Crafts, James Mason, 1839-1917
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Avery Allen Ashdown papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39080008715168]
Identifier: MC-0137
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The papers of Avery Allen Ashdown contain a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and diary entries; material on Ashdown House; and biographical essays on the following chemical engineers associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Arthur Alphonzo Blanchard, William H. Carlisle, Jr., Arthur Clay Cope, James Mason Crafts, Tenney Lombard Davis, Frederick George Keyes, Gilbert Newton Lewis, Arthur D. Little, James Flack Morris, Allan Winter Rowe, William P. Ryan, and Charles William...
Dates:
1928 - 1956
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the President records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0013
Abstract
The collection documents the administration of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the responsibilities and activities of the Institute's presidents between 1897 and 1930. This was a period of enormous growth and development of the Institute, which was chartered in 1861 and graduated its first class of undergraduates in 1868. There is correspondence about the proposed merger with Harvard University in 1904 and a proposed alliance in 1911. The purchase of land, the planning...
Dates:
1883 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1897 - 1931
William Barton Rogers papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-0001
Abstract
This collection contains the personal correspondence of William Barton Rogers, the founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Family and professional correspondence, notes, articles, lectures, clippings, and drafts of articles on scientific topics, documents relating his philosophy on science and technology education, and many antecedent documents relating to the establishment and early years of MIT are included. An important part of the collection is drafts of...
Dates:
1804 - 1950; Majority of material found within 1834 - 1882
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- History 2
- Boston (Mass.) -- History 1
- Chemists -- Biography 1
- College presidents -- Massachusetts -- Biography 1
- Education, Higher -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Education, Higher -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge 1
- Engineering -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History 1
- Geologists -- United States -- Biography 1
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Faculty 1
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Presidents 1
- Move from Boston to Cambridge 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States -- History 1
- Scientists -- United States -- Biography 1
- fund raising 1
- governance 1
- institutional relationships 1
- presidents 1
- presidents' spouses 1
- speeches (compositions) 1 ∧ less
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