MS-203: Louis A. Parsons Papers (1895-1957)

As the collection was created from five different accessions and four donors, over a period of four years and each accession was totally random and jumbled, the processor chose chronological order except when a complete subject file was identified. Parsons made carbon copies of most of his correspondence and wrote often to family, friends, and colleagues about both his personal and his professional life. His letters are filled with personal information, descriptions of life at the College and in the Community, as well as his issues with the administration, making it difficult to separate personal and professional correspondence. Anyone researching Parsons’ final relationship with the College should read both Series IA and IB from 1922-1926. Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our website http://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/findingaidsall/1178/thumbnail.jp

Course Materials for 'Understanding Screenwriting' - FA/FILM 4501 12.0, Fall and Winter Terms, 2002-2003

Overview, Outline, Readings and Guidelines (for students) with the Schedule of Lectures and Screenings (for private use of EWC) for an extraordinary double-weighted full-year course for advanced students of screenwriting, meeting for six hours weekly with each term of work constituting a full six-credit course, that the author was permitted to teach within the Graduate Programme of the Department of Film & Video, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University during the academic years 2001-2002 and 2002-2003

MS – 244: Papers of George S. Patton Jr.

This collection is contained in two series, the first being George S. Patton Jr.’s letters to his Aunt “Nannie” and his mother from both VMI and West Point (1903-1908). The second being George S. Patton Jr.’s book “My Father as I remembered him.”, which contains a biography of his father, George S. Patton, and a brief biography of other family members, including himself up to 1927. In Patton’s book “My Father as I remembered him,” he gives brief descriptions and stories about his family, starting with the first “Patton” and ending with himself in 1927. The first “Patton” was Robert William Patton, born in Ayrshire, Scotland around 1750, who became one of the first Virginia settlers in the 1770s. Robert Patton married Anne Gordon Mercer in 1797 and began the Patton Family lineage. Their son Robert Patton (father of George Smith Patton Sr. and Waller Tazewell Patton) was born in 1798. George S. Patton Sr. was a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute Class of 1852 and a Colonel in the Confederate States of America from 1861-1864. His brother, Waller T. Patton was an 1855 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and a Colonel in the Confederate States of America from 1861-1863. He was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. George Smith Patton, Jr., was born in 1856 and graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1877. He married Ruth Wilson and they became the parents of George S. Patton Jr in 1885. After holding the office of Mayor in San Marino, California from 1913-1922 and then 1922-1924, he retired and later died in 1927. The book is fully typed with handwritten annotations and corrections from George S. Patton Jr., with his initials at the top right hand corner of each page. Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our website https://www.gettysburg.edu/special-collections/collections/.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/findingaidsall/1216/thumbnail.jp

Top Incomes in Sweden over the Twentieth Century

This paper presents homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden from 1903 to 2003 using individual tax returns data. We find that Swedish top incomes have developed more similarly to the US, Canada and the UK than to other continental European countries when capital gains are included. The top income shares are U-shaped over time, falling steadily until around 1980 when they start increasing again. Around 2000 they reach levels similar to those found around 1950, before the expansion of the Swedish welfare state. However, unlike the Anglo-Saxon countries, where the recent increases were mainly driven by increased wage earnings inequality, Swedish top income shares have risen almost exclusively due to capital gains, a finding consistent with relatively high marginal wage taxes and internationally high price increases in financial and real estate markets since 1980. When excluding capital gains the increase in top income shares since 1980 almost disappears and the Swedish experience looks more like that of continental Europe. Furthermore, we also find that the largest decrease of top income shares happens between 1935 and the beginning of the 1950s, but not (as in the US and in France) during the war years, but before 1939 and after 1945 suggesting that the Swedish development was more driven by policy than by exogenous shocks.Income inequality; Top incomes; Sweden; Taxation

Guide to the McDaniel Collection

The McDaniel Collection contains photos, articles, records, and other artifacts that document the history of the First Baptist Church and various people that played a role in the overall function of the church. This collection also includes aspects of Linfield College’s history as it overlapped with that of the First Baptist Church

The faunistic diversity of cave-dwelling spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Greece

Until today, from Greek caves a total of 109 species of spiders belonging to 25 families are known. One species, the linyphiid Porrhomma convexum (Westring, 1861) was recorded here for the first time in Greece. The 109 species are distributed in caves of different geographic territories as follows: Thrace – 8 species, Macedonia – 18, Epirus – 1, Thessaly – 6, Central Greece – 3, Attiki-Saronic Islands – 24, Peloponnese – 15, Evoia-Vories Sporades – 1, Eastern Aegean Islands – 5, Cyclades – 3, Dodecanese – 6, Ionian Islands – 23, Crete – 47. The largest fraction of troglobite species were encountered mainly in the territories of Crete – 15 species (5 of which are anophthalmic), the Ionian Islands – 4, Thrace – 2 (both anophthalmic), the Attiki-Saronic Islands – 2 (both anophthalmic), the Peloponnese – 2 (one anophthalmic), and Macedonia, Thessaly, and the Cyclades – each with 2 species. The richness of the troglobitic spidersin these regions strengthens the assumption that they were major centres of speciation and evolution for the species of this group. According to their current distribution, the established 109 species can be classified into 12 zoogeograpical categories, grouped into 4 complexes (widely distributed, European, Mediterranean, endemics). The largest number of species belong to the endemic complex (53.2 %) and are also the most characteristic and reflect the local character of the cave-dwelling spiders

H06-1637. Dethmers, John R. ( -2006). Papers, 1860-1944. 0.50 linear ft.

John R. Dethmers was born October 15, 1903, in Plessis, Iowa. He graduated from Hope College in 1924 and the University of Michigan Law School in 1927. Admitted to the Michigan Bar that same year, he began practicing law in Holland, Michigan. In addition, he was prosecuting attorney for Ottawa County, 1931 to 1938; chief assistant attorney general of Michigan 1943 to 1944; then Attorney General of Michigan, 1945-1946. In 1946, he was appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court. In 1956, he was named the first permanent chief justice, serving 1956-1962; then again from 1967-1971. He was a member of the American Bar Association, the American Judicature Society, and the National Conference of Chief Justices. He died November 1, 1971. Oversized materials are stored in the Oversized Horizontal Storage Cabinet