Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt collection
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.
- Augusta (Me.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hoyt, Elizabeth E. (Elizabeth Ellis), 1893-1980
- Shells Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Shells (Anatomy) Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- 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
Abplanalp Library
University of New England
716 Stevens Avenue
Portland Maine 04103 United States
mwwc@une.edu