Inventory of the Lloyd B. Saville papers, 1936-1979
[top]Descriptive Summary
Repository
University Archives, Duke
University
Creator
Saville, Lloyd B., 1913-1988.
Title
Lloyd B. Saville papers, 1936-1979
Language of Material
Material in English
French
Italian
Extent
1.5 Linear Feet
1500 Items
Abstract
1500 Items
Lloyd B. Saville was an educator, researcher, scholar and economist, specializing in economic history and theory. His career at Duke University spanned the years 1946-1979 and encompassed teaching, administration, research, and publication.
Collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, grant applications, exam questions, printed matter, newspaper clippings, reports and other materials concerning international economic studies, seminars and societies, and Saville's teaching and research interests. Materials range in date from 1936-1979, bulk 1950-1979.
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Administrative Information
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Copyright Notice
Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Lloyd B. Saville papers, University Archives, Duke University.
Provenance
The Lloyd B. Saville papers were received by the University Archives as a
transfer in 1981-2006.
Processing Information
Processed by Archives Staff , January 2008
Encoded by Sherrie Bowser, January 2008
Accessions were merged into one collection, described in this finding aid.
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and our local Style Guide.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
Lloyd B. Saville was an educator, researcher, scholar and economist, specializing in economic history and theory, money and banking, statistics and insurance; however it was his studies of regional economic development, many of them done in Italy that led Saville to earn an international reputation in his field.
His career at Duke University spanned the years 1946-1979 and encompassed teaching, administration, research, and publication. He received several top research awards in the 1950s and 1960s, among them a Ford Foundation Fellowship for study in Rome; a Guggenheim Fellowship; a Fulbright Professorship; and a Duke Endowment Grant.
Saville's publications include several books on Italian economic development and numerous articles on regional economic development for professional journals.
Saville was also an accomplished amateur photographer whose interests also included music, nature study, and mountain climbing. He died in 1988.
[top]Collection Overview
Collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, scholarly papers, grant applications, exam questions, printed matter, newspaper clippings, reports and other materials concerning international economic studies, seminars and societies, and Saville's teaching/ research interests. Correspondents include Calvin B. Hoover and economists in Italy. Materials range in date from 1936-1979, bulk 1950-1979.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- Saville, Lloyd, 1913-1988.
- Duke University. Dept. of Economics.
- Duke University--Faculty.
- Economic development.
- Economics--Study and teaching (Higher)--North Carolina--Durham.
Related Material
Dept. of Economics records, 1947-1997.
University Archives, Duke University.
Craufurd D. W. Goodwin papers, 1963-1994
University Archives, Duke University.
Calvin B. Hoover papers, 1929-1988.
University Archives, Duke University.
 | List of Series in Collection | |||||||
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Detailed Description of Collection
Container List, 1936-1979, bulk 1950-1979.
3 Boxes
Box 1
2nd Duke American Assembly, May 1959
Ball, Margaret, 1964
Bibliography, General
Boston University, 1967-1968
British Aging Project, 1959, undated
"C"
Cluster of Markets Concept, 1951, 1953, undated
Curriculum Vitae and Biographical Information, 1968, 1977, 1979, undated
Common Market Development and the Italian Crisis, 1965 (paper presented at 11th Conference on Teaching the Social Science, "The New Europe")
"A Comparison of some diverse systems of public finance" and "Diverse national developments in public finance"
Departmental Gift Campaign, 1978
"Divergent Sectional Developments in Italy and the United States: An Exploratory Analysis," 1955-1956 (published in The Southern Economic Journal)
Duke Endowment Grant, 1965-1966 (for research in Tuscany: Center in Florence, Italy)
Ford Foundation (3 folders)
Departmental Grants, 1958-1960
Fellowship Application, etc.
Faculty Fellowship, 1954-1955
Fellowship Applications, etc. 1962-1963
Faculty Research Fellowship, 1962-1963
Fulbright Grant, 1959-1960 (Turin, Italy, Istituto Universitario di Studi Europe)
"G" (includes an interview with Crauford Goodwin, undated)
Guggenheim Application, 1958
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1959-1960
Box 2
Hamilton, Earl J., 1954
Hoover, C.B., 1950-1957
Italian Letters, 1958
Labor, carbons of questions
Lester, Richard. "An analysis of discrimination in university facilities," (seminar in honor of the retirement of Frank T. de Vyver), April 1974
"N"
National Science Foundation, 1968
Paris Seminar, June 23-24, 1960
"R"
"Regional Economic Development in Italy," 1967-1969
Research Council Application, 1974-1979
Royal Economic Society, 1950
"S"
Social Science Research Council, 1953
Symposium on the History of Economic Thought, Duke university December 6-7, 1968
Turin Seminar, 1959-1960
Draft of dissertation
Saville, Lloyd. "Price Determination in the Gray-Iron-Foundry Industry," 1950 [dissertation - Saville's copy]
Box 3
Contains scholarly papers, including an essay on the Cathedral at Pisa, personal copies of his M.A. thesis (Columbia, 1936) and Ph.D. dissertation (Columbia, 1950) along with preliminary paper for the dissertation and a précis and manuscript of an unpublished work, Price determination in the gray-iron foundry industry, (undated) based on his dissertation.
Saville, Lloyd. "Eighteen Years of a Company Union,"1936 [M.A thesis]
Saville, Lloyd. "Price Determination in the Gray-Iron-Foundry Industry," 1950 [Ph.D. dissertation]
Saville, Lloyd. "Pisa's Cathedral Complex: Benefit-Cost and Spin-Off of a Collective Good"
