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Pratt Museum of Natural History. Pratt Museum papers, 1876-1967.

Title: Pratt Museum papers, 1876-1967.

Includes reports to the Amherst College Board of Trustees by B.K. Emerson, correspondence related to Museum activites (B.K. Emerson and F.B. Loomis), clippings, reports, photographs, diaries and catalogues of the various collections. Also contains documents, examinations and class notes from the Geology Dept. Includes documents on the geology expeditions to Patagonia, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming.

ArchivalResource: 12 archives boxes (6 linear ft.)

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Pratt Museum of Natural History. Records, 1866-2000

Title: Pratt Museum of Natural History. Records 1866-2000

Reports, correspondence, clippings, photographs, field notebooks and catalogues related to the various natural history collections formerly held in the Pratt Museum, as well as expeditionary field work undertaken to develop those collections. Also includes some records of the Amherst College department of Geology.

ArchivalResource: 11 archive boxes, 1 half archives box, 1 records storage box, 1 oversize flat file; (7 linear ft.)

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Emerson Papers, Ca. 1837-1928

Title: Emerson Papers Ca. 1837-1928

The papers consist of personal and family correspondence; geological notebooks kept by Emerson during his geological survey of Massachusetts and other areas of New England; pamphlets and scientific papers relating to Emerson's Helix Chemica and his Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island; essays and compositions written by Emerson when he was a student; and notes and letters concerning family genealogy.

ArchivalResource: 17 archives boxes; (8.5 linear ft.)

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Perry, Joseph H. (Joseph Hartshorn), b. 1858. Papers, 1898-1903.

Title: Papers, 1898-1903.

This collection consists of Perry's notes and manuscripts for several publications, including rough drafts of his _Physical Geography of Worcester, Mass._ (1898) and _The Geology of the City of Worcester, Mass._ (1903), and letters from the co-author of the latter work, Benjamin Kendall Emerson, professor at Amherst College. The collection also contains lengthy studies of the Nashua River Valley, Mt. Kearsarge, and Mt. Monadnock in New Hampshire, miscellaneous geological notes, photographs and topographical sketches of unidentified rock formations and of Mts. Monadnock and Wachusett, and three glass plates of rock formations.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

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Emerson, Benjamin Kendall, 1843-1932. Benjamin Kendall Emerson family papers, 1708-1921.

Title: Benjamin Kendall Emerson family papers, 1708-1921.

Personal papers and correspondence of members of the Emerson and allied families over several generations, but primarily 1860-1921. There is a single autograph receipt (1708) of Samuel Sewall (1652-1730). There are 29 letters from Edmund Q. Sewall to his father Henry D. Sewall while on a trip to Europe 1844-46. The collection contains the personal correspondence of Dr. Benjamin K. Emerson (1843-1932), while he was Professor of Geology at Amherst College and Assistant Geologist on the U.S. Geological Survey. There are miscellaneous Emerson, Kendall, Hopkins, Allen and Sewall family letters and genealogical information, in particular on the Sewall family. The letters include several letters from and about the family of Emily Dickinson. (Cont'd) The bulk of the collection consists of letters exchanged by Mary A.H. Emerson, 1848-97), and her mother, Charlotte F.A. Hopkins, between 1860-95. There are typed letters, typescript copies, and letters to his wife concerning the service of Dr. (Benjamin) Kendall Emerson (1875-1962), a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps Harvard Medical Unit of the British Army in France, 1916-17. The collection also contains Emerson's typewritten log (26 Feb.-16 Apr. 1919) of a journey by train across Siberia and Manchuria while working for the American Red Cross; and Emerson's letters to his wife from Paris where he was director of the American Hospital and medical director of the American Red Cross in Europe.

ArchivalResource: 23 boxes and 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5842237 View

Emerson, Benjamin Kendall, b. 1843. Papers, 1881-1904.

Title: Papers, 1881-1904.

Correspondence, genealogical tables, and other ms. matter, relating to the Emerson family.

ArchivalResource: 8 items ; 32 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237606071 View

Emerson, Benjamin Kendall, b. 1843. Emerson papers, ca. 1837-1928.

Title: Emerson papers, ca. 1837-1928.

The papers consist of personal and family correspondence; geological notebooks kept by Emerson during his geological survey of Massachusetts and other areas of New England; pamphlets and scientific papers relating to Emerson's Helix Chemica and his Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island; essays and compositions written by Emerson when he was a student; and notes and letters concerning family genealogy.

ArchivalResource: 17 archive boxes (8.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51546990 View

Emerson family correspondence, ca. 1725-1900.

Title: Emerson family correspondence, ca. 1725-1900.

Correspondence of the New England-based Emerson family.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (15 linear ft.)

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Arctic field photographs, 1899.

Title: Arctic field photographs, 1899.

Two photograph albums issued as a souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, including photographs of Arctic landscapes, people, plants, and animals as well as a map of the expedition route. Also shows expedition members including Harriman and family, John Burroughs, John Muir, Benjamin K. Emerson, and Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Photographs were taken by Edward Sheriff Curtis, D.G. Inveriarty, amd C. Hart Merriam. Photographs are identified.

ArchivalResource: Photonegatives : b&w.2 albums (253 photoprints) : b&w.Photoprints : b&w mounted on file cards.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155517798 View