Alexander Graham Bell family papers, 1834-1974.
- 147,700 items. 446 8 containers plus oversize. 23 microfilm reels. 183.2 linear feet.
- Arranged in 12 series. Series 1: Journals and Diaries, 1867-1910; Series 2: Family Papers, 1834-1972; Series 3: General Correspondence, 1870-1922; Series 4: Subject File, circa 1870-1970; Series 5: Beinn Bhreagh Recorder, 1909-1922; Series 6: Scientific Notebooks, 1879-1922; Series 7: Article and Book File, 1901-1904; Series 8: Speeches and Interviews File, 1876-1922; Series 9: Miscellany, 1865-1974; Series 10: Additions, 1847-1954; Series 11: Oversize, 1872-1956; and Series 12: Microfilm, 1861-1922.
Open to research.
Correspondence, diaries, journals, laboratory notebooks, patent records, speeches, writings, subject files, genealogical records, printed material, and other papers pertaining primarily to Bell's invention of the telephone (1876). Also includes material documenting his contributions to the education of the deaf and his interests in a wide range of scientific and technological fields including aviation, eugenics, and marine engineering. Includes bound volumes of the Beinn Bhreagh Recorder, a bulletin concerning Bell's laboratory and estate in Baddeck, N.S.; and volumes of the American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb, later American Annals of the Deaf. Correspondents include Edward Miner Gallaudet, Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Henry, Helen Keller, George Kennan, S. P. Langley, Guglielmo Marconi, Simon Newcomb, John Wesley Powell, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Charles Sumner Tainter, and Woodrow Wilson. Family papers include papers of Bell's father, Alexander Melville Bell, relating chiefly to elocution and the physiology of speech; papers of Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law, Gardiner Greene Hubbard; papers of Mabel Hubbard Bell including correspondence with her husband, Alexander Graham Bell; correspondence of their daughter, Marian Fairchild; and papers of other members of the Bell, Fairchild, Grosvenor, and Hubbard families.
Microfilm produced from originals now in the Manuscript Division. [S.l.] 1956-1966, undated.
Maps Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. transferred to Musical compositions Library of Congress Music Division. transferred to Photographs, negatives, and other pictorial materials Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division's Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family. transferred to
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor and educator, and members of the related Bell, Fairchild, Grosvenor, and Hubbard families.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000011
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Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922 --Homes and haunts. Gallaudet, Edward Miner, 1837-1917 --Correspondence. Grant, Ulysses S. 1822-1885 --Correspondence. Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 --Correspondence. Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 --Correspondence. Kennan, George, 1845-1924 --Correspondence. Langley, S. P. 1834-1906 --Correspondence. Marconi, Guglielmo, marchese, 1874-1937 --Correspondence. Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909 --Correspondence. Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902 --Correspondence. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 --Correspondence. Taft, William H. 1857-1930 --Correspondence. Tainter, Charles Sumner, 1854-1940 --Correspondence. Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 --Correspondence. Bell family. Fairchild family. Grosvenor family. Hubbard family.
American annals of the deaf. American annals of the deaf and dumb. Beinn Bhreagh recorder.