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Barringer, Daniel Moreau, 1860-1929. Barringer family papers, 1817-1979 (bulk 1905-1979)

Title: Barringer family papers, 1817-1979 (bulk 1905-1979)

Consists of correspondence, documents, ledgers, photographs of the Meteor Crater (Ariz.) site, and printed matter of Barringer (Princeton University Class of 1879) and his son Brandon, as well as several other members of the Barrringer family.

ArchivalResource: 57 linear ft. (33 record center cartons, 55 archival boxes, 16 volumes, 1 rolled map)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/277196530 View

Penrose, Richard Alexander Fullerton, Jr., 1863-1931. Correspondence and papers, 1885-1931.

Title: Correspondence and papers, 1885-1931.

This correspondence is with Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Edgar Fahs Smith, and Thomas Sovereign Gates, about undergraduate days at Harvard College, his interest in Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Wistar Institute. The papers include a list of publications, biographical data, papers on Robert G. LeConte and Daniel Moreau Barringer, a certificate of membership in the Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association, and 25 drawings of crystals and 35 original sketches made to accompany his Harvard thesis, "The Nature and Origin of Deposits of Phosphate of Lime."

ArchivalResource: ca. 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122578986 View

Charles P. (Charles Pollard) Olivier correspondence, 1915-1962, 1915-1962

Title: Charles P. (Charles Pollard) Olivier correspondence, 1915-1962 1915-1962

This collection pertains almost exclusively to Olivier's interest in meteors. Generally, there are only a few letters per person and for many correspondents, only one.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear feet, Ca. 400 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.OL45-ead.xml View

Barringer, Daniel Moreau, 1860-. [Correspondence] [microform].

Title: [Correspondence] [microform]. 1902-1962.

ArchivalResource: ca. 2000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38512133 View

George Bird Grinnell papers, 1859-1939

Title: George Bird Grinnell papers 1859-1939

The papers, which consist of letterbooks, correspondence, and subject files, including photographs and writings, document George Bird Grinnell's leading role in the American conservation movement. The material focuses on Grinnell's adult life (1886-1938) and details his work as editor of Forest and Stream magazine, authority on American Indians of the West, and active participant in the National Audubon Society, the Boone and Crockett Club, the American Game Protective and Propagation Association, and the National Parks Association.

ArchivalResource: 16.5 linear feet (42 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1388 View

Elihu Thomson Papers, 1865-1944

Title: Elihu Thomson Papers 1865-1944

An electrical engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur, Elihu Thomson was an innovator in electrification in both a technical and corporate sense. With interests that ranged from the technical (electrical meters, high-pressure steam engines, dynamos, generators) to scientific (fused quartz optics, X-rays), Thomson acquired over 700 patents in his career, and in 1882, founded one of the early electrical corporations in the United States, the Thomson-Houston Company, which merged with the Edison Electric Company in 1892 to form the General Electric Company. The Thomson Papers are a massive and nearly comprehensive collection documenting the wide range of Thomson's scientific and technical interestsm from his electrical experiments, inventions, and patents, to his interests in astronomy, geology, and medicine, as well as his role in the development of two major corporations involved in electrification, the Thomson-Houston Electric Company and General Electric Company. Roughly three quarters of the collection is dated between 1890 and 1920 when Thomson was associated with General Electric, and was active in professional groups such as the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE), International Electrotechnical Commission. His research interests. The balance of the collection is comprised of eight boxes and five volumes relating to Thomson's patents; a series of notebooks kept at Central High School; 43 letterbooks, 1882-1936; diaries of trips to Europe; notebooks on genealogy; scrapbooks of cards, photographs, clippings, and other souvenirs; and 2 vols. of tributes on his eightieth birthday, etc.

ArchivalResource: 65.0 Linear feet; 65 linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.74-ead.xml View

Shasta Dredging Company. Shasta Dredging Company records, 1911-1922.

Title: Shasta Dredging Company records, 1911-1922.

Correspondence, legal and business papers, maps, and blueprints of the Shasta Dredging Co. of Shasta County, California. Material represents the written record of day to day operations of the company including its diggings, acquisitions, and financial affairs.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/462018699 View

Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938. George Bird Grinnell papers, 1859-1939 (inclusive), 1886-1929 (bulk).

Title: George Bird Grinnell papers, 1859-1939 (inclusive), 1886-1929 (bulk).

The papers, which consist of letterbooks, correspondence, and subject files, including photographs and writings, document George Bird Grinnell's leading role in the American conservation movement. The material focuses on Grinnell's adult life (1886-1938) and details his work as editor of Forest and Stream magazine, authority on American Indians of the West, and active participant in the National Audubon Society, the Boone and Crockett Club, the American Game Protective and Propagation Association, and the National Parks Association.

ArchivalResource: 16.50 linear ft. (42 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122568554 View

Barringer family. Papers of Barringer family [manuscript] 1841-1901.

Title: Papers of Barringer family [manuscript] 1841-1901.

Letters, 1841-1894, of Judge Victor Clay Barringer chiefly to his brothers Rufus Barringer and Daniel Moreau Barringer. The majority concern his service on the International Court of Appeals, Alexandria Egypt, 1874-94. Especially interesting are earlier letters describing a speech by Daniel Webster and a trial of rioters in Concord, N.C. during Reconstruction. The collection also contains a volume of his speeches and some lecture notes. Composition book, 1844-46 from Barringer's courses at the University of North Carolina. Letters, 1870-1901, of Maria Amanda Massey Barringer chiefly to members of the family, describing life in Egypt where her husband was on the International Court of Appeals. Diary, 1861-1864 of Maria Massey Barringer describes life during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: circa 220 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647962985 View

Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922. Papers of the Barringer family [manuscript], 1828-1963.

Title: Papers of the Barringer family [manuscript], 1828-1963.

The collection consists of correspondence, legal and financial documents, literary manuscripts, genealogical material, newsclippings, photographs and keepsake items, certificates and commissions, printed articles and pamphlets, monographs and broadsides. The papers pertain chiefly to Paul Brandon Barringer and other members of his family, most notably General Rufus Barringer and Victor C. Barringer, with some scattered items of Daniel Laurens Barringer, Daniel Moreau Barringer and Anna Barringer. The bulk of the material is personal. Topics include Paul Barringer's unsuccessful attempt to be appointed Secretary of Agriculture, his racial views, his ophthalmology practice, his invention of a fire extinguisher, and charges brought against him the the V.P.I. Alumni Association Welfare Committee; Rufus Barringer's Civil War imprisonment at Ft. Delaware; slave sales, and boarding school life in the the 1870s; Georgia O'Keeffe; the family home "Gravel Hill," Charlotte County, Va. Of interest are copies of letters from Stonewall Jackson, letters concerning Theodore Roosevelt's 1903 visit to the University of Virginia, and theatre broadsides featuring Edwin Booth in leading roles. Genealogical data is included for the Brandon, Graham, Hannah, Massey, Morrison, Spragins, Washington and Woodson families. Correspondents include Edwin A. Alderman, Harry F. Byrd, John Armstrong Cahloner, Lenoir Chambers, William A. Clark, Hugh S. Cumming, Charles W. Dabney, John Dalzell, Josephus Daniels, Noah K. Davis, R. T. W. Duke, E. C. Glass, Carter Glass, Armistead C. Gordon, Hugh S. Johnson, Fitzhugh lee, Andrew J. Montague, R. Walton Moore, and John L. Newcomb. Also Robert C. Ogden, Lee S. Overman, Thomas Nelson Page, Thomas W. Page, William L. Phelps, John F. Rixey, Albert Shaw, C. Alphonso Smith, Claude A. Swanson, Benjamin R. Tillman, J. Hoge Tyler, Oscar W. Underwood, Henry A. Wallace and John Sharp Williams. Corresponding with Paul B. Barringer over racial matters are Lyman Abbott, Frank P. Brent, John W. Daniel, H. B. Frissell, Armistead C. Gordon, Thomas W. Harrison, Hilary A. Herbert, Edgar G. Murphy, Clarence Poe, Charles D. Warner and Booker T. Washington.

ArchivalResource: 2830 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647900893 View

Barringer, Daniel Moreau, 1860-. [Papers] [microform].

Title: [Papers] [microform]. 1876-1929.

ArchivalResource: ca. 500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38448141 View

Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938. George Bird Grinnell papers, 1859-1939 (inclusive), 1886-1929 (bulk).

Title: George Bird Grinnell papers, 1859-1939 (inclusive), 1886-1929 (bulk).

The papers, which consist of letterbooks, correspondence, and subject files, including photographs and writings, document George Bird Grinnell's leading role in the American conservation movement. The material focuses on Grinnell's adult life (1886-1938) and details his work as editor of Forest and Stream magazine, authority on American Indians of the West, and active participant in the National Audubon Society, the Boone and Crockett Club, the American Game Protective and Propagation Association, and the National Parks Association.

ArchivalResource: 16.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702201188 View

Thomson, Elihu, 1853-1937. Papers, 1853-1955.

Title: Papers, 1853-1955.

Series I (ca. 60,000 items) is currently being processed (1996). Series II (size unknown) is currently being processed (1996). Series III (3.5 linear ft.) contains legal documents, reports, specifications on inventions and patents, blueprints, programs for scientific meetings and events, and materials relating to Thomson's industrial research and personal interests. Series IV (1.5 linear ft.) contains autograph and typescript drafts, notes, comments, and page proofs on the subjects of electrical systems, welding, astronomy, and optics, among others. Series V (1 linear ft.) contains school papers, autobiographical essays, poetry, short papers on ideas and inventions, and any works that were not identified as published. Series VI (1 linear ft.) contains manuscript and typescript drafts of speeches, lectures, papers, and addresses given by Thomson at meetings of various professional scientific organizations and societies. Series VII (2 linear ft.) contains the manuscript and typescript drafts and transcripts of works by Thomson's colleagues and others, including papers, reports, journal articles, speeches, and radio addresses. A large portion of the series is biographical, produced by Thomson's friends and colleagues after his death and originally stored in two boxes labeled "Biographical Material." The complete, original manuscript of David O. Woodbury's "Elihu Thomson, Beloved Scientist" (1944) is preserved in this series as well. There are several manuscript and typescript translations of historical works in the field of optics. Produced for Thomson's friend and fellow amateur telescope maker, George Wattson Hewitt, by Florence C. and Emil P. Albrecht, these translations date ca. 1901 and focus on the works of S. Czapski, J.J. Littow, and L. Schuppmann. Series VIII (2 linear ft.) contains Thomson's high school notebooks from classes taken as a student, some industrial research notebooks, genealogy notebooks, and trip journals. Series IX (1 linear ft.) contains pencil sketches of inventions and mechanical apparatus on individual sheets of assorted shapes, sizes, and types of papers. Several files of sketches by E.W. Rice, Jr., fellow inventor and business associate of Thomson, exist in a general chronological arrangement. Series X (2 linear ft.) contains Thomson's manuscript comments and notes on his patents. Thomson describes and evaluates each invention, often detailing the slight variations and improvements in newer versions. Series XI (1.5 linear ft.) contains black and white photographs in various sizes of Thomson, family members, professional associates, events, places, and Thomson's inventions and mechanical apparatus. Series XII (.5 linear ft.) contains certificates that recognize Thomson's membership or election to many professional scientific organizations. Also in this series are three patent certificates issued to Thomson by the U.S. Patent Office. Series XIII (.5 linear ft.) contains individual clippings arranged alphabetically by subject and scrapbooks of collected clippings. The clippings include obituaries (of Thomson and colleagues), wedding announcements for Thomson's second marriage, and biographical information on Thomson and his career. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings and a small amount of memorabilia and photographs. Series XIV (.5 linear ft.) contains a variety of miscellaneous items collected by Thomson, his wife, and the original organizers of this collection at the APS. Several items in this series date from Thomson's youth, including his birth certificate (1853) and his Philadelphia Central High School commencement program (1870). Series XV (ca. 1937-1943) is comprised of two subseries. Subseries A contains correspondence generated during the APS Library's attempt to collect Thomson letters from his colleagues after his death. Subseries B holds inventories of manuscripts that were produced as the papers were donated.

ArchivalResource: 18.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122624321 View

R. A. F. (Richard Alexander Fullerton) Penrose correspondence and papers, 1885-1931, 1885-1931

Title: R. A. F. (Richard Alexander Fullerton) Penrose correspondence and papers, 1885-1931 1885-1931

This correspondence is with Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Edgar Fahs Smith, and Thomas Sovereign Gates, about undergraduate days at Harvard College, his interest in Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Wistar Institute. The papers include a list of publications, biographical data, papers on Robert G. LeConte and Daniel Moreau Barringer, a certificate of membership in the Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association, and 25 drawings of crystals and 35 original sketches made to accompany his Harvard thesis, "The Nature and Origin of Deposits of Phosphate of Lime."

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet, Ca. 100 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P384-ead.xml View