Papers, 1887-1980 (inclusive), 1917-1945 (bulk).

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Papers, 1887-1980 (inclusive), 1917-1945 (bulk).

Collection includes diaries, engagement calendars, conference material, and personal correspondence of Ida Maud Cannon; stories, articles/essays, and scrapbooks by Cornelia (James) Cannon; family correspondence, including letters and letterbooks, of Cornelia, Walter B. Cannon, and their children; photographs of family and events.

10.84 linear ft. (26 file boxes, 1 folio folder, 7 photograph folders)

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Simmons College. School of Social Work (Boston, Mass.)

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Birth Control League Of Massachusetts

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Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts

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Hodder, Jessie Donaldson, 1867-1931

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Jessie Donaldson Hodder (March 30, 1867 – November 19, 1931) was a women's prison reformer. Jessie Donaldson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her mother died when she was a toddler and her father, upon remarrying, gave her to his Scottish-born mother to raise along with four other sons still at home. Her grandmother taught Jessie to be a housekeeper and seamstress; while the grandmother did not encourage her to go to school, she did allow her to have piano lessons. In 1885, Jessie moved with her...

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Cambridge Public School Association.

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Cannon, Bradford, 1907-2005.

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Cannon, Walter B. (Walter Bradford), 1871-1945

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Walter Bradford Cannon (Harvard, A.B. 1896; A.M. 1897; M.D. 1900; Honorary Sc.D. 1937) taught physiology at Harvard and was George Higginson Professor of Physiology and Chairman of the Department. He was innovative in both research and medical education. In 1900 he adapted the case system for teaching medicine. His scientific research includes studies on the digestive tract and experiments on the denervated heart and his contributions include the concept of homeostasis and the discovery of the t...

Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

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Eliot served as president of Harvard University (1869-1909). From the description of Correspondence of Charles W. Eliot, 1870-1920. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339031 Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) was President of Harvard University from March 12, 1869 to May 19, 1909. He also taught mathematics and chemistry at Harvard University (1858-1863) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1865-1869). Eliot was one of the most influential educa...

Cannon, Bernice, 1875-

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Harvard Medical School.

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Cannon, Ellen DeNormandie.

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Morris, Cherry, 1888-

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Cannon family.

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Ida M. Cannon (1877-1960), pioneer in medical social work, was born in Milwaukee, Wis., the daughter of Wilma Denio and Colbert Hanchett Cannon. A graduate of the St. Paul (Minn.) City and County Hospital Training School for Nursing (1898), Cannon also studied sociology and psychology before coming to Boston, where for nearly four decades she directed the growth of social work at Massachusetts General Hospital. Cornelia (James) Cannon (1876-1969), a best-selling author a...

Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991

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John King Fairbank (1907-1991) was Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Director of the East Asian Research Center at Harvard. From the description of Papers of John K. Fairbank, 1933-1991 (inclusive), 1947-1991 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973292 John King Fairbank (1907-1991) was a a leading scholar in modern and contemporary China studies. Fairbank was the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History at Harvard University and Director of its...

Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

United States. Naval Radio School (Harvard University)

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Bond, Helen Cannon, 1915-

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Cannon, Ida M. (Ida Maud), 1877-

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United States. Army. Medical Corps

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Fairbank, Wilma.

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Radcliffe College. Class of 1899

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Schlesinger, Marian Cannon, 1912-

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Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1913, writer and artist Marian Cannon was the fourth and youngest daughter of the well-known Harvard physiologist, Walter B. Cannon, and his wife, Cornelia James Cannon. After graduating from Radcliffe College in 1934, Marian spent a year traveling in China and studying Chinese painting in Peking. On her return home, she wrote and illustrated San Bao and His Adventures in Peking, a classic children's book of the 1930s. In 1940 she married the historian Arthur...

Burgess, Linda Cannon

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Massachusetts General Hospital. Social Service Dept.

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Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich, 1849-1936

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Cannon, Cornelia James, 1876-

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Cornelia James was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1899. In 1901, she married Walter Bradford Cannon. She was an early birth control advocate, serving as president of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, and was a published author. From the description of Play, 1929. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009689 ...

Münsterberg, Hugo, 1863-1916

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Psychologist Hugo Münsterberg studied at Leipzig under Wilhelm Wundt and received further training in medicine at Heidelberg and Freiburg. He met William James at a conference in 1891, and in 1892 James invited him to Harvard University, where Münsterberg lectured and chaired the department of psychology for three years. After a brief period in Germany, he returned to Harvard, which remained his chief institutional affiliation. Münsterberg is best known for his pioneering work in clincal, for...

Bartlett, Harriett M. (Harriett Moulton) Harriett M. Bartlett oral history interview.

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