Harper's Magazine

PUBLIC "-//North Carolina Division of Archives and History::North Carolina State Archives//TEXT (US::NcD::[P.C.1520]::Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Mangold Papers, 1933-1972, n.d.)//EN" "mangold.xml" Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Mangold Papers, 1933-1972, n.d. Finding aid completed by: Suzanne Smith; machine-readable finding aid created by: Ashley Yandle North Carolina Division of Historical Resources

North Carolina State Archives 4614 Mail Service Center Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4614 USA Phone: 919/807-7310 Fax: 919/733-1354 Email: archives@ncsl.dcr.state.nc.us URL: http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/

Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Microsoft Word. Date of source: July 18, 1973 Finding aid completed July 18, 1973 by Suzanne Smith; Finding aid encoded by Ashley Yandle, North Carolina State Archives, May 13, 2002 Description is in English. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Mangold Papers, 1933-1972, n.d. North Carolina State Archives, Division of Historical Resources Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4614 Contact Information Division of Historical Resources North Carolina State Archives 4614 Mail Service Center Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4614 USA Phone: 919/807-7310 Fax: 919/733-1354 Email: archives@ncdcr.gov URL: http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/archives/arch/default.htm Processed by Suzanne Smith Date Completed July 18, 1973 Encoded by Ashley Yandle Date Encoded May 13, 2002

Descriptive Summary Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Mangold Papers, 1933-1972, n.d. Mangold, Frederick R., 1907-1971. Frederick R. Mangold was an instructor and professor at Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) from 1934-1942. During those years he also served as acting Secretary, Secretary of the Corporation, Registrar, and member of the Board of Fellows of the Corporation. Both his first wife, Isabel Hollister Mangold, and his second wife, Anne Gilbert Mangold, also worked at Black Mountain College. This collection pertains to the Mangolds' years at Black Mountain, and includes correspondence, college publications, articles about Black Mountain and miscellaneous items. 483 items, including correspondence, college publications and forms, other publications, and miscellaneous items (post cards, Camp Rockmont brochure, etc.). North Carolina State Archives, Division of Historical Resources Information for Users Access Restrictions

Available for research.

Usage Restrictions

Copyright for articles and other materials resides with the creators of the items in question, unless otherwise designated.

Preferred Citation

[P.C.1520] Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Mangold Papers, North Carolina State Archives, Division of Historical Resources, Office of Archives and History.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Anne Gilbert (Mrs. Frederick R.) Mangold, Gilbertsville, NY, January 18, 1973; accessioned January 30, 1973. Addition, received from Mrs. Frederick R. Mangold, January 20, 1975; 20 pages carbon copies of typescripts and handwritten correspondence; accessioned January 28, 1975. Addition, gift of Mrs. Mangold via Mary Harris, 42 Grove Street, Apt. 33, New York, NY; 13 photocopied pages; accessioned May 4, 1978.

Processing Information

Finding aid completed by Suzanne Smith.

Completed July 18, 1973.

Biographical Note

After a year at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, Frederick Rogers Mangold went to the University of Wisconsin where he received a Ph.D. degree in Spanish in 1934. He spent that summer at Princeton, and then on the recommendation of Henry Allen Moe, Secretary of the Guggenheim Foundation, went to Black Mountain College as an instructor in Romance Languages.

While at Black Mountain, Mangold served as instructor and professor (1934-1942); acting Secretary (Summer 1934) and Secretary of the Corporation (1937-1942); Registrar (1935-1938); and member of the Board of Fellows of the Corporation (1935-1942). His wife, Isabel Hollister Mangold, served as college librarian from the time of their arrival in 1934 until their divorce in the summer of 1938 when she left the college. Fred Mangold then married Anne Gilbert who had come to Black Mountain as a secretary in September 1937; after their marriage she took the position of Registrar which she held until they left Black Mountain in 1942.

Frederick Mangold requested and received a leave of absence from Black Mountain College in September 1942. He went first to the Board of Economic Warfare, and later to the Department of State (Foreign Service Auxiliary) which stationed him at the American Embassy in Mexico. At the close of the war, he resigned from Black Mountain in order to stay with the Foreign Service Auxiliary and continue his work in economics.

Collection Overview

This collection pertains to the Mangolds' years at Black Mountain, and includes correspondence, college publications, articles about Black Mountain and miscellaneous items.

The correspondence (1935-1945, n.d.) contains personal letters to and from Frederick Mangold, carbon copies of letters sent by him in his official capacity as Secretary of the college, and telegrams. All of it is primarily concerned with college affairs, and many of the letters provide descriptions of living conditions and atmosphere in an innovative, communal experiment in education. Correspondence with Louis Adamic in regard to Adamic's article on Black Mountain College in Harper's Magazine (April 1936), and with Dr. Arthur S. Adams (August 1935-March 1936) give especially clear statements on philosophy and teaching conditions. Much of the remainder of the correspondence concentrates on routine college business, evaluation of prospective teachers and students, and allusions to the college's recurrent conflicts.

College publications in the collection include issues of the Bulletin (Nos. 2-7, 1934-1941); catalogs (1933/34-1939/40) and announcements (1942/43-1944/45); the Bulletin [Series II] (1943-1946, n.d.); Newsletters (1938-1941); and miscellaneous publications. There are also magazine and newspaper articles about Black Mountain College (1933-1972, n.d.), and articles written by faculty and students. These include a number of items by and about Anni and Josef Albers.

Miscellaneous items include notes from Mangold's Form in Literature class (1936); D. H. Lawrence: The Triumph of Texture, by Jane Mayhall (1936); Camp Rockmont brochure; reviews of Martin Duberman's Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community (1972); and a collection of student prose and poetry collected in ...toward a projected College magazine... (n.d.). Also included with the miscellaneous items are two later additions made by Mrs. Anne Mangold to the papers. Included in these additions are carbon copies of correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Mangold and John Evarts during the summer of 1940, carbon copies of a daily record of the Mangolds' trip that summer, and a photocopies of a letter dated May 23, 1977 from Tony Zappone to Anne Mangold concerning the death of Trudi Straus.

Online Catalog Headings Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History. Education, Humanistic. Collective settlements--North Carolina--History--20th century. College teachers--North Carolina--Social life and customs--20th century. Interpersonal conflict. College students' writings, American--North Carolina--Black Mountain. Albers, Anni. Albers, Josef. Duberman, Martin B. Straus, Gertrude, 1895-1977. Mangold, Anne Gilbert. Adamic, Louis, 1899-1951. Adams, Arthur S. (Arthur Stanton), 1896- Evarts, John, 1908- Zappone, Tony. Arrangement of Papers: P.C.1520.1 Correspondence and College Publications Correspondence (4) June-December 1935 1936 1937 1938-1945, n.d. Bulletin (Nos. 2-7) 1934-1941; catalogs, 1933/34-1939/40; announcements, 1942/43-1944/45 Bulletin [Series II] 1943-1946, n.d.; Newsletter, 1938-1941 Other college publications and forms, various dates P.C.1520.2Miscellaneous Items Faculty-policy concerning and articles by, 1938-1942, n.d. Josef and Anni Albers, 1935-1972, n.d. Articles about Black Mountain College, 1933-1972, n.d. Miscellaneous, 1936-1972, n.d. Addition Related Material:

Additional information on topics found in this collection may be found in the Manuscript and Archives Reference System (MARS) at http://www.ncarchives.dcr.state.nc.us