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Papers, 1853-1965.

Title: Papers, 1853-1965.

Correspondence, 1853-1912, concerning scientific topics, College of the City of New York administration, and other subjects; notebooks, 1862-1899, on acoustics, optics, the autotelegraph, and other areas; scrapbook containing addresses, articles, and clippings of articles by Compton, 1870-1908; published articles and books by Compton, 1903-1913; programs, photographs, and other material concerning Compton's career at City College, 1875-1914 and 1965; and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 cubic ft.

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Papers, 1871-1946.

Title: Papers, 1871-1946.

Correspondence, 1900-1933; clippings, 1919-1946, including obituaries; correspondence, invitations, clippings, and transcript concerning testimonial to Burchard; miscellaneous journals, including that for the jubilee of Professor Alfred G. Compton, 1903, alumnus dinner, 1887, and Thomas Hunter Association, 1935; City College music sheets; and the GOLDEN AGE, a newspaper, 1871.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 cubic ft.

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Compton, Alfred G. (Alfred George), 1835-1913. Papers, 1853-1955 1858-1903.

Title: Papers, 1853-1955 1858-1903.

Alfred Compton collection includes biographical materials and printed materials which document Compton's interest in applied mathematics, engineering and physics. Bulk collection consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, and includes letters wirtten to him by former students while in service during the Civil War, and by faculty and alumni during his service as Acting President of City College (1902-03). Letters and notes regarding facilties for teaching mechanics and applied mathematics at the St. Nicholas Heights campus addressed to President Alexander Stewart Webb and the architect, George Browne Post. There are several extended reminiscences by colleagues and students and an illuminated calligraphic manuscript of tributes dated 1903 which celebrates his fifty years as a faculty member. Also: letter book of Compton family which includees letters concerning his son, Alfred Donaldson Compton (Class of 1897 and Professor of English). Among his correspondents were: Smith Bloomfield, Lewis Sayre Burchard, Mario E. Cosenza, Clarence Edward Dutton, John Huston Finley, Edward Lauterbach, Charles E. Lydecker, Gilbert Hung McKibbon, Otho E. Michaelis, John A. Nichols, Charles Putzel, Goerge Borwne Post, Ira Remsen, Edward W. Scripture, Isaac Seligman, James R. Steers, Alexander Steward Webb, Adolph Werner, Everett P. Wheeler, and James Wightman.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes; 1.5 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122506003 View