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Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:Dorothy Blakey Smith fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:Smith, Dorothy Blakey, 1899-1983.
  
• Published/Created:1919-1978
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES ASRS storageWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number:No call number available 
  • Number of Items:5
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Box 1-5.
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Smith, Dorothy Blakey, 1899-1983.
  
• Description:72 cm of textual records
  78 photographs
  
• Summary:The fonds includes the following series: correspondence, theses, speeches, lecture notes, printed materials, clippings, photographs, student memorabilia and manuscripts. Photographs are stored separately.
  
• Biography/history note:Born in Leeds, England, Dorothy Blakey Smith immigrated to Canada with her family in 1913. An outstanding student, she was a member of the University of British Columbia's first graduating class in Honours English (1921). Smith earned M.A.s from UBC (1922) and the University of Toronto (1926). She obtained her doctorate from the University of London (1933), writing a thesis entitled "A Study of the Publications of the Minerva Press, 1790-1820". Smith was appointed to the Dept. of English at UBC in 1935 and, in 1957, joined the staff of the Provincial Archives as a researcher and editor, remaining there until her retirement in 1968. She received an honorary degree of Doctor in Letters from UBC in 1978.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Series descriptions and file list available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.