Thomas Woodside Bentley Crafer Papers
An inventory of his papers at the Syracuse University Archives
Finding aid created by: Kyle C. Wilson
Date: 2007
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Finding aid created by: Kyle C. Wilson
Date: 2007
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| Creator: | Crafer, T. W. B. |
| Title: | Thomas Woodside Bentley Crafer Papers |
| Dates: | 1894-1948 |
| Size: | 3 boxes (3 linear feet) |
| Abstract: | The Thomas Woodside Bently Crafer Papers contain notebooks, lecture notes, photographs, postcards, correspondence and other materials relating to his education and career as a professor. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
University Archives, Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 |
Thomas Woodside Bentley Crafer (1872-1962) taught economics and served as the chair of the Economics Department at Syracuse University for 22 years.
Thomas W. B. Crafer was born on May 24, 1872 in Provincetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada to John Edmund Crafer and Sarah Woodside. He received his first college diploma from Mayville Normal School, North Dakota. He earned a Bachelor of Laws from Boston University in 1899 and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. Shortly after, he enrolled in the University of North Dakota and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1906. Crafer continued his education and received a Master of Arts from the University of Wisconsin in 1908 and another from Harvard University in 1909. He then returned to the University of Wisconsin and received his Ph.D. in economics in 1910.
After Crafer graduated from the University of Wisconsin he taught at Middlebury College until 1911. From 1911 to 1913 he taught at the University of Pittsburgh, followed by Laurence College where he served as Chair of Economics until 1920.
Crafer came to Syracuse University as the chairman of the Department of Economics in 1920. When he joined the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts his department consisted of one instructor besides himself, Lloyd Sweeting. Over the course of 20 years the department grew to nine faculty members. In honor of Crafer’s 20th anniversary at the University, the economics faculty members and several of his former students orchestrated a dinner party and presented him with a portrait painted by Robert Goodnough to be donated to the University. In addition, the Thomas W. B. Crafer Scholarship Fund was established to aid aspiring economics students. Having laid the foundations for the current economics department in the Maxwell School, Crafer retired from teaching as professor emeritus in 1942.
Thomas Crafer had married Nellie H. Latimer in 1913. Together they raised two sons from her previous marriage, James Robert Showalter and John L. Showalter.
Thomas W. B. Crafer died on December 25, 1962.
The Thomas Woodside Bentley Crafer Papers span 1894 to 1948 and are divided into four series.
The Education Series consists of materials from Crafer’s education at Boston University, the University of North Dakota, and the University of Wisconsin. The majority of the materials are notebooks and notes from law and economics classes. There are also several papers written by Crafer, including his dissertation from the University of Wisconsin.
The Personal Materials Series includes items relating to Crafer’s wife and sons. There are photographs, notebooks, and school papers. In addition there is correspondence to Crafer and his wife after the death of their son James Robert Showalter while he was serving in the armed forces during World War II.
The Syracuse University Series consists of correspondence pertaining to the Department of Economics. In addition there are lectures, lecture notes, student papers, and monographs written by T. W. B. Crafer. There are also several photographs of Syracuse University buildings from the 1930's.
The items in the Teaching Materials Outside of Syracuse University Series consist primarily of lecture notes as well as student papers and other related materials from Crafer’s teaching career at the University of Pittsburgh, Laurence College, and the American Institute of Banking.
Access Restrictions:
Please note that the collection is housed off-site, and advance notice is required to allow time to have the materials brought to the Reading Room on campus.
Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries and all relevant rights holders
before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this
collection.
The Archives holds a clipping file on Thomas Woodside Bentley Crafer.
Names
Crafer, T. W. B.
Syracuse University -- Faculty.
Syracuse University.
Subjects
Economics -- Teaching.
College teachers.
Higher education.
Types of Material
Lecture notes.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Thomas Woodside Bentley Crafer Papers,
University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
There is no information pertaining to the Archives' acquisition of the Crafer Papers.
Processing Information
All materials were placed in acid-free folders and boxes.
The items are arranged in alphabetical order within series.
Education
Personal Materials
Syracuse University
Teaching Materials Outside of Syracuse University
| Education | |||||||||||
| Boston University | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Law School Notes 1899 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebook: Law School—Dakota Constitution 1898-1899 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebook: Law School—Easements 1899 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebook: Law School—Equity 1898-1899 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebook: Law School—Equity Jurisprudence Vol. I 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebook: Law School—Equity Jurisprudence Vol. II 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebook: Law School—Equity Jurisprudence Vol. III 1899 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebook: Law School—Equity Jurisprudence Vol. IV 1899 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebook: Law School—Greek and Latin Exercises 1894 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebook: Law School—Lectures on Massachusetts Practice 1894 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebook: Law School—Male Heirs undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebook: Law School—National Life and Character undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebook: Law School—Partnerships 1899 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebook: Law School—Railroads and Corporations 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebook: Law School—Real Property 1898-1899 (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebook: Law School—Recitations and Contracts 1897-1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebook: Law School—Rent undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebook: Law School—Writ of Protection 1898-1899 | ||||||||||
| Unidentified Paper—International Relations undated | |||||||||||
| University of North Dakota | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Notebook: Economics 1906 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Notebook: Political Economy—Woman’s Studies 1907 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Notebooks: American History, Applied Sociology 1906 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Notes—Irish Economics undated | ||||||||||
| University of Wisconsin | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | “Comparative Study of the Efficience of Organization of the Glass Bottle Blowers’ Association of the United States and Canada and the Amalgamated Glass Workers’ International Association of America” 1908 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Crafer’s Doctoral Thesis—"The Administration of Public Poor Relief in Wisconsin and Minnesota: A Comparative Study" 1910 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Notebook: Collateral Readings circa 1910 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Notebook: Economic History 1908 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Notes—Economics 1910 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Notes: Economics—Theory of Diminishing Returns circa 1910 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Notes on Index Cards 1908 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Notes—Political Science 1910 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "The Zuni Indians" circa 1908 | ||||||||||
| Personal Materials | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Child Conservation League of America 1916 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | City Bank Trust Co. Checkbook 1925 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Elbs, John G.—Correspondence 1924 | ||||||||||
| MC 0-3 | Fullwinder, P., and Crafer, T. W. B.—Let the Starry Flag Advance: Patriotic Song 1918 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | “Great or Near Great Utterances of Noted Americans” undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Showalter, James Robert, and Showalter, John L.—Portrait Photographs undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Showalter, James Robert: Death of—Correspondence 1942-1948 (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Showalter, James Robert—Notebook 1921 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Showalter, John L.—Appleton High School Basketball Photograph April 17, 1920 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Showalter, John L.—Correspondence 1922-1924 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Showalter, John L.—Personal Items 1922 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Wisconsin Club—Photographs and Photograph Negatives undated | ||||||||||
| MC 1-4 | 18th Wisconsin Older Boys’ Conference—Group Photograph November 26, 1920-November 28, 1920 | ||||||||||
| Syracuse University | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Bulletins 1934-1935 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Class Assignment List 1920 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Correspondence 1920-1942 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Economics 117—Lectures undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Law and Economics Lecture Notes—Trust Estates undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Lecture Notes—Immigration undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Newspapers—Daily Orange, Syracuse Herald, Vital Speeches 1936 1938 1936 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Notes—18th Amendment undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Notes on Shakespeare, Newspapers Articles, Poems, and Quotes 1931-1934 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Student Papers 1922 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Syracuse University Photographs 1930's | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Unidentified Monograph undated (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Unidentified Monograph—Second Part undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Zeta Phi—Gamma Chapter 1924 | ||||||||||
| Teaching Materials Outside of Syracuse University | |||||||||||
| American Institute of Banking | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Commercial Law 1930 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Commercial Law Quiz Questions 1930 | ||||||||||
| Laurence College | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Lecture—Business Law undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Rolleston, T. W.—Ireland and Poland: A Comparative Study 1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Student Papers circa 1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | “The Race Problem: Its Origins and Solutions” 1914 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | The Survey March 21, 1914 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | University of Chicago Bulletin of Information 1916 | ||||||||||
| University of Pittsburgh | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Correspondence and Newspaper Clippings 1911 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Economic Survey undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Lecture Notes—Ancient Cultures undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Lecture Notes—Classes of Bonds undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Lecture Notes—Corporation undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Lecture Notes—Corporation Finance undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Lecture Notes—Economic History undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Lecture Notes—Economic Law undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Lecture Notes—Negro Question undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Lecture Notes—Patent System 1911 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Lecture Notes—Readings in Sociology undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Lecture Notes—Sociology, Sphere of Economics 1911 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Lecture Notes—Transportation undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | University of Pittsburg Spring Term Schedule 1912 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Ziegler, Mildred S.—Student Notebook undated | ||||||||||