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uasaville Inventory of the Lloyd B. Saville papers, 1936-1979 Processed by: Archives Staff ; machine-readable finding aid created by: Sherrie Bowser University Archives Duke University Durham, N.C., USA

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: January 2008Processed by Archives Staff , January 2008; Finding Aid encoded by Sherrie Bowser, University Archives, Duke University, January 2008 Description is in English Finding aid was prepared using DACS and our local Style Guide Inventory of the Lloyd B. Saville papers, 1936-1979 University Archives Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA

Descriptive Summary University Archives, Duke University Saville, Lloyd B., 1913-1988. Lloyd B. Saville papers, 1936-1979 Material in English French Italian 1.5 Linear Feet 1500 Items For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. 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. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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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.

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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.

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.

Subject Headings

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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. Detailed Description of Collection Container List, 1936-1979, bulk 1950-1979. 3 Boxes 12nd 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 2Hamilton, 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] 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] (6 folders) Saville, Lloyd. "Price Determination in the Gray-Iron-Foundry Industry," undated (written as Assistant Professor of Economics at Duke University) Saville, Lloyd. "Pricing Methods in the Foundry Industry," undated Saville, Lloyd. "Pisa's Cathedral Complex: Benefit-Cost and Spin-Off of a Collective Good" Printed Item: Ricardo, David. "The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation," reprint 1933