Initiatives and Academic Life, 1942-2012

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Select documents on North's academic life and both academic and political initiatives. Highlights for his initiatives include a set of North's notes from research and consultancy trips to Brazil and Venezuela; North's work for the Bradley Foundation, the Task Force on Economic Transition (1997), Microsoft, and the US Commission on Civil Rights; his correspondence with the Nobel Prize organization; Copenhagen Consensus; and St. Louis Initiative.

Series also contains North's autobiographical material, his autobiographical sketches, versions of his vita from 1987 till 2009, and calendars. For about his last 25 years of life, he used to spend his summer and winter holidays with his wife Elisabeth Case in their summer house in Benzonia, Michigan.

Biographical material also contains non-academic aspects of his life. North noted in a biographical sketch that research "has been intermingled with a variety of activities that have complemented that central preoccupation and enriched my life. I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington. I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s. I have always taken seriously good food and wine. In addition, music has continued to be an important part of my life." This series contains materials documenting his interest in photography, art and music.

This series also contain Fannie Batt's materials including her own correspondence. Rubenstein received her material labeled as "Not D. North". Material gives a picture into the nature of Fannie Batt's work for D. North, on her other work and on her routines. Note that North's correspondence was carried by Fannie Batt since 1990s, and mainly through her email address.

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