Papers, 1814-1951 (bulk 1855-1951).

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Papers, 1814-1951 (bulk 1855-1951).

Correspondence, writings, medical research, family histories, genealogies, scrapbooks, diaries, commonplace books, financial records, minutes, reports, legal documents, artwork, photographs, and memorabilia representing four generations of an American family and dating from 1814 to 1951. The collection documents the medical education, research and professional activities of doctors Carroll Dunham and Edward Kellogg Dunham, Jr. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; financial activities of Edward Kellogg Dunham Jr. in early 20th century New York City; World War I medical and volunteer work; travel correspondence and diaries, 1855-1930s; creative writings by individuals and family "magazines;" artwork; numerous photographs and negatives of family and friends, Mount Desert Island (ME), the northeast coast (ca. 1910s-1940s), and travel images of Europe, Egypt, the western U.S., and Panama dating from 1891-1940.

20 linear ft. (56 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7389101

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Bodman family.

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Bodman, Theodora Dunham, 1895-1983

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American Fund for French Wounded

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The American Fund for French Wounded was founded by American women living abroad to provide relief to wounded soldiers in France during World War I. From the description of American Fund for French Wounded records, 1915-1919. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122485635 From the guide to the American Fund for French Wounded records, 1915-1919, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Dows family.

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Dunham, Beatrice.

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Colman, Samuel, 1832-1920

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Painter of landscape and genre subjects, etcher and watercolorist; born in Portland, Maine. Studied in New York with Asher B. Durand, and abroad. Last name alternatively spelled Coleman. From the description of Samuel Colman papers, 1855-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122545621 ...

American Red Cross

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...

Parker family.

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Dunham, Mary Dows, 1865-1936.

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Amateur artist and photographer, traveler, philanthropist. Born, New York City, 1865. Daughter of Margaret (Worcester) and David Dows, head of one of the largest grain deal firms in the U.S. at the turn of the century. Mary was disabled by polio as a child, yet quite active as an adult. Traveled in Europe, Western U.S., Bermuda, and Egypt, circa 1880s to 1910s. Worked with American Fund for French Wounded during World War I; served on the New York Cooking School Hospital Committee, the American ...

Kellogg family.

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Harvard Medical School.

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Dunham, Carroll, 1828-1877

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Dunham, Harriet Elvira Kellogg, 1820-1905

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Dunham, Edward Kellogg, 1901-1951

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Executive. Born, New York City, 1901. Financier and treasurer of Dow Estates, Inc.; active in Mount Desert (ME) community. Traveled extensively in the western U.S., Panama, the Caribbean, and Europe, 1920s-1940s. Married Nancy Yellot, of California, 1933. Children Edward K. Dunham, III, and Elizabeth Dunham. Resided in New York City and Seal Harbor, ME. From the description of Papers, 1909-1951. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 36835695 ...

Dunham, Edward W., 1794-1871

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Dunham Family.

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Artist; Photographer; Homemaker; Traveler; Philanthropist; Bacteriologist; Pathologist; Financier. The collection represents four generations of the Dunham, Parker, Kellogg, and Dows families, from the 1850s to the 1950s. Edward Wood Dunham, a banker in New York City, married Maria Smyth Parker of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Carroll Dunham, a doctor and dean of faculty at the New York Homeopathic Medical College, married Harriet E. Kellogg. Their son, Edward Kellogg Dunham, was a noted pathologist ...

Dunham, Edward K. (Edward Kellogg), 1860-1922

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Bacteriologist and pathologist; professor at Bellevue College, N.Y.C. Born New York City, 1860. Attended Harvard Medical School; researched cholera at Koch's laboratory in Berlin where he discovered the "cholera-red" reaction; worked for the Board of Health Commission in Boston and later became professor of pathology at the Bellevue Medical College of New York University. During World War I, he worked with Dr. Henry Dakin on antiseptic research and later was appointed ch...