Biography:

Librarian, author. Born– Oct. 16, 1920, in Birmingham. Parents– Murphy Dewitt and Damie Emmaline (Hogan) Smith. Education– University of Tennessee, B.A., M.A.; studied at University of Pennsylvania. Manuscript librarian at American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia, 1952-1971; associate librarian after 1971. Member American Library Association, American Historical Association, Society of American Archivists, and Manuscripts Society.

Source:

Contemporary Authors, Vol. 37R.

Publication(s):

Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in the Library of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia; American Philosophical Society, 1966.

Guide to the Archives and Manuscript Collections of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia; American Philosophical Society, 1966.

Historical American Sketches; an Illustrated Guide to Sketches in the Manuscript Collection of the American Philosophical Society. Boston; G. K. Hall, 1984.

Oak from an Acorn; a History of the American Philosophical Society, 1770-1803. Wilmington, Del.; Scholarly Resources, 1976.

Realm of Gold; a Catalogue of Maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia; American Philosophical Society, 1991.

Sherman Day; Artist, Forty-niner, Engineer. Wilmington, Del.; M. Glazier, 1980.