James Terry family papers 1838-1953 1879-1894 Terry, James family papers

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

American Museum of Natural History

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The American Museum of Natural History was founded in 1869 to be of service to the city's public schools, advance scientific research in natural history, and to exhibit natural history objects for casual visitors. From the description of Administrative files, 1869-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155513508 Museum exhibition displayed in the Museum's showcase in 1975. From the description of Cans from pressured city exhibition photographs, 1975. (Unknown). Wor...

Ohnefalsch-Richter, Max Hermann, 1850-1917

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Prince, L Bradford

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Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914

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Founder of the American Museum of Natural History. Resigned from the post of superintendent in 1884 to assume that of curator of the Dept. of Public Instruction. From the description of Lectures to teachers. 1888-1903. (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 12629895 From the description of Lectures to teachers [microform]. 1888-1903. (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 41120621 Curator at the American Museum of Natural Histor...

Low, Seth, 1850-1916

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Mayor of Brooklyn, Mayor of New York, and President of Columbia College (later Columbia University), 1890-1901. From the description of Papers, 1870-1930. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122482691 President of Columbia University. From the description of Typed letter : New York, to Ida B. Forbes, 1898 Jan. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270593321 Mayor of N.Y.C. and President of Columbia University. From...

Terry family

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James Terry was born in Terryville, Connecticut, on August 5, 1844, the son of James Terry and Elizabeth Miles Hollister. The village of Terryville was named for his grandfather, clockmaker Eli Terry. The younger James Terry left Connecticut for Kansas in the 1850s, and returned a year later to join his family's business, the Eagle Lock Company. After serving as the company's acting president, Terry became an anthropologist and artifact collector, focusing his research on the presen...

Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908

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Constable, James M.

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Peary, Robert Edwin, 1856-1920

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Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (born May 6, 1856, Cresson, Pennsylvania – died February 20, 1920, Washington, D.C.) was an American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909. Though born in Pennsylvania, Peary grew up in in Portland, Maine. He went to a prominent boarding school called Loomis Chaffe. He attende...

Terry, James, 1959-

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Saville, Marshall H. (Marshall Howard), 1867-1935

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Charles Pickering Bowditch was a major benefactor to the Peabody Museum. Frederic W. Putnam served as the curator of the Peabody Museum. Alice E. Putnam was Frederic Putnam's daughter and served as a research assistant at the Peabody Museum, as well as Frederic's liason to the museum when his health began to fail. From the description of Notes, correspondence and drawings on the Indian mounds of the Ohio Valley, 1915-1935. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64064236 ...

Musick, John R. (John Roy), 1849-1901

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Winser, John H.

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Di Cesnola, Luigi Palma, 1832-1904

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Terry, James, 1844-1912

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A noted collector of books and manuscripts, an anthropologist, and a life member of the Connecticut Historical Society. From the description of Collection, 1711-1829. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 52645138 James Terry was interested in a variety of scientific and historical subjects. At some point in his career he appears to have worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and he published his only book, Sculptured Anthropoid Ape Heads....

Whitefield, R. P.

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