Biographical Sketch

Curtis Howe Walker, Ph.D. was on the faculty of Vanderbilt University as a Professor of European History, 1927-1947; Director of Social Science Orientation Course, 1929-1933, and Professor Emeritus of European History, 1948-1956.

Scope and Contents

The collection contains his 1905 thesis from Yale University, outgoing/incoming correspondence, a manuscript, some class notes, 70 photographs, a postcard collection [related to European travel depicting medieval architecture and religious themes], and 47 lantern slides.

In addition, the collection contains the correspondence between members of his mother's family, the Johnston's, during the Civil War; a scrapbook , and Turkish pictures presented to his mother when she came to America in 1853.