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Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers, 1834-1970, (bulk 1855-1922)

Title: Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers 1834-1970 (bulk 1855-1922)

Inventor and educator. Correspondence, diaries, journals, laboratory notebooks, patent records, speeches, writings, subject files, genealogical records, printed material, and other papers pertaining primarily to Bell's invention of the telephone in 1876, his contributions to the education of the deaf, and his interests in a wide range of scientific and technological fields, including aviation, eugenics, and marine engineering. The collection includes the papers of other members of the Bell, Fairchild, Grosvenor, and Hubbard families.

ArchivalResource: 147,700 items; 446 containers plus 8 oversize; 183.2 linear feet; 23 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000011 View

Robert C. Cook papers, 1882-1992

Title: Robert C. Cook papers, 1882-1992

The papers of Robert Carter Cook (1898-1991) span the years 1882-1992, with the bulk of the items concentrated in the period between 1940 and 1970. The collection focuses on his work as a geneticist, demographer, editor, and author. For the most part, Cook was educated at home by his parents. He attended George Washington University and the University of Maryland, but did not complete a degree program. In his first job, he was involved with air foils and aeronautical experiments at the Bureau of Standards. After World War I, he moved to Escuela, Arizona, to work at the Tucson Indian Training School. In 1922 Cook returned to Washington, D.C., and was appointed managing editor of the Journal of Heredity, an official publication of the American Genetic Association. His appointment was made upon the recommendation of Alexander Graham Bell and David Fairchild, both of whom were close friends of his parents, Orator Fuller and Alice Carter Cook. Cook remained with the association for forty years. In 1951 he became director of the Population Reference Bureau and also editor of its publication, Population Bulletin. Cook retired in 1968. Over the next twenty years he served on various boards, acted as a population consultant, and also continued to write. Included among Cook's papers are correspondence, writings, research notes and materials, professional files, diaries, genealogical and biographical information, photographs, and other material pertaining to his work and to the history of genetics and demography during his lifetime.

ArchivalResource: 19,600 items; 56 containers plus 1 oversize; 22.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011012 View

Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers, 1834-1970, (bulk 1855-1922)

Title: Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers 1834-1970 (bulk 1855-1922)

Inventor and educator. Correspondence, diaries, journals, laboratory notebooks, patent records, speeches, writings, subject files, genealogical records, printed material, and other papers pertaining primarily to Bell's invention of the telephone in 1876, his contributions to the education of the deaf, and his interests in a wide range of scientific and technological fields, including aviation, eugenics, and marine engineering. The collection includes the papers of other members of the Bell, Fairchild, Grosvenor, and Hubbard families.

ArchivalResource: 147,700 items; 446 containers plus 8 oversize; 183.2 linear feet; 23 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000011 View

Grosvenor family. Papers, 1827-1981 (bulk 1872-1964).

Title: Papers, 1827-1981 (bulk 1872-1964).

Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, subject materials, financial papers, printed matter, and personal miscellany, of various members of the Grosvenor family, principally of Amherst and Milbury, Mass., and Washington, D.C. The bulk of the papers relate to the personal and family life of Gilbert H. and Elsie M. Grosvenor in Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Md., and Baddeck, Nova Scotia; his association with the National Geographic Society and National Geographic Magazine; her community work, including marches for women's suffrage and a Washington, D.C., drive for pure milk; their family ties with the Alexander Graham Bell and Taft families; their travels; and their associations with the Clarke School for the Deaf, the Volta Bureau, the George Washington University, and Amherst College. Also included are papers of Gilbert Grosvenor's parents, Edwin A. and Lilian Waters Grosvenor, relating to family matters, Edwin's work in medieval and Byzantine studies at Amherst College, and their travels in Europe and the Middle East. Other family members represented include Edwin Prescott Grosvenor, Melville Bell Grosvenor, and Lilian Waters Grosvenor's parents, Asa H. and Elizabeth Waters. Prominent individuals represented by correspondence or other material include Herbert B. Adams, William Jennings Bryan, James Bryce, Richard E. Byrd, Joseph Conrad, George Constantine, Calvin Coolidge, Samuel S. Cox, Wilcox Darwin, Amelia Earhart, Dwight D. Eisenhower, David and Marian Fairchild, George W. Goethals, A.W. Greely, Abram S. Hewitt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Henry Holt, Herbert Hoover, Julia Ward Howe, Helen Keller, Sinclair Lewis, Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, George C. Marshall, Alexander Meiklejohn, Fridtjof Nansen, Florence Nightingale, Chester Nimitz, Robert E. Peary, W.M. Flinders Petrie, Auguste Piccard, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest H. Shackleton, William H. and Helen Herron Taft, Ida M. Tarbell, Lowell Thomas, Delia C. Torrey, Lew and Susan E. Wallace, Woodrow Wilson, and Wilbur Wright.

ArchivalResource: 73.6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31605193 View

Fairchild, Marian, 1880-1962. Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1956.

Title: Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1956.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/175264418 View

Grosvenor Family Papers, 1827-1981, (bulk 1872-1964)

Title: Grosvenor Family Papers 1827-1981 (bulk 1872-1964)

Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, subject material, financial papers, printed matter, and personal miscellany, chiefly 1872-1964, of various members of the Grosvenor family, principally of Amherst and Millbury, Mass., and Washington, D.C.

ArchivalResource: 67,300 items; 192 containers; 76.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005006 View