Harvard Columbus Expedition scrapbook, 1937-1940.

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Harvard Columbus Expedition scrapbook, 1937-1940.

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Scrapbook kept by Mary Otis Stevens containing letters, photographs and clippings documenting her nephew William Dixon Stevens' participation in the Harvard Columbus Expedition, 1937-40, a sailing expedition sponsored by Harvard University to follow Christopher Columbus' route from Spain to the New World. Letters from William describe his voyage on the ketch Mary Otis, and places visited in England, Portugal, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and other ports. The scrapbook also contains a few letters from Samuel Eliot Morison who led the expedition; and letters from the Fahnestock South Sea Expedition to Mary Otis Stevens describing exploration in the South Seas in 1940. The photographs in the scrapbook are all snapshot photographs, probably taken by William Dixon Stevens, of the crew of the Mary Otis and the ship itself.

1 box.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Stevens, Mary Otis

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Harvard Columbus Expedition .

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Columbus, Chris

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Epithet: of Genoa British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000367.0x000120 Italian explorer and navigator commissioned by Spain. Italian name was Cristoforo Colombo. Known in Spain as Cristóbal Colón. Born 1451; died 1506. From the description of Collection concerning Christopher Columbus, 1488-1515. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067622 ...

Morison, Samuel Eliot

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Morison graduated from Harvard in 1908 and taught American history at Harvard. From the description of Course material for History 161b, the discovery of America, 1940. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228512193 Morison earned his Harvard AB in 1908, his Harvard AM in 1909, and his Harvard PhD in 1912. He taught history at Harvard. From the description of Notes in English 28, second half year, 1904-1905. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074686...

Mary Otis (Ship).

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Fahnestock South Seas Expedition.

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Stevens, William Dixon.

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