Series XIII. PAPERS OF ALICE AMES CROTHERS (1889-1976) AND BRONSON CROTHERS (1884-1959), 1895-2000 (#193.9-193.13)
Scope and Contents
Series XIII, PAPERS OF ALICE AMES CROTHERS (1889-1976) AND BRONSON CROTHERS (1884-1959), 1895-2000 (#193.9-193.13), is comprised of correspondence with relatives and friends, wedding announcements, travel itineraries, medical discharge papers, and other miscellaneous papers. See also #147.10-149.6 for correspondence with her parents, and #227.12, 229.9-229.10, 232.4-232.5, and 233.3-235.7 for letters with her siblings.
Dates
- Creation: 1762-2006
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Folders #200.1 - 201.9 in Series XIV are closed until January 1, 2050. The remainder of the collection is open for research.
Extent
101.08 linear feet ((237 file boxes, 2 half file boxes, 2 folio boxes) plus 6 folio folders, 10 folio+ folders, 6 oversize folders, 2 supersize folders, 171 photograph folders, 4 folio photograph folders, 14 glass negatives, 1 object, electronic records)Biographical / Historical
Alice Ames Crothers was born in 1889 to Charles Wilberforce Ames and Mary Lesley Ames in St. Paul, Minnesota. She attended the Winsor School in Boston, Massachusetts, and Bryn Mawr College. In 1916, Alice Ames Crothers worked at hospitals in France with the American Fund for French Wounded. In 1917, she married Dr. Bronson Crothers, who was born in Elmira, New York, in 1884 to Samuel McChord Crothers and Louise M. Bronson. Bronson Crothers graduated from Harvard College in 1905 and from Harvard Medical School in 1909. He was a member of the Massachussetts General Hospital Unit of the British Army Medical Corps in 1915, and then joined the U.S. Army Medical Corps. Bronson Crothers was a pediatric neurologist and worked at Boston Children's Hospital, primarily with children with cerebral palsy. The Crothers lived in Cambridge and Belmont, Massachusetts, and had a vacation home in Maine. They adopted a son, Charles Gordon Crothers, in 1931. Bronson Crothers died in Maine in 1959; Alice Ames Crothers died in 1976.
Physical Location
Collection stored off site: researchers must request access 36 hours before use.
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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