Holdings Liberal Arts and Sciences Communications Department Richard Murphy Papers Finding Aid Holdings Liberal Arts and Sciences Communications Department Richard Murphy Papers Finding Aid Title: Richard Murphy Papers, 1925-1970
ID: 15/23/27
Primary Creator: Murphy, Richard (1903-1985)
Extent: 1.3 cubic feet
Arrangement: By type of issuance and chronological thereunder
Subjects: Constitutional Convention, Illinois, Debate, Faculty Papers, Illini Forensic Society, Koch, Leo S., Labor and Industrial Relations, Institute of, Speech Association of America, Speech Communication Department
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Papers of Richard Murphy (1903-85), professor of speech (1945-71), including copies of professional correspondence with colleagues, editors, university administration, debate coaches and students; contest programs and newspaper clippings concerning debate events at University of Illinois (including international debate with Oxford University), University of Colorado, and University of Pittsburgh (1933-61); annual reports on the activities of the Illini Forensic Association (1948-61); delegate materials and proceedings from the Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention (1970); publications, including offprints, magazine articles, and educational handbooks related to topics in speech, debate, United States foreign policy, and labor unions (1928-67); editorial work for Illinois Speech Association's publication of Speech News (1949), and for "Shop Talk" column in Quarterly Journal of Speech (1956-59), including submissions, correspondence with authors, editors and publishers; collected research material concerning the resignation of speech professor Charles H. Woolbert (1925-26), President Theodore Roosevelt (1951-64), the Leo Koch case (1960-63), Revilo P. Oliver (1964) and Senator Adlai E. Stevenson (1957-70); theater and film programs and clippings, including movie stills (1950-61); photos taken by Julien Bryan in Warsaw, Poland (1939,1959); posters for campus events at University of Illinois, University of Pittsburgh, and University of Colorado.
Constitutional Convention, Illinois
Debate
Faculty Papers
Illini Forensic Society
Koch, Leo S.
Labor and Industrial Relations, Institute of
Speech Association of America
Speech Communication Department
Repository: University of Illinois Archives
Accruals: 11/22/1986, 4/10/2008, 10/08/2009
Other Note: 4 Pages
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1523027.pdf
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