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SIA Acc. 98-132, Sabrosky, Curtis W (Curtis Williams) 1910-, Curtis W. Sabrosky Papers, 1928-1997
Summary
- Creator:
- Sabrosky, Curtis W (Curtis Williams) 1910-
- Title:
- Curtis W. Sabrosky Papers, 1928-1997
- Dates:
- 1928, 1928-1997
- Summary:
- These records consist of papers taken from Sabrosky's home after his death and given to the Department of Entomology. Materials include personal correspondence, family photographs, photographs and documents of Sabrosky's extensive travels (both holidays and trips to professional meetings), photographs of specimens, professional correspondence, lecture slides, travel slides, journals, award certificates and diplomas, and scrapbooks
- Topic:
- Entomology
- Subject:
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Entomology
- Form/Genre:
- Clippings, Collection descriptions, Manuscripts, Color photographs, Motion pictures (visual works)
- Local Number:
- SIA Acc. 98-132
Finding Aids to Personal Papers and Special Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Table of Contents
Accession 98-132
Sabrosky, Curtis W, (Curtis Williams),1910-
Curtis W. Sabrosky Papers, 1928-1997
Collection Overview | |
| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
|---|---|
| Creator: | Sabrosky, Curtis W, (Curtis Williams),1910- |
| Title: | Curtis W. Sabrosky Papers |
| Dates: | 1928-1997 |
| Quantity: | 9 cu. ft. (9 record storage boxes) |
| Collection: | Accession 98-132 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of records taken from Curtis Sabrosky's home after his death and given to the Department of Entomology. Materials include personal correspondence, family photographs, photographs and documents of Sabrosky's extensive travels (both holidays and trips to professional meetings), photographs of specimens, professional correspondence, lecture slides, travel slides, journals, award certificates and diplomas, and scrapbooks. The majority of the personal letters and travel writing in this accession were written by Laurel Kingsley Sabrosky. Ms. Sabrosky was employed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and served with the Red Cross in India during World War II. There is also genealogical material on the Curtis, Sabrosky and Kingsley families.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-132, Sabrosky, Curtis W, (Curtis Williams),1910-, Curtis W. Sabrosky Papers
Container List
Box 1
Career plan data
Personal correspondence and photographs, c. 1940-1990 (4 folders)
Personal, c. 1930-1950
Journal, 1932-1935
Diploma - Kalamazoo College, 1951
Essays by CWS (C. W. Sabrosky)
CWS letters to editor
Herman Sabrosky memorial book
Numbers at congresses and history - For article
Miscellaneous
CWS personal publicity
Retirement letters
Hymenoptera catalogue
Yearbook - numbers of insects - Population figures
For "Quo Vadis Taxonomy"
Christmas letters
Mosquito survey of Michigan
Kansas State
Cosmos Club
"Internationally Speaking," by Sabrosky
CWS Personal - Entomological Society of America (ESA)
Dancing
Personals miscellaneous - Awards, curriculum vitae, etc.
Arizona, 1932 - Talks
Gaspe, 1949
Egyptian trip, 1950
Europe, 1951
European trip, 1953
Copenhagen trip, 1953 - Pictures and talk
Norway, 1954
Southwest trip, 1962
Hawaiian trip, 1964 - Dedication at Bishop Museum
Palau trip, 1957
Travels - Sabroskys
Russian trip, 1968 Congress
Russian trip, 1971 (2 folders)
Box 2
Australia, 1972
Postcards, 1949-1953, 1974
USDA Danube/Adriatic tour, 1975
Helsinki trip and Lund meeting, 1979
Siberian adventure, 1981
Russia/Siberia, 1981
Amazon adventure, 1982
Budapest Congress of Dipterology, 1986
ESA Reno meeting, 1986
South America, 1986
Hamburg Congress, 1984
Japan/Alaska/Vancouver, 1979
English trip with Crosskeys - Hotels and letters, 1981
Crosskey's trip, 1981
Bryan World Tours, 1981
Czechoslovakia and Russia, 1990
Edmonton trip, spring 1987
Personal correspondence - Laurel K. Sabrosky, c. 1980
National Trust: "Island World of Britain," 1978
North Dakota 1982 trip and Eunice
Miscellaneous Taxonomy and Taxonomic Practice
Common Names
ESA Presidential address
"On the Fly"
Miscellaneous talks
Southern Forest Insect Work Conference
Talks on taxonomic methods and techniques
California talk on zoological nomenclature and other talks
Correspondence, notes, and slides
Return of chloropid loans
Professional Correspondence, 1995-1997
Pape, Thomas
Thompson, F. C.
Usinger, Martha
Wheeler, Terry A.
Zack, Richard S.
Zoological Society of London
Papp, Laszlo
Pitkin, Brian
Pont, Adrian
Rognes, Knut
Serra, Armando Lewis
South Africa
Stuckenberg, B. R.
Agriculture Canada
Amorim, Dalton
Andersson, Hugo
Arnaud, Paul H.
Dely-Draskovits, Agnes
Dipterological Research, Journal
Draber-Monko, Agnes
Evenhuis, Neal L.
Freidberg, Amnon
Genaro, Julio Antonio
Greve, Lisa
Grimaldi, David
Guimaraes, Jose H.
Hanson, Will J.
Hopla, Cluff
Ismay, John W.
Janzen, Daniel H.
Kanmiya, Kenkichi
Marshall, Steve A.
Nartshuk, Emilia
Oosterbroek, Pjotr
Paganelli, Celuta
Banks, Duncan
Baptista - Stenomicra
Basilewsky, P.
Beschovski, Venelin
Correspondence, B: Borba, Brown, Burger, Byers
Crosskey, Roger W.
Deeming, John C.
Carles-Tolra, Miguel
Chandler, Peter
Cameron, H. D.
Chvala, Milan
Pitkin, Brian R.
Poland
Raven, Peter H.
Ride, W. D. L.
Steyskal material
Personal correspondence and photographs
Retirees' newsletter (USDA)
Comments on draft
Spencer, K. A.
Diaries, 1927-1928
Malloch library
Dipterology Congress, Guelph, 1994
Chloropidae, USSR
Malloch
Townsend type material and type designation
Townsend card files
Townsend collections
Townsend types at Kansas University
Townsend (Parker letters)
Box 3
Rogers, Knut
Shenefelt, Roy D.
Silberglied, Robert
Tierra del Fuego
Tschirnhaus, M. von
Valley, Karl
Miscellaneous correspondence
Vienna
Personal correspondence (2 folders)
Ireland
Family history
Ismay, J.
Paganelli, Celuta
Parker, Harry
Types of tachinidae in USNM (United States National Museum)
Type book
Type collection
Master of Science thesis and associated items
Kanmiya, K.
Melville, Richard V.
Monroe, Douglas D.
Nartshuk, Emilia P.
Personal correspondence and photographs, 1990s
Avian family group names
Personal correspondence
New correspondence (3 folders)
Harvard
Don Williams
Questions on Famcatalogue
Final notes on catalogue
Council - International Congress of Entomology
Old talks, book review, and manuscripts
Belgian Congo Museum
Loans - CWS
Galapagos
Miscellaneous personal correspondence and photographs
Miscellaneous correspondence and photographs
Miscellaneous personal photographs, notes, and correspondence (nitrate negative removed, 6/13/2007)
Photographs (nitrate negatives removed, 6/13/2007)
Journals, 1990s
Box 4
Miscellaneous correspondence
Protocalliphora - Montreal talk manuscript
Miscellaneous Protocalliphora
Protocalliphora - Palaearctic notes
Personal and professional correspondence
Correspondence to deal with
Current correspondence
Professional correspondence
General on the families
Field notes
Correspondence and notes
Philadelphia - The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia (ANSP) volunteer
Current letters
Personal letters to answer sometime
Gode - Bionomenclature
Entomological Foundation
Requests - Family names
Gender
Galapagos Diptera
Grimaldi
Myrtle personal correspondence
Reminiscences (talk)
Ride book
Systemic Entomology Laboratory Friends (SELF) newsletter
Correspondence
Von Tschirnhaus
Melville, Richard
Ismay, John
Correspondence and photographs
Journals - European trip, 1937
Foreign travel reports
Notes, correspondence, photographs, and slides
Stephamostoma
Third International Congress of Dipterology
International Congress of Entomology, Beijing, China
Notes and photographs
Correspondence
Code vol. 4 - old notes
Correspondence - International Congress of Entomologists
Entomological Societies - Old information
American Entomological Society
Collecting localities
Biological Control course - Diptera
Association of Systematics Collections (ASC) Council on Zoological Nomenclature
Foreign travel
Terminology
Wing venation
List of abbreviations
Miscellaneous to sort
Families in Diptera - Mimeographed table
Batu Cave
Collectors
Miscellaneous
Southwestern Research Station
Speed of flies
Megathymus
Entomological societies - Additions and corrections
Dysertia
Correspondence
Amsterdam, Zoological Museum
Baird, Craig R.
Borkent, Art
Bock, Walter
Correspondence, C
Darlington, Johanna
Downs, William L.
Dysart, R. J.
Family letters
Fish, Durland
Foote, B. A.
Gold, Clifford S.
Guimaraes, J. H.
Hagan, Daniel V.
Hamilton, Robert W.
Hardy, D. Elmo
Heppell, David
Hoebeke, E. R.
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Kirk-Spriggs, A. H.; Kohn, Marian; etc.
Lund, Sweden
Mathis, Wayne
McAlpine, J. F.
Menke, Arnold
Merrill, L. G.
Michelsen, Verner
O'Hara, James
Perreira, W. D.
Povolny, D.
Radovsky, Frank
Rasnitsyn, A. P.
Revels, Mia
Ride, W. D. L.
Box 5
Photograph - Malaria control in war areas, Atlanta, Georgia training session
A. N. Sabrosky Correspondence
Saether problems
Senckenberg Museum
Sherman, Scott C.
Swann, John
Usinger, Martha
Vaillant, F.
Valley, Karl
Vockeroth, J. R.
Vogt, James T.
Wendt, Helle
Whitworth, Terry
Wood, D. M.
Zatwarnicki, T.
Sequence of topics
Personal and professional correspondence and photographs, c. 1985-1990
Day book, 1929
India Background - Laurel Sabrosky, World War II India Red Cross
Diaries, 1928-1931
Nottawa Women's Club scrapbook, Jennie Sabrosky, c. 1920s-1960s
Family photo album, Jennie Sabrosky, c. 1920s-1960s
Photographs and certificate
Talk - Family Group Names in Diptera
Donations of insects to USNM
International Congress of Dipterology Council
Christmas letters
Laurel Kingsley Sabrosky awards and correspondence
Protocalliphora talks
Cuterebra - Talk at Budapest
Letters and reports - Christmas and travel by Laurel Sabrosky
Pictures - USDA Extension Service, Laurel Sabrosky at 4-H breakfast, etc.
Laurel's thesis
Butterfield Youth Services
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) on Protocalliphora
Collections
Collections, value of
Fossil Diptera
Specimen correspondence
Solomon's Island Lab
Wing venation
Land - Reprint exchange
Michigan Diptera
Michigan list
Research project outline
XVI International Congress of Zoology - Organizing committee
Editing (Memoranda - Smithsonian)
Endowments Committee
Exchanges - Available
Flight - Flies
Hallucinations - Insect
Hopkins numbers
Annual reports (old)
Manuscripts not published
Memos
Centennial Year Committee
Notes
Congress talk to Entomological Society, Washington
Rules for combinations
Onion maggot article
Santee-Cooper
Entomology section, 1944, Santee-Cooper
Manuscript on "Area of Endemic Malaria"
Mosquito population studies, 1945-1946
Public Health Service
Malaria field research data, 1945
Taxonomy notes
Manuscript on DDT study
Dely-Dreskovits, Agnes
Hamburg Congress, 1984
R. D. (Robineau Desvoidy), 1826
Oman project
Rognes, Knut
Correspondence - Mostly holiday letters
Box 6
Kalamazoo diploma
Family group catalog - At Bratislava
Family photographs
Photo album - Curtiss family, England
Scrapbook - Sabrosky college days
Scrapbook - Curtis family genealogy
Photo album - Sabrosky family
Scrapbook - Sabrosky family
Photographs - Unidentified wedding
Kansas State Diploma
Photographs - Professional groups
Sturgis High School diploma
Photographs and memorabilia (2 folders)
Photographs
Family photographs - Sabrosky family
Photograph album - Laurel Kingsley Sabrosky
Family photographs - Kingsley family (3 folders)
Box 7
Awards (2 folders)
Photographs (nitrate negative removed, 6/13/2007) (2 folders)
Travel notebooks - Includes photograph citations (3 folders)
Photograph album - Laurel K. Sabrosky, World War II in India (2 folders)
Memorial book for mother
Photograph - Budapest, 1986
Photographs - Miscellaneous and family (2 folders)
Photographs - Diptera
Scrapbook
Photographs
Scrapbook
Box 8
Travel slides, c. 1950s
Travel slides - China, 1992; Slides of family and friends, 1993; Australia, 1993; Mexico, 1990
Travel slides - Japan, 1980; Greenland/Iceland, 1987; Iceland, 1995; "Eleanor's Country"
Narrative, 1994
Travel slides - Chile, 1986; Siberia, 1981; England, 1978; box labeled "96-2" and other miscellaneous, including entomology staff
Slides for talk in Chicago - "Quo Vadis Taxonomy"
Diptera family - Group names, lecture slides
Travel slides - Italy and unidentified, 1996, 1994; Russia, 1968, and miscellaneous people
Travel slides - Mostly Russia, 1968-1971
Travel slides - Russia, 1981; France, 1994; Australia, 1972; Brazil and miscellaneous
Slides - Personal
Travel slides - Australia, New Zealand, and miscellaneous
Travel slides - California, British Columbia, Alaska, Arizona, and other U.S. trips
Travel slides - Hawaii, Caribbean, Sao Paolo, Panama, Stensoffa, Iguacu Falls
Slides - Entomologists
Slides of Dipterists
Travel slides - Cuzco, Macchu Pichu, Chile, Brazil, Palau and Yap, Monaco, Paris, Columbia R. trip, Miscellaneous, Switzerland, Vienna
Travel slides - England, Gobi, Pakistan, Yugoslavia, Newfoundland, Budapest, Greenland, Florida, Amazon, Scandinavia
Miscellaneous personal slides
Lecture slides
Slides - Miscellaneous and unidentified
Lecture slides - Diptera family group names; Meigen plates; Chloropid WS; Hippelates
Photographs - Hippelates
Personal photographs
Photographs - Dancing, other personal (nitrate negative removed, 7/2007)
Photographs from Laurel Sabrosky's wallet
Photographs of specimens (2 folders)
Box 9
35mm black and white film
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