Papers, 1752-1984 (inclusive), 1808-1984 (bulk).

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Papers, 1752-1984 (inclusive), 1808-1984 (bulk).

Collection is mainly family photographs, family and genealogical material, and correspondence, both personal and professional. Correspondence of Agnes Sanborn documents her college career at Bryn Mawr, work with the American Red Cross in Palestine, courtship, marriage, family life, and her later career as a civic activist and volunteer; also included are her scientific publications. Cyrus Sanborn's papers include his correspondence with his mother, his wife, and his daughter, Sarah Sanborn Moench, as well as professional correspondence and publications. Also contains Civil War diary of Cyrus King Sanborn, and reminiscences of New York in the 1870s by Sarah Adler Goldman, Agnes Sanborn's mother and sister of Felix Adler.

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Straus, Dorothy.

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Vendler, Helen Hennessey.

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Loveman, Amy

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American Red Cross

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Brewster family.

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Constable, Giles

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Hemenway, Augustus.

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Fairbanks, Sydney, 1895-....

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Jewish War Relief Committee.

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Cohn, Marianne 1922-1944

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Rand, Edward Kennard, 1871-1945

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By Source, Fair use, Link May Sarton (May 3, 1912-July 16, 1995), poet and novelist, was born Elanore Marie Sarton in Wondelgem, Belgium, the daughter of George Sarton, a noted historian of science, and Eleanor Mabel Elwes, an English portrait painter and designer. Sarton moved with her parents to England, and in 1916 the family immigrated to the United States. All three became naturalized Americans in 1924, by which time Sarton's name had been Americanized to Eleanor May. Sart...

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Moench, Sarah Judith Sanborn, 1928-

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Raphael, Alice, 1887-1975

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Alice Pearl Raphael, writer and translator. Raphael was a student of Carl Gustav Jung and author of Goethe and the Philosophers' Stone: Symbolical Patterns in The Parable and in the Second Part of Faust, which analyzes Goethe's Faust II in the context of Jungian theory. Raphael translated Goethe's Faust I and II. From the description of Alice Raphael papers, 1917-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702183687 Alice Pearl Raphael was born on June 22, 1887 in Brow...

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Goldman family.

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