Guide to the Rex Francis Harlow, "Years of Challenge" Autiobiography Material
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Stanford, California
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Call Number: SC0605
Creator:
Harlow, Rex Francis, 1892-
Title: Rex Francis Harlow, "Years of challenge" autiobiography material
Dates: circa 1982
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
Summary: This autobiography details his life as public relations executive and consultant as well as salesman, business executive,
educator, researcher, lecturer, and author. Several chapters deal with his teaching career at Stanford and the Stanford Public
Relations Institute. The collection also includes his correspondence with Howard Chase, 1982, who wrote the introduction.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
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Stanford, CA 94305-6064
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Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Gift of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 2001.
This collection is open for research.
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Rex francis Harlow, "Years of Challenge" Autiobiography Material (SC0605). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Rex F. Harlow earned his doctorate in education at Stanford in 1937 and was on the faculty from 1938 to 1944. He was a major
figure in the development of the public relations profession and a founder of the Public Relations Society of America. His
published works include SOCIAL SCIENCE IN PUBLIC RELATIONS, PRACTICAL PUBLIC RELATIONS, and PUBLIC RELATIONS IN WAR AND PEACE,
as well as many other books on education, history, and children's fiction. He died in 1993.
This autobiography details his life as public relations executive and consultant as well as salesman, business executive,
educator, researcher, lecturer, and author. Several chapters deal with his teaching career at Stanford and the Stanford Public
Relations Institute. The collection also includes his correspondence with Howard Chase, 1982, who wrote the introduction.
American Council on Public Relations --History.
Chase, W. Howard.
Harlow, Rex Francis, 1892-
Stanford University. Public Relations Institute.
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Public relations.
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