Elsa Guerdrum Allen papers, 1885-1976, 1885-1969 (bulk).

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Elsa Guerdrum Allen papers, 1885-1976, 1885-1969 (bulk).

Papers consist of correspondence, primarily with family members, but also with professional colleagues; diaries ("My First Journal," 1917); photographs of early ornithologists; pamphlets; student notes, lecture notes, and research notes on early ornithologists, including Mark Catesby; a bibliography of her Ph.D. thesis; travel literature; copies of grant applications (1960-1965); unpublished manuscripts, "The Story of Lalla," a novel with a Scandinavian background, "Minerva's Daughter," for which she sought publication by the Women's Press (1949), her biographical study of the colonial naturalist, John Abbot, including slides of his watercolors of birds, and other research and literary works; and a genealogy of John Abbot, with correspondence and photographs relating to the creation of an historic marker for him in Georgia. Family papers also include a genealogy of her Scandinavian ancestors and correspondence concerning an inheritance she received. The papers are in English, Norwegian, and Swedish.

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Cornell University Library

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Allen, Elsa Guerdrum

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Ornithologist, lecturer, and writer, 1888-1969. Cornell University Class of 1912, Ph.D. 1929. From the guide to the Elsa Guerdrum Allen papers, 1885-1976, 1885-1969 (bulk), (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) Ornithologist, lecturer, and writer, 1888-1969. Cornell University Class of 1912, Ph.D. 1929. From the description of Elsa Guerdrum Allen papers, 1885-1976, 1885-1969 (bulk). (Cornell University ...

Abbot, John, 1751-1840

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John Abbot (1750-1840), naturalist and artist, collected, observed, drew insects, arachnids, and birds; native of England, moved to America in 1773 and Georgia in 1776. From the description of John Abbot notebook, [ca. 1791]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476134 John Abbot (1757-ca. 1840) was born in London in 1751, the son of a lawyer who encouraged his early interest and talent for natural history, and who arranged for him to study drawing, perspective, and engraving un...

Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749

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Naturalist. From the description of Mark Catesby correspondence, 1744. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452847 ...