| LC control no. | n 89633433 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3537.H95 |
| Personal name heading | Shoemaker, Henry W., 1880-1958 |
| Variant(s) | Shoemaker, Henry W. (Henry Wharton) |
| Other standard no. | Q5729718 70538018 0000000029750754 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | McElhattan (Pa.) |
| Birth date | 1880 |
| Death date | 1958-07-15 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Williamsport (Pa.) |
| Field of activity | Folklore History Newspaper publishing United States--Foreign relations--Bulgaria Nature conservation Museums--Management |
| Affiliation | Pennsylvania Historical Commission United States. Department of State Pennsylvania Folklore Society Pennsylvania. State Museum Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Division of Folklore |
| Profession or occupation | Folklorists Historians Diplomats Authors Conservationists Archivists Museum directors Newspaper publishers |
| Found in | nuc89-58961: Moyer, N.W. Peter Allen's a Pennsylvania ... [MI] 1919? (hdg. on C rept.: Shoemaker, Henry Wharton, 1880- ; usage: Henry W. Shoemaker) LC data base, 02-22-90 (hdg.: Shoemaker, Henry W. (Henry Wharton); usage: Henry W. Shoemaker) Pennsylvania State University Press WWW site, Dec. 27, 2010 (Henry W. Shoemaker, 1880-1958) In the Seven Mountains, 2012: title page (Henry W. Shoemaker, President of the Altoona Tribune) Wikipedia, viewed October 17, 2013 (Henry Wharton Shoemaker (1880-1958) was a prominent American folklorist, historian, diplomat, writer, publisher, and conservationist. Shoemaker was born in New York City, but was closely associated with Pennsylvania, where he spent summers in childhood and took up residence later in life; published and ran newspapers in Reading, Altoona, and Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania; lived in McElhattan, Pennsylvania; was chair of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission (1923-1930) and on various state boards for environmental and historical preservation; appointed by Herbert Hoover to be U.S. ambassador to Bulgaria (1930-1933); co-founded the Pennsylvania Folklore Society in 1924 and was its president from 1930 until 1957; state archivist of Pennsylvania, 1937-1948; director of the State Museum in Harrisburg, 1939-1940; oversaw the creation of the Division of Folklore in the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in 1948 and took the position of the nation's first state folklorist; left the post in 1956; died near his McElhattan home in 1958) Pennsylvania Center for the Book WWW site, viewed October 17, 2013 (born in 1880 in New York, New York; died July 15, 1958 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania) |
| Associated language | eng |
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