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Carl Cleveland Taylor papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3230

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes speeches; articles; "Argentine Diary"; correspondence; "Notes on Taylor's Trip" to India and Pakistan; material on the Near (Middle) East, Japan, Haiti, and the Caribbean; rural cartoons; pamphlets; research material; reference books; index cards; glass slides; tape recordings; memorabilia; and personal and family papers.

Dates

  • 1920-1969.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Carl Cleveland Taylor was born in Iowa on December 16, 1884. He taught college-level economics and sociology and in 1933 was appointed sociologist with the Subsistence Homesteads Division of the United States Department of the Interior. He was regional director with the Land Policy Section of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1934-1935. Later he was chief of the Division of Farm Population and Rural Welfare, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture. He spent a year of research in rural sociology in Argentina with the State Department, 1942-1943. He was a member of the American Country Life Association, the American Sociological Society, and the Rural Sociology Society. He was a joint author on many surveys, and wrote The Social Survey - Its History and Method, 1919; Economics and Social Conditions of North Carolina Farmers, 1923; Rural Sociology, 1926; Human Relations, 1927; The People of the Drought States (with Conrad Taeuber); and Disadvantaged Classes in American Agriculture (with Helen Wheeler and E.L. Kirkpatrick).

Extent

47 cubic feet. (47 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Papers of Carl C. Taylor, a rural sociologist. Includes speeches; articles; "Argentine Diary"; correspondence; "Notes on Taylor's Trip" to India and Pakistan; material on the Near (Middle) East, Japan, Haiti, and the Caribbean; rural cartoons; pamphlets; research material; reference books; index cards; glass slides; tape recordings; memorabilia; and personal and family papers.

Physical Description

Speeches, articles, correspondence, a diary, cartoons, pamphlets, research material, reference books, index cards, glass slides, tape recordings, memorabilia, and personal and family papers.

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:
A. Wagner
Date completed:
July 1972
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, May 2003
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by A. Wagner
Date
May 2003
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)