Page Smith papers, circa 1952-1964

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Summary

Creators:
Smith, Page, 1917-1995
Extent:
15.0 Linear Feet (15 cartons)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Page Smith Papers (Collection 620). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Biographical / historical:

Historian (Charles) Page Smith was born on Septermber 16, 1917 in Baltimore, Maryland; B.A. Dartmouth College (1940); Ph.D. Harvard University (1951) under the direction of Samuel Eliot Morison. Assistant professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (1952); associate professor (1956); professor (1963). In 1964 Smith left UCLA to become the founding Provost of Cowell College, University of California, Santa Cruz and resigned from the university in 1973. In 1963 he won the Bancroft Prize for his 1962 biography of John Adams. Smith died on August 28, 1995 in Santa Cruz, California.

Acquisition information:
The Page Smith Papers were acquired in 2004 from the Page Smith family and in cooperation with the Special Collections and Archives of the Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Processing information:

Processed by UCLA Library University Archives staff.

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Physical location:
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Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Names:
Smith, Page.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Unprocessed collection. Material is unavailable for access. Please contact Special Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu) for more information.

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Page Smith Papers (Collection 620). 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
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