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
- Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
- American Country Life Association
- American Sociological Society
- Argentina.
- Caribbean area.
- Economists.
- Haiti.
- India.
- Japan.
- Middle East.
- Negatives.
- Pakistan.
- Rural Sociology Society
- Sociologists.
- Sociology, Rural.
- Taylor, Carl C. (Carl Cleveland), 1884- (Title of work: Disadvantaged classes in American agriculture..)
- Taylor, Carl C. (Carl Cleveland), 1884- (Title of work: Economics and social conditions of North Carolina farmers..)
- Taylor, Carl C. (Carl Cleveland), 1884- (Title of work: Human relations..)
- Taylor, Carl C. (Carl Cleveland), 1884- (Title of work: People of the drought states..)
- Taylor, Carl C. (Carl Cleveland), 1884- (Title of work: Rural sociology..)
- Taylor, Carl C. (Carl Cleveland), 1884- (Title of work: Social survey, its history and method..)
- United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Land Policy Section
- United States. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Division of Farm Population and Rural Welfare
- United States. Department of Interior. Subsistence Homesteads Division
- 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
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu