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Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0141
Scope and Contents
The Boynton papers include ephemera, scrapbooks, albums, photographs, diaries, correspondence and clippings from childhood, Pomona College days, and the time Charles spent in China as a missionary.
Dates:
1881 - 1969
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0142
Scope and Contents
First faculty member and Professor of Astronomy
Dates:
1892 - 1951
Collection — Box: 19
Identifier: 0143
Abstract:
The Frank P. Brackett collection include his manuscript for Granite and Sagebrush and the History of Pomona Valley; documents about the Belgium Relief Fund; his students' papers, tests, and homework with the syllabi for the classes he taught at Pomona College; pamphlets written by and about Professor Brackett and the Brackett observatory; meteorological, weather, and sun observations recorded for the U.S. Weather Bureau at the Brackett Observatory on the Pomona College campus; maps; and...
Dates:
1887-1953
Collection — Box: 16a
Identifier: 0144
Abstract:
Dr. Frank Parkhurst Brackett was born in Provincetown, Mass. in 1865. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1887. Immediately after he graduated he moved to California. In 1887, he taught at the McPherron Academy for boys in Los Angeles. In 1889 he married Lucretia Burdick in Pomona, California. He taught astronomy, mathematics, and Latin at Pomona College from 1892 to 1932. In 1912, he took a sabbatical to travel to Algeria to conduct experiments on government funded research project....
Dates:
1826-1975
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0145
Scope and Contents
CGU Education
Dates:
2009 - 2009
Collection
Identifier: 0146
Scope and Contents
Letters, notice of completion, bond on partial distribution, agreements, reports, liens, contracts, notarized document, Superior Court of California
Dates:
1929 - 1931
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0991
Abstract
Photographs of the Wright glider and flyer, 1900 and 1902, and of various air meets circa 1910-circa 1912, as well as of reunions of the Early Birds, and of Walter Brookins; a loose-leaf binder containing typed transcripts of newspaper articles and book chapters concerning the Wright brothers and Brookins' career; a portfolio of photographic plates published in 1952 by the National Aerographic Society, a subsidiary of the Institute of Aeronautical History, commemorating important events in...
Dates:
1900-1954.
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0148
Scope and Contents
Pomona College photos, programs, and clippings Pomona College 1927
Dates:
1923 - 1931
Collection
Identifier: 0149
Scope and Contents
The Browning Collection of about 1500 volumes, original letters, and other important memorabilia and association items was the gift of the Pacific Coast Browning Society. In addition to all the first editions of the poets Robert 1812-1889 and Elizabeth Browning 1806-1861, there are association items such as Robert Browning’s copy of the Iliad with his marginalia and flyleaf notes in Greek.
Dates:
2009 - 2009
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0151
Scope and Contents
Contains clippings and programs from Burr’s service as a Congregational minister. Burr is the father of the Rev. Holland F. Burr Pomona College 1914. Also includes correspondence with Pomona College Admin Baldwin, Norton, etc.
Dates:
1896 - 1920
