Janet Weston Papers, 1886-1993 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Papers of Janet L. Weston (1905-94, B.A. 1927, M.A. 1928), professor of economics (1945-72), including correspondence concerning awards (1924-30), requests for book reviews (1954-66, 1971-75), gifts to the library and membership to the President's Council (1980-83, 1986); book reviews published in The Journal of Finance and American Economic Review (1953-63) and Choice (1972-88); publications on agricultural economics (1931-34); course materials (1971-72), lecture notes (1928), and grade books (1934-73); photographs (1967, 1974); U of I commencement programs (1887, 1889, 1905, 1927, 1928); certificates and diplomas (1924-30); and clippings (1923-29, 1974). This series also includes Weston's Master's thesis, "An Actuarial Study of Negro Mortality" (1928); Weston's doctoral dissertation, "Relations Between Variation in Income Tax Rates and in Reported Individual Incomes" (1930): and an audiotape of the memorial service for D.L. Kemmerer (1993).