Blake-Clapp-Arguimbau family papers, 1798-1984.

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Blake-Clapp-Arguimbau family papers, 1798-1984.

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Papers of the interrelated Blake, Clapp, and Arguimbau families, in particular the papers of Lawrence Arguimbau containing his diaries on gardening and the raising of daylilies in Onset and Lancaster, Mass., correspondence, and subject files, including references to his role as a faculty member at the Mass. Institute of Technology and testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee during the 1950s. The papers also contain sermons, lectures (most on temperance), poetry, and two diaries (1856, 1861-64) kept by Jonathan Blake, a town official and historian of Warwick, Mass., and poetry and other writings of Martha Merriam Blake. The bulk of the collection consists of family and personal correspondence among Clifford Blake Clapp, Lawrence Baker Arguimbau and his wife Elinor Clapp Arguimbau, Nicholas Clapp Arguimbau, Ellen Hubbs Arguimbau, and Reginald deCourcy Arguimbau.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities (1934-1975)

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Department of General Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) did not officially exist until 1882. Courses in general studies were offered as early as 1865, when the MIT Catalog offered a curriculum option called the Course in Science and Literature. At that time, all regular MIT students were required to take “general studies” classes from the Course in Science and Literature, in addition to English, history, and modern languages. In 1882 the Course in Scienc...

Clapp, Martha Merriam Blake.

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Blake, Jonathan, 1780-1864

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Jonathan Blake, Jr. (May 29, 1780-April 13, 1864), of Warwick, Massachusetts, and his wife, Patty Conant Blake (d. 1819) married around 1802. Their children included John Pierce (1803-1893), Mary Ann (1805-1807), Jonathan (August 27, 1807-December 30, 1863), Mary Ann (1810-1833), Martha Miriam (1812-1895), and James Edward (1817-1873). Jonathan Blake, Jr., married his second wife, the widow Betsey Howland Ballard, in 1821. Jonathan Blake (1807-1863), the son of Jonathan ...

Clapp family.

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Arguimbau, Ellen

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Blake family.

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Arguimbau, Elinor Clapp.

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Clapp, Clifford Blake.

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Arguimbau, Lawrence Baker, Physicien

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Arguimbau, Reginald deCourcy.

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Arguimbau family.

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Arguimbau, Nicholas C.

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