Dorothy May Schullian papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 4131

Scope and content

Files of personal and professional correspondence, research files, files on writings, files relating to her work on the Roman author Valerius Maximus, personal memorabilia, travel diaries, and photographs. Also includes personal correspondence with Margaret Bingham Stillwell, and a printed copy of Schullian's dissertation, External stimuli to literary production in Rome, 90 B.C.-27 B.C.

Scope and content

Also, published tributes to Dorothy Schullian on her retirement and obituaries following her death; and commemorative medallions from international conferences she attended. Also included is a segment from one of the subsequent transatlantic cables used to link Europe with the United States by telegraph. Glass lantern slides owned by Dorothy May Schullian showing images relating to her books, the Vatican, Florence, libraries and Medieval manuscripts.

Dates

1915-1989.

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Historian of science, librarian. Dorothy M. Schullian was the curator of the History of Science Collections at Cornell University. Margaret Bingham Stillwell was a writer, bibliographer, librarian, scholar of incunabula, and professor at Brown University.