Thomas T. Hoopes

As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1929–30:

Hoopes, Thomas Temple:  Appointed to complete a study of the history of firearms from their invention to the introduction of automatic manufacturing machinery; tenure, twelve months from October 1, 1930.

Born March 31, 1898, at Boston, Massachusetts. Education: Harvard College, A.B., 1919; New York University, A.M., 1926 (Resident research fellow in Fine Arts, 1929–30).

Assistant Curator, Department of Arms and Armor, 1920–27, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Publications: Contributor to “A Miscellany on Arms and Armor,” 1927. Articles in Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Bulletin, Occasional Papers of The Armor and Arms Club, Zeitschrift für Historische Waffen- und Kostümkunde, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Institutes für Auslander an der Universität Berlin, Mid-Pacific Magazine.