the materials in Box 84. The remainer of the collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Corinne Lathrop Gilb papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2007
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
Corinne Lathrop Gilb (1925 - 2003) received her Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Radcliffe- Harvard and
taught history at the university level for 37 years, retiring as Professor Emeritus from Wayne State University in 1994. The
first director of UC Berkeley's Regional Cultural (Oral) History Project, her interviews with early Teamster leaders and key
figures in the 1934 San Francisco labor strike remain seminal research sources in libraries throughout the country. As Planning
Director for the City of Detroit under Mayor Coleman Young, she produced the 1985 Master Plan for the City's future. She also
served as consultant to the California legislature, delegate to NGO meetings at the United Nations, and Vice President of
the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations. A dynamic public speaker who had an international following,
Dr. Gilb is best known as the author of Hidden Hierarchies: The Professions and Government. Selections of her other writings
can be found in Toward Holistic History: The Odyssey of an Interdisciplinary Historian, published by Atherton Press.
Selected text from
http://corinnelathropgilb.com
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains correspondence, speeches and writings, notes, studies, reports, teaching and research materials, and
printed matter, relating to political science, interdisciplinary approaches to American and world history, the history of
law, urban history, the history of automobile and high technology industries, and city planning in Detroit.
Organized into groups, the materials include biographical information, Detroit, Michigan materials, speeches and papers, writings,
writings conversion project, and collected materials.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Political science.
History.
United States--Civilization.
Law--History.
Cities and towns--History.
Automobile industry and trade--United States.
High technology industries--United States.
City planning--Michigan--Detroit.
Detroit (Mich.) History.