Thomas Temple Hoopes papers concerning Japanese swords
name: label: Creator
content: Hoopes, Thomas T., 1898-1981
place: label: Place
content: Japan
label: Place
content: East Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Armor
label: Topic
content: Swords
creator: label: Creator
content: Hoopes, Thomas T., 1898-1981
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Thomas T. Hoopes received his B.A. from Harvard and his PhD from New York University. During his early years, he was on the curatorial staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and served as a lecturer in art at the University of Chicago. He served as curator of the City Art Museum in St. Louis from 1936 to 1964. 

Hoopes was a expert on arms and armor. His PhD disseration was on Japanese sword blade and he published a catalog on the collection of Japanese swords in the St. Louis art museum. In the 1930s, he reinstalled the collection of arms and armor of the government of Austria.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.5 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1930 - circa 1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1983-10
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection is unprocessed.  Contact the archivist for more information.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Includes writings, notes, and photographs. The great bulk of the collection concerns Japanese arms and armor, especially swords, but there are also a few photographs of arms and armor from Indian, Turkey, Persia, and Asia Minor.

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The East Asian Library Special Collections, Washington University Libraries holds the Thomas Temple Hoopes collection.