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Todd-Bingham picture collection, 1837-1966

Title: Todd-Bingham picture collection 1837-1966

Photographs, albums and scrapbooks, glass negatives, lantern slides, daguerreotypes, tintypes, prints, sketches, and paintings, 1837-1966, relating to the personal and professional lives of members of the Todd-Bingham family. These materials document the lives and careers of Mabel Loomis Todd, David Peck Todd, and Millicent Todd Bingham, in particular. Personal photographs and albums of Mabel Loomis Todd include views of family, friends, and places where she lived and travelled. Amherst, Massachusetts and members of the Dickinson family are especially prominent parts of this material. Professional photographs include slides used to illustrate the many lectures Todd delivered on her writings and travels. The David Peck Todd material includes photographs, albums and scrapbooks, and other items detailing his career as a leading astronomer, author, and photographic innovator. Extensive documentation for many of his eclipse expeditions (1882-1932) and world travels are included. Material relating to Millicent Todd Bingham, the daughter of Mabel Loomis and David Peck Todd, includes personal and professional photographs relating to her family, world travels, and writings.

ArchivalResource: 50 linear feet (94 boxes, 33 folios, 2 volumes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0496e View

Loomis, Mahlon, 1826-1886. Papers of Mahlon Loomis, 1847-1947 (bulk 1854-1886).

Title: Papers of Mahlon Loomis, 1847-1947 (bulk 1854-1886).

Correspondence, partial typescript of diary, notes, notebooks, drawings, patents, legal papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Loomis' experiments with and the first successful demonstration (1866) of wireless telegraphy. Includes notes and diagrams describing his apparatus and experiments, and his founding of Loomis Aerial Telegraph Company; and papers relating to his dental practice and personal and family life in Washington, D.C., and to his inventions in the field of dentistry. Papers after 1886 relate to efforts of his family and friends to gain recognition for his work, including letters (1936-1847) to and from Dr. William N. Hodgkin who was interested in Loomis' inventions and dental career.

ArchivalResource: 350 items.1 container.1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71061598 View

Todd family. Todd-Bingham picture collection, 1837-1966 (inclusive).

Title: Todd-Bingham picture collection, 1837-1966 (inclusive).

Photographs, albums and scrapbooks, glass negatives, lantern slides, daguerreotypes, tintypes, prints, sketches, and paintings, 1837-1966, relating to the personal and professional lives of members of the Todd-Bingham family. These materials document the lives and careers of Mabel Loomis Todd, David Peck Todd, and Millicent Todd Bingham, in particular.

ArchivalResource: 50 linear ft. (94 boxes, 33 folios, 2 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702206095 View