{"id":2143,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2143"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"smith, murphy dewitt, jr., 1920-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2143","title":{"rendered":"SMITH, MURPHY DEWITT, JR., 1920-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Librarian, author.  Born&#8211;  Oct. 16, 1920, in Birmingham.  Parents&#8211;  Murphy Dewitt and  Damie Emmaline (Hogan) Smith.  Education&#8211;  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. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors, Vol. 37R.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in the Library of the                      American Philosophical Society.  Philadelphia;  American Philosophical                     Society, 1966. <\/p>\n<p>     Guide to the Archives and Manuscript Collections of the American Philosophical Society.       Philadelphia;  American Philosophical Society, 1966. <\/p>\n<p>     Historical American Sketches;  an Illustrated Guide to Sketches in the Manuscript Collection      of the American Philosophical Society.  Boston;  G. K. Hall, 1984. <\/p>\n<p>     Oak from an Acorn;  a History of the American Philosophical Society, 1770-1803.  Wilmington,      Del.;  Scholarly Resources, 1976. <\/p>\n<p>     Realm of Gold;  a Catalogue of Maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Society.       Philadelphia;  American Philosophical Society, 1991. <\/p>\n<p>     Sherman Day;  Artist, Forty-niner, Engineer.  Wilmington, Del.;  M. Glazier, 1980. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Librarian, author. Born&#8211; Oct. 16, 1920, in Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Murphy Dewitt and Damie Emmaline (Hogan) Smith. Education&#8211; 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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}