MSS 71

Russell, George Oscar, 1890-1962
Papers of George O. Russell, 1919-1971

 

 

Gallaudet University Archives.

 

 

Descriptive Summary

Repository: Gallaudet University Archives
Call No.:
MSS 71
Creator:
Title: Papers of George O. Russell, 1919-1971.
Quantity: 4.5 Linear Feet (9 document boxes)
Abstract:
Note:
This document last updated 2006 January 9.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information:
Processed by: Colleen M. Crisp. 1996 September 9.
Processing Note:
Conditions on Use and Access: This collection is open to the public with no restrictions. Photocopies may be made for scholarly research.

 

 

Related Material in the Archives:


Deaf Rare

·         Normal speech pitch patterns for the deaf : a new approach / G. Oscar Russell. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Deaf Rare

·         Eliminating uncanny deaf speech : a paper delivered in Staunton, Virginia, June 28, 1928, before the summer meeting of the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf / by G. Oscar Russell. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Deaf Rare

 

Films

·         George Oscar Russell [motion picture]. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Deaf Film 21-12

·         Sound tracks [motion picture]. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Deaf Film 202-4

 

Photographs

·         Photograph album of George O. Russell [picture]. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Photograph Album AL 21.


Vertical Files

·         G. Oscar Russell.  Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Deaf Biographical.

 

Biographical Sketch
1890                 Born in Conejos, Colorado on November 21

 

1910-1913         Student at the universities of Berlin, Koenigsberg

 

1923-1925         Paris, Lyon, Madrid, and Vienna

 

1915                 B.A., Brigham Young University, Utah

 

1916-1917         Instructor, phonetics, Columbia University, New York City

 

1917                 Married Oertel Rich

 

1917-1918         Served in Aviation Sect.

 

1918                 Assistant military attaché, Brazil

 

1918-1919         Military Intelligence Division, General Staff, U.S. Army   

 

1918                 M.A., Columbia University, New York City

 

1919-1923         Associate Professor, University of Utah

 

1923-1924         Visiting Professor, University of Chicago

 

1924                 Director, National University of Mexico, summer school

 

1925-1927         Asst. Professor, Spanish, Ohio State University

 

1928                 Ph.D., Columbia University, New York City

 

1928-1929         Asst. Professor, Spanish, Ohio State University

 

1930-1941         Professor and Chairman, Division of Phonetics and director Language
                        Labs (Ohio State University)

 

1941-1942         Superintendent, Utah School for the Deaf and Blind

 

1941-1943         Director, Utah State Research Laboratories

 

1944-1946         Executive Director, National Research Foundation 1955-1960?

 

1946-1955         Chairman, Modern Foreign Language Department, Western College, Ohio

 

1946-?              Visiting Professor, (summers), University of Chicago, University of
                        Michigan, Purdue University, University of Wisconsin, Washington
                        University, Central Institute, St. Louis, Linguistic Inst. at Yale, Research
                        Associate, Carnegie Inst.

 

1955?-?             Research Professor, speech, hearing and voice of the Deaf, Gallaudet
                        College, Washington, DC

 

1962                 Died on March 19 in Salt Lake City, Utah

 

Scope and Content

The collection of George Oscar Russell consists of correspondence, photographs, magazines, publications, books, theses, records and x-rays of speech, films on speeches and voices, printing plates blocks of voices, and artifacts.  The collection dated from 1919 to 1971. 

 

The bulk of the collection is the correspondence.  The letters were written by family members and friends.

There are magazines and publications that were written by George Oscar Russell.  The magazines and publications were about speech and voices.

 

Most of George Oscar Russell's collection were on speech and voices.  He taught speech, not only to Deaf but to other people, like Caruso, who was the Italian tenor.

 

There are 38 rolls of 16mm films.  Most of these films are unidentified but they are related to speeches and voices.

The artifacts that were once belonged to George Oscar Russell.  The artifacts that are included in the box are a wooden kitchen tool(?), an instrument? (metal stick), one pair of glasses with case, and an ivory cigar holder.

Series Descriptions and Folder Lists

No Series.

 

Box

Folder

Title of Folder

Date

1

1

Correspondence ‑ The American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf

1940

1

2

Correspondence ‑ Bank of Insurance

1955‑1960

1

3

Correspondence ‑ Barker, James L. to Russell, G. O.

1955‑1956

1

4

Correspondence ‑ Brewer, Myrene

1954‑1959

1

5

Correspondence ‑ Brossard, Edgar B. and Laura

1958

1

6

Correspondence ‑ Camerish, Mary

1948‑1959

1

7

Correspondence ‑ Cannon, Edwin (Ted) Q. (son‑in‑law to Russell)

1957‑1960

1

8

Correspondence ‑ Cannon, Janath Russell (daughter to Russell) Part 1

1942‑1945, 1951‑1957

1

9

Correspondence ‑ Cannon, Janath Russell Part 2

1958‑1959

1

10

Correspondence ‑ Cannon, Janath Russell Part 3

1960

1

11

Correspondence ‑ Carnegie Institution of Washington

1937‑1959

1

12

Correspondence ‑ "Cause of Good and Bad Voices"

1959‑1960

1

13

Correspondence ‑ Christmas Cards

1953‑1959

1

14

Correspondence ‑ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

1932‑1959

1

15

Correspondence ‑ Cotton, Jack C.

1954‑1959

1

16

Correspondence ‑ Crookston, Carol Russell (daughter to Russell)

1944‑1950

1

17

Correspondence ‑ Foreign Letters

1919

1

18

Correspondence ‑ Gallaudet College

1945‑1959

1

19

Correspondence ‑ Grandchildren ‑ greeting cards (to Russell)

1957‑1960

1

20

Correspondence ‑ Hansen, Mrs. J. Miller

1942

1

21

Correspondence ‑ Inquiries about G. O. Russell

1964‑1971

1

22

Correspondence ‑ Miscellaneous

1919‑1959

2

1

Correspondence ‑ Miscellaneous (Rich and Russell Families)

1946‑1959

2

2

Correspondence ‑ Nieces and Nephews (to George)

1947‑1951

2

3

Correspondence ‑ Padersen, Ruth

1959‑1960

2

4

Correspondence ‑ Pendell, Lucille H.

1958

2

5

Correspondence ‑ Postcards

1927‑1960

2

6

Correspondence ‑ Russell, Dolly E. McEntire (mother to George)

1928‑1948

2

7

Correspondence ‑ Russell, G. O. to Cannon, Edwin (Ted) Q

1951

2

8

Correspondence ‑ Russell, G. O. to Cannon, Janath Russell

1951‑1959

2

9

Correspondence ‑ Russell, G. O. to Crookston, Carol Russell

n.d.

2

10

Correspondence ‑ Russell, G. O to Russell, Dolly E. McEntire

1951‑1952

2

11

Correspondence ‑ Russell, G. O. to Russell, Robert R.

1953‑1959

2

12

Correspondence ‑ Russell, Harry and Agnes

1959

2

13

Correspondence ‑ Russell, Oertel Rich (wife to George)

1944‑1945

2

14

Correspondence ‑ Russell Research Laboratories

1930‑1932

2

15

Correspondence ‑ Russell, Robert R. Part 1

1952‑1958

2

16

Correspondence ‑ Russell, Robert R. Part 2

1959‑1960

2

17

Correspondence ‑ Siders, Lillian

1951‑1959

2

18

Correspondence ‑ Speech Research

1941‑1959

2

19

Correspondence ‑ Stoops, Mary D.

1957‑1960

2

20

Correspondence ‑ Telegrams

1929‑1930,1940

2

21

Correspondence ‑ Victor, Edna

1952‑1959

2

22

Correspondence ‑ Walsh, John and Isabel

1951

2

23

Correspondence ‑ Western College for Women

1948‑1955

2

24

Correspondence ‑ Who's who in America

1955

3

1

Articles

1942

3

2

Bills and Receipts

1930

3

3

Divorce of Oertel Rich Russell and G. O. Russell; A statement and petition

1956-1958

3

4

Gallaudet College entering group, Oct.1957 by Speech Research Laboratory

1957

3

5

Linguistic Atlas of the U.S. and Canada, Committee on a

1930

3

6

List of cataloged materials by George O. Russell in Edward Miner Gallaudet Library

1971

3

7

List of references as to qualifications

n.d.

3

8

Magazine articles ‑ The Improvement Era

1936

3

9

Miscellaneous

1917‑1958

3

10

National Association for Advancement of Blind Artists

1940?

3

11

National Research Foundation

1956‑1960

3

12

Obituaries of the Rich and Russell Families

1952‑1954

3

13

Passport

1919

3

14

Passport

1935

3

15

Qualification and duties of superintendent of School for the Deaf and Blind

1933

3

16

Research notes

n.d.

3

17

Rich Family Association

1947‑1952

3

18

Russell, Harry Hale, Memorial of

1936

3

19

Russell Hearing Graph

1928

3

20

Will and Death Certificate

1957‑1962

4

1

Magazine ‑ The Utah Eagle

15615

4

2

Publication ‑ Causes of Good and Bad Voices

n.d.

4

3

Publication ‑ Etiology of Follicular Pharyngitis

1936

4

4

Publication ‑ Exercises de Prononciation Francaise a l'usage des Etudiants Anglo‑Saxons

1934

4

5

Publication ‑ First Preliminary x‑ray consonant study

1934

4

6

Publication ‑ International Research Symbols in speech as in Chemistry

1930‑1931

4

7

Publication ‑ Language ability of the Deaf monograph

1942

4

8

Publication ‑ The life of Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick, to 1642 by Wesley F. Craven

1928

4

9

Publication ‑ The McEntire Family in America

1960

4

10

Publication ‑ Our Voices: Some new scientific facts pointing to improvement

n.d.

4

11

Publication ‑ Physiological Cause of Cultural and Piering Deaf voices

1929

4

12

Publication ‑ Physiological Cause of Voice Quality in Singing

1930

4

13

Publication ‑ Research in the physiological cause of voice quality differences

1943

4

14

Publication ‑ The Role of Resonance in Vowel Production

1922

4

15

Publication ‑ Silent reading

1925

4

16

Publication ‑ Sinus and Head Cavities­ Modifiers, not Resonators

1934

4

17

Publication ‑ Some terms of Physics Linguists

1928

4

18

Publication ‑ A Symposium on Stuttering (Stammering)

1931

4

19

Publication ‑ Systematic and Analytical Thought Terms of a Science or Slang and Popular Words

1941

4

20

Publication ‑ Exhibition: Voice Quality Differences in Tone Production and Speech

1937

5

1

Proof of Causes of Good and Bad Voices

n.d.

5

2

Thesis: The Life of Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick by Wesley Frank Craven, Jr. Part 1

1928

5

3

Thesis: The Life of Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick by Wesley Frank Craven, Jr. Part 2

1928

5

4

Thesis: The Life of Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick by Wesley Frank Craven, Jr. Part 3

1928

6

 

Envelopes #1‑39 ‑ Records of Voices Envelopes #40‑48 ‑ X‑rays of Speech