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  identifier : oai:lib.uchicago.edu:ICU.SPCL.wpaepcke
  datestamp : 2004-10-14T00:42:01Z
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      titleInfo: 
         title: Papers, 1912-1961 (inclusive)
      titleInfo: type=alternative
         title: Paepcke, Walter P., papers
      name: type=personal
         namePart: Paepcke, Walter Paul, 1896-1960
      typeOfResource: manuscript=yes, collection=yesmixed material
      genre: authority=aatPhotographs.
      genre: authority=aatMotion pictures (visual arts).
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         place: 
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      language: 
         languageTerm: authority=iso639-2b, type=codeeng
      physicalDescription: 
         extent: 66.5 linear ft. (133 boxes)
      abstract: Consists of biographical material, correspondence, subject files, financial documents, publications, scrapbooks, ledgers, newspaper clippings, a movie, and photographs. Includes information pertaining to the Container Corporation of America, a business founded by Walter Paepcke in 1926. In addition to materials that refer to Paepcke's paperboard container business, the papers also document some of his philanthropic, cultural, and educational interests. Included among them is the Goethe Bicentennial Foundation, which organized a festival in 1949 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Included among Paepcke's other cultural and educational activities are materials relating to the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. The AIHS, founded in 1950, became an intellectual and cultural center of continuing education that provided seminars, lectures, and forums conducted by leaders in commerce, industry, science, education, religion, and government.
      note: Box 133 contains correspondence by Paul Nitze which is restricted during his lifetime. A researcher must obtain prior written permission from Mr. Nitze to consult his correspondence. Series VI includes a small container located in Box 131 that holds a reel of movie film. This film is currently restricted due to the condition of the material or need for special equipment.
      note: Consists of biographical material, correspondence, subject files, financial documents, publications, scrapbooks, ledgers, newspaper clippings, a movie, and photographs. Includes information pertaining to the Container Corporation of America, a business founded by Walter Paepcke in 1926. In addition to materials that refer to Paepcke's paperboard container business, the papers also document some of his philanthropic, cultural, and educational interests. Included among them is the Goethe Bicentennial Foundation, which organized a festival in 1949 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Included among Paepcke's other cultural and educational activities are materials relating to the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. The AIHS, founded in 1950, became an intellectual and cultural center of continuing education that provided seminars, lectures, and forums conducted by leaders in commerce, industry, science, education, religion, and government.
      note: Cite as: Paepcke, Walter P. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
      note: Businessman, philanthropist. Born 1896. B.A. Economics and History, Yale 1917. Founded Container Corporation of America. Died 1960.
      note: Finding aid available in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         name: type=personal
            namePart: Paepcke, Walter Paul,
            namePart: type=date1896-1960.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         name: type=personal
            namePart: Hutchins, Robert Maynard,
            namePart: type=date1899-
      subject: authority=lcsh
         name: type=personal
            namePart: Schweitzer, Albert,
            namePart: type=date1875-1965.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         name: type=personal
            namePart: Coward, Noel,
            namePart: type=date1899-1973.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         name: type=personal
            namePart: Ortega y Gasset, José,
            namePart: type=date1883-1955.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         name: type=personal
            namePart: Wilder, Thornton,
            namePart: type=date1897-1975.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         topic: Exhibitions.
         name: type=personal
            namePart: Bayer, Herbert,
            namePart: type=date1900-
      subject: authority=lcsh
         name: type=personal
            namePart: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
            namePart: type=date1749-1832.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         topic: Anniversaries, etc., 1949.
         name: type=personal
            namePart: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
            namePart: type=date1749-1832
      subject: authority=lcsh
         name: type=personal
            namePart: Nitze, Paul H.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         name: type=corporate
            namePart: Container Corporation of America.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         name: type=corporate
            namePart: Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         name: type=corporate
            namePart: Chicago Mill and Lumber Company.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         name: type=corporate
            namePart: Community and War Fund of Metropolitan Chicago.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         topic: Administration.
         name: type=corporate
            namePart: University of Chicago
      subject: authority=lcsh
         name: type=conference
            namePart: Aspen Music Festival.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         name: type=conference
            namePart: Goethe Bicentennial Festival (1949 : Aspen, Colo.)
      subject: authority=lcsh
         name: type=conference
            namePart: International Design Conference.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         topic: Lumber trade.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         topic: Paperboard industry.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         topic: Paper box industry.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         topic: Container industry
         geographic: United States.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         topic: Art and industry.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         topic: Design, Industrial.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         topic: Advertising.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         topic: Music festival programs.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         topic: Philanthropists.
      subject: authority=lcsh
         geographic: Aspen (Colo.)
      identifier: type=localhz4029522
      location: 
         url: displayLabel=Finding aidhttp://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/ead/ICU.SPCL.wpaepcke
      accessCondition: type=restrictionOnAccessBox 133 contains correspondence by Paul Nitze which is restricted during his lifetime. A researcher must obtain prior written permission from Mr. Nitze to consult his correspondence. Series VI includes a small container located in Box 131 that holds a reel of movie film. This film is currently restricted due to the condition of the material or need for special equipment.
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         recordContentSource: authority=marcorgICU
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         recordChangeDate: encoding=iso860120030418130721.0

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