MS 196
ETHIOPIAN
MATERIALS
ETHIOPIAN MATERIALS
13 boxes, 2 oversize items
DESCRIPTION: This collection was created
in 1990 and cataloged in 1992 as “Ethiopian Materials: a collection of
manuscripts, personal papers, memorabilia, documents, photographs, and
recordings at the Library of Michigan State University.” It was established to
hold unique material relating to the post-1800 history of Ethiopia and adjacent
areas of Northeast Africa. The bulk of
the pre-1990 donations were photocopies of reports in American, British and
Italian archives. These were collected
by Harold Marcus of the MSU History Department and several of his doctoral
students. Additional materials include
photos, personal papers, pamphlets, offprints, and unpublished papers received
from many different donors. Donated
material that did not fit into the scope of this collection went into the Main
Collection of the MSU Library or to a specialized branch. Donations were
originally organized and inventoried by Joe Lauer, Africana Librarian.
GETAHUN HAILE
ETHIOPIAN
ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
12TH
INTL CONFERENCE OF ETHIOPIAN STUDIES
JOHN
HUNTER
DENNIS
CHARLES HICKEY COLLECTION (1913-1936) 6
folders
JAMES
McCANN COLLECTION (1914-1941) 14 folders
JON
R. EDWARDS COLLECTION (1882-1938) 57 folders
FREDERICK
A. MASSÉ COLLECTION (1960-1976) 6 folders
DENIS
LEMORDANT COLLECTION (1960-1990) 3 folders
WILLIAM
O. HALL COLLECTION (1960-1971) 5 folders
JASPERDEAN
KOBES COLLECTION (1960s) 1 folder
SYOUM
GEBREGZIABKER COLLECTION 1
folder
MIRIAM
J. KELLEY COLLECTION (1955-1972) 4 folders
MARTHA
SORENSON PAPERS (1960-65, 1993-94) 13 folders
SUSEAN L. SHIPLEY DONATION (1941) 1
album
1. Photocopies of Embassy files and general
correspondence of the U.S. Consulate in Addis Ababa, obtained by Harold Marcus
(African Studies Center & History Dept., MSU) under the Freedom of
Information Act in 1976 (or 1979) and in 1981, as primary documentation for his
book on the 1960 coup in Ethiopia (See Marcus, Ethiopia, Great Britain and
the United States (1983), p. ix and 198).
Donated to Special Collections during 1980s.
Note:
Similar older materials on film are found in:
U.S. Consulate, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
“Records of the Department of State (decimal file [884.xx]) relating to
the internal affairs of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), 1910-1929.” 4 reels
(MSU film 4396)
U.S. Consulate, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
“Records of the Department of State (decimal file [711.84]) relating to
the political relations between the United States and Ethiopia (Abyssinia),
1910-1929.” 1 reel (MSU film 4397)
U.S. Dept. of State. “Records
of the Department of State [decimal files 8844.xx & 856D.xx] relating to
the internal affairs of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), 1930-1949.” 3 reels (MSU film 13592)
2. Collection of conference papers, offprints,
manuscripts and a few publications, mostly donated in 1989-92. Covers ca. 1960-1990.
3. Donated in April 1993 (plus some at other times between 1992 and
1994.
TESHOME
TADESSE donated 1998
GETAHUN HAILE donated February 1999
ETHIOPIAN
ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION PAPERS donated August 1992
12TH
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ETHIOPIAN STUDIES PAPERS donated 1994
JOHN
HUNTER donated 1994
DENNIS
CHARLES HICKEY COLLECTION (1913-1936) 6
folders
Photocopies of selected Foreign Office documents in
the British Public Record Office donated by Dennis Charles Hickey. Copies originally made during dissertation
research in London, between 1977 and 1983.
Originals were mostly typed or printed documents.
Arranged by F.O. number and then volume. Year is that given in PRO Lists and
Indexes (see CD1043.A571 no. 13, v. 10-11), and volume frequently includes
some documents from previous year.
Within each volume, separate pages are sometimes stapled and arrangement
is most frequently by the large number stamped near the upper right corner of
the page by the PRO; but this is not consistent. Folders (currently 7) are for chronological convenience, with
miscellaneous files as end.
For a subject approach, consult Hickey’s “Ethiopia
and Great Britain: Political conflict
in the southern borderlands, 1916-1935” (Main DT382.5.K5H55) Topics covered
include boundary disputes, cattle trade, and cattle raiding across the
Ethiopian borders with the Sudan, Somalia and Kenya between 1913 and 1935.
Details on photocopies in first folder. Most are from F.O. 371 (Great Britain.
Foreign Office. General correspondence after 1906); also F.O. 742-16.
JAMES
McCANN COLLECTION (1914-1941) 14 folders
Photocopies of materials on Ethiopia, Sudan, East
Africa from archives in Rome and London gathered by James McCann and deposited
before 1989. See his “Households,
peasants, and rural history in Lasta, northern Ethiopia, 1900-35” (Ph.D.
thesis, Michigan State University, Dept. of History, 1984) and later publications.
Selected materials about the Addis Ababa Consular
Court, 1912-1936, from the British Public Records Office (Foreign Office file
915) and about the Italian occupation of Ethiopia from Italian archives in
Rome. Materials are in English, Amharic and Italian. These were photocopied by Jon R. Edwards during 1980-82 research
for a Ph.D. (History) at MSU.
Completion of dissertation delayed, but see his: “An introduction to
Foreign Office File 915: The British Consular Court in Ethiopia, 1912-1938,” NEA:
A Journal of Research on North East Africa, 1, 2 (1982) and “A survey of
little-used European documentary sources for modern Northeast African history,”
Northeast African studies, 6, 2 (1984): 199-202. Deposits are second generation copies, collated
and stored in blue and brown binders. Addis Ababa Consular Court files (FO 915)
FREDERICK A. MASSÉ COLLECTION (1960-1976) 6
folders
Frederick A. Massé, a native of Woburn,
Massachusetts, served in the U.S. Foreign Service in Ethiopia in the early
1960s. He later lived in Washington,
D.C. where he was an English instructor at the Washington Technical
Institute. His name also appears as
Frederick A.P. Grimes Massé, or as Fred Masse Jr. His papers and books were given to the Woburn Public Library as
an unrestricted gift. Most of the
papers were sent by Kathleen O’Doherty (Director, Woburn Public Library) to
Michigan State’s Ethiopian Materials collection in 1989. Some additional papers were received in
April 1991, along with books and other materials. Documents cover the years 1960-1974.
DENIS
LEMORDANT COLLECTION (1960-1990) 3 folders
About 500 pages of printed (or photocopied)
material, originally produced from ca1960 to 1990, were donated in 1991, in
response to request for recent publications.
WILLIAM
O. HALL COLLECTION (1960-1971) 5 folders
Books, maps, pamphlets, etc. from the 1960s donated
in 1991 by Jayne from the Estate of William O. Hall, Ambassador to Ethiopia,
1967 to 1971.
JASPERDEAN
KOBES COLLECTION (1960s) 1 folder
Donated (1993) numerous issues of Ethiopia
observer, Negarit gazeta and Ethiopian Journal of Education.
These were added to Main. Single folder
of pamphlets and mimeos relating to education in Ethiopia during 1960s.
SYOUM
GEBREGZIABKER COLLECTION 1 folder
Photocopies of documents held by Gebremorkal
Habtemariam, the first president of the Eritrean and Ethiopian Unity
Association and uncle of Syoum Gebregziabker.
Deposited via Marcus, May 20, 1992.
MIRIAM J. KELLEY COLLECTION (1955-1972) 4 folders
Materials gathered by Kelley in late 1960s, during
her work as home economist in Addis Ababa. Covers ca1965-1972. Donated (1992) through George and Nancy
Axinn.
MARTHA
SORENSON PAPERS (1960-1965, 1993,
1994) 13 folders
Correspondence
of Martha Sorenson to her family during her tenure as Elementary Curriculum
Advisor to the Ministry of Education for the U. S. government’s International
Cooperation Administration in Ethiopia, 1960-1965. Many of the letters were published in her two books, Put on a Plate for George (Sorenson’s autobiography
published in 1993), and Ethiopia: Letters
Home With Love, Martha (1994). A copy of both books are included in the
collection.
SUSEAN L. SHIPLEY DONATION (1941) 1
album
Photograph album containing 360 black and white photographs
of buildings, scenes, people, and animals in Eritrea Province, Ethiopia.
Acquired during the 1940s by John Anderson Braddy while serving in Eritrea with
the U.S. Air Force, Eritrean Command. The album was donated to MSU by Susean L.
Shipley of Clarkston, Georgia, who inherited it from John Braddy.
“Assab 1880. Guerra Italo Abissina 1930-1937” : a
collection of articles in the Italian daily press reporting the conflict and
war between Italy and Ethiopia during the period 1926-1936. Includes also two
maps. Bound, paper covers. Stored on
oversize manuscripts shelf—MS 196 OS.
INVENTORY
1 1-1a National
Security Council memoranda and reports, 1956-58:
--U.S. policy toward Ethiopia - (NSC 5615)
1 2 National
Security Council reports, 1959-1962:
--U.S. policy toward Horn of Africa (NSC 5903
of 1959)
--U.S. policy on the Horn of Africa(NSC 6028
of 1960/61)
1 3 American
Embassy correspondence and reports, 1957 & 1964
U. S. Department Of State
1 4-4a-4b Defense and military assistance: Embassy telegrams,
1963-69
[Def 19 US-Eth]
1 5 US-Ethiopian
military base agreement: “Secret
Security Information”
statements,1952
1 6 Economic
and military aid to Ethiopia: AID(US)
ETH files, 1963-1969
1 7 Trade
Statistics, 1950-1959 [475.00]
8 U.S. aid to Ethiopia,
1954-59 [511.753]
9 U.S.-Ethiopian relations,
1955-61 [611.75]
10 Base rights, 1952 [711.56375]
11 Political developments,
1950-59 [775.00]
12 Political
developments, 1960 [775.00]
13 Political developments,
1961 [775.00]
14 Ethiopian govt., 1960-61 [775.02-775.1]
15 Messages re Emperor,
1955-61 [775.11]
16 Military assistance to
Ethiopia, 1951-53 [775.5]
17 Military assistance to
Ethiopia, 1954-55 [9775.5]
INVENTORY
HAROLD MARCUS PAPERS
(cont’d)
U. S. Department of State (cont’d)
2 1 Military assistance to
Ethiopia, 1957 [775.5]
2 Military assistance to Ethiopia,
1958 [775.5]
3 Military assistance to
Ethiopia, 1959-61, 65 [775.5]
4 Ethiopia military in Korea,
etc., 1951-54 [775.551-58]
5 MAAG
Chief – audiences with Emperor Haile Selassie, 1965-67
6 Annual
economic review, 1950-52 [875.00]
Economic
review (weekly, 3-month, 6-monthy reports)
7 1950-53
8 1954-1956
9 1957
10 1958
11 1959
(Jan-July)
12 1959
(Aug-Dec)
13 Ethiopian
Nutrition Institute. Misc. publications
from 1963 to 1971.
14 Reports
and documents relating to Ethiopian student movement , ca. 1970.
Includes Spur, v. 1, no.
1; Frontier, no. 0
15 Academic meeting and
seminar papers, 1968-1970s, concerning the development in Ethiopia and Somalia.
16 Ethiopian culture, 1969-70:
a) Chojnacki, “The
preservation of Ethiopia’s cultural heritage” (1969 lecture to the Society of
Friends).
b) Horticultural Society of
Ethiopia reports
c) Society of Friends of the
Inst. of Ethiopian Studies. Circular #7.
16 Public health documents
from mid-1970s. 5 pieces in Amharic
& “5 year
research
plan of the National Research Institute of Health”.
17 Singer, Norman J. “From Traditional: Legal Modernization in Ethiopia.”
1975? 285p.
18 Fifth International
Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Nice, 19-22 December 1977. [Proceedings were published in Modern
Ethiopia from the accession of Menilek II to the present, edited by Joseph
Tubiana (Rotterdam: A.A. Balkema,
1980).] Includes the program, resumé of
paper by Kiflé S. Beseat, and Amnesty International documents from late 1977
(nos. AFR 25/03/77, AFR 25/04/77, & AFR 25/07/77).
INVENTORY
HAROLD
MARCUS PAPERS (cont’d)
2 19 Papers presented to the 1st
OSSREA Congress: Alternative Development
Strategies
for Eastern Africa” (Dire-Dawa, Ethiopia, June 14-17, 1983).
“The Socioeconomic
consequences of famine,” by Mesfin Wolde-Mariam.
“The Spectrum of the Ethiopian Civil Service
System,” by Mehret Ayenew.
“Pre- and Post Revolution Industrialization
in Ethiopia,” by Bekure Woldesemait.
3 1 “Health
Sector Ten-Year Perspective Plan (1985-1994) of Social
Ethiopia.”
Addis Ababa: Central Planning Supreme Council, The 10
Year Plan
Preparation Task Force for the
Health Sector, March 1984. Unofficial
translation prepared by the
National Health Development Network
(Ethiopia). photocopy.
18, 26 p.
2 “The Ethiopian Famine from
an Eritrean Perspective,” prepared by the Horn of Africa Relief Team; edited by
Thomas R. Yocum. Cincinnati, 1985. 10p.
3 International Conference
on Peace and Stability in the Horn of Africa (East Lansing, April 1989) - 4
papers and report in Russian.
4 Fonti e Problemi della
Politica Coloniale Italiana (Messina-Taormina, ott. 1989) – program and paper by Piero Crociani.
5 Drafts & offprints
from journals, 1985-1988:
Irma Taddia, 3 offprints
Luigi Goglia, 2 offprints
from Storia contemporanea
Steven Kaplan, “Falasha
religion”
C. Rosen, “The many ways of
the Ethiopian Jews” - 29 p.
6
Documents relating to Marcus trip in 1991, to locate Mengistu:
Photocopy of 7/2/91 fax to
Alex Shoumatoff.
Photocopy of “The Fall of the Black Stalin,”
by Alex Shoumatoff (Vanity Fair, Nov. 1991, pp. 106-127).
INVENTORY
HAROLD MARCUS PAPERS
(cont’d)
3 7 Other
Marcus documents, incl. 1989 preproposal for an Ethiopian oral
history archive.
8 Papers
of ca. 1991/1992:
Getachew Haile, “The Problem
of ethnicity in Ethiopia.”
Eshetu Chole, “Opening Pandor’s box:
preliminary notes on fiscal decentralization in contemporary Ethiopia.” Nov.
1992.
9 Amharic
(2) documents of 1980s.
10 CRS [Congressional Research Service] reports (7)
on Northeast Africa, by Theodore S. Dagne et al.
11 ERS: Ethiopian Research Service (Big Rapids,
MI). Paper no. 1 (June 4, 1991)-4, 6-7
(July 1992).
12 Reports:
a) Amnesty
International. Ethiopia and Eritrea
(Nov. 1991).
b) The Ethiopian, v.
1, no. 1 (Feb. 15, 1992).
c) Ethiopian Human Rights Council. “Third report of human rights situation in
Ethiopia (July 16, 1992).”
d) New Ethiopia, no. 3
(July-Sept. 1990).
e) Oromo commentary, v. 2, no. 2 (Dec.
1992), with 2 articles critical of Marcus comments about Oromo nation.
f) Oromo Liberation Front Central
Committee. “Statement on the current
situation in Ethiopia.” Feb. 1992. [Fax of 2/17/92 to London.]
13 Offprints:
Sven
Rubenson. “Sweden and the
Italo-Ethiopian crisis 1935.” Scandia,
51 (1985): 127-147.
Rodolfo Fattovich. “Peoples of the Northern
Ethiopian-Sudanese border-land between 7000 and 1000 BP.” Nubica, I/II (1987/88; c1990): 3-45.
INVENTORY
HAROLD MARCUS PAPERS (cont’d)
3 13 Offprints: (cont’d)
Rodolfo Fattovich et al.
“Society and territory in the Gash Delta, 3000
B.C. - A.D. 300/400.” Origini, 14 (1988-89): 329-357.
Shiferaw Bekele,
“Reflections on the power elite of the Wara Seh
Masfenate.” Annales d’Ethiopie,
15 (1990): 157-179.
Rodolfo Fattovich. « Evidence of
possible administrative devices in the Gash Delta (Kassala), 3rd-2nd
millennia B.C. » Archéologie du
Nil Moyen, v. 5 (1991): 65-78.
Richard Pankhurst. “An Ethiopian original [Ethiopia’s 1st modern
doctor].” Selanta, 8,3 (Oct-Dec 1991): 49-50.
Haggai Erlich. [Short articles in Jerusalem Report, Oct. 24 & Oct.
31, 1991.]
14 6th
Conference of the Northeast African Studies Committee, Michigan
State university, April
23-25, 1992 - programs and papers received too late for inclusion in the Preproceedings.
15 Preproceedings of the Sixth Michigan State
University Conference on Northeast Africa (Holiday Inn, East Lansing, April
23-25, 1992), compiled by John T. Hinnant; assisted by Beth Finne. 435p.
[loan to exhibit] (see also Marcus II)
16 Reminick, Ronald A. “The Manze Amhara of Ethiopia.”
Ph.D. thesis, University of Chicago, 1973. [Lacks pages ix-xii, 257, 267, 269.] Unbound photocopy.
17 Papers prepared for the XIth International
Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Addis
Ababa, April 1-6, 1991. 16
pieces:
Speech delivered by Comrade
Mengistu. 10p.
Altaye Alaro. Mutual assistance networks: the case of
Wolayita. 14p.
Ayele Tekle Haymanot (Abba). About an unknown manuscript by Asma Giyorgis (1853-1915). 18p.
Chernetsov, Sevir B. The Crisis of Ethiopian official royal
historiography and its consequences in the 18th Century. 20p.
INVENTORY
HAROLD MARCUS DONATION
(cont’d)
3 17 Papers prepared for the
XIth International Conference (cont’d)
Chmiel, Juraj. CzechoSlovak armaments industry and the Italo-Ethiopian
Conflict. 27p.
Gilkes, P. S. “Revolution and military strategy.”
Killion, Thomas. Workers, capital and the imperial state on
the Franco-
Ethiopian Railroad, 1919-1959. 34p.
Le
Houerou, Fabienne. Une tentative
d’interprétation de l’administration coloniale fasciste en Ethiopie (1936-1941)
á travers la politique du maréchal Graziani avec les dignitaires de l’Empire
éthiopien. 17p.
Lusini, Gianfrancesco. Documents on the History of
Oromo. 11p.
Negussaye, Ayele. Reflections on the international impact of the 1935-1941 Fascist
Italy’s Invasion of Ethiopia. 9p.
Pausewang, Siegfried, “Peasant self-determination and
the state.”
Shirreff, David. The Ethiopian/Patriot contribution to the 1941 campaign against
the Italians in Gojjam. 7p.
Taddesse, Tamrat. An early apostle of
Matakkal: Abba Tatamo
Madhen of Gazge (1616-1678). 15p. (without notes)
Tsypkin, Georgey. The Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 and Ethiopia (based on the
Russian archives documents). 14p.
Tsegaye, Tegenu. An introduction to the taxation system of the rising absolutist
state of Ethiopia, 1855-1868. 26p.
Triulzi,
Alessandro. Frontier history in
Ethiopia: Western Wallagga: the making
of a frontier society. 12p.
12 1 Historical
Society of Ethiopia. First Annual Conference, April-May 1971 :
[Papers]
2 Simret
Habte, Background to the Dilemma of the Eritrean Liberation
Fronts (1979)
INVENTORY
HAROLD MARCUS
DONATION (cont’d)
12 3 Symposium
on Eritrea, January 12-13, 1979
4
Eritrea’s
Fight for Freedom
5
Hyden
G. Jones, A Historiographical Survey of Somalia (1970?)
6
Diplomatic
Correspondence Ras Alula and Foreign Elements
7
Donald
N. Levine. Legitimacy in Ethiopia
(1964)
8
Some
Extracts from the University of Utah Survey Report on Higher Education in
Ethiopia
9
A
Survey of Amharic literature (1960s)
10
Bairu
Tafla, Civil Titles and Offices in the Reign of Emperor Melikek II, 1889-1913
(1972)
11
Teshome
Wagaw, Some Notes for the World of Work in Ethiopian Tradition
12
Mesfin
Wolde Mariam, The Background to the Present Ethio-Somali Relations
13
Asmerom
Legesse, The Genesis of Ethiopian Urbanism (1973)
14
F.P.
Cotterell. Dr. T.A. Lambie : Some Biographical Notes.
15
Mulugeta
Eteffa, Education in Ethiopia in its Historical and Cultural Context (1971)
16
Lois
A. Doyle, Report to MUCIA and HSIU by the Advisor in Continuing Education
(1975)
17
Jean
Jenkins, Some Songs of Ethiopia
18
Proclomations
of 1975. No. 31, 47, 71, and 104
19
Grover
Hudson, Questions of Language Classification and Semetic Pre-history of
Ethiopia (1970)
20-27