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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Page Smith papers
Creator:
Smith, Page, 1917-1995
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0620
Physical Description:
15.0 Linear Feet
(15 cartons)
Date (inclusive): circa 1952-1964
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Unprocessed collection. Material is unavailable for access. Please contact Special Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu)
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[Identification of item], Page Smith Papers (Collection 620). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
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.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9964152053606533
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Smith, Page.