Capen, Elmer Hewitt
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1838 -- 1905 - 1905
Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
Elmer Capen, 1884
Item — Box Shared 141
Call Number: UA001.003.DO.00072
Scope and Contents
cabinet card
Dates:
1884
Elmer Capen, 1900
Item — Box Shared 141
Call Number: UA001.003.DO.00073
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence from 1854-1903; clippings; Elmer Capen's Inauguration materials from 1875; his writings and publications from 1872-1902; photographs; and correspondence, notices, and memorial publications on the occasion of his death in 1905. Photographs, dating from 1875 through 1889, include original and copy photographic prints (dates are assigned based on the original image) of Capen.
Elmer Hewitt Capen (1838-1905) was born on April 5, 1838 in Stoughton,...
Dates:
1900
Elmer Hewitt Capen, class of 1860, third president
Digital Image
Found in:
Tufts Archival Research Center
Elmer Hewitt Capen, class of 1860, third president
Item
Call Number: UA065.003.006.00001.00019
Scope and Contents
Illustration from Tufts College: A Centennial History.
Dates:
1952
Office of the President Records
Collection
Call Number: UA001
Scope and Contents
This record group contains the administrative records--including correspondence, financial reocrds, newspaper clippings, photographs, publications, reports, speeches, and subject files--of the presidents of Tufts. Information about all aspects of the college and university are found in the records of the Office of the President. Often this material is in summary form. Records prior to 1976 were inconsistently kept and are even less complete for nineteenth-century presidents.Most...
Dates:
1824 -- 2020; Majority of material found within 1925 -- 2014
Found in:
Tufts Archival Research Center
P. T. Barnum, Jumbo the Elephant, and the Barnum Museum of Natural History at Tufts University
Digital Image
Dates:
2012
Found in:
Tufts Archival Research Center
P. T. Barnum, Jumbo the Elephant, and the Barnum Museum of Natural History at Tufts University, 2012
Item
Call Number: PB.002.00022
Overview
In 1883, the great showman P. T. Barnum agreed to build an eponymous museum of natural history on the campus of Tufts University, which he had served as a founding trustee. After a long career managing dime museums and a travelling circus, Barnum hoped to secure a positive legacy through the creation of an unambiguously serious institution. In addition to building and collections funds, Barnum supplied the Tufts museum – as well as the Smithsonian and American Museum of Natural History in...
Dates:
2012
Portraits of President Ballou, President Miner, and President Capen
Digital Image
Dates:
1907
Found in:
Tufts Archival Research Center
