Autobiography
Subject
Subject Source: Loc Genre/Form Terms For Library And Archival Materials (Lcgft)
Scope Note: Variants: Confessions (Autobiographies) // Egodocuments // Memoirs // Personal memoirs
BT: Biographies
NT: Autobiographical comics // Autobiographical drama // Autobiographical films // Autobiographical poetry // Autobiographical television programs // Captivity narratives // Pirate captivity narratives // Slave narratives
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur A. Kimball Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC-21
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs, correspondence, pamphlets, interviews, and an unpublished autobiography relating to life and carrer of civil servant Arthur A. Kimball. Materials cover a range of subjects from Kimball's service at the Nuremberg Trials to various space exploration missions.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1967 - 2006
Jet: The Story of a Pioneer, 1954
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 080, Book: Catalog Number: TBD
Identifier: 20180008
Topics
Document Type: Historical Monograph (autobiography)Scope (from the Preface": "This book is not an autobiography. It is primarily the history I of my association with the development of the turbo-jet engine in Great Britain. I have included a very brief account of my life prior to my practical work on the turbo-jet engine, in order that the reader may have some idea of the nature of the soil in which the seed of an idea took root and flourished. I have been unable to resist the...
Dates:
Publication: 1954