Inbound personal letters to Harry Farnsworth Brown, 1901-1950 (bulk, 1901-1905).

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Inbound personal letters to Harry Farnsworth Brown, 1901-1950 (bulk, 1901-1905).

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The papers consist almost entirely of personal letters sent to Brown between the years 1901 and 1905. Most are from his father, Harry B. Brown, secretary of the McLagon Foundry Company in New Haven, his mother, his sister Grace, and his uncle Charles S. Brown, professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University. Most are family-oriented, but they show Brown's early interest in electrical technologies. One letter from his parents describes their impressions of the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, particularly the effect of the electric illumination. Many were written to Brown when he was in St. Louis in 1904, apparently attached to the Connecticut Building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The later items are mostly Christmas cards and routine letters from foreign colleagues in electrical engineering, some in Spanish. There are 9 snapshot photographs, most of which appear to be of the McLagon Foundry Company, on Audubon Street in New Haven, Conn.

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Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.)

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Photos stored in Iconography Section. From the description of Pan-American Exposition records, 1899-1901. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155444124 ...

Brown, Harry F. (Harry Farnsworth), 1886-1980.

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Harry Farnsworth Brown was born on August 17, 1886, and graduated from Yale University with a degree in electrical engineering in 1907. He worked in the Test Dept. of the General Electric Company in 1908-09, and the following year joined the Electric Traction Dept. of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, which with Westinghouse, was developing a pioneer system of a.c. electrification. Brown remained with the New Haven until 1952, and his entire career w...

McLagon Foundry Co.

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