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BANC MSS 2009/109
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Collection Title: Murray Reed Benedict papers
Date (inclusive): 1905-1984,
Date (bulk): bulk 1931-1961
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2009/109
Creators :
Benedict, Murray R. (Murray Reed), b. 1892
Extent:
Number of containers: 24 Cartons, 2 boxes, 2 oversize folders
Linear feet: 31
Repository: The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: The Murray R. Benedict Papers document Benedict's career as a professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of California,
Berkeley from 1931 to 1961. Included in the papers are course materials, subject files, information on his committee work
and publications. A small amount of personal material is also included in the collection.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
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Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Murray Reed Benedict Papers, BANC MSS 2009/109, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Photographs have been transferred to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Benedict, Murray R. (Murray Reed)--Archives
Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States
Agriculture--Economic aspects--California
Faculty papers
University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Agricultural Economics
Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics
Agriculture--Economic aspects--Study and teaching
Transferred from the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming in 2009.
No additions are expected.
Arranged to the container level.
Processed by staff in 2011.
Murray Reed Benedict was born in 1882 in Wisconsin. Benedict received his B.S. degree at the University of Washington. He
was awarded his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1931 at which point he joined the faculty of the University
of California at Berkeley. He taught Agricultural Economics at the University of California until his retirement in 1961.
Dr. Benedict died in 1980.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Murray R. Benedict Papers document Benedict's career as a professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of California,
Berkeley from 1931 to 1961. Included in the papers are course materials, subject files, information on his committee work
and publications. A small amount of personal material is also included in the collection.