| 4 | Creator: | Rochas d'Aiglun, Albert de, 1837-1914 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Albert de Rochas Papers
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1882-1908 | | | | Abstract: | A military officer and civilian superintendent of the École Polytechnique in Paris, Albert de Rochas became one of the best known psychic researchers in late nineteenth century France. His interests centered on uncovering the laws behind psychic forces, somnambulism, magnetism and mesmerism, hypnotism, perception, and reincarnation. A prolific writer, he studied a number of Spiritualist and Spiritist mediums, including Maria Mayo (Lina), Eusapia Paladino, and D. D. Home.
Despite the relatively small size of the collection, the papers of Albert de Rochas open an important window onto the development of psychic science in
fin de siecle France and onto the cultural impact of Spiritualism. The collection includes a scattered, but valuable selection of correspondence with fellow psychic researchers, editors, mediums, and other individuals interested in psychic research, and a valuable set of 69 spirit and psychic photographs, that Rochas collected as evidence of psychic forces, and as documentation of séances, mediums, and "sensitives." Rochas' work on the exteriorization of sensibility and studies of Lina, Charles Bailey, and Paladino are relatively well documented, and his interests in the laws of psychic phenomena, reincarnation, and the exmigration of the living soul run throughout. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.106 | | | | Extent: | 4.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Aksakov, Aleksandr, 1832-1903 | Bailey, Charles | Besant, Annie Wood, 1847-1933 | Dreams | Ecstasy | Foras, Eloi Amédée Jacques François, 1830-1899 | Henry, Charles | Hypnotism | Lina | Magnetism | Mediums | Mucha, Alphonse Marie, 1860-1939 | Music--Psychological aspects | Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910 | Orléans, Henri Philippe Marie, prince d', 1867-1907 | Paladino, Eusapia, 1854- | Parapsychology | Pelletier, Horace | Photographs | Psychology--France | Radiographs | Reichel, Willy | Reincarnation | Rochas d'Aiglun, Albert de, 1837-1914 | Rostoptchine, Lydie, 1837-1915 | Schrenck-Notzing, Albert Philibert Franz, 1862-1929 | Spirit photography | Spiritism--France | Spiritualism--France | Telepathy | Theosophy | Tissot, James, 1836-1902 | Van der Naillen, A. (Albert), 1820-1928 | Visani Scozzi, Paolo | X-rays | |
| 5 | Creator: | Thomson, Elihu, 1853-1937 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Elihu Thomson Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1865-1944 | | | | Abstract: | An electrical engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur, Elihu Thomson was an innovator in electrification in both a technical and corporate sense. With interests that ranged from the technical (electrical meters, high-pressure steam engines, dynamos, generators) to scientific (fused quartz optics, X-rays), Thomson acquired over 700 patents in his career, and in 1882, founded one of the early electrical corporations in the United States, the Thomson-Houston Company, which merged with the Edison Electric Company in 1892 to form the General Electric Company.
The Thomson Papers are a massive and nearly comprehensive collection documenting the wide range of Thomson's scientific and technical interestsm from his electrical experiments, inventions, and patents, to his interests in astronomy, geology, and medicine, as well as his role in the development of two major corporations involved in electrification, the Thomson-Houston Electric Company and General Electric Company. Roughly three quarters of the collection is dated between 1890 and 1920 when Thomson was associated with General Electric, and was active in professional groups such as the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE), International Electrotechnical Commission. His research interests. The balance of the collection is comprised of eight boxes and five volumes relating to Thomson's patents; a series of notebooks kept at Central High School; 43 letterbooks, 1882-1936; diaries of trips to Europe; notebooks on genealogy; scrapbooks of cards, photographs, clippings, and other souvenirs; and 2 vols. of tributes on his eightieth birthday, etc. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.74 | | | | Extent: | 65.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Institute of Electrical Engineers | Astronomy | Ayrton, William Edward, 1847-1908 | Barker, George Frederick 1835-1910 | Barringer, Daniel Moreau, 1860- | Bragg, William Henry, Sir, 1862-1942 | Brashear, John A. (John Alfred), 1840-1920 | Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974 | Central High School (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Coffin, Charles A., Jr. | Coolidge, William David, 1873- | Crompton, Robert E. | Cutter, George W. | De Forest, Lee, 1873-1961 | Dercum, Francis X. , (Francis Xavier), 1856-1931 | Dunn, Gano, 1870- | Edison , Thomas A., (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 | Electrical equipment | Electrical experiments | Electricity | Fleming, J. A., Sir, (John Ambrose), 1849-1945 | General Electric Company | Geology | Greene, William Houston, 1853-1918 | Hale , George Ellery, 1868-1938 | Hewitt, George Watson, 1841-1916 | International Electrotechnical Commission | Inventors | Jackson, Dugald C. (Dugald Caleb), 1865-1951 | Jeans, James Hopwood, Sir, 1877-1946 | Jeffcott, Henry Homan, d.1937 | Johnson, Alba Boardman, 1858- | Keen, William W., (William Williams), b. 1837 | Kennelly, Arthur E. (Arthur Edwin), 1861-1939 | Langmuir, Irving, 1881-1957 | Lovejoy, J. Robert | Machinery, Electrical | Mallinckrodt, Edward, 1845-1928 | Martin, Thomas Commerford, 1856-1924 | Meadowcroft, William Henry, 1853-1937 | Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin | Miller, Dayton Clarence, 1866-1941 | Morgan, Charles | Mottelay, Paul Fleury, 1841- | Pickering, William Henry, 1858-1912 | Pratt, Joseph Hyde, 1870-1942 | Pritchett, Henry S., (Henry Smith), 1857-1939 | Quartz optics | Rawle, Francis | Rice, Edwin Wilbur, 1831-1929 | Riche, George W. | Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972 | Snyder, Monroe Benjamin, 1848- | Spooner, Henry John, 1856-1940 | Steam engines | Steinmetz, Charles Proteur, 1865-1923 | Stockley, George | Stratton, Samuel Wesley, 1861-1931 | Stuart, George | Thompson, Maria M. | Thomson, Elihu, 1853-1937 | Thomson, Silvanus P. | Thomson-Houston Electrical Co. | Todd, David | Whitney, Willis Rodney, 1868-1958 | X-rays | |
| 6 | Creator: | Murphy, James Bumgardner, 1884-1950 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | James Bumgardner Murphy Papers
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1918-1950 | | | | Abstract: | A pathologist and cancer specialist, James B. Murphy spent most of career associated with the Rockefeller Institute (1911-1950) investigating the role of lymphocytes in tuberculosis, x-ray mutagenesis, and the nature of malignant tumors in fowls. The Murphy Papers contains professional correspondence and research notes relating to James B. Murphy's cancer research at the Rockefeller, and information on several of the organizations to which he contributed or belonged, including the American Association for Cancer Research; American Bureau for Medical Aid to China; American Cancer Society; Bar Harbor Medical and Surgical Hospital; Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory; Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer (New York City, ca. 1932-1950); National Advisory Cancer Council; and the New York Academy of Medicine (1923-1950). Murphy helped to develop mobile laboratories for hospitals in France during World War I. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M956 | | | | Extent: | 15.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Association for Cancer Research. | American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. | American Cancer Society. | Aub, Joseph Charles, 1890-1873 | Bar Harbor Medical and Surgical Hospital | Bayne-Jones, Stanhope, 1888-1970 | Bloodgood, Joseph Colt, 1867-1935 | Bronson, Margaret L. | Cancer--Research | Casey, Albert Eugene, 1903- | Caspari, Ernst W. | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Chesney, Alan M., (Alan Mason), 1888-1964 | Cowdry, E. V., (Edmund Vincent), 1888-1975 | Cramer, Charles | Duran-Reynals, Francisco | Dyott, G. M. , (George Miller), 1883-1972 | Erdman, Rhoda | Ewing, James | Favilli, Giovanni | Flexner, Simon, 1863-1946 | Gasser, Herbert Spencer, 1888-1963 | Gates, Frederick L. | Goldfeder, Anna | Hogeboom, George | Hospitals--New York (State)--New York | Immunology | Jacobs, John L. | Kennaway, Ernest L. | Lathrop, Abbie E. C. | Leddy, Percy Allen | Lewis, Margaret Reed | Lewis, Richard H., 1918- | Little, Clarence C., (Clarence Cook), b. 1888 | Loeb, Leo, 1869-1959 | Longcope, Warfield T., (Warfield Theobald), 1877-1953 | Lymphocytes | MacNider, William de Berniere, 1881-1951 | Maisin, Joseph | Medical sciences | Medicine, Military | Medicine--Research | Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer | Mice as laboratory animals | Minot, George Richards, 1885-1950 | Morton, John T. | Murphy, James Bumgardner, 1884-1950 | Nakahara, Warso, 1896-1976 | National Advisory Cancer Council (U.S.). | New York Academy of Medicine. | Osterhout, W. J. V., (Winthrop John Van Leuven), 1871-1964 | Pathology | Porter, Keith R. | Radiation--Physiological effect | Rhoads, Cornelius Packard, 1898-1959 | Rockefeller Institute. | Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory. | Rous, Peyton, 1879-1970 | Russell, Frederick Fuller, 1870-1960 | Sabin, Florence Rena, 1871-1953 | Schram, Mildred W. S. | Shope, Richard E., (Richard Edwin), 1901- | Smith, Edric B | Sokoloff, Boris, 1893- | Spies, John W. | Strong, Leonell C., (Leonell Clarence), 1894- | Sturm, Ernest, 1878-1936 | TenBroeck, Carl, 1885-1966 | Tuberculosis--Research | Tumors in animals | Warren, Shields, 1898- | Weed, Lewis H., (Lewis Hill), 1886-1952 | Welch, William Henry, 1850-1934 | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964 | World War, 1914-1918--Medical care | X-rays | Zinsser, Hans, 1878-1940 | |
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