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Dorothy Bethurum Loomis Collection:
Scope and Content Note

The Dorothy Bethurum Loomis Collection ranges from material collected at the beginning of the 20th century to those collected in the late 1980s.  The first box of the collection consists of Loomis’s biographical and academic materials such as personal correspondences, newspaper clippings, photographs, and handwritten notes found in her papers.  Also included are her academic writings and published articles.  The next box consists of teaching tools such as handouts, transparencies, and translated works.  Boxes 3-5 consist of Loomis’s collected papers relating to the academic scholarship of other Loomis family members, including photographs and articles by her husband Roger Sherman Loomis and his previous two wives, Laura Hibbard Loomis and Gertrude Schoepperle.  Boxes 6-9 consist of a collection of articles written by other scholars on medieval studies and the Anglo-Saxon period.  The series and subseries of this collection are as follows:

1. Biographical
1. Correspondence
2. Publications
3. Newspaper clippings
4. Photographs
5. Notes
2. Academic
1. Articles
2. Translated Works
3. Teaching Tools
3. Loomis Family Academics
1. Roger Sherman Loomis’s Images
2. Loomis Family Writings
4. Other Academics’ Writings

Overview | Biography | Scope and Content Note | Boxes 1-5 | Boxes 6-9 | Complete Guide (PDF)