Seymour Mauskopf papers, 1930-1993

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Summary

Creator:
Mauskopf, Seymour H.
Abstract:
Duke University Professor of History. Materials and recordings used in preparation for Mauskopf's book, The Elusive Science, and other research on the history of parapsychology and psychical research. Also includes articles by Mauskopf and other historians, scientists, and psychologists.
Extent:
10 Linear Feet
4408 Items
Language:
Material in English
Collection ID:
RL.00859

Background

Scope and content:

Collection (107 items, dated 1972-1985) contains materials used in preparation for Mauskopf's book, The Elusive Science, co-authored with M.R. McVaugh. Included are audio cassettes, transcripts, and notes. Interviews are with J.B. and Louisa Rhine, B.F. Skinner, Gardner Murphy, J. Gaither Pratt, and other prominent psychologists. Five notebooks contain chiefly Mauskopf's notes on the council minutes of the Society for Psychical Research; and there is also a reel-to-reel tape of an interview with Mrs. K.M. Goldney.

Addition (05-071) (2000 items, 1.6 lin. ft.; dated 1930-1978 and undated) includes miscellaneous correspondence, clippings, and printed material produced by and related to J. B. Rhine and the Parapsychology Laboratory, collected by Mauskopf and McVaugh for The Elusive Science. Includes 11 black-and-white photographs, as well as files of note cards indexing portions of the correspondence files in the Parapsychology Laboratory Records. The addition is open to researchers.

Addition (11-193) (2200 items, 3.0 lin. ft.; dated 1930s-1990s) includes notes and research, including photocopies of primary documents, about the history of parapsychology and psychical research. The collection also contains some drafts or notes by Mauskopf about The Elusive Science, as well as other writings by him relating to the history of science. Also includes printed materials, miscellaneous correspondence, and articles by other historians, psychologists, and scientists.

Addition (2012) (8 items, 0.1 lin. ft.; dated 1990-1992 and undated) contains a folder of materials for the Science, Technology and Human Values Program steering committee, with program brochures, a list of symposium topics and courses, and one set of Mauskopf's committee meeting notes along with his notes on the budget.

Biographical / historical:

Seymour Mauskopf is a professor emeritus of history at Duke University. He earned an AB from Cornell in 1960 and a PhD from Princeton University in 1966. His research interests include intellectual history, particularly the history of science, ranging from chemistry and the allied sciences in the 18th and 19th centuries to the history of parapyschology and marginal sciences.

Acquisition information:
The Seymour Mauskopf Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2005-2012.
Processing information:

Processed by Meghan Lyon, June 2012

Encoded by Meghan Lyon, June 2012

Updated for [2012] accession by Alice Poffinberger, February 2014

Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 2005-0071, 2011-0193, [2012]

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