Durham (Philip) Index and Bibliography collection, 1960-1977

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Summary

Title:
Philip Durham Index and Bibliography collection
Dates:
1960-1977
Creators:
Durham, Philip
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.
Extent:
5.5 Linear Feet (11 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[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.

Background

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.

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Processing information:

Processed by Kayla Landesman, January 1981.

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Arrangement:

Arranged in the following series:

  1. All story weekly, Argosy, Argosy--All story weekly, Cavalier (Boxes 1-3).
  2. Poetry in Argosy (Box 4).
  3. Index of authors in various pulp magazines (Box 5).
  4. Black mask (Boxes 6-7).
  5. Index and bibliography (Box 7A).
  6. Cowboy stories (Box 8).
  7. Indexes--work in progress (Box 9).
  8. Willa Cather bibliography (Box 10).
  9. Card file notes toward works in progress (Box 11).

Physical location:
Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Kayla Landesman, January 1981; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-09-20 10:46:00 -0700 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

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Preferred citation:

[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.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
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