IOWA WOMEN’S ARCHIVES
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES
IOWA CITY, IOWA
LILLIAN B. LAWLER
(1898-1990)
PAPERS,
1911-1968
2.5 linear inches
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ACQUISITION: |
The papers (donor no. 34) were donated
by Lillian Lawler in 1984. |
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ACCESS: |
The papers are open for research. |
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PHOTOGRAPHS: |
In box 1. |
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PROCESSED
BY: |
Your name, year»Donald L. Denis, 1993. |
Biography
Lillian Beatrice Lawler was born
June 30, 1898, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
She received a bachelor's degree in 1919 from the University of
Pittsburgh, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Iowa in 1921 and
1925. From 1923 to 1925, she was an
instructor in classics and art history at the University of Iowa. After a year of further study at the
American Academy in Rome, she was an assistant professor of classics at the
University of Kansas, Lawrence, from 1926 to 1929.
By far the largest portion of Lillian Lawler's career
took place at Hunter College in New York.
Beginning as an instructor in 1929, she underwent a series of changes in
title and responsibilities, culminating in her achievement of the rank of full
professor in 1955 and professor emeritus status in 1959. In the years from 1928 to 1935, she was also
an Archeological Institute of America travelling lecturer. She was a visiting professor at the
University of Iowa from 1961 to 1967, and remained a resident of the Iowa City
area until her death on December 13, 1990.
Scope and
Content Note
The Lillian Lawler papers measure 2.5
linear inches and date from 1911 to 1968.
The bulk of the contents date from Lawler's years teaching at Hunter
College, traveling, photographing, and publishing articles (1930 to 1960). The papers are arranged in four series:
Reprints, Journals, Photographs, and Miscellaneous.
The Reprints series consists
of reprints of twenty-seven articles by Lawler, primarily on the subject of
dance in ancient Greece, but also on such topics as marriage in ancient Italy
and women's fashion in Roman Africa, reprinted from the American Journal of Philology, The
Classical Journal, Classical
Philology, Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological
Association, and Studies Presented to
David Moore Robinson.
Journals include accounts of
journeys to Rome and around Europe in 1925, including a visit with Pope Pius XI
and much visiting of ancient sites of classical interest; and trips to Bermuda
in 1931, to Greece in 1936, and to Australia.
There is also a list of plays staged by the State University of Iowa
(University of Iowa) from 1959 to 1968.
The Miscellaneous series is
comprised of a Pittsburgh High Schools
Christmas 1911 issue of High School
Journal; a pamphlet advertising an educational Mediterranean cruise for
students of Teachers College, Columbia University, to be taught on shipboard
and on location by Lawler; and a pamphlet entitled "How the Romans
Dressed," by Dr. Lillian Wilson, of Teachers' College.
The Photographs are largely
of places and things encountered in travel, as well as of persons with whom
Lawler traveled. There are many images
here of ruins and artifacts of Greece, many of scenery and countryside. Probably of greatest interest are the photos
of classical Greek pottery art.
Box no. Description
Box 1
Reprints
1929-1941
"Married Life in C.I.L.
IX", 1929
"Two Portraits from
Tertullian", 1929
"Zoologically
Speaking", 1930
"Some Lesser
Lights", 1934
"A Classicist in Far
Cathay", 1936
"Lucida Veste",
1938
"The Dance of the Owl.
. .", 1939
"The Dance of the
Pinakides", 1940
"Ichthues
Choreutai", 1941
"Ballgame Dances",
1941
"Blinding Radiance and
the Greek Dance", 1941
1942-1965 and undated
"The Dance of the Holy
Birds", 1942
"Four Dancers in the Birds of Aristophanes", 1942
"Dancing with the
Elbows", 1942
"Orchêsis Iônikê",
1943
"'The Lily' in the
Dance", 1944
"The Dance of the
Ancient Mariners", 1944
"The 'Thracian Pig
Dance'", 1945
"Orchêsis
Phobera", 1946
"The Geranos Dance--a
New Interpretation", 1946
"Pindar and some Animal
Dances", 1946
"The Dance in Ancient
Greece", 1947
"Orchesis
Kallinikos", 1948
"The Dance in
Metaphor", 1951
"The Dance in Classical
Greek Drama", undated
"Are They
Dancing?", The Classical Journal,
1965
"The Dance in Ancient
Crete", undated
Journals, 1925-1968 (scattered)
Miscellaneous
Photographs (5 envelopes in one folder), 1926 and undated