Harry Todd Costello Papers
Scope and Contents
Lecture notes, essays, syllabi, correspondence and diaries documenting Costello's career as instructor of philosophy and psychology. Also includes biographical material.
Dates
- Creation: 1907 - 1960
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Biographical / Historical
Brownell Professor of Philosophy at Trinity from 1903-1960. B.A. Earlham College, 1908. M.A. Harvard, 1910. Ph.D. Harvard, 1911. Born in Richmond, Indiana, 1885.
Costello studied under Josiah Royce and Bertrand Russell while at Harvard. After receiving his Ph.D. he taught at Harvard, Yale, Columbia and City College. Author of A Philosophy of the Real and Possible.
Costello died in Hartford in 1960.
Extent
2 Cubic Feet (2 records storage cartons)
Language of Materials
English
Cultural context
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Harry Todd Costello papers
- Status
- In Progress
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Watkinson Library - Archival Collections Repository
Trinity College Library
300 Summit St.
Hartford Connecticut 06106