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Robert V. Hine papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-083

Collection Scope and Contents

This collection includes manuscripts, films, correspondence, and other material regarding Robert V. Hine, Professor Emeritus of History at UC Riverside.

Series I has manuscripts for the following books by Professor Hine: The American West: a new interpretive history, Bartlett's West: drawing the Mexican boundary, Community on the American Frontier: separate but not alone, Josiah Royce: from Grass Valley to Harvard, and a biography of William Andrew Spalding.

Series II is an assortment of research materials broken into three sub-series: materials on the Irvine Ranch, photographs and film on the New Llano Cooperative Colony, and facsimiles of the James Theodore Talbot correpsondence.

Series III contains materials pertaining to Hine's role as a founding member of the UC Riverside faculty. Documents include early humanities curriculum, academic senate records, and committee materials.

Dates

  • Creation: 1950-1997

Creator

Languages

The collection is in English.

Access

This collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the University of California, Riverside Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives. Distribution or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. To the extent other restrictions apply, permission for distribution or reproduction from the applicable rights holder is also required. Responsibility for obtaining permissions, and for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Biographical Note

Robert V. Hine (1921-2015) was a founding member of the University of California, Riverside faculty where he taught history from 1954 to 1990. He was born in Los Angeles, California, attended UCLA and received his undergraduate degree from Pomona College in 1948. Hine went on to do graduate work at Yale University where he was awarded a PhD in 1952. Professor Hine joined UC Riverside as a founding member of the History Department and served as department chair from 1962 to 1967. He was a prolific writer and published over ten books on the history of the American West, California, and utopianism as well as textbooks, several works of fiction, and memoirs. Hine retired from UC Riverside in 1990 and moved to Irvine, CA where he held the title of Professor Recalled at UC Irvine.

Extent

5 Linear Feet

Abstract

This collection includes manuscripts, A/V materials, correspondence, and other materials from Robert V. Hine, Professor Emeritus of History. Includes several manuscripts of his published works; materials on the Irvine Ranch, Irvine Corporation, and the Llano Cooperative Colony; and records documenting the early academics of UC Riverside.

Collection Arrangement

The collection is arranged in three series as follows.

  1. Series 1. Manuscripts, 1960-1991
  2. Series 2. Research materials, 1950-1997
  3. Series 3. University of California, Riverside, 1954-1967

Acquisition Information

Provenance unknown.

Related Materials

See also the Robert Hine papers at the Huntington Library (https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8v129ht/entire_text/).

Processing History

This collection was processed in July 2018 by Special Collections Processing Archivist Andrew Lippert. Original collection-level finding aid was published in 2011.

Title
Robert V. Hine papers
Status
Processed
Author
Finding aid prepared by Andrew Lippert, Special Collections Processing Archivist.
Date
2018
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Description is in English.

Repository Details

Part of the University Archives Repository

Contact:
University of California
Rivera Library
P.O. Box 5900
Riverside CA 92517-5900 USA