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UIUC Archives - Middle East and North Africa: Syria

Middle East and North Africa related content in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Archives

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This section includes information about archives related to Syria.

Albert H. Lybyer Papers, 1876-1949

Link to Albert H. Lybyer Papers, 1876-1949

Service Location Boxes

Room 146 Main Library, Prior Request Preferred

1-6

Room 146 Main Library, Prior Request Preferred

7-20

Room 146 Main Library, Prior Request Preferred

21-22

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e-records

Papers of Albert Howe Lybyer (1876-1949), professor of History (1913-1944) including correspondence, memoranda, diaries, notes, photographs, manuscripts, bibliography slips and financial records relating to courses taken at Princeton and Harvard and taught at Robert College (1901-1907), Oberlin (1910-1913), and Illinois (1913-1944); service with the Inquiry, the American Commission to Negotiate Peace and the King-Crane Commission on mandates in Turkey (1918-1919); schools and relief in the Near East; travel in the U.S., Europe and the Near East; contributions to periodicals and encyclopedias; addresses and radio talks; service on University committees (1920-1940); manuscript bibliographies on the Ottoman Empire; historical association committees; conservation; mathematics; real estate investments in Florida, Iowa, Indiana and Illinois; family history and genealogy and personal affairs. The series includes 2x3 inch glass slides of travel scenes in Europe and the Ottoman Empire (1912).

Contents Information

Box 8: 

  • Records/Journals include (roughly 16 bound/tied items at back on box):
    • Syrian and Armenian Relief Conference Notes, 1917

Box 13: 

  • Photos, Negatives:
    • Box Syria