Papers of Léon Brillouin, 1877-1972
Repository
American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics.
College Park, MD 20740
Papers created by
Brillouin, Léon, 1889-1969
Size of collection
8.5 linear feet (18 boxes)
Short description of collection
This collection includes the work of three generations of French physicists: Léon Brillouin (1889-1969), his father, Marcel Brillouin (1854-1948), and Léon's maternal grandfather, Éleuthère Mascart (1837-1908). The Mascart papers cover the period 1877-1910, are mostly photocopies, and includes notes and correspondence. The Marcel Brillouin portion of the collection covers the period 1887-1943 and includes correspondence, scientific notes and notebooks centered on his research on tides and the physics of the earth, bibliographies and reprints of his writings. The papers of Léon Brillouin comprise the remainder of the collection and primarily cover the period after he came to the United States, 1941-1968. It includes mostly correspondence, manuscripts, and notes relating to his work on Brillouin scattering, relativity, and information theory. The collection also includes a small group of photographs.
Language(s) of collection
English
The son of a teacher, Éleuthère E. N. Mascart was born in Quarouble, France, February 20, 1837. He received his doctorate from the École Normale in 1864. Shortly thereafter he married Mlle. Briot, daughter of Charles Auguste Briot, professor of mechanics at the Sorbonne and at the École Normale Superieure.
After teaching secondary education, he became professor of physics at the College de France in 1872, a chair he held for the rest of his life. In 1884 he was elected to the French Academy of Sciences and served as permanent secretary and later president.
Mascart's scientific career was marked not by great discoveries but by a steady stream of experimental and theoretical work in optics, electricity, magnetism, and meteorology, including spectroscopic exploration (using photographic detection techniques) of the ultraviolet region of the solar spectrum and determined the relative wavelengths of the principal emission lines of ten selected metals. This work won for Mascart the 1866 Prix Bordin.
Mascart's many years of research in refraction and optics was recognized by the French Academy of Science when he was awarded the Grand Prix in 1874. His work in optics also led to the publication of his three-volume Traité d'optique (Paris, 1889-1893).
Another area of research for Mascart was electricity and magnetism. Once again he incorporated his research into textbooks: first into his two-volume Traité d'électricité statique (Paris, 1876) and then into his two-volume Lecons sur l'électricité et el magnétisme, written with J. Joubert (Paris, 1882-1886), which was the first French textbook that attempted to treat simultaneously the work of Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz. It became a standard work for engineers as well as for physicists.
Mascart's third major area of scientific activity was meteorology. He became director of the Bureau Central Météorologique (1878). He helped organize an international scientific polar expedition, as well as a French expedition to Cape Horn. The major goal of the latter was to map the magnetic field of the earth, a subject on which he published an extensive textbook, Traite de magnetisme terestre (Paris, 1900).
Mascart's general prestige is reflected in his election in 1892 as a foreign member of the Royal Society and his election in 1900 as vice-president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the first time this post was ever held by a non-British citizen.
Mascart died at the age of seventy-one in Paris in 1908 (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, s.v. "Mascart, Éleuthère Élie Nicolas.").
Marcel Louis Brillouin was born in Melle, Deux-Sèvres, France, 19 December 1854. His father was a painter and the family lived in Paris. He was a student at the École Normale Supérieure (1874-1878) and an assistant at the Collège de France, to the well-known physicist Mascart, whose daughter he later married in 1888. In 1881 Brillouin obtained doctorates in both mathematics and physics. From 1900 he was professor of mathematical physics at the Collège de France until his retirement in 1931. He became a member of the Académe des Sciences de Paris in 1921.
Brillouin was a prominent theoretical physicist, but he was also a very skillful experimenter. In his long career, he published more than 200 papers and books. His scientific interests were in meteorology, the kinetic theory of gases, liquids, solids, thermodynamics of liquids and solids, plasticity, and melting conditions, the propagation of electricity.
About 1900 Brillouin spent considerable time building a new model of the Eötvös balance. This is described in a long paper published by the Académie des Sciences in 1908. There followed papers on Helmholtz' flow and surfaces of discontinuity. From 1918 to 1922, Brillouin tried to find an explanation of Bohr's condition of stable atom trajectories. The problem of an electromagnetic source in uniaxial or biaxial crystals led to papers of interest for crystal optics. From 1925 most of Brillouin's research centered on physics of the earth, especially tides. He lectured on these subjects at the Collège de France and the Institut Poincaré (1930). His lectures on tides were edited by J. Coulomb, but most of them remained unpublished.
Brillouin died in Paris in 1948 (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, s.v. "Brillouin, Marcel Louis.").
Léon Nicolas Brillouin was born in Sèvres, Seine-et-Oise, France, August 7, 1889. His father was the physicist Marcel Brillouin. He received his Ph.D. in 1920 from the University of Paris where he became a professor in 1928 and served until 1932. For the next fourteen years he was a professor at the Collége de France.
Brillouin was General Director of the French National Broadcasting System from 1939 to 1941. He made several trips to the United States as visiting professor at various American universities. He became a Fellow of the American Physical Society, President of the French École Libre des Hautes Etudes, a member of the Applied Mathematics Group at Columbia University and Research Lecturer at Cruft Laboratory of Harvard. In 1949 he became a U. S. Citizen. From 1953 he was adjunct professor at Columbia University. Many companies used his services as a consulting engineer in radio including the International Business Machines Corp. where he was named Director of Electronics Education. He published more than 200 papers, 12 pamphlets and 15 books.
He became one of the founders of solid-state theory, and made contributions to the engineering of radio antennas and to transmission of electric waves in cables, and studies of the motion of electron beams in magnetrons and in traveling-wave tubes.
Brillouin died in 1969.
This collection includes the work of three generations of French physicists: Léon Brillouin (1889-1969), his father, Marcel Brillouin (1854-1948), and Léon's maternal grandfather, Éleuthère Mascart (1837-1908). A significant portion, especially of the earlier papers, is in French.
The Mascart papers are contained in the first four folders and cover the period 1877-1910. Included are photocopies of notes and correspondence to Mascart primarily from Lord Kelvin (1877-1908), a reprint of "The Life and Work of Lord Kelvin" written by Silvanus P. Thompson, several reprints by Mascart and Kelvin on electricity, and a typed list of his honors.
The Marcel Brillouin portion of the collection comprises nearly six boxes and includes correspondence to him (1887-1939), some of which are photocopies; scientific notes and notebooks (ca. 1900-1943), many centered on his research on tides and the physics of the earth, oceanography, and meteorology; bibliographies and reprints of his writings; and reprints of others writings. One file contains correspondence between Brillouin and H. A. Lorentz from 1911 regarding Marie Curie and Paul Langevin. In addition to his son, Léon, other correspondents included M. Planck, H. Fischer, and A. Summerfeld, Augustus E. H. Love, and Rolin Wavre.
The papers of Léon Brillouin comprise the remainder of the collection and cover the period after he came to the United States, 1941-1968. Most of the correspondence is incoming, international in scope, and includes among the signatures those of Niels Bohr, Felix Bloch, Max Born, P. P. Ewald, A. D. Fokker, Jean Loiseau, Rene Lucas, Charles Mannebak, Erwin Schrodinger.
The manuscript files often include his notes, corrections, informational materials, and sometimes correspondence related to his topic. They relate to Brillouin's most important post-WWII research such as Brillouin scattering, relativity, and information theory.
There is a significant collection of reprints by others, that are annotated or have annotations laid in which are organized in the following topics: general relativity, gravity propagation, nuclear and particle physics, atomic clocks, and quantum theory. The remainder of the reprints are arranged alphabetically by author.
Also included is Brillouin's undated student notebook (ca. 1911) of lectures by Paul Langevin in which he gives details of relativity theory shortly before Einstein published his work.
The addition to the papers consists primarily of manuscripts, notes, correspondence, and photographs. The most significant manuscript is that of Relativity Reexamined which includes notes and correspondence. Also included are published volumes of Wave Propagation in Periodic Structures and Science and Information Theory with annotated "corrections," insets, and comments.
The correspondence is from the 1960s, sporadic and mostly personal in nature.
The remainder of that series includes the French version of an autobiography "Revue D'une Carriere Scientifique" written for the American Institute of Physics in 1962 and revised in 1966;a scrapbook kept by Mrs. Brillouin; documents relating to Brillouin's death and estate matters; and photographs of people and travel of the Brillouin family.
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These papers have been indexed in the International Catalog of Sources for History of Physics and Allied Sciences (ICOS) using the following terms. Those seeking related materials should search under these terms.
Persons
Bloch, Felix, 1905-
Bohr, Niels Henrik David, 1885-1962.
Born, Max, 1882-1970.
Brillouin, Marcel, 1854-1908.
Carstoiu, John.
Curie, Marie, 1867-1934.
Ewald, Paul Peter, 1888-1985.
Kelvin, William Thompson, Baron, 1824-1907.
Langevin, Paul, 1872-1946.
Lorentz, H. A. (Hendrik Antoon), 1853-1928.
Love, A. E. H. (Augustus Edward Hough), 1863-1940.
Magiros, Demetrios G.
Manneback, Charles.
Mascart, Éleuthère Élie Nicolas, 1837-1908.
Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958.
Planck, Max, 1858-1947.
Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974.
Schrodinger, Erwin, 1887-1961.
Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951.
Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert, 1893-
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-
Institutions
Harvard University.
International Business Machines Corporation.
Subject terms
Brillouin scattering.
Electromagnetic waves -- Scattering.
Elementary particles.
Gravitation.
Gravity.
Hydrodynamics.
Information theory.
Nuclear physics.
Quantum theory.
Radiation.
Relativity (Physics)
Occupation terms
Physicists.
Genre terms
Autobiography.
Laboratory notebooks.
Manuscripts.
The papers are organized in four series: I. The Papers of Éleuthère Mascart, 1877-1910; II. The Papers of Marcel Brillouin; III. The Papers of Léon Brillouin; IV. Addition to the Papers of Léon Brillouin.
Files arranged chronologically.
Some photographs in the collection have been removed to the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives.
The major portion of this collection was in the possession of Léon Brillouin and was deposited at the Neils Bohr Library by his widow, Marcelle Brillouin, in 1970. A small addition to the collection was received after her death in 1986. According to the Brillouin family, most of his earlier correspondence and papers were lost during World War II.
The bulk of the collection was processed shortly after its deposit in the early 1970s, and an item-level finding aid was created.
Though the addition was deposited in 1986, it was not processed until 2000. The papers were mostly in brown envelopes or single items with no particular organization.. An artificial organization was created to facilitate access. For preservation reasons, the scrapbook was dismantled and the items placed in acid free envelopes and folders in the collection. At that time this revised finding aid was created which includes the entire collection.
- Oral History Interview with Léon Brillouin, 1962
- Revue D'une Carriere Scientifique, an autobiography of Léon Brillouin
Title
Finding Aid to the Papers of Léon Brillouin, 1877-1972
Sponsor
This finding aid has been encoded by the Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics as part of a collaborative project supported by a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities, an independent federal agency. Collaboration members in 1999 consisted of: American Institute of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, Rice University, University of Alaska, University of Illinois, and University of Texas.
Publisher
American Institute of Physics.
Center for History of Physics.
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740
nbl@aip.org
Published in 2001
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Series Descriptions
Box 1
This is Brillouin's small collection of materials from his maternal grandfather. Includes photocopies of penciled scientific notes (no date); correspondence to Mascart from Lord Kelvin, 1877-1908; offprints, 1894-1910.
Boxes 1-6
This is Brillouin's collection of his father's papers. Includes correspondence, scientific notes and notebooks, many of which relate to his research on tides and the physics of the earth, bibliographies, and reprints.
Boxes 7-14
This series relates to the career of Léon Brillouin and covers primarily the period after he came to the United States. It includes mostly correspondence, manuscripts, and notes. Some of the correspondents include Bohr, Born, Manneback, Schrodinger. The manuscripts and notes relate to some of Brillouin's most important post-WWII work such as Brillouin scattering relativity, and information science. Of interest also are his ca. 1911 student notebooks of lectures by Paul Langevin on the theory of relativity.
Boxes 15-17
This series consists primarily of manuscripts, notes, and correspondence. The correspondence is sporadic and mostly personal in nature. The most significant manuscript is that of Relativity Reexamined. Also includes the French version of an autobiography "Revue D'une Carriere Scientifique," a scrapbook, and documents relating to his death and estate matters.
Container List
| Box 1 |
Folder 1 |
Penciled scientific notes, cover page says "L. Kelvin" (Mascart's Handwriting?) Photocopies, No date |
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Folder 2 |
Correspondence to Mascart from Lord Kelvin (Photocopies), 1877-1908 |
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2 pp. Hand other than Kelvin, signed by Kelvin, 2/4/1882 |
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4 pp. Hand other than Kelvin, signed with post-script by Kelvin, 1/14/1892 |
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2 pp. ALS (pencil), 2/2/1895 |
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1 p. Hand other than Kelvin, signed by Kelvin; pencilled notes in French on petrographie by Mascart (?), 2/4/1895 |
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1 p. TLS, (date sometime between 2/19/1904 and 3/16/1904) 1904 |
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3 pp. ALS from Frances A. Kelvin (Lady Kelvin) to Mme. Mascart, 8/16/1907 |
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1 p. Hand other than Kelvin to Mme. Mascart, signed by Kelvin, 10/3/1907 |
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4 pp. ALS to Mme. Mascart, 10/13/1907 |
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4 pp. ALS from Bottomley to Mme. Mascart, 12/?/1907 |
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1 p. Printed appreciation of condolences on the death of Kelvin, 1/1908 |
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3 pp. ALS from Bottomley to Mme. Mascart, 1/25/1908 |
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4 pp. ALS from S.A. Thompson to Mascart with enclosure: The Kelvin Lecture, The Life and Work of Lord Kelvin, by S. A. Thompson, signed by the author, 6/26/1908 |
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Folder 3 |
Offprints, Mascart, Lord Kelvin, and P. Janet, 1894-1910 |
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Mascart, E., Electricite Moderne, 17 pp. 1894 |
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Kelvin, Lord, Nineteenth Century Clouds Over the Dynamical Theory of Heat and Light, 1900 |
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Medaille Offerte a M. Mascart, 1902 |
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Janet, P., La Vie et les Oeuvres de E. Mascart, 1910 |
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Folder 4 |
List of Mascart's Honors, No date |
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Folder 5 |
Letters to Marcel Brillouin, 1887-1939 |
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3 pp. ALS A. E. H. Love, 8/2/1887 |
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4 pp. ALS A. B. Basset, 5/6/1888 |
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2 pp. Hand other than Kelvin, signed by Kelvin, 8/17/1904 |
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1 p. ALS Max Planck (in German with notes in French re Lachan written on back), 12/13/1905 |
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p.c. ALS Max Planck, 12/18/1905 |
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4 pp. ALS Léon Brillouin (photocopy), 12/31/1912 |
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4 pp. ALS Léon Brillouin (photocopy), 1/20/1913 |
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4 pp. ALS Léon Brillouin (photocopy), 2/22/1913 |
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7 pp. ALS Léon Brillouin (photocopy), 3/13/1913 |
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3 pp. ALS H. Fischer and A. Sommerfeld, 12/18/1913 |
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4 pp. ALS Léon Brillouin, n.d. |
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1 p. ALS R. Wavre, 3/12/1939 |
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Folder 6 |
Correspondence between M. Brillouin, J. Perrin and H. A. Lorentz regarding Langevin-Curie Affair, 1911 |
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Folder 7 |
Scientific Notebook, 1918 |
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Folders 8-10 |
Three Bound volumes of handwritten lecture notes. Spine label, "Brillouin - Marees - Red. Coulomb, 1929, 1930, 1931 |
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Marcel Brillouin, Scientific Notebooks, 1926-1934 |
| Box 3 |
Marcel Brillouin, Notebooks, 1935-1943 |
| Box 4 |
Folders 1-9 |
Marcel Brillouin, Notebooks, undated |
| Box 5 |
Folders 1-9 |
Materials relating to Marcel Brillouin |
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Folder 1 |
Three tide charts, n.d. |
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Folder 2 |
Marcel Brillouin, pencilled writings in French, 12/1937, on blank reverse sides of printed pages (probably proof sheets from Comptes Rendus des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences). 1937 |
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Folder 3 |
Mathematical calculations written on envelope 1943 |
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Folder 4 |
Scientific notes, 5/20/1913 (postmark) pencilled on back of envelope addressed to Marcel Brillouin. 1913 |
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Folder 5 |
Notes and calculations about papers by Love, Zenneck, and Whittaker. Also two papers of Marcel Brillouin reprinted from Comptes Rendus, annotated. 1908 |
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Folder 6 |
Notes titled "Barriere circum Atlantique" n.d. |
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Folder 7 |
Notes on reverse side of proof sheets from Annales de Physique, 21 pp. n.d. |
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Folder 8 |
Scientific notes, 2 pp. n.d. |
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Folder 9 |
Bibliographies of Marcel Brillouin's scientific writings, 4 vols. ca. 1904-1930 |
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Folder 10 |
Reprints of Marcel Brillouin's papers |
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Fonctions spheriques multipolaires non antipode. Recurrences. Comptes Rendus, t. 195, p. 1185 1932 |
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Oscillations d'un liquide pesant dans bassin cylindriques en rotation. Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1933 |
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Fonctions spheriques. Formules generales de recurrences. Developpement des fonctions non antipodes en senries de polynomes de Legendre et de Laplace. Compes Rendus, t. 196, p. 184 1933 |
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Equations aux derivees partielles du 2e ordre. Domaines a connexion multiple. Fonctions spheriques non antipode. Annales de l'Institut Poincare, pp. 173-206 1936(?) |
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Qu'apprendon de l'interieur du globe par les mesures failtes a sa surface? Pesanteur. Magnetisme. Annales de l'Institut Poincare, t. 8, p. 11 1938 |
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Folder 12 |
"30 ans d'Enseignement au College de France, 1900-1931" 1931 |
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Folder 13 |
Jubile scientifique de M. Marcel Brillouin; allocutions prononcees a la ceremonie du 17 Decembre 1935, Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1936 |
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Folder 14 |
Liste et ordre des allocutions, typescript, 1 p. n.d. |
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Allocution pour H. Abraham. Holograph draft signed M.B., 9 pp. ; final typescript, carbon copy, 4 pp. n.d. |
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Comite a la memoire des savants francais victimes de la bararie allemande, Paris n.d. |
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Henri Villat, "Notice necrologique sur M. Marcel Brillouin." Comptes Rendus, t. 226, p. 130 1948 |
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Reprints By Others, 1879-1944 |
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Courtier, M. A. (8 items) |
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Floquet, Gaston (Thesis) (1 item) |
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Giraud, G. (2 items attached, letter enclosed) |
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Humbert, Pierre (Several items attached, holograph notes) |
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Hylleraas, E. A. (1 item) |
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Proudman, J. A. (4 items) |
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Thysse, M. J. Th. (1 item, 2 letters enclosed) |
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Zuiderzee, published report, 1926 |
| Box 7 |
Folder 1 |
Correspondence, A-B (to L. Brillouin), 1943-1968 |
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Alger, P. L. to Richardson (copy to Brillouin), 1943 |
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American Ethical Union, 1967 |
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Born, M., 1959 (2), 1960 (2), 1962 |
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Bridgman, P. W., 1942, 1959 |
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Correspondence/Cecchi (with reprint of thesis), 1965 |
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Folder 3 |
Correspondence, Ch-F |
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Elsasser, Walter M. (4), 1956-1965 |
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Errera, J. (2), 1964-1965 |
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Ewald, P. P. (2), 1941, 1964 |
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Correspondence, Ga-Kr |
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Grigorian, A. (2), 1962-1965 |
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Hirschfelder, J. (2), 1959-1960 |
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Hsu, H. (With two reprints), 1967 |
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Janet, M. (3) w/manuscript by R. Thom, 1964-1965 |
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von Krbek, F. (MSS attached), 1933 |
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Folder 5 |
Correspondence, L-R, 1943-1968 |
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Loiseau, J. (MSS attached), 1964 |
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Manneback, C. (6), 1965-1968 |
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Parodi, M. (2), 1948-1959 |
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Folder 6 |
Correspondence, S., 1942-1968 |
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Schrodinger, E. (10), 1942-1959 |
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Societe Francaise des Electroniciens et des Radioelectriciens, 1963 |
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Suworoff, N. P. (in Russian with French translation and two reprints attached), 1965 |
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Folder 7 |
Correspondence, U-Y, 1954-1968 |
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Vaga, T. (With MSS attached), 1969 |
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Wilson, J. A. (With two MSS attached), 1968 |
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Yvon, J. to Lucas, R. (copy to Brillouin), 1966 |
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Student notebook of lectures by Langevin., ca. 1911 |
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Folder 9 |
Biographical materials |
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Folder 10 |
Correspondence with Thomas Kuhn regarding the project on the Sources for the History of Quantum Physics. (4 items), 1961-1962 |
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Correspondence with James King regarding project on the History fo Recent Physics in the United States. (4 items), 1962 |
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Folder 11 |
List of addresses |
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Folder 12 |
Biography of Léon Brillouin by D. W. Harding |
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Notebook, Annuaire du College de France; a bibliography of Brillouin writings from 1932 with brief biographical notations. Attached are two copies of "Titres et Travaux Scientifiques,: biographical and bibliographical information, 1921-1931 |
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Folder 14 |
Awards to Léon Brillouin, 1940s and 1950s |
| Box 8 |
Folder 1 |
Manuscript Biography of Marcel Brillouin, 1968 |
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Souvenirs sur Henri Abraham (carbon copy), 3 pp., 1968 |
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Letter from A. Kastler to Brillouin inviting him to write "Souvenirs.", 1967 |
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Souvenirs sur Paul Langevin. Holograph draft addressed to Andre Langevin, 8 pp., 1968 |
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Manuscripts, notes and correspondence, including a discussion between Brillouin and Léon Rosenfeld on "Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale", 1956-1962 |
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Solitaire ou Embrigade, typescript, 13 pp. In La Nouvelle Nouvelle Revue Francaise. 1956 |
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Science et Imagination, carbon copy of transcript, 12 pp. 1961 |
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Transformations et Atavars de la Notion de la Champ, typescript, corrected, 7 pp. (International Academy for Philosophy of Sciences, Paris), 1961 |
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Revue de Metaphysique et Morale, 1962 |
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Letter from Brillouin to L. Rosenfeld, 2 carbon copies, annotated, 2 pp. 1961 |
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Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Science, report by L. Brillouin, (discussion between Brillouin and Rosenfeld), typescript, 5 pp. (With two sheets of holograph notes attached.) |
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The Crepuscule of Science, letter to the editor of Nature. (Carbon copy of typescript), 1 p., 1962 |
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Manuscripts and Notes |
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La Fleche du Temps, annotated, 20 pp., 1964 |
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The Arrow of Time, copy, 19 pp., 1964 |
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Reprint by Rene Sudre "Revue Scientifique: La Droite et la Gauche.", 1966 |
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"La Limite de Validite des Theories Physiques," typescript, 28 pp., 1966 |
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Typed extracts from Dialogues Philosophiques, by E. Renan and holograph notes., no date |
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"General Relativity Theory of Gravitation and Experiments."(draft typescript and, in part, holograph), 10 pp., 1965 |
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Annotated reprint "La Relation Masse-Energie en Gravitation," by Brillouin and R. Lucas, with notes, 1966 |
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"Deplacement Cosmique vers le Rouge et Radiation Thermique Interstellaire," Draft typescript, 3 pp., with notes, 1967 |
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Qu'Entend-on par Systeme de Reference en Mecanique? Discussions de Graves Hypotheses sous-entendues. Typescript, xerox copy, 20 pp. Includes correspondence and published version. 1968 |
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"Birth and Growth of the Brillouin Scattering." presented at the International conference on Light-Scattering in Solids, 1968, NYU Typescript, 3 pp. (mimeograph). Includes correspondence and Brillouin's first paper, "Diffusion de la Lumiere par un Corps Transparent Homogene (Comptes Rendus, May 1914); "Brillouin Scattering," typescript dated 2/1/1965, 4 pp. and Miscellaneous material relating to the conference. |
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Preface to Japanese Translation of Science and Information Theory. Typescript, carbon copy, 2 pp. first edition, 1956 or second edition, 1961. |
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Faut-il Veritablement Incurver l'Univers? Draft, in part typescript, in part holograph 6 pp. Faut-il Courber l'Univers? Holograph draft, 3 pp. and notes, 1965-1966 |
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"The Problem of Ocean Tides," typescript, carbon copy, 3 pp., n.d., correspondence, notes and typescripts relating to tides; issue of European Scientific Notes, Oct., 1948. |
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"La Liberte et L'Observation dans les Science Experimentales; Reflexions d'un Physicien," typescript, 14 pp., n.d. |
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"Imagination et Information Scientifiques," holograph draft, 6 pp. with notes, n.d. |
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Folder 15 |
Quantum theory notes., n.d. |
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Folder 16 |
Information Theory and Knowledge., n.d. |
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Particle physics (includes glass slides) 1960 |
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Folder 18 |
Perihelion Precession of Mercury (General Relativity), 1966 |
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Folder 19 |
Bohr theory of the atom (electromagnetic charge interaction), n.d. |
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Folder 20 |
The nature of scientific thought, 1962 |
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Folder 21 |
"Poincare - Notes" Includes holograph notes, reprints, typescripts extracted from works about Poincare and astronomy. |
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Folder 22 |
Notebook on special relativity, 1966 |
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Folder 23 |
Notes labeled "Schwarzschild solution rediscussed", n.d. |
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Folder 24 |
Outlines of lectures on applied mathematical physics, 1943-1949 |
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Folder 25 |
Reviews of Léon Brillouin's book,"Vie, matiere et observation", 1959-1960 |
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Folder 26 |
Science and Information theory, 1st ed., 1956. Reviews and correspondence, 1956 |
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Folder 27 |
La Science et la Theorie de l'information, 1956- |
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Folder 28 |
Scientific uncertainty and information, Reviews and correspondence, 1964 |
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Folder 29 |
Letters and reprints relating to Slavic translations of Brillouin's Science and Theory of Information by H. H. Harkevitch, 1960 |
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Folder 30 |
Reviews of Brillouin's books, 1958-1962 |
| Box 9 |
Reprints by Brillouin, some annotated, some with notes, 1921-1967 |
| Box 10 |
Reprints and Correspondence relating to John Carstoiu and Demetrios G. Magiros, 1960s |
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Folder 1 |
Carstoiu Papers and Correspondence, 1967-1968 |
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Folder 2 |
Correspondence regarding Magiros paper controversy, 1968 |
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Folder 3 |
Magiros typescripts, 1960s |
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Folder 4 |
Magiros reprints, 1960s |
| Box 11 |
Reprints by others grouped by subject |
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Folder 1 |
Reprints on General Relativity, 1958-1967 |
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Folder 2 |
Reprints on Gravitational Radiation, 1966-1969 |
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Folder 3 |
Reprints on Particle Physics, 1956-1958 |
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Folder 4 |
Reprints on Atomic Clocks, 1966-1968 |
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Folder 5 |
Reprints on Quantum theory, 1966-1968 |
| Box 12 |
Reprints by others, A - F, 1923-1967 |
| Box 13 |
Reprints by others, G - S, 1943-1968 |
| Box 14 |
Reprints by others, Sp-W, 1944-1968 |
| Box 15 |
Folder 1 |
McGraw-Hill Publishers, 1945 |
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Folder 2 |
Notes on E. J. Post's Sagnac Effect, 1967 |
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Folder 3 |
Notes and Reprints on Gravitation, 1960s |
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Folder 4 |
Articles on Gravitation, 1968-1969 |
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Folder 5 |
Reprints on Relativity, 1960s |
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Folder 6 |
Manuscripts and Notes on "Il faut repenser la Relativite", 1968 |
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Folder 7 |
Manuscript, "Reexamination of Relativity", 1969 |
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Folder 8 |
Manuscript and Notes, "Some Problems about Restricted Relativity", 1968 |
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Folder 9 |
Manuscript and Notes, "Quantum Theory vs. Relativity", 1968 |
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Folder 10 |
Examples and Discussion, "Doppler Effect", 1968 |
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Folder 11 |
Manuscript and Notes on Relativity, 1969 |
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Folder 12 |
Manuscript and Notes, "Gravitation and Relativity", 1968 |
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Folder 13 |
Manuscript, "Relativity Reexamined", 1966-1967 |
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Folder 14 |
Manuscript and Notes "Relativity Reexamined", 1969 |
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Folder 15 |
Manuscript, "A Gravistatic Problem with Spherical Symmetry", 1968 |
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Folder 16 |
Manuscripts on Relativity, 1969 |
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Folder 17 |
Manuscripts on Relativity, 1969 |
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Folder 18 |
Annotated volume, "Wave Propagation in Periodic Structures", no date |
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Folder 19 |
Annotated volume, "Science and Information Theory", 1960 |
| Box 16 |
Folder 1 |
Photographs (Brillouin family, friends, and colleagues) |
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Folder 2 |
Correspondence, 1959-1969 |
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Folder 3 |
Correspondence, 1968-1969 |
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Folder 4 |
Correspondence on Arthur Holly Compton, 1969 |
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Folder 5 |
Correspondence with R. Lucas re Mannheimer, 1966-1969 |
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Folder 6 |
Correspondence on artwork, 1953-1955 |
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Folder 7 |
Artwork - Modigliani, 1959 |
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Folder 8 |
Reprints about Paul Langevin by Andre Langevin, Luce Langevin, B. Kouznetzov, 1966, 1971, 1972 |
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Folder 9 |
Items from Scrapbook kept by Mrs. Brillouin |
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Folder 10 |
A. Kastler "La vie et l'oeuvre de Léon Brillouin" 1970 |
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Folder 11 |
Autobiography "Revue D'une Carriere Scientifique" (2 copies), 1966 |
| Box 17 |
Folder 1 |
Léon Brillouin's death, 1969 |
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Folder 2 |
Letters of condolence, 1969 |
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Folder 3 |
Post-mortem letters to Brillouin, 1969-1972 |
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Folder 4 |
Post-mortem correspondence, 1969-1973 |
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Folder 5 |
Correspondence regarding royalties, 1975-1982 |
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Folder 6 |
Family death certificates |
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Folder 7 |
Personal items, appraisals, estate returns and agreements |
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Folder 8 |
Passports and miscellaneous items |
| Box 18 |
Folder 1 |
Photo postcards, 1932-1933; undated |
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Folder 2 |
Photographs - people, informal, undated |
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Folder 3 |
Roskilde Cathedrale, undated |
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Folder 4 |
Photographs - S.S. Ile de France, sporting event on ship, seaplane catapult, circa 1929 |
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Folder 5 |
Photographs - heavy seas, S.S. Aquitania, undated |
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Folder 6 |
Photographs - travel photos, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Denmark, undated |
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Folder 7 |
Photographs - Quebec, undated |
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Folder 8 |
Photographs - people, informal, unlabeled, undated |
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Folder 9 |
Photographs - Russia, circa 1928 |
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Folder 10 |
Photographs - waterfall [possibly Niagara Falls?], undated |
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Folder 11 |
Photographs - U.S. travel, Madison, Wisconsin and Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1928-1929 |
