Corinne Lathrop Gilb

Corinne Lathrop Gilb (1925 - 2003) received her Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Radcliffe- Harvard and taught history at the university level for 37 years, retiring as Professor Emeritus from Wayne State University in 1994. The first director of UC Berkeley's Regional Cultural (Oral) History Project, her interviews with early Teamster leaders and key figures in the 1934 San Francisco labor strike remain seminal research sources in libraries throughout the country. As Planning Director for the City of Detroit under Mayor Coleman Young, she produced the 1985 Master Plan for the City's future. She also served as consultant to the California legislature, delegate to NGO meetings at the United Nations, and Vice President of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations. A dynamic public speaker who had an international following, Dr. Gilb is best known as the author of Hidden Hierarchies: The Professions and Government. Selections of her other writings can be found in Toward Holistic History: The Odyssey of an Interdisciplinary Historian, published by Atherton Press.

Corinne L. Gilb (far left, sunglasses) with Prime Minister Nehru, 1963

Archives & Collections

HOOVER INSTITUTION ARCHIVES
Stanford University
The Corinne Lathrop Gilb Collection includes letters, diaries, speeches, manuscripts, political pamphlets, research and teaching materials.

List of all materials donated by the estate to the Hoover Institution Archives.

Link to Stanford's online catalogs -- choose "Socrates (SU Catalog)", then search for Corinne Gilb as "Keyword" in library "Hoover Institution Archives", and "Search Everything".
http://library.stanford.edu/catdb/index.html


	Photo by Shirley Clarke

REGIONAL ORAL HISTORY OFFICE
The Bancroft Library
University of California Berkeley
Oral histories conducted by Corinne Lathrop Gilb while first Director of the Regional Cultural History Project.

http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf4s200481
&doc.view=entire_text&brand=oac

INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT
University of California
Oral histories conducted by Corinne Lathrop Gilb for the Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley.

http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt6x0nb4t7&chunk.id=
scopecontent-1.8.3&brand=oac

SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY LABOR ARCHIVES
Twenty-four completed oral history interviews by Corinne Lathrop Gilb of union members, employers, and professionals in the labor relations field.

http://www.library.sfsu.edu/docs/larc-holdings.pdf

BURTON HISTORICAL COLLECTION
Detroit Public Library
Papers related to Dr. Gilb’s 1979-85 tenure as Director of Planning for the City of Detroit.

The finding aid for the Gilb Collection at the Burton will be available after processing has been completed.

design by Tyra Gilb : built by Atomic Design Studios
consultant Lesley Gilb Taplin