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Frederick B. McKechnie Papers
Collection
Identifier: A2022-13-01
Content Description
This collection consists of field notes regarding bird observations in diary format, handwritten in ink on unlined paper and grouped by year from 1896 to 1910. Most volumes are originally bound with string, though the 1899 volume is bound into a notebook with an embossed suede cover. The volumes include newspaper clippers pertaining to ornithology and climate.
Dates:
1896 - 1911
Found in:
Museum of Science, Boston Archives
H. Bradford Washburn, Jr. Albums Collection
Collection
Identifier: A2020-01-01
Content Description
This collection contains photographic albums, diaries, and other material created primarily by Bradford Washburn during his mountaineering expeditions and aerial photography surveys spanning the years 1927-1999. The 127 photographic albums contain approximately 15,000 silver gelatin prints, in addition to the 11 diary volumes, flight logs, and binders of material related to Washburn’s talks, publications, and areas of interest. The albums were compiled by Washburn and the aerial and...
Dates:
1927 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1929 - 1979
Found in:
Museum of Science, Boston Archives
H. Bradford Washburn, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: A2018-01-01
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the professional life of Bradford Washburn: his work at the Museum of Science and his mountaineering work, including climbing, cartography, and photography. It includes correspondence, meeting records, manuscript material, published works, maps, photographs, and audiovisual material. More detailed Scope and Content information can be found within the series and subseries listings.
Dates:
1900 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1980
Found in:
Museum of Science, Boston Archives
Heath Hen Reports by the Federation of the Bird Clubs of New England
Collection
Identifier: A2024-06-01
Content Description
The heath hen (Tympanuchus cupido cupido) is a now extinct subspecies of the greater prairie chicken. While at one point extremely common, the birds became locally extinct on the mainland and only existed on Martha's Vineyard by the late 1800s. The continuing decline was noticed by ornithologist Alfred Otto Gross, who reported his observations to the Federation of the Bird Clubs of New England in 1925. The Federation then took immediate action to try to preserve the remaining birds through...
Dates:
1925 - 1933; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1926
Found in:
Museum of Science, Boston Archives
Hentz Manuscripts: Araneides of the United States
Collection
Identifier: A2025-01-01
Content Description
This volume contains pages of a smaller notebook pasted into each page. On the smaller pages are handwritten notes and observations about different species of spiders in the Eastern United States by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz. The pages with the writing appear to have been cut out of a notebook and pasted, not in the order of the original notebook, into the new volume. The writings of these notebook pages appear, generally in the order in which they've been pasted, in "The Spiders of the...
Dates:
1820 - 1856; Modified: 1893
Found in:
Museum of Science, Boston Archives
Herbert E. Valentine Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: A2024-07-01
Content Description
This scrapbook, signed at the front by Herbert E. Valentine, begins in 1883 with pencil, watercolor, and other illustrations of insects and plant life, including both close up studies and scenes. Photographs (both matted and not) and microscope cards with closer examination are added partway through. Labels for all images, drawn or not, are hand written. Some items in the scrapbook have dates and attribution but most do not. The scrapbook ends with pasted in diagrams of different types of...
Dates:
1893 - 1908
Found in:
Museum of Science, Boston Archives
Isabel P. Reagh Composition Book
Collection
Identifier: A2024-05-01
Content Description
This collection consists of one bound volume of 20 short (1-5 page) handwritten essays by Isabel P. Reagh and three loose documents that were stored in the back of the notebook. The loose documents include an additional short essay, a full-length essay, and a book list. Compositions include reading and lecture responses, personal stories and reflections, creative writing exercises, and history essays. The materials were created by Reagh during 9th and 10th grade at Girls' High School in...
Dates:
1897 - 1898
Found in:
Museum of Science, Boston Archives
John Austin Farley Papers
Collection
Identifier: A2025-04-01
Content Description
This collection of eight notebooks is largely about birdwatching in New England and contains notes about what birds were seen, when they were seen, and where they were seen. There are large sections in the notebooks that have observations of bird behavior and habits. There are also pages with quotes inscribed by the author in the book, appointment notes, and other thoughts. Throughout the journals are many doodles of birds and parts of birds, and many of the covers are covered in doodles and...
Dates:
1874 - 1884
Found in:
Museum of Science, Boston Archives
John Burroughs Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: A2022-11-01
Content Description
This collection includes two sets of manuscripts that are handwritten in pencil on scrap paper by John Burroughs. Each set of pages also includes an envelope with deposition and contextual information. The first manuscript is 6 pages of "Loitering with Nature" (1907), including his signature on the last page. The second manuscript is 10 pages consisting of fragments of two essays, the famous "Real and Sham Natural History" (1903) and "Hit or Miss Methods of Nature" (1911). There is a...
Dates:
1903-1911
Found in:
Museum of Science, Boston Archives
Linnaean Society of New England Records
Collection
Identifier: A2021-09-01
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1814-1830
Found in:
Museum of Science, Boston Archives
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