Davenport-Harris family papers, 1809-1964, bulk1905-1964.

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Davenport-Harris family papers, 1809-1964, bulk1905-1964.

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Papers of the Davenport family include personal and family correspondence, personal business and financial records, deeds, mortgages, tax records, insurance policies, wills and estate papers, photographs, blueprings, and school papers. Papers of note include letters and notebooks of Jane Dimon Davenport and Amzi B. Davenport, parents of C.B. Davenport, 1841-1862; maps, tax records and correspondence of C.B. Davenport's wife, Gertrude, relating to property she owned in Kansas, 1931-1940; research material on the history and ownership of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory property, including transcript and original deeds (some dating to the 1660's), surveys, minutes, tax records, clippings and historical notes; correspondence of Jane Davenport Harris de Tomasi with her parents, her husbands, other relatives, friends and acquaintances, 1905-1964, including a few letters from Sterling Calder or his son Alexander Calder, 1921-1935; and artwork by Jane, including sketches, watercolors and prints as well as exhibit catalogs and photographs of sculpture.

7 cubic ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Calder, Sterling.

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Harris family.

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Long Island Biological Association (N.Y.)

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The Long Island Biological Association (LBA) was organized in 1924 to take over control of the biological laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor from the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, which had founded and run the lab since 1890. In 1962 the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) was reorganized as an independent unit and the property was conveyed to CSHL by LIBA, which continues to support the Laboratory and is represented on the CSHL Board of Trustees. From the description of Re...

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976

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Sculptor. From the description of Alexander Calder correspondence, 1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452461 Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Alexander Calder, 1971 Oct. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646395903 B. 1898, d. 1976. From the description of Alexander Calder artist file. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 228431975 ...

De Tomasi, Jane Davenport Harris,

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Jane Joralemon Davenport was the daughter of Charles Benedict Davenport, director of the Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, 1898-1924. Her first husband was Reginald Gordon Harris, who was director of the Lab, 1924-1936. After Harris's death, she married James A. de Tomasi. From the description of Davenport-Harris family papers, 1809-1964, bulk1905-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155559949 ...

Davenport family.

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Davenport, Jane Dimon.

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Davenport, A. B. b. 1817.

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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Press

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Brown University.

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In 1917 the university established the Brown War Records Bureau, whose intention was to "collect and preserve a record of all Brown men who are serving in the present war". Brown faculty, students and alumni who were in the military were asked to fill out a small card called "Are you in the war?" and to send original letters, clippings or photographs which "have any bearing on the service of Brown men in the war." This collection is partly a result of that effort. From the guide to t...

Davenport, Gertrude Crofty

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