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Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MC-0111
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Beaumert H. Whitton collections consists of photographs and a diary by Whitton of a trip taken with other Massachusetts Institute of Technology students from Boston to Minneapolis, Birmingham, Ala., and back to Boston during which they visited manufacturing plants and military facilities. This trip occured from June 13, 1932 to July 24, 1932, covered 5,500 miles, 23 states in the United States, and visits to 30 plants. Site visits are described in the diary, and photographs complement...
Dates:
1932, 1959
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0234
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Benjamin Lax papers contain correspondence, travel agendas, speeches, and papers Lax presented at national and international professional conferences on such subjects as semiconductors, materials science, cyclotrons, and magnetism. Also includes correspondence and other records from Lax's years at Lincoln Laboratory, and laboratory notes for a course taught in 1952, Selected Topics in the Theory of Solids (8.363). There are manuscripts, drafts, and reprints of his writings on subjects...
Dates:
1925 - 1975
Collection
Identifier: MC-0555
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises a report of the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) activities in the European Theater from March 1941 through from July 1945, submitted by Bennett Archambault, Head of OSRD London Mission. The report consists of fifteen parts and two appendices.
Dates:
1941 - 1945
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0304
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MC-0268
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Bernard E. Proctor papers contain correspondence with William Geisler on the development of food technology, 1950-1955; with the Research Corporation concerning patents; and on the establishment of the Bernard E. Proctor Memorial Fund at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Dates:
1950-circa 1970
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0661
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the professional activities of Bernard J. Frieden from approximately 1970 to 1998. Most of the materials relate to Frieden's relationship with the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the School of Architecture and Planning. Materials include correspondence, biographical materials and publications, and project materials related to military base redevelopment and downtown and shopping malls.
Dates:
1970 - 1998
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MC-0279
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The papers of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Bernard S. Gould consist largely of Gould's writings, and professional correspondence with a number of companies including the Gillette Safety Razor Company and the Howard Company with whom he worked.
Dates:
1937 - 1980
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0167
Abstract
The Bernard Taub Feld papers document his academic, professional, and political pursuits during the period 1943 to 1990. The bulk of the material dates from the mid-1950s, reflecting his establishment in the scientific community and his increased interest in nuclear arms control.
Dates:
1943 - 1990
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0311
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The collection includes information about Dodge's writings, including correspondence with agents, publishers, editors, fellow writers and scientists; drafts and manuscripts; reviews; and research notes and source materials on various topics including the Falkland Islands, plant materials, fibers, and her father, Leo Wiener. There is correspondence about Dodge's collection of Guatemalan textiles, her teaching career, and that of Carroll Dodge. Also included are letters from MIT professor of...
Dates:
1928 - 1994
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0340
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Bertram Warren's reprints and other writings, 1926-1978, including his list of these reprints; two notebooks of lectures delivered in France, 1957 and 1968; and some correspondence, 1945-1977. Also included is a microfilm copy of a volume presented to Warren at a symposium given in his honor on "Current Studies in Diffraction Physics." The volume contains reprints by Warren, and by his former students on...
Dates:
1926 - 1978
Collection
Identifier: AKDC-2017-0005
Content Description
Research archive of Besim S. Hakim
Dates:
1930 - 2015
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MC-0209
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0385
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, minutes, and agendas from Black Alumni/ae of MIT (BAMIT) executive committee meetings, BAMIT annual national meetings, and MIT alumni officers conferences. Also included are correspondence, conference brochures, and biographies of speakers from MIT Black student conferences.
Dates:
1973 - 2017
Collection
Identifier: MC-0004
Abstract
Blatchford, Seward & Griswold was a New York law firm specializing in patent cases. The firm worked with inventors to apply for patents, provide counsel during infringement suits, and advise companies formed to market new inventions. The collection contains material on 34 patents including Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph, Charles Goodyear's rubber manufacturing process, Elias Howe's sewing machine, Ross Winans' railroad car chassis, William Webster's carpet loom, Samuel W. Tyler's mowing...
Dates:
1841 - 1910
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: AC-0252
Scope and Contents
The collection of the Boston Stein Club records includes the bylaws and articles of the club, correspondence about activities, announcements and programs, and club minutes related to this organization of Boston area MIT Jewish alumni.
Dates:
1945 - 1989
Collection
Identifier: MC-0734
Scope and Contents
The Bruce Mazlish personal archives consists of research files, correspondence, notebooks, teaching materials, and material relating to professional organizations including the Toynbee Foundation. Research files comprise the bulk of the collection and were created and collected by Mazlish. Many of these files relate to research undertaken for writing and teaching. Much of the material is published by third parties with handwritten notes by Mazlish. There are also drafts and...
Dates:
1919 - 2016; Majority of material found within 1976 - 2005
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0166
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Rossi's education and early teaching career are recorded in lecture notes of one of his professors, annotated by Rossi, his physics course notebooks, and his published lecture notes from the University of Padua. An unpublished autobiography provides information about Rossi's life, including his MIT years. There is correspondence about his efforts to find a position in an American or British physics laboratory before World War II, together with copies of his curriculum vitae and teaching...
Dates:
1922 - 1990
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0714
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the professional activites of C. Forbes Dewey, Jr. during 1978 to 2016.
The Conference Materials and Courses series contain digital files related to academic presentations and academic instruction by Dewey. The files are predominantly Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, Microsoft Word documents, or PDF documents.
Other materials include proposals and commercial files.
Dates:
1978 - 2016
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MC-0267
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The papers of C. Frank Allen, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class of 1872, include Allen's correspondence, mostly on sheep farming and conditions in Las Vegas, Nevada), while an engineer for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. This collection contains Allen's report cards while a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a graduation dinner program, and mailings for the Technology Club.
Dates:
1869 - 1948
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0023
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The papers of C. Richard Soderberg document his education through student notes from schools in Sweden, including the Chalmers Institute of Technology, and material on his MIT thesis. Extensive subject files describe his activities as a member of the MIT faculty, including participation on committees, and his involvement with industry and professional organizations. There are copies of his lecture notes, as well as a set of his published and unpublished writings. There is a large file of...
Dates:
1914 - 1979
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0516
Scope and Contents
The formation of the Cambridge Partnership for Public Educatin (CPPE) and the development of its major policies are documented in the bylaws and minutes of meetings and correspondence of the Board of Directors. Detailed information about daily operations are recorded in general administrative files. The grant and program files include information about the DeWitt Wallace-Readers Digest Library Power Program, Project RICH, mini-grants, and other efforts to improve Cambridge Public Schools....
Dates:
1984 - 1995
Collection
Identifier: MC-0590
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises a copy of the 1993 paper Chemical Mechanism for Voltage Control of Membrane Processes co-authored by Campbell L. Searle and Jerome Y. Lettvin. Also included are undated slides.
Dates:
1993
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0697
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Carl D. Martland papers contain technical reports and notes from various railroad engineering research projects from 1968 to 2006. It also includes adminstrative records of and course notes for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering from 1968 to 2006.
Dates:
1968 - 2006
Collection
Identifier: MC-0376
Scope and Contents
The Carl Hewitt papers documents the professional activities of Hewitt and contains articles, publications, theses, research project proposals produced during the 1970s.
Dates:
1970s
Collection
Identifier: MC-0514
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the professional activities of Carl Wesley Garland at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1953 to 1989. Materials include correspondence, student notebooks, course notes, problem sets, exams, syllabi, reprints, teaching notes, research proposals and notes, budgets, and reports.
The collection also contains documents related to Garland's activities on Equal Opportunity committees at MIT.
Dates:
1953 - 1989
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0686
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the activities of Carl Wunsch spanning the years of circa 1965 to 2010.
Materials include: correspondence, recommendations, and committee materials.
Dates:
1965 - 2010
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0029
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The six accessions given to the Institute Archives by Carroll Wilson from 1979 to 1983 were integrated into the present arrangement, maintaining Wilson's folder titles and original order when possible. No re-ordering was done within the folders. There are five series: Series 1, Personal, Biographical and Family Papers; Series 2, MIT Related Records; Series 3, Corporate Records; Series 4, Subject Files and Correspondence' and Series 5, Speeches and Writings. Additional materials...
Dates:
1926 - 1983
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0426
Scope and Contents
The collection contains Catherine Stratton's correspondence and notes about social functions sponsored by Julius Stratton and his wife, Catherine Stratton, during the years 1959-1966 when Julius Stratton served as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Social notebook files include working notes, correspondence, guest lists, menus, and invitations for functions. Most of the correspondence is from the MIT community, but there is interesting correspondence from others...
Dates:
1954 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1957 - 1969
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MC-0464
Scope and Contents
Channing Whitaker's two letterbooks contain copies of student papers, addresses, descriptions of examinations and notes on thermodynamics collected during Whitaker's time as a professor of mechancial engineering at the Massachusetts Instittue of Technology. Also included is a report to the president of the Institute on mechanical engineering at MIT, 1875.
Dates:
1844-circa 1875
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MC-0710
Scope and Contents of the Collection
This collection documents the career of Charles A. Myers. Myers was a member of the faculty at MIT from 1939-1978, and was a charter member of the National Academy of Arbitrators. The materials in this collection span from 1943 to 1983 and largely document his involvement with the arbitration of labor disputes, including decision and award documents and related news clippings. Other materials in the collection include an article authored by Myers on industrial relations and materials related...
Dates:
1943 - 1983