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Alford family collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Mss-1174

Scope and Contents This collection contains documents of Kenneth Thomas Alford (1914-1980) and his wife Clarissa Teacora (Brown) Alford (1913-1992). The documents include correspondence, deeds, photographs, estate papers, and copies of vital statistic certificates. There are also items documenting Kenneth's education at West Virginia State College, military service in the U.S. Marines 1943-1946, and 1972 retirement as a civilian computer operator working at L. G. Hanscom Field (Bedford, Mass.). The deeds...

Dates: 1912-1992

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

Arthur E. Linnell papers, 1902-1968.

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Mss-25

Scope and Contents

Consists of genealogies for Cape Cod families, 1335-1968, compiled by Arthur E. Linnell of Wollaston, MA between 1902-1934 with additional records and ancestral charts prepared by his daughter, Amelia A. Linnell of Falmouth, MA, between 1950-1968. The genealogies are followed by a section of vital records, principally cemetery transcriptions from Cape Cod towns, ca. 1772-1946, and a group of 17 photographs and 12 glass plates primarily of Linnell family members.

Dates: 1902-1968

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

Arthur Enoch Howlett papers, 1959-1969.

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Mss-43

Scope and Contents Contains correspondence and research notes on the descendants of Andrew Elliot (bap. 1627-1703), who immigrated to Beverly, Massachusetts from England in 1668. The notes includes extracts from Bible records (as well as the title page from an original 1801 Bible), state census records, ships' lists, wills and deeds. This is followed by a series of vital records from New England and Quebec on Elliot descendants. There is also research on 155 families allied to the Elliot family and a small...

Dates: 1959-1969

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

Becker, Eckert, and Jacobi family correspondence

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Mss-1296

Scope and Contents Collected letters, clippings, and some photographs received by Edward, Johanne, Elsie Jacobi, and Marguerite Marshall of Holliston, Mass., from their German relatives, including Becker, Eckert, Fischer, Jacobi, and other families. Letters likely concern family matters, but letters in English do comment on economic, political, and social conditions of Germany in the years following WWII. Many of the Marshall's German relatives resided in the cities of Chemnitz (later Karl-Marx-Stadt),...

Dates: 1879-1982; Majority of material found within 1933-1956

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

Bed Warmer

Collection

Identifier: TN027.1

Scope and Contents

A brass bed warmer with wooden handle and hinged lid, etched with a flower motif.

Dates: Circa 1800

Found in: Fine Art Collections

Benjamin Franklin Copeland papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss-7

Scope and Contents Bulk of this collection consists of materials received by Benjamin Franklin Copeland (1798-1863), a Boston merchant and Justice of the Peace for Roxbury, Mass., as Chairman of a Massachusetts political committee promoting the nomination of Daniel Webster for President of the United States in 1851-1852. The most significant items among the papers are letters written by prominent state congressmen, lawyers, and merchants discussing campaign tactics, the growth of the Free Soil Party in...

Dates: 1835-1853

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

Civil War papers of Capt. John T. Burgess

Collection

Identifier: Mss-1088

Scope and Contents This collection contains documents related to Captain John T. Burgess, a Union officer serving with the 74th New York Infantry Regiment (5th Excelsior), and the formation and his command of Company D from May 1861 until May 1862. The collection contains company muster rolls, circular on framing of [criminal] charges against military personnel, correspondence, instructions on countersign signals, general orders (number 1, 4, and 12), leave passes, meeting minutes with officer election...

Dates: 1860-1914; Majority of material found within (: 1860-1863)

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

Chapman family correspondence

Collection

Identifier: Mss-1070

Abstract

Bulk of the correspondence consists of 121 letters written by Rufus Chapman, Union soldier with the 8th Maine Infantry Regiment, to his wife Catherine in Acton, Maine.

Dates: 1861-1865

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

Charles Carleton Coffin papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss-40

Abstract

Charles Carleton Coffin (1823-1896) was a reporter for the Boston Journal during the Civil War and author of patriotic books. He is said to have delivered more than two thousand speeches and addresses on patriotic and religious subjects.

Collection contains thirty-seven addresses on patriotic subjects and Confederate material collected during his career as a war correspondent during the Civil War

Dates: 1861-1890

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

Charles Norris papers, 1794-1832.

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Mss-11

Scope and Contents Consists of business correspondence received by Charles Norris between 1807-1818. These letters are chiefly from printers, publishers, booksellers, paper makers, and other individuals associated with the book trade in New England towns, especially those in NH, MA, NYC and Phila. Also included among the correspondents are several authors, editors, and clergymen, notably Amos Jones Cook, a minister of Fryeburg, ME; Dudley Leavitt, an almanac editor; Abraham Maxim, the editor of music books and...

Dates: 1794-1819, 1831-1832.

Found in: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections

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Alford family collection

Arthur E. Linnell papers, 1902-1968.

Arthur Enoch Howlett papers, 1959-1969.

Becker, Eckert, and Jacobi family correspondence

Bed Warmer

Benjamin Franklin Copeland papers

Civil War papers of Capt. John T. Burgess

Chapman family correspondence

Charles Carleton Coffin papers

Charles Norris papers, 1794-1832.

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