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Record Unit 7460

New England Glaciation Collection, Glass Plate Negatives, circa 1893
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
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Title: New England Glaciation Collection, Glass Plate Negatives
Dates: circa 1893
Quantity: 0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
Collection: Record Unit 7460
Language of Materials: English
Summary:

This collection consists of glass plate negatives depicting various aspects of glaciation in New England states. The negatives were used in the United States National Museum's geology exhibition at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. Apparently, they were taken by William Otis Crosby and Oliver Cummings Farrington and purchased by the USNM for exhibition at Chicago.

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This collection consists of glass plate negatives depicting various aspects of glaciation in New England states. The negatives were used in the United States National Museum's geology exhibition at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. Apparently, they were taken by William Otis Crosby and Oliver Cummings Farrington and purchased by the USNM for exhibition at Chicago.

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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7460, New England Glaciation Collection, Glass Plate Negatives

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Container List

Box 1

Folder 1 Photocopy of Negative Box Label

Box 1 of 1

Folders 2-7 Unidentified Negatives

Box 1 of 1

Folders 8-9 Ship Rock, Peabody, Massachusetts

Box 1 of 1

Folder 10 Churchill Rock, Nottingham, New Hampshire

Box 1 of 1

Folder 11 Washington Boulder, Conway, New Hampshire

Box 1 of 1

Folder 12 Rattlesnake Island, Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire

Box 1 of 1

Folders 13-14 Bartlett Boulder, Bartlett, New Hampshire

Box 1 of 1

Folder 15 Unidentified Negative

Box 1 of 1

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