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| Title: | Small, Albion W.. Papers |
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| Dates: | 1904-1924 |
| Size: | 2 linear feet (4 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Albion Woodbury Small (1854-1926) taught history and political economy at Colby College from 1881 to 1888, becoming president of that institution in 1889. From 1892 to 1925, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago Dean of the Graduate School of Arts, Literature and Science from 1904 to 1923. His papers include correspondence, academic papers and professional papers. |
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Albion Woodbury Small (1854-1926) was educated at Colby College, then Colby University, (B.A., 1876), Newton Theological Institution, the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig, and Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1889). He taught history and political economy at Colby from 1881 to 1888, becoming president of that institution in 1889. From 1892 to 1925, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, the first department of its kind, and was also Dean of the Graduate School of Arts, Literature and Science from 1904 to 1923. He was vice-president of the Congress of Arts and Sciences at the Universal Exposition at St. Louis in 1904, president of the American Sociological Society (1912-14), a founder of the American Journal of Sociology, and its editor from 1895 to 1926. His bibliography runs to some three hundred titles, including fifteen works of book-length, published between 1889 and 1924. His General Sociology (1905) and Origins of Sociology (1924) have had the widest circulation, while his The Cameralists (1909) is considered the most scholarly of his productions.
Albion Small's papers, which cover the period from 1904 to 1924, are contained in two boxes, and are divided into three general categories: correspondence, academic papers, and professional papers. The correspondence mainly concerns the Universal Exposition, but also contains scattered correspondence dealing with his duties as dean. The academic papers are the syllabi drafts and lecture notes for Sociology 16 (History of Sociology) and Sociology 17 (Conflict of Classes), and his professional papers include book notes and drafts, and research and reading notes.
The Papers are divided into three series, Series I, Academic and Professional Correspondence, Series II, Research, Lectures and Publications and Series III, Addenda.
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Series I: Academic and Professional Correspondence |
| Box 1 Folder 1 | A |
| Box 1 Folder 2 | B |
| Box 1 Folder 3 | C-D |
| Box 1 Folder 4 | E-F |
| Box 1 Folder 5 | G |
| Box 1 Folder 6 | H-J |
| Box 1 Folder 7 | K-L |
| Box 1 Folder 8 | M |
| Box 1 Folder 9 | N-O |
| Box 1 Folder 10 | P-Q |
| Box 1 Folder 11 | R |
| Box 1 Folder 12 | S |
| Box 1 Folder 13 | T-V |
| Box 1 Folder 14 | W |
| Box 1 Folder 15 | Y-Z |
| Box 1 Folder 16 | Miscellaneous |
| Box 1 Folder 17 | Academic Papers; Sociology 16 (History of Sociology, Syllabus, Autumn, 1923; TS of first draft, with corrections and alterations in MS |
| Box 1 Folder 18 | Academic Papers; Sociology 16 (History of Sociology), Syllabus, Autumn, 1923; carbon of TS of first draft, with corrections and alterations in MS |
Series II: Research, Lectures, Publications |
| Box 2 Folder 1 | Academic Papers; Sociology 16 (History of Sociology), Syllabus, Autumn, 1923; mimeographed copy of final draft |
| Box 2 Folder 2 | Academic Papers; Sociology 17 (Conflict of Classes); lecture notes and supporting documents (1910) |
| Box 2 Folder 3 | Academic Papers; Sociology 17 (Conflict of Classes); papers submitted by students |
| Box 2 Folder 4 | Professional Papers; articles and books by Albion W. Small; Christianity and Capitalism; notes and sectional drafts and outlines in TS and MS |
| Box 2 Folder 5 | Professional Papers; articles and books by Albion W. Small; Origins of Sociology; notes and sectional drafts and outlines in TS and MS |
| Box 2 Folder 6 | Professional Papers; articles and books by Albion W. Small; Problems in General Sociology; S draft |
| Box 2 Folder 7 | Professional Papers; research notes; notes on Eichhorus |
| Box 2 Folder 8 | Professional Papers; research notes; notes on Jellinek |
| Box 2 Folder 9 | Professional Papers; research notes; notes on Publications of the American Economic Association, Volume I (1887) |
| Box 2 Folder 10 | Professional Papers; research notes; notes on von Sybel |
| Box 2 Folder 11 | Professional Papers; research notes; notes on von Wiese |
| Box 2 Folder 12 | "Some Researches Into Research" |
| Box 2 Folder 13 | "Dr. Robins as College President" |
| Box 2 Folder 14 | Draft and printed Convocation Address delivered by A. W. Small |
| Box 2 Folder 15 | Book review by A. W. Small; Soziologie, Unter-suchung des menschlichen Sozialen Lebens, Von Dr. Hil. A. Eleitheropulos |
| Box 2 Folder 16 | Article about Dr. Robertson's paper "Is the Virgin Birth Credible Today?" |
| Box 2 Folder 17 | A. W. Small's reply to O. J. Merkel's letter which appeared in the Chicago Sunday Tribune on January 10, 1915 |
| Box 2 Folder 18 | Article about A. W. Small which appeared in The Chicago Eagle |
| Box 2 Folder 19 | Newspaper clippings |
| Box 2 | Copy of An Introduction to the Study of Society by Albion W. Small and George E. Vincent. New York; American Book Company, 1894 |
| Box 3 Folder 1 | "Ethics of Sociology," A.W.S., Typewritten manuscript with holograph corrections (begins on p.103) |
| Box 3 Folder 2 | "Outline and References for A General History of the Intellectual Class in Western Europe;" "Bibliography of Modern Historian and Historiography" |
| Box 3 Folder 3 | "Absolute Ownership"-Holograph summary which concludes the course Conflict of Classes, Spring, 1925 |
| Box 3 Folder 4 | Untitled holograph notes |
| Box 3 Folder 5 | Student Papers
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| Box 3 Folder 6 | Mueller, John H., "Shifts In Sociological Thought from Herbert Spencer to the Present Day," Autumn, 1922 |
| Box 3 Folder 7 | Quinn, James A., "Sociology and Social Psychology," Autumn, 1924 |
| Box 3 Folder 8 | Zorbangh, H. W., "Socialized Thought in America," Autumn, 1923 (?) |
| Box 3 Folder 9 | Debate between B. W. Brown and A. W. Small re; "An Analysis of the Concept 'Function" |
| Box 3 Folder 10 | "Outlines of Sociology" by Frank J. Laube, University of Washington, Univ. Extension Service Correspondence Study. Sociology; Syllabus of a Course of Lecture Studies, A. W. Small, University of Chicago, University Extension Division |
Series III: Addenda |
| Box 4 Folder 1 | Offprints
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| Box 4 Folder 2 | Offprints
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| Box 4 Folder 3 | Manuscript, Albion W. Small, The Life History of Albion W. Small, autobiographical statement begun September 30, 1925 |