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Urann, Bertha Frances Pickford, 1875-1966. Family papers, 1828-1966.

Title: Family papers, 1828-1966.

Papers spanning the years 1828-1966 (bulk around 1875) relating to the Sears and Pickford families. The collection includes letters, financial papers and genealogies; catalogued separately are photographs, prints & drawings, books, pamphlets and artefacts. Materials relate notably to Capt. Isaac Sears (1785-1836), involved in trade with the West Indies, his son Isaac Henry Sears (1833-1900), a Boston leather merchant and Henry Pickford (1831-1907) Civil War veteran, locksmith and inventor. Much information is provided to document middle-class life in Chelsea in the last quarter of the 19th c. including reminiscences of girlhood by Bertha Frances Pickford Urann (1875-1966) contained in her unpublished manuscript "A Speck of earth and a sliver of time." Other segments of the collection contain papers relating to Mt. Auburn Cemetery, the Lynn-Boston Railroad, Sears Chapel, Longwood, and the suffragette Maud Wood Park (1871-1955).

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2 ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11222685 View

Briefs, 1894-1926

Title: Briefs, 1894-1926

This collection consists of seven volumes of Massachusetts court documents, mostly briefs in matters of tort and contract law, filed on behalf of Nason & Proctor's Boston-area clients.

ArchivalResource: 2 Paige boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00158/catalog View