Mitchell R. Sharpe Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of correspondence that Mitchell Sharpe initiated during research on his thesis, The Novels of Waldo Frank: A Search for the American Form in the 1950's, and later during his research on rocket engine development and space flight in the 1960's and 1970's.
Dates
- 1954 - 1975
- 1992
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Biographical / Historical
Born in 1924, Mitchell R. Sharpe, a writer and researcher, was associated with the space center in Huntsville, Alabama during the 1960's and 1970's. His several books on space technology and astronautics include "The Rocket Team" (co-authored with Frederick Ordway) which traces the work of German rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun and his associates from Peenemunde, the site of the rocket research laboratory in Nazi Germany, to the space center in Huntsville, Alabama where the rocket team eventually worked on Project Saturn.
Extent
18 Folder(s)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This finding aid is organized by accessions. Each accession represents an addition to the collection. Each accession also represents a transfer of physical and legal custody of archival materials from the donors to Auburn University Special Collections and Archives.
Processing Information
Accession 11-1965 processed by TAB; Accessions from November 19, 1974, December 27, 1974, and April 1, 1975 processed by DWA. Collection reprocessed by C. Register, April 12, 1990. HTML finding aid listed by Dieter C. Ullrich, June 2003. Finding aid added to ArchivesSpace by Cara Eiland, October 3, 2019. Revised by Joanna Ashley, 2025.
- Title
- Guide to the Mitchell R. Sharpe Papers
- Subtitle
- Record Group 40
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- TAB
- Date
- November 1965
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Repository
Auburn University
Ralph Brown Draughon Library
231 Mell Street
Auburn Alabama 36849
334-844-1732
archives@auburn.edu
