Robert Glenk papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of personal and professional papers of Robert Glenk. Included are handwritten and typed correspondence, post cards, telegrams, programs, certificates, diaries, wills, financial documents, items of social ephemera, Glenk family photographs, photographs of Louisiana exhibits at fairs and expositions, manuscripts, class notes, experiments, speeches, menu cards, items relating to professional societies, drawings, scrapbooks, pamphlets, clippings and other printed items. The correspondence received by Robert Glenk is from a wide variety of sources; correspondents include Martin Behrman, Sophie B. Wright, William Beer, Rufus C. Harris, Edmond Souchon, E. A. McIlhenny, Ellsworth Woodward, and Ethel Hutson. The collection also includes a compilation of printed items on growing ramie stalks as an alternative to cotton, items relating to state fairs and world's fairs and expositions, as well as a letter from Huey P. Long to Henry P. Dart.
Dates
- 1897-1950
Creator
- Glenk, Robert, 1870-1950 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Access is unrestricted.
Biographical / Historical
Robert Glenk (1870-1950) was born in Germany and brought to the United States as an infant. He lived in Philadelphia and later New Orleans. After being educated as a scientist, Robert Glenk worked as a chemist with the Louisiana Sugar Experiment Station, 1899-1904. Mr. Glenk was a founder of the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans in 1905, and was its curator from 1906 to 1935. He retired from the museum in 1948. His interests were agriculture, horticulture, fairs and festivals, and promotion of New Orleans. He was married to Dr. Clara Theresa Israel Glenk (b. 1873).
Extent
13 Linear Feet
14 Boxes
30 Volumes
Language of Materials
English
German
Arrangement
Arranged by document type and chronologically.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bequeathed to Howard-Tilton Memorial Library by Robert Glenk.
Processing Information
Processed by Susanna Powers. Edited for ArchivesSpace by Althea Topek.
- Agricultural exhibitions--United States--History--20th century Subject Source: Local sources
- Fairs--United States--History Subject Source: Local sources
- Field crops--Southern States Subject Source: Local sources
- Horticulturists--Louisiana Subject Source: Local sources
- Louisiana State Museum.
- Museum curators--United States--History Subject Source: Local sources
- Museums--History--20th century Subject Source: Local sources
- New Orleans (La) -- History -- 20th century Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
- Ramie Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Creator
- Glenk, Robert, 1870-1950 (Person)
Source
- Harris, Rufus C., (Rufus Carrollton), 1897-1988 (Person)
- Souchon, Edmond, 1841-1924. (Person)
- Woodward, Ellsworth, 1861-1939. (Person)
- Long, Huey Pierce, 1893-1935. (Person)
- Behrman, Martin, 1864-1926 (Person)
- Dart, Henry Plauché, 1858-1934 (Person)
- McIlhenny, Edward Avery, 1872-1949 (Person)
- Long, Huey Pierce, 1893-1935. (Person)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Tulane University Special Collections Repository