Karl M. Dallenbach papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2958

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Documenting his research in psychology, particularly in attention, sensation, and memory, and his other professional activities is correspondence with Harold J. Bachmann, Madison Bentley, Morton E. Bitterman, C. P. Boner, Edwin G. Boring, Albert P. Brogan, Forrest Lee Dimmick, Isidore S. Finkelstein, Goldwin Goldsmith, J. Stanley Gray, G. Stanley Hall, Margaret C. McGrade, Max F. Meyer, Robert B. Morton, Edwin B. Newman, Theophilus S. Painter, Leo J. Postman, Harry H. Ranson, Thomas A. Ryan, E. C. Sanford, Maryvenice E. Stewart, Edward B. Titchener, Walter S. Turner, Margaret Floy Washburn, Harry P. Weld, Logan Wilson, and others; administrative records produced while he was head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas, Austin, include reports on buildings and budgets, research reports, staff and annual reports, minutes of staff meetings, and correspondence with academic organizations; records concerning his editorship of the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY include statements on editorial policy decisions, correspondence on printing and advertising, financial and subscription records, and manuscripts and galley proofs; other professional papers include reprints of colleagues' articles, notes and articles on perception and facial vision, published biographical articles on Edwin G. Boring and Edward B. Titchener, and photographs of colleagues.

His personal correspondence with members of his family concern property settlements and management, the establishment of a John W. Dallenbach fellowship, and his genealogical research on the Dillenbach-Dillenbeck-Dallenbach family.

Receipts, leather bag, memorabilia, dogtags from World War I, including 1918 photo of M.O.T.C., Company 28 from Camp Greenleaf.

Dates

1895-1969.

Creator

Dallenbach, Karl M., 1887-1971. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Psychologist, professor.

Cornell University Ph.D. 1913; Karl M. Dallenbach taught at Ohio State University from 1915 to 1916, and at Cornell from 1916 to 1948. He left Cornell, and taught at the University of Texas until his retirement in 1969. He became editor of the American Journal of Psychology in 1926 and remained editor until 1967. Dallenbach authored more than 400 articles and monographs on such subjects as sensation, attention, perception, cutaneous sensibility, taste, smell, memory, cognition, forgetting and the perception of the blind.

Extent

18.1 cubic feet. (18.1 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Documents his research in psychology, particularly in attention, sensation, and memory, and his other professional activities.

NOTES

Related collection:American Journal of Psychology. Records, #2997.

Physical Description

Correspondence, Printed Materials, Publications, Research Materials

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: J. B. HodgsonI Wald
Date completed:: 1975-19761977
EAD encoding:: Evan Fay Earle, February 2008