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List of Archival Collections

The names in this alphabetical list are represented by archival collections at the given locations in North America. No attempt is made to indicate where papers or letters by one person may also be located in the collection of another. Such cross references are often given in the collection descriptions in the indicated sources. 

Some mathematicians have been included for whom there are no known collections of papers. They are here only as reminders of the inevitable incompleteness of the historical record. Still there may be a possibility of filling in such gaps sometime. Corrections and additions to the list are welcomed; please see How to Provide Further Information for the List of Collections. The key to the abbreviations is given at the end. 

Note that there are significant statistical collections at Iowa State University including the archives of the American Statistical Association founded in 1839 as well as the personal papers of many statisticians. See their on-line listing.


Name : Birth and Death Dates of Person or Range of Collection for Institutions

Location (See abbreviations at end.) : Source of Information (See abbreviations at end.)

Adrain, Robert : 1775-1843

APS : DSB

Albert, A. Adrian : 1905-1972 

U. of Chicago : U. of Chicago

Alexander, John Henry : 1812-1867

Maryland Historical Society : NUCMC 67-1271

Allendoerfer, Carl B. : 1911-1974

U. of Washington Libraries : NUCMC 87-1969

American Mathematical Society : 1888-

AMM : AMM

American Mathematical Society - Publications; General Files : 1891-1950

UW : UW

Archibald, Raymond Clare : 1875-1957

AMM : AMM

Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) :  1936-

ASL business office, Poughkeepsie, NY : ASL

Banneker, Benjamin : 1731-1806

American Negro Historical Society Records in the Historical Society of PA : NUCMC 60-2033

Barlow, Bronson (Mathematics of Design) : 1924

UW : UW

Barnard, F. A. P. : 1809-1889

Columbia U. : NUCMC 61-3232

Bayma, Joseph : 1816-1892

Georgetown U. : DAB

Becker, George F. : 1847-1919

Library of Congress : NUCMC 60-24

Beman, Wooster Woodruff : 1850-1922

U. of Michigan : NUCMC 64-1437

Bing, RH : 1914-1986

AAM : AAM

Birkhoff, George David : 1884-1944

Harvard : Harvard

Bôcher, Maxime : 1867-1918

Harvard U. : NUCMC 65-1226

Bochner, Salomon : 1899-1982

Rice U. : NUCMC 93-1072

Bowditch, Nathaniel : 1773-1838

Boston Public Library : Hamer

Bowser, Edward Albert : 1837-1910

Rutgers U. : NUCMC 65-1673

Cajori, Florian. : 1859-1930

U. of California, Berkeley; Bancroft Library : UCB online catalogue

Carmichael, Robert Daniel : 1879-1967

U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign : NUCMC 72-1501

Chauvenet, William : 1820-1870

none known : 

Christianson, Conrad M. : 

Augustana College's Center for Western Studies (Sioux Falls, SD) : NUCMC 92-232

Clark, Helena (Helen) M. : 1908-1974

Northwestern : Northwestern

Cleveland, Clark Milton : 1892-1969

AAM : AAM 

Coakley, George Washington : 1814-1893

Rutgers U. : NUCMC 65-1590

Coble, Arthur Byron : 1878-1966

U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign : NUCMC 71-1142

Conference on Orthogonal Expansions :1967

AAM : AAM

Cooper, Albert Everett : 1893-1960

AAM : AAM

Courant, Richard : 1888-1972

NYU? : 

Court, Nathan Altshiller : 1881-

U. of Oklahoma Library : NUCMC 62-1056

Courtenay, Edward Henry : 1803-1853

Duke U. : NUCMC 62-1084

Crozet, Claudius : 1789-1864

Virginia Military Institute : NUCMC 83-1153

Dehn, Max : 1878-1952

AAM : AAM

DeWitt, Bryce S. :  1923- 2004

AMM :  AMM

Dijkstra, Edsger W. :  1930- 2002

AMM :  AMM

Duke Mathematical Journal : 1927-1934

AAM; UW : AAM; UW

Dunbar, William : 1749-1810

Mississippi Department of Archives and History : NUCMC 60-2578

Eberlein, W.F. : 1917-1986

AAM : AAM

Eisele, Carolyn : 1902-2000

Peirce Edition, Indiana U. - Purdue U. Indianapolis : 

Ellicott, Andrew : 1754-1820

Library of Congress; Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History : Hamer; NUCMC 80-295

Emch, Arnold : 1871-1959

U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign : NUCMC 71-1144

Ettlinger, H. J. :  1889-1986

AAM : AAM

Farrar, John : 1779-1853

Harvard U. : NUCMC 65-1237

Feit, Walter :  1930- 2004

AMM :  AMM

Ficklin, Joseph : 1833-1887

U. of Missouri Library's Western History MS Colleciton : NUCMC 60-1893

Fiske, Thomas Scott : 1865-1944

Columbia U. : NUCMC 62-13

Folger, Jr., Walter : 1765-1849

Nantucket (MA) Historical Association Research Center : NUCMC 91-1647

Folkert, Jay Erenst : 1916-

Joint Archives of Holland, Michigan : NUCMC 93-736

Franklin, Christine and Franklin, Fabian : 1847-1930 and 1853-1939

Columbia U. : NUCMC 65-1199

Fergola, Nicola : 1757-1824

Princeton : Princeton

Gage, Walter H. : ?

U. of British Columbia : U. of British Columbia

Gay, Roland L. : 1905-1979

Wake Forest U. : NUCMC 92-2951

Gibbes, Lewis Reeves : 1810-1894

College of Charleston Library : NUCMC 82-1081

Gibbs, Josiah Willard : 1839-1903

Yale U. : DSB

Glaisher, James : 1848-1928

AMM : AMM

Gödel, Kurt : 1906-1978

Princeton : Princeton

Goldstine, Herman : 1913-

Hampshire College : M.D. Godfrey IEEE Annals15:27

Good, Irving John : 1916-

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U. : NUCMC 92-2477

Grad, Harold : 1923-1987

New York U. : New York U.

Greenwood, Isaac : 1702-1745

Harvard U. : DSB

Greenwood, Robert E. : 1911-1993

AAM : AAM

Griffiths, Lois W. : 1899-1981

Northwestern : Northwestern

Grosswald, Emil : 1912-1989

AAM : AAM 

Halsted, George Bruce : 1853-1922

AAM : AAM

Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph : 1770-1843

New York Public Library : NUCMC 71-1221

Hazlett, Olive C. : 1890-1974

U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign : NUCMC 91-2304

Hellinger, Ernst D. : 1883-1950

Northwestern : Northwestern

Helly, Eduard : 1884-1943

AAM : AAM

Hill, Thomas : 1818-1891

Harvard U. : NUCMC 65-1251

Hopkins, Louis Allen : 1881-

U. of Michigan's Michigan Historical Collections : NUCMC 65-325

Hotelling, Harold : 1895-

Columbia U. : Columbia U.

Ingraham, Mark H. : 1896-

UW : UW

Kac, Mark : 1914-

Rockefeller : Rockefeller

Keyser, Cassius Jackson : 1862-1947

Columbia U. : NUCMC 71-968

Kleene, Stephen : 1909-

UW : UW

Korn, Arthur : 1870-1945

Columbia U. : NUCMC 84-575

Kosambi, Damodar Dharmanand : 1907-1966

Harvard U. : NUCMC 81-565

Lampen, Albert Eugene : 1887-1963

Joint Archives of Holland, Michigan : NUCMC 93-743

Langer, Rudolph E. : 1894-1968

UW : UW

Lehmer, D. H. : 1905-

U. of California, Berkeley; Bancroft Library : UCB online catalogue

Loomis, Elias :  1811-1889

Yale U. : DSB

Loomis, Elisha Scott : 1852-1940

Western Reserve Historical Society (Cleveland) : NUCMC 75-1605

Lotka, Alfred James : 1880-1949

Princeton U. : NUCMC 61-1069

Lubben, Renke Gustav : 1898-1980

AAM : AAM

Lukacs, Eugene : 1906-1987

Iowa State U.'s Statistical Archive : Iowa State U.'s Statistical Archive

MacDuffee, Cyrus E. : 1895-

UW : UW

Mac Lane, Saunders : 1909- 

U. of Chicago Archives : 

AAM : AAM

Mansfield, Jared : 1759-1830

Ohio Historical Society; U.S. Military Academy : NUCMC 63-262; NUCMC 70-1346

Mathematical Association of America, : 1916-

AAM : AAM

Mathematical Club (U. of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign) : 1900-1918

U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign : NUCMC 91-2399

May, Kenneth O. : 1915-

U. of Toronto : 

Mayor, John D. : ?

UW : UW

McShane, Edward James : 1904-1989

U. of Virginia : U. of Virginia

Menger, Karl : 1902-1985

Duke U. : Duke U. (Economists Papers Project)

Miksa, Francis Louis : 1901-1975

AAM : AAM

Military Training Programs, WW II : 1943-1945

UW : UW

Miller, George Abram : 1863-1951

U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign : NUCMC 69-263

Minto, Walter : 1753-1796

Princeton U. : Elliott

Moore, Robert Lee : 1882-1974

AAM : AAM

Morley, Frank V. : 1860-1932

Haverfod College : Haverford College

Morrey, Charles Bradfield Jr : 1907-

AAM : AAM

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

AAM, oral history collection :  AAM

Naval Research Office :  1951-1955

UW : UW

Neuberger, J. W. :  1934-

AMM :  AMM

New Mathematical Library, : 

AAM : AAM

Neyman, Jerzy : 1894-1981

U. of California, Berkeley; Bancroft Library : UCB online catalogue

Nikodym, Otton Martin : 1887-1974

AAM : AAM 

Northwestern U., Dept. of Mathematics : 1936-1979

Northwestern : Northwestern

Owens, Helen Brewster :  1881-1968

Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Inst. for Advanced Study :  Radcliffe

Patterson, Robert :  1743-1824

American Philosophical Society : Hamer

Peirce, Benjamin : 1809-1880

Harvard U. : DSB

Peirce, Charles Sanders : 1839-1914

Harvard U. : Hamer

Pike, Nicholas : 1743-1819

Boston Public Library : NUCMC 73-28

Polya, Georg : 1887-1985

Stanford U. : 

Rainich, George Yuri : 1886-1968

AAM : AAM

Rees, Mina : 1902-1997

CUNY Graduate School and University Center :  

Reid, William T. :  1907-1977

AAM : AAM 

Richardson, R.G.D.

AMM : AMM

Rittenhouse, David : 1732-1796

APS : NUCMC 61-782; NUCMC 76-937

Robins, Sylvester : files: 1880-1899

Princeton : Princeton

Robinson, Abraham : 1918-1974

Yale U. Library; AAM : J. Dauben, Abraham Robinson (1995); AAM

Rogers, Fred Terry : 1914-1956

Rice U. Library : NUCMC 93-1116

Rosser, J. Barkley : 1907-

UW : UW

Runkle, John Daniel : 1822-1902

MIT : Elliott

Russell, Bertrand : 1872-1970

McMaster U. : McMaster U., Archives

Sawyer, John Wesley : 1916-

Wake Forest U. : NUCMC 92-3071

Schaeffer, Albert C. : files: 1954-1956

UW : UW

Schild, Alfred : 1921-1977

AAM : AAM

Schoenberg, Isaac : files: 1930-1980

UW : UW

School Mathematics Study Group, : 1958-1977

AAM : AAM

Scripta Mathematica, : 

Yeshiva? : 

Seidenberg, A. : 1916-

U. of California, Berkeley; Bancroft Library : UCB online catalogue

Silverman, Louis Lazarus : 1885-1967

AAM : AAM

Skinner, Ernest B. : files: 1892-1935

UW : UW

Slichter, Charles S. : files: 1891-1941

UW : UW

Smale, Stephen : 1930-

U. of California, Berkeley; Bancroft Library : UCB online catalogue

Smith, David Eugene : 1860-1944

Columbia : Columbia U.

Snell, Ebenezer Strong : 1801-1876

Amherst College : Elliott

Sokolnikoff, Ivan : 1901-

UW : UW

Solomon, Herbert : 1919-

Iowa State U.'s Statisical Archive : Iowa State U.'s Statisical Archive

Steenrod, Norman Earl : 1910-1971

AAM : AAM

Steimley, Leonard L. : 1890-1975

U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign : NUCMC 91-2534

Stibitz, George Robert : 1904-

Dartmouth College Library : NUCMC 76-1844

Stone, Marshall H. : 1903-

AMM : AMM

Sylvester, James Joseph : 1814-1897

AMM and St. John's College (Cambridge) : AMM; NUCMC 60-2152

Thompson, Henry Dallas : 1864-1927

Princeton : Princeton

Thompson, Zadock : 1796-1856

Vermont Historical Society : NUCMC 62-1752

Truesdell, Clifford Ambrose III : 1919-

AAM : AAM

Tucker, Albert William : 1905-1995

AAM : AAM

Upton, Francis Robbins : 1852-1921

New Jersey Historical Society (Newark) : NUCMC 85-1255

Van Amringe, John Howard : 1835-1915

Columbia U. : NUCMC 66-1611

Van Heijenoort, Jean : 1912-1986

AAM : AAM

Vandiver, Harry Schultz : 1882-1973

AAM : NUCMC 82-1010

Van Vleck, Edward Burr : 1863-1943

UW : UW

Veblen, Oswald : 1880-1960

Library of Congress : Library of Congress

Venable, Charles Scott : 1827-1900

U. of North Carolina; U. of Texas : NUCMC 60-707; NUCMC 71-456

Von Mises, Richard : 1883-1953

Harvard U. : NUCMC 65-1720; NUCMC 84-1974

Von Neumann, John : 1903-1957

Library of Congress : Library of Congress

Weaver, Warren : 1894-

UW : UW

Wegman, Edward J. : 1943-

Iowa State U.'s Statistical Archive : Iowa State U.'s Statistical Archive

White, Henry Seely : 1861-1943

Columbia U. : NUCMC 71-1008

Whyburn, William Marvin : 1901-1972

AAM : AAM

Wiener, Norbert : 1894-1964

MIT : MIT

Wigner, Eugene Paul : 1902-1995

Princeton : Princeton

Wilder, Raymond Louis : 1916-1982

AAM : AAM

Wilks, Samuel Stanley : 1906-1964

APS : APS

William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition : 1938-1980

AAM : AAM 

Williams, John Edward : 1867-1943

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U. : NUCMC 92-2874

Williams, Mary Elizabeth :  1909-1976

Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Inst. for Advanced Study :  Radcliffe

Winthrop, John : 1714-1779

Harvard U. : NUCMC 65-1299

Wisconsin (Madison), U. of; Dept. of Mathematics : 1905-1959

UW : UW

Wrinch, Dorothy Maud : 1895-1976

Smith College, Sophia Smith Collection : NUCMC 77-1841


Abbreviations

Elliott: Biographical Dictionary of American Science: the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Clark A. Elliott, ed. (1979)

NUCMC: National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections. (Library of Congress, 1962- )

AAM: Archives of American Mathematics, U. of Texas at Austin

AMM: Archives of Mathematics and Mathematicians, Brown U.

APS: American Philosophical Society

DAB: Dictionary of American Biography. (1928-1936)

DSB: Dictionary of Scientific Biography. (1970-1990)

Hamer: A Guide to Archives and Manuscripts in the United States. P. M. Hamer, ed. (1961)

Northwestern: Northwestern U. Library, Archives

Princeton: Princeton U., Rare Books and Special Collections

Rockefeller: Rockefeller Archive Center

UW: Archives, U. of Wisconsin - Madison

Compiled by Karen V. H. Parshall and Albert C. Lewis

List last updated November 2005. 

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