Henry L. Seaver collection, ca. 1890-1975.

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Henry L. Seaver collection, ca. 1890-1975.

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The collection includes Seaver's research subject files, personal papers and correspondence (John E. Burchard, Margaret L. Johnson, Dorothy King, Margaret S. Grierson), photographs and negatives, course notes and lectures and a typescript of a manuscript on witchcraft. Also ephemera from Seaver's press, including wood engravings and copper plates.

ca. 14 linear ft. (17 boxes)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7671191

Smith College, Neilson Library

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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...

Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture

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Grierson, Margaret Storrs.

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Grierson was born June 29, 1900. She graduated from Smith College, A.B., 1922 and Bryn Mawr College, Ph. D., 1929. She taught philosophy at Bryn Mawr (1925-1930) and Smith College (1930-1936). Grierson was Smith's archivist (1940-1965), head of the Sophia Smith Collection (1942-1965) and executive secretary of the Friends of Smith College Library (1942-1965). She died Dec. 12, 1997. From the description of Margaret Storrs Grierson papers, ca. 1800-1997 (bulk 1918-1997). (Smith Colleg...

Seaver, Henry Latimer,

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Seaver was born in Boston in 1878 and educated at Harvard University (B.A., 1900; M.A., 1914). He taught at Harvard, then joined the Department of English and History at M.I.T. in 1901. He later taught European art history in the Department of Architecture at M.I.T. and in the early 1940s the same at the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture for Women. Seaver was a collector of rare books, manuscripts and autographs. He was an amateur printer and photographer, as well as a printmaker and bo...

Johnson, Margaret Louise, 1902-1973.

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Burchard, John E. (John Ely), 1898-1975

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King, Dorothy, 1914-1974.

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