Fonds F0423 - George Tatham fonds

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George Tatham fonds

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F0423

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  • 1897, 1899, 1929, 1941-1987, 2003 (Creation)
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    Tatham, George, 1907-1987

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1.66 m of textual records
3 audio cassettes (180 min)
44 glass slides ; 8 x 10 cm

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(1907-1987)

Biographical history

George Tatham (1907-1987) was a member of the Department of Geography and an administrator at York University, 1960-1977. He served as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, 1960-1962, dean of students, 1962-1966, and master of McLaughlin College, 1968-1977. He was educated at the University of Liverpool and Clark University and taught at the University of Toronto for several years before coming to York University.

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The fonds consists of notes, photocopies of research materials, course outlines and bibliographies for George Tatham's geography courses offered at York University and the University of Toronto in the fields of political, social and physical geography, as well as notes taken during his student years. In addition, there are glass slides used for teaching purposes. The fonds also includes three audio cassette tapes and typed transcripts of interviews conducted by John Hardy of the York University Archives with Tatham concerning the early years of York University. The interviews were conducted in 1975-1976.

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Accession 2003-056 was received from John Warkentin in 2003.

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      No restrictions on access.

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      See the John Seeley fonds (F0405) and the Denis Smith fonds (F0411) for related material.

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      The fonds comprises the following accessions: 1978-017, 1987-015, 1988-002, 2003-056. Further accruals may be expected.

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      2002/04/08 Jizi Chen:. (Creation)
      2002/04/08 Awaiting review by the Data Collection Archivist
      2003/05/07 Shannon MacDonald. Added URL for online finding aid. Updated wording in access restrictions, accruals.
      2003/12/16 Sean Smith. Updated description to include 2003-056.
      2003/12/16 Ken Hernden. Updated provenance access point with AMICUS authority record number
      2014/07/22 Migrated to AtoM.
      2020/03/26 KCP, N. Somerset. Added subject access points.
      2024/07/18 J. Grant. Metadata cleanup.

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