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Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0166

Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes 7 boxes of shells. A note included in the collection reads: "COLLECTION OF SEA SHELLS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD"

Dates

  • 1973

Creator

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact the Curator of the Maine Women Writers Collection.

Biographical / Historical

Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt was born January 27, 1893 in Augusta, Maine. She received her B.A. from Boston University in 1913, her M.A. in 1924 and her PhD. in 1925 from Harvard University (Radcliffe Graduate School). She was a professor of Economics at Iowa State University from 1925 to 1963, and a pioneer in the field of consumptive economics. She received a Fulbright award in 1950 to do research on social conditions in Africa. Dr. Hoyt was the author of five books, one of which, Primitive Trade: Its Psychology and Economics, published in 1926, was republished in 1968 as an economics classic. In her will, she created the Elizabeth E. Hoyt Fellowship Fund at Iowa State to support seminars and scholarship. She was buried at Ocean Hill Cemetery at Long Cove in Bristol, Maine.

Extent

3 linear feet (7 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

This collection is organized as a single series.

Title
Guide to the Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt collection, 1973
Status
Completed
Author
Jefferson Navicky
Date
2018
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Maine Women Writers Collection Repository

Contact:
Abplanalp Library
University of New England
716 Stevens Avenue
Portland Maine 04103 United States