08416cpcaa2201345 a 4500 mm 82057240 DLC 20260227111715.0 cr ||||||||||| 820702|||||||||||| eng mm 82057240 DLC DLC DLC dacs S lcmd Grosvenor family papers, 1827-1981 (bulk 1872-1964). 67,300 items. 192 containers. 76.6 linear feet. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, subject material, financial papers, printed matter, and personal miscellany of various members of the Grosvenor family, principally of Amherst and Millbury, Mass., and Washington, D.C. The bulk of the papers relate to Gilbert H. and Elsie M. Grosvenor's personal and family life in Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Md., and Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada; his association with the National Geographic Society and the National Geographic Magazine; her community work including marches for women's suffrage and a Washington, D.C., drive for pure milk; their family ties with the Alexander Graham Bell and Taft families; their travels; and their associations with the Clarke School for the Deaf, the Volta Bureau, the George Washington University, and Amherst College. Also included are papers of Gilbert Grosvenor's parents, Edwin A. and Lilian Waters Grosvenor, relating to family matters, Edwin's work in medieval and Byzantine studies at Amherst College, and their travels in Europe and the Middle East. Other family members represented include Edwin Prescott Grosvenor, Melville Bell Grosvenor, and Lilian Waters Grosvenor's parents, Asa H. and Elizabeth Waters. Prominent individuals represented by correspondence or other material include Herbert Baxter Adams, William Jennings Bryan, Alexander Graham Bell, Viscount James Bryce, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Joseph Conrad, George Constantine, Calvin Coolidge, Samuel Sullivan Cox, Wilcox Darwin, Amelia Earhart, Dwight D. Eisenhower, David Fairchild, Marian Fairchild, George W. Goethals, A.W. Greely, Abram S. Hewitt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Henry Holt, Herbert Hoover, Julia Ward Howe, Helen Keller, Sinclair Lewis, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Charles A. Lindbergh, George C. Marshall, Alexander Meiklejohn, Fridtjof Nansen, Florence Nightingale, Chester W. Nimitz, Robert E. Peary, W.M. Flinders Petrie, Auguste Piccard, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest H. Shackleton, Helen Herron Taft, William H. Taft, Ida M. Tarbell, Lowell Thomas, Delia C. Torrey, Lew Wallace. Susan E. Wallace, Woodrow Wilson, and Wilbur Wright. Part II of the Grosvenor family papers contains correspondence of David and Marian Fairchild, material relating to the purchase and development of the Grosvenor family estate in Florida and to the development of the museum at Alexander Graham Bell's estate at Beinn Bhreagh, near Baddeck, Nova Scotia. Also includes material documenting Gilbert Grosvenor's conflict with National Geographic editor John Henry Hyde over the direction of the magazine. Correspondents include Oscar P. Austin and John Oliver La Gorce. Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division's Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005006 Adams, Herbert Baxter, 1850-1901. Austin, Oscar P. (Oscar Phelps), 1848?-1933. Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922. Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925. Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922. Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957. Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Constantine, George. Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933. Cox, Samuel Sullivan, 1824-1889. Darwin, Wilcox. Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937. Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969. Fairchild, David, 1869-1954. Fairchild, Marian, 1880-1962. Goethals, George W. (George Washington), 1858-1928. Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935. Hewitt, Abram S. (Abram Stevens), 1822-1903. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1841-1935. Holt, Henry, 1840-1926. Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964. Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910. Hyde, John Henry. Keller, Helen, 1880-1968. La Gorce, John Oliver, 1880-1959. Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001. Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974. Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959. Meiklejohn, Alexander, 1872-1964. Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930. Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910. Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966. Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920. Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), 1853-1942. Piccard, Auguste, 1884-1962. Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922. Taft, Helen Herron, 1861-1943. Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930. Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944. Thomas, Lowell, 1892-1981. Torrey, Delia C. Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905. Wallace, Susan E. (Susan Elston), 1830-1907. Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924. Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912. Bell family. Grosvenor family. Taft family. Amherst College. Clarke School for the Deaf. George Washington University. National Geographic Society (U.S.) Volta Bureau (U.S.) National geographic magazine. Community leadership Washington (D.C.) Deaf Education. Middle Ages. Milk hygiene. Women Suffrage. Amherst (Mass.) Social life and customs. Baddeck (N.S.) Social life and customs. Bethesda (Md.) Social life and customs. Byzantine Empire History. Europe Description and travel. Maryland Social life and customs. Massachusetts Social life and customs. Millbury (Mass.) Social life and customs. Middle East Description and travel. Nova Scotia Social life and customs. Washington (D.C.) Social life and customs. Grosvenor, Edwin A. (Edwin Augustus), 1845-1936. Edwin A. Grosvenor papers. Grosvenor, Edwin Prescott, 1875-1930. Edwin Prescott Grosvenor papers. Grosvenor, Elsie May, 1878-1964. Elsie May Grosvenor papers. Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey, 1875-1966. Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor papers. Grosvenor, Lilian Waters, 1852-1931. Lilian Waters Grosvenor papers. Grosvenor, Melville Bell, 1901-1982. Melville Bell Grosvenor papers. Waters, Asa H. (Asa Holman), 1808-1887. Asa H. Waters papers. Waters, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Waters papers. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005006 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005006.3 43668 43668