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Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.
Bowditch family addition to papers, 1712-1927.
Correspondence, business papers, family history, pamphlets, photos, and other papers, of the Bowditch family of Massachusetts, and the related Babcock and Ingersoll families. Bulk of the collection is comprised of correspondence, speeches, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and other papers, of William Ingersoll Bowditch (1819-1909), lawyer and reformer, of Brookline Mass., relating to antislavery and women's suffrage movements, and to his interest in local politics, Massachusetts Society for Aiding Discharged Convicts, and Plummer Farm School, Salem, Mass., and including correspondence of or about Susan B. Anthony, Lydia Maria Child, William Lloyd Garrison, Francis Jackson, Theodore Parker, and Lucy Stone. Includes essays and pamphlets describing the career of Ernest William Bowditch (1850-1918), of Milton, Mass., as geologist on the Darien expedition (1870) to survey the future Panama Canal, sanitary engineer on projects in Bar Harbor, Me., and East Orange N.J., and landscape architect with the park system in Cleveland, Ohio, H. H. Richardson, and the Vanderbilt Family; and personal and business correspondence of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), navigator of Boston and Salem Mass., together with his writings on astronomy, and correspondence of his friend, Ernest Plummer, while on business in Russia in the early 19th century, and of other members of the Plummer family.
Astronomy.
Coastwise navigation -- North America.
Geology -- Field work -- 19th century.
Parks -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
Scientific expeditions.
Slavery -- Anti-slavery movements -- United States.
Women -- Suffrage.
Bar Harbor (Me.).
East Orange (N. J.).
Russia -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
Surveys.
Business records. aat
Clippings. aat aat aat
Essays. aat ftamc
Pamphlets. aat
Photographs. aat
Speeches. aat
Businessmen. lcsh
Geologists. lcsh
Landscape architects. lcsh
Lawyers. lcsh
Babcock family.
Bowditch, Earnest William.
Bowditch, Nathaniel.
Bowditch, William Ingersol.
Bowditch family.
Child, Lydia Maria.
Garrison, William Lloyd.
Ingersol family.
Jackson, Francis.
Parker, Theodore.
Plummer, Ernest.
Richardson, H. H.
Stone, Lucy.
Vanderbilt family.
Darien Expedition.
Massachusetts Society for Aiding Discharged Convicts.
Plummer Farm School (Salem, Mass.).
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Essex Institute Collections. James Duncan Phillips Library. 132 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970-3773, USA
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