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COLLECTION Identifier: MC 553

Papers of the Cannon family, 1887-1980 (inclusive), 1917-1945 (bulk)

Scrapbook of Cannon family auto trip, 1928. Digital

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Includes sketches and letters, describing Glacier National Park (Montana), Nebraska, and Yellowstone Park. Includes 34 PHOTOGRAPHS.

Cornelia to parents/sisters, 1895. Digital

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Regarding Dean of Radcliffe College; professors William Morris Davis and Archibald Cary Coolidge; welcome address by professors and other speakers; etc. Includes reference copy of photograph; original in #PD.5.

Cornelia to parents/sisters, January 1896 - February 1897. Digital

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Regarding lectures by Professor Charles Herbert Moore, President Charles W. Eliot; Sarah Bernhardt play; first joint concert of Harvard and Radcliffe Choral Society; professors George Herbert Palmer, William Morris Davis, and William James; Cornelia's successful philosophy club speech; etc.

Cornelia to parents/sisters, September-December 1897. Digital

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Regarding sister Helen attendance at Radcliffe College; courses; lecture by Charles Darwin's son; Cornelia's lecture on women in factories to History Club; etc.

Cornelia to parents/sisters, 1898. Digital

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Regarding Radcliffe College gymnasium's completion and opening ceremony with Elizabeth Cary Agassiz and President Charles W. Eliot; Cornelia admitted to "Social Club" at Radcliffe College; etc.

Cornelia to parents/sisters, 1899. Digital

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Regarding Dr. George Santayana's speech to Philosophy Club; meeting with secret "Social Club"; Cornelia elected editor of Radcliffe College paper; etc.