Charles Eliot. 007 Scrapbook 1. THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ARCHIVES & RESEARCH CENTER the trustees of reservations Guide to Charles Eliot Scrapbook, 1888-1901 TTOR.10. Eliot by Miriam B. Spectre December 2009 Last updated: December 2013 1/17/14 Archives & Research Center 27 Everett Street, Sharon, MA 02067 www.thetrustees.org arc@ttor.org 781-784-8200 NCCC: 2 The Trustees of Reservations - www.thetrustees.org Extent: I V. (140 p.) in oversize box Linear feet: 1.0 Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Reservations ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION PROVENANCE Created by Charles Eliot (1859-1897). OWNERSHIP & LITERARY RIGHTS The Charles Eliot Scrapbook is the physical property of The Trustees of Reservations. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. CITE AS Charles Eliot Scrapbook. The Trustees of Reservations, Archives & Research Center. RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS This collection is open for research. Restricted Fragile Material may only be consulted with permission of the archivist. Preservation copies have been created for reference use. CHARLES ELIOT (1859-1897) Charles Eliot (1859-1897) was an American landscape architect and founder of The Trustees of Reservations. DESCRIPTION OF THE SCRAPBOOK This scrapbook was created by Charles Eliot regarding the founding and early work of The Trustees of Reservations. The scrapbook includes loose items laid in at the back after Eliot's death. Notz:A28-page listing of contents, including 364 items. Charles Eliot Scrapbook - 3 1/6/2021 The Charles Eliot Scrapbo Research Guide . Eliot Scrapbook Study Guide Charles Eliot Scrapbook Research Guide (HTTPS://ELIOTSCRAPBOOK.OMEKA.NET) THE CHARLES ELIOT SCRAPBOOK RESEARCH GUIDE Who was Charles Eliot? Learn more (https://eliotscrapbook.omeka.net/abouteliot) Tools & Resources Collection Finding Aid Scrapbook Themes Researc (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tRmGBCPBLPz5KT3tEtTDNTRjTVskk- (https://eliotscrapbook.omeka.net/themes/)(https://eliotscrapbo e9/view?usp=sharing) An overview of the major topics in the An in-depth look at An inventory of the scrapbook's contents, organized by page number. scrapbook, as well as the underlying raised by the scrapb issues and events that influenced Eliot Each item is listed with a title and/or brief description, date (if available), citations. These topi 1/6/2021 The Charles Eliot Scrapbor's Research Guide . Eliot Scrapbook Study Guide and the type of document - e.g. letter, clipping, pamphlet, etc. anu saud couse vallon Includes page numbers for related record and suggest i scrapbook articles. research. Subject Index People Index Other Resources (https://eliotscrapbook.omeka.net/index) (https://eliotscrapbook.omeka.net/nameindex) (https://eliotscrapbook.omeka.net/other) Names of people mentioned in the scrapbook, A list of recommended sources for An alphabetical listing of subject keywords and corresponding page including authors of articles. Corresponding further research, including several online numbers for the articles and other page numbers are given for each name, as well archives that contain digital versions of scrapbook material. Includes a separate as context for the reference, such as the the articles in the scrapbook, as well as list of Massachusetts-related terms. person's profession, location, and other other primary source material from achievements (when known). Eliot's time. Home (https://eliotscrapbook.omeka.net/home About This Project (https://eliotscrapbook.omeka.net/about) 2018 The Trustees, Archives & Research Center. 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ACCEPT https://thetrustees.access.preservica.com/record/sdb%3AdeliverableUnit%7Cd170550d-84.. 2/14/2021 Page 1 of 1 Contact Us I Jobs I Sign up for our eN FIND YOUR PLACE PLACES TO VISIT THINGS TO DO WHAT WE CARE ABOUT VOLUNTEER the trustees of reservations Home > Email > Find Your Place Of Farm & Family: Generations of Appleto E-Newsletter Sign Up Explore events, news, & more! Enter email Zip code SIGN UP Farm In honor of the 375th Anniversary of the founding of Appleton Farms, The Trustees of Reservations are pleased to showcase a special exhibition of family portraits from our collection. The exhibition, Of Farm & Family: Generations of Appleton Family Portraits, was curated by Susan Hill Dolan Cultural Resources Specialist for the Northeast Reg emails. and Rebecca Gardner Campbell. "Our 375th Anniversary exhibition celebrates the men and women of the farm no only with their portraits, but also by sharing the human stories behind each of the sitters," says Susan Hill Dolan. "In addition, photographs and decorative arts obje 7.R. the in our collection have been integrated into the show to help bring these family Cachage members 'to life.' " These objects range from the 1738 christening spoon of Sam Appleton, to the 1913 needlework sampler by a young Ruth Appleton, to the Red Cross uniform worn by Joan E. Appleton in World War II. to to 19p2- The important collection of family portraits also represents the work of some of America's leading artists of the 19th and early 20th century. Among the 17 paintir and drawings in the show, you'll find works by Ellen Emmet Rand, Lydia Field Emmet, and Eastman Johnson, one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum Art in New York known as "the American Rembrandt" of his time. A handsome portrait of General James Appleton, probably dating to the 1820s, has a label Charles attributing it to Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole, which is in the process ( being further researched. The Trustees extensive collection of objects and archives from all of our propertie are stored at our Archives & Research Center in Sharon, Massachusetts. This climate-controlled facility with state-of-the-art storage allows us to rotate the http://www.thetrustees.org/email/find-your-place/of-farm-and-family.html 1/21/2014 Francis Randall Appleton, Sr. (1854-1929) Francis Randall Appleton, Sr. was the eldest son of Daniel Fuller Appleton and would be the next heir to Appleton Farms. Francis attended Phillips Academy and Harvard University, a proud member of the Class of L875. He practiced law in New York and married Fanny Lanier Appleton in 1884. They had five children, including Francis R.Appleton, Jr., the last Appleton to live at the farm. Correspondence between FRA, Sr. and his father shows that he was very invested in its operation from a young age. Even while a student at Harvard, he would take the train to Ipswich to oversee the farm. When Francis then wanted to quit school to run the farm full time, his father discouraged him from doing so, understanding the need for him to earn his livelihood By Ellen Emmet Rand, 1925 elsewhere in order to support the Oil on canvas farm. Though legal title was 30.6"H x 24.7"W transferred to FRA, Sr. on his 21st TTOR/Appleton Farms Collection birthday, he assumed official owner- AF.189 ship in 1904 upon the death of Daniel Fuller Appleton. By this time, Francis the trustees and Fanny had built the 1890 New of reservations House on pastureland gifted to him www.thetrustees.org by his father for his summer mansion. Page 17 FRA's first priority on the farm was to begin Randall Appleton, Sr., was also active in the repair and remodeling of all the farm educational, civic and business affairs. He was buildings and their surrounding locations. By an overseer of Harvard University president 1910, he retired from active business as a of the Harvard Club in New York City, lawyer and devoted himself to advancing president of the New York Farmers, vice agriculture on the farm and to improving his president of the Essex Agricultural Society, estate, with an interest in increasing the value director of the Cape Cod Canal Corporation, of the farm. and, following his father's tradition, vice president of the Waltham Watch Company. Landscape beautification also became a major focus for FRA, Sr., appreciating Appleton for its Francis was also an ardent sportsman, scenic and pastoral beauty. In 1912, passionate about fox hunting. He was one of he conceived and built what is perhaps his the founders of the Meadowbrook Club on greatest legacy at the farm-"The Grass Rides." Long Island and a member of the Myopia Hunt Created for recreational horseback riding, the Club, where his brother Randolph served as Grass Rides is a web-like series of trails that Master of the Fox Hounds. His Grass Rides convene at Rond Point. That same year, FRA, allowed family and friends to enjoy horseback 1912 Sr., then the chairman of Harvard's overseers, riding at the farm for sport and pleasure. was given the architectural pinnacles from Fitting to the occasion, their completion was Harvard's Gore Hall, which was being torn celebrated by a hunt breakfast and a meet of down to make way for the new Widener the Myopia Hounds on Columbus Day 1912. Library in memory of Thomas Widener who died on the Titanic in April 1912. The most prominent decorative elements in the landscape, these stone pinnacles have served as memorials beginning in 1921, with dedications to various family members carved into triangular marble panels. Although he devoted a great deal of his time the trustees and energy to the farm, like his father, Francis of reservations www.thetrustees.org Page 18 Escaping, if we may, alive, The motors' homicidal drive, And heartened, possibly, within By bitters and synthetic gin, We come to praise and to admire Our F.R.A., the Essex Squire, And looking at him seem to see That pleasant world that used to be. The many poems, toasts and speeches in our That world when folks were folks, and when archives also attest to FRA, Sr.'s intelligence, The horse ranked up right next to men. wit and charm. He loved sharing these with When telephones were servant still, And had not bent us to their will; family, friends and his Harvard "brothers" from When bikes and trolley cars were new, the esteemed Porcellian Club. In turn, we also And gas gave light and rye gave rue, find decades worth of poems and tributes And bathtubs all were made of tin, written in his honor, be they for the Harvard And dry champagne was not a sin, Club dinners or to mark special occasions at And verse was verse and not yet free, Appleton Farms. The following poem was In that old world that used to be. read at the Harvard Club in New York in I see that world, its table spread, honor of Francis Randall Appleton, Sr.'s 70th And, sitting at that table's head, birthday. Is F.R.A., the Essex Squire, A-twanging of a proper lyre, A-filling up of cups and then A-emptying of them again. With grains in joy, but not beyond What bounds to mirth were in the bond That made the faithful bondman free, In that old world that used to be. And wondering, anxious, if and when We'll get beneath a roof again And see again a table spread, the trustees And F.R.A. still at its head. of reservations www.thetrustees.org Page 19 Fanny Lanier Appleton (1864-1958) Fanny Lanier was born in New York City in 1864. At age 20, she married Francis Randall Appleton, Sr., a New York lawyer and eldest son of Daniel Fuller Appleton. They were married at her family's summer home in Lenox, Massachusetts, and maintained their permanent home in Manhattan. Fanny and Francis had five children, beginning with Francis Randall Appleton, Jr., followed by Charles, Ruth,Alice and James. Here she is depicted with her youngest son, James Waldingfield Appleton (1899- 1915), who would die tragically young at age 16. Fanny would continue to live a long life, surviving her husband and three of her five children, to the age of 93. Mrs. Francis Randall Appleton, Sr. (Fanny Lanier Appleton) and James W. Appleton Pastel on paper Circa 1905-10 30"H x 20 "W the trustees TTOR/Appleton Farms Collection of reservations AF.240 www.thetrustees.org Page 20 Flenald Sample2of page from goes more and Charles Eliot prospect for thend scrapbook. gloomy one particularly and in the neighborhood of Boston numerous other spots have been brought to This condition of thing the attention of the committee because of KEEPING NATURE NATURAL. their literary, romantic, or historical asso- ing more noticable in southern Massachi ciations, among them the rock of Norman's setts, and the report of the agent of the Woe, near Gloucester, Heartbreak Hill in Ipswich, the Indian cave in Medfield, the ciety emphasizes the fact. The MERCU First Report of the Trustees Cradock House in Medford, the Wayside has already printed some of the agent Inn in Sudbury, the "Captain's Well" in of Public Reservations. Amesbury and the well of "The Old Oaken marks upon the state of affairs in some Bucket' in Scituate. individual cities and towns of this The board. however, does not possess either the money or the authority to enable But we may call attention to some of An Important and Interesting Docu- it to snatch real estate out of the hands of Harrison's more general observations anybody. Like the trustees of a public art ment-What the Board Has Done to museum, the board stands ready to under- He savs: "I found leagues and Preserve Natural Sconery in Massa- take the care of such precious things as gether of the shore line tolbeall may be placed in its charge. chusetts-The Recent Acquisition of It is urged that those anxious for the res- ings, without the intervention: in these cue of this or that interesting spot or Virginia Wood. reaches, of a road or space on the structure must not be discouraged when The historic pine tree design of the old they learn that the board possesses no which the public has a right to go. magic powers. With all the other lovers of Massachusetts flag and coinage adorns across the domain of one man the scenery and the history of Massachu- the cover of the first annual report of the setts, they must hasten to imitate those ad- about six miles of shore line trustees of public reservations. Very ap- mirers of the fine arts who have so liberally great population inland hedged endowed the public art museums. propriately the design has been adopted for The committee has from the first given the beach, and all condition the seal of the corporation. attention to time, not remote, when nobody can walk The report is an interesting and impor Certain Broad Questions. the ocean in Massachusetts without tant document, and shows a goodly amount It found Massachusetts, as a whole, shame- fully lacking in open spaces reserved ex- of a fee, as we formerly had to of work done in the first six months of the corporation's existence. It gives an account pressly for public enjoyment, and. the glimpse of Niagara." With condition of the origin of the organization, and the choicest places were passing into the hands affairs goes another, which perfect law under which it was incorporated to of private owners. As population increases ral, for as everybody in southern acquire, hola' maintain for public use the final destruction of the finest remain- setts knows: 'Wherever and enjoyment beautiful and historical ing bits of scenery goas on more and more have bought places on the seashor rapidly. The prospect thus seemed in many places and tracts of land, within this com- ways gloomy. particularly upon the sea- show a disposition to exercise the right.of monwealth. shore, and in the neighborhood of Boston. exclusive domain, and to repells The first gift to the trustces was that of Action was therefore taken in four direc- tions: 1. To investigate and publish the all who enter upon their grounds for any the Virginia wood in the Middlesox Fells facts in respect to the provision of public pose whatever. In some instance region. in the town of Stoneham, compris open spaces. 2. To collect and publish the ing about 20 acres near Spot pond. The laws of Massachusetts which permit or thus excluded from places where otherwise affect the acquisition and main- gift came from several trustees, to whom public resort and passage have tenance of public open spaces. 3. To call Mrs. Fanny H. Tudor, daughter of the lato together the park commissioners and com- cised for generations. Even where William Foster of Stoneham, had conveyed mittees of the Boston Metropolitan dis- cient legal rights of the people are clear they trict. 4. To ask the present Legislature to the property, and the name was given in institute an inquiry into the whole subject. are being generally relinquished because memory of a daughter of the donor. For the first purpose Mr. J. B. Harrison. costs too much to maintain them whose important work in behalf of the The land is a diversified tract of wood- preservation of Niagara and the Adiron- aggression." land divided by a hollow containing a dacks is well known, was engaged as There are many collateral problems brook, possessed of many fine specimens of hemlock, pines, oaks and other trees, and agent of the trustees. and the interesting probable results which force themselv report of his exploration of the shore town- upon the mind of one who looks beyond capable of serving as a delightful retreat ships in August and September is given in for the large population which the pro- the appendix. It is hoped that he will be surface of this topic, But tht which vosed Stoneham railroad will bring into able to explore the inland towns this raised in the quotations we have given season. the neighborhood. Mr. Harrison made a special report on the especial importance, particularly in A subscription from residents of Melrose, only large public reservation held by the of the state. Ample food for reflection Malden and Medford sufficient to insure commonwealth the Province lands at Provincetown, and in consequence the trus- found in two questions which are the maintenance and protection of the tees have petitioned the Legislature for by Mr. Harrison in this languaga place has been measures for their protection and preserva. (a) Should there not be a broad Nearly Completed, tion. In consequence of the meeting of the park highway or'a strip of public land so that the charge of the wood will soon commissionersrond committees of the met- whole length of the seashore of the devolve upon the board, and Mrs. Tidor's ropolitan district, called by the committee, need not always follow the water's namo will head the list of "founders" in the subject is now before the Legislature haps, but could be carried inland with favorable prospects for the appoint- next year's report, while the contributors worst marshes. ment of special commission to inquire into to the endowment fund will also appear as the subject of preserving the finest natural (b) Would it not be well to consid "life associates" and "contributors." scenery in the state. question of limiting the length of the line or ocean front of private holdings: A second proposal was that of a gentle- The first annual report of The Trustees of extent of the shore line of the AUTO man who desired to purchase one of the finest groves near Boston as a memorial of Public Reservations is a most interesting passably limited. while the population of a young man who loved all natural beauty little pamphlet. This organization is a cor- country is certain to increase to an with uncommon ardor. The complicated which at present:almost unimaginable ownership of the tract, however, has un- poration which exists, to use the language of it consistent with the public Welfare fortunately thus far proven an insur+ its report, "to facilitate the preservation of few persons should have the absolute mountable obstacle. beautiful and historical places in Massachu- session and control of unlimited areas of the The standing committee of the corpora- shore? What are the reasous which tion believes that the future will witness setts." There is need for some organized ef- many instances of this giving of natural such H monopoly? With all possible landscapes in memoriam. Is not 10- fort to accomplish this end, for 'a mistaken for private and individual Interests, ligiously guarded living landscape a finer utilitarian spirit has already permitted, if proper to inquire what actual benefits monument than any ordinary work in mar- derives from the exclusive owner hin ble or stained glass? asks the committee. not encouraged, the destruction of many occupancy of four or tive miles of seashor A third interesting suggestion came from beautiful spots in this state. Individual in- The problem of title to the shore, and a gentleman. one of whose ancestors suc- ceeded in permanently attaching his name fluence can hardly be counted upon to arrest use and enloyment of it by the people to a certain picturesque spot, which was the work of devastation, and the power of state, will in time be a most vital and impo visited by the committee and found to be ant public question here, so placed that it would make a very useful, co-operation is wisely invoked. as well as handsome and interesting public It is not necessary to answer these The society, however, found itself forced reservation. There must be in Massachu- tions without thinking of ill that thear setts, says the committee, m merous other "to give attention to certain broad questions places somewhat similarly identified with may involve. But, to make a practical honored names, and the board will always from which it found itself unable to escape. cation, the more presentation of the be glad to interest itself in their permanent "Massachusetts," it says, "as a whole, is preservation. shamefully lacking in open spaces reserved ought to arouse the people of south Among the many spots suggested by other persons as being worthy of preserva- expressly for enjoyment by tho public. The achusetts to the urgent need of tion on account of their special beauty or mountain tops of the interior, the cliffs and which shall forever prevent the charm are named the following The banks of Charles river at Newton Upper beaches of the seashore, and most of the in of their being excluded from the Falls, the Falls of Beaver brook in Bel mont, the top of Shootflying Aill in Barn- tervening scenes of special beauty are rapidly and pleasures of seashore In stable. the Purgatory in Sutton, the Glen at passing into the possession of private owners the park system of New Bedford this Whately, the Natural bridge near North who hold these placed either for their portant should neverb Adams the favine of the Bash Bish Mt Washington In addition to these places private pleasure the profit which may be fee the pub duty this direction. Sent mayer partCommissioners PUBLIC PASSACHUSSITE OF DEPARTMENT SNOT 1891 FOR THE PURPOSE OF HOLDING AND OPENING TO THE PUBLIC BEAUTIFUL AND HISTORICAL PLACES IN MASSACHUSETTS. So Title my clear Sir: : 9 Dec. Conference of the part Commissioners, and You are condicioning inveted to arrend a other representatives of the terms cities of the nei igh N Boston, is and haid in the meetin :- room of line the Beston Tame Com. issicn. Exchange Building Biston on Wednesday December 16in. 1791 at 2.4 P.m. Years very thele? Standing P.Q. Chase. Chairman. C.S. Sangers Committee N.T. Wrichts. Pau. Charles Chirt. Secretary Note: Sample 1 page from Charles Eliof Scraphook. 9/15/09 Application the trustees of reservations Charles Eliot Scrapbook Conservation Project I. Statement of Need The Trustees of Reservations (The Trustees) are requesting $3,000 to support conservation of an 1889 scrapbook created by their founder, landscape architect Charles Eliot (1859-1897). The total project cost is $6,700. The balance of $3,700 will be paid with restricted funds from The Trustees. The Trustees, the oldest land conservation and historic preservation organization in the country, are fortunate to possess their founding documents. The scrapbook contains clippings about the land conservation movement and about the beginnings of The Trustees, as well as early public mailings. When Eliot created the scrapbook, he emphasized the importance of documenting The Trustees' activities and properties, so that now, 118 years later, their long and rich history is detailed in the institutional archives, and in the collections that pertain to their cultural landscapes. What Kind of assessment has the institution undertaken? The Trustees established a Historic Resources Department in 1993. The staff of six museum professionals created a strategic plan for collections management, and collections surveys were undertaken by Robert Mussey Associates. Long-range conservation plans were funded through grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Since 1995, there has been ongoing conservation work, including both upgrading storage areas and object treatment. Conservation work is undertaken by the Northeast Document Conservation Center, the Williamstown Art Conservation Lab, and private conservators. As collections are acquired, they are surveyed by professional conservators with short, mid and long-term recommendations for treatment. The Trustees has also received a CAP grant and grants from Essex National Heritage Commission to survey collections. In 2000, a task force, working with museum and library consultants, undertook a formal needs assessment for all collections not on exhibit. The collections represent archives and objects from 100 properties owned by The Trustees as well as institutional archives spanning a century. The assessment clearly identified the need for a centralized collections facility. The task force visited facilities, including those of Historic New England, the Flynt Center at Historic Deerfield, and the Collections Research Center at Mystic Seaport. In 2002, The Kendall Whaling Museum Trust, having recently merged its collections with the New Bedford Whaling Museum, offered to give The Trustees its former museum facility in Sharon, MA, providing a climate- controlled environment where all Trustees collections not on permanent exhibit could be professionally managed and conserved. To accept the gift, The Trustees needed to raise $4 million to endow the facility and the program. The successful fundraising effort resulted in numerous gifts from individuals and foundations, including a $450,000 "We the People" challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Challenge grant funds were used to create an endowment to support operation of the facility and to endow two positions of collections manager and archivist. The newly established Archives and Research Center (ARC) opened in 2007. Prior to the establishment of the ARC, many of the conservation efforts were focused on two and three dimensional collections. Now, with a professional archivist on staff, there is a concerted effort to systematically address archival collections associated with the organization's history and its properties. The Eliot scrapbook was selected by Trustees curatorial staff and Historic Resources Committee member Ronald Epp, a university librarian who has worked closely with The Trustees institutional archives. Dr. Epp I recognized the significance of the scrapbook while researching the connection between our organization and Hancock County (Maine) Trustees of Public Reservations, founded by Eliot's father Charles W. Eliot. The Trustees' curatorial staff and Dr. Epp noted the rapid deterioration of the only surviving document of its kind by Eliot. It is the single most important archival conservation project for The Trustees and it must be completed before there is any further loss of information and damage to the integrity of the scrapbook. Deborah Wenders, Director of Book Conservation, and Mary Patrick Bogan, senior Book Conservator at the New England Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) have completed a conservation assessment and recommended treatment proposal for Charles Eliot's scrapbook. The report outlines the severe level of deterioration. The support pages are dirty, discolored, brittle and acidic. The edges of the pages are chipped and shattering. There are numerous newspaper clippings and documents attached to pre-gummed pages. Many of these attachments are folded and broken along the folds. Please describe current collections care activities? There are currently eight members of the Historic Resources Department and an 18 member Historic Resources Committee composed of professional curators, landscape preservationists, archivists, and others who serve in an advisory capacity. The Director of Historic Resources has 34 years of museum experience at both the administrative and curatorial levels and 12 years of experience working with Trustees collections. The ARC Manager has 21 years of collections management experience with The Trustees and The Nantucket Historical Association. The Archivist has 17 years experience in the archives profession and has held positions at the University of Pennsylvania, the American Philosophical Society, Beinecke Library at Yale University, and Bryn Mawr College. The remaining five Historic Resources staff members also have extensive experience and hold advanced degrees in museum studies and historic preservation. They have taken courses on archival management at the Northeast Document Conservation Center and have overseen project archivists working with Trustees collections. One led the team that moved the collections at Historic Deerfield into the newly created Flynt Center. The Trustees have an intern program with Simmons College and Tufts University Museum Studies Program. This team of seasoned professionals cares for all aspects of the collections. Collections are catalogued and photographed using the Past Perfect software program, and staff recently attended Past Perfect's two day workshop to enhance their knowledge of the program. Approximately 90% of the object collections are photographed and catalogued. Current work involves transferring the massive archival collections to the ARC from regional offices and sorting and processing them. Approximately one half of the property archives have finding aids and are stored in acid free materials. Simultaneously, the institutional archives are being processed and the early minute books are being scanned for use by researchers. The Trustees have received a grant from an anonymous foundation to copy all of their original founding documents. The majority of this work occurs at the ARC, a 15,000 square foot climate controlled facility that provides a secure, stable environment for Trustees' collections. In addition to storage areas, the facility provides offices, curatorial workrooms, a research library, and two rooms for use by researchers using the collections. Staff has recently developed plans for 5,000 linear feet of compact shelving and flat files for archives. These will house collections of letters, documents, photographs, maps, architectural plans, garden plans, and books that represent the history of The Trustees and the cultural history of Massachusetts as seen through their 100 properties. A fundraising plan for this project has also been developed. In 1994, the Kendall Whaling Museum participated in a CAP survey. The recommendations for the building made by the architect have now been met by The Trustees. These are upgrading the HVAC system to maintain 45-55% relative humidity and 66-68 degree Fahrenheit temperature, and creating an Emergency Preparedness Plan. 2 2. Project Design Describe the object(s), book(s), historic document(s), or specimen(s) that is the focus of the project and explain its significance to the institution and the community. Charles Eliot's 156-page personal scrapbook contains unique information about land and historic preservation efforts in the U.S. and abroad during the last decade of the 19th century when there was growing concern about urban conditions and industrialization. Newspaper clippings, project brochures, reports, and other documents describe an increasing need and awareness to preserve land for people which resulted in Eliot's establishment of The Trustees of Reservations in 1891. This is the only surviving example of Eliot's personal collection of material related to his work as a pioneer in land conservation. Eliot believed that land should be preserved for public use and that all who benefitted from it were "trustees" of the land. He also favored the word "reservation" over park, signifying that it was set aside for enjoyment, contemplation and serenity. The scrapbook is a unique grouping of material that illustrates Eliot's goals for both The Trustees and for land conservation on a global level. The Trustees, widely recognized as the world's oldest regional land trust, were the model for the English National Trust founded in 1895 and for several early preservation groups in this country including the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations (1901) which became Acadia National Park and the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society founded in 1895 in New York City. Eliot, during his short professional career (eleven years due to an untimely death from spinal meningitis), was a prolific and skilled landscape architect, historian, and park planner. In addition to establishing The Trustees of Reservations and gathering momentum from his colleagues and those in political positions, he oversaw early development of the Metropolitan Park System for Boston, and, as a partner in Frederic Law Olmsted's firm, developed a planting plan for the Arnold Arboretum. The scrapbook was given to The Trustees about a decade ago in a collection of Eliot family papers which had been crammed into cardboard boxes. When the scrapbook was discovered through an initial sorting of the collection, it was immediately recognized as a remarkable document illustrating the formation and early years of The Trustees and the land conservation movement. Describe the conservation activities in the project (treatment, storage improvement, or environmental improvements). NEDCC will be providing a thorough documentation, conservation, and re-housing of the scrapbook. Each page will be collated and the contents of each page will be itemized. The pages will be removed from the binding, surface cleaned and tested for solubility of inks. Pages will be treated as necessary to reduce acidity and repair any damage from folds or breaks. Each page will be encapsulated in a polyester film envelope. The encapsulated pages will be bound together in the original order, maintaining the same presentation as the original scrapbook, using a cloth covered binding structure. A custom constructed phase box will be created to contain the bound conserved scrapbook. The entire project will be photographed to provide images of the scrapbook before, during and after treatment. 3. Project Resources: Time, Personnel and Budget How much time will be allocated to the project? The project will take to complete. hours for disbanding and collating, hours for conservation and for re-housing the scrapbook. (Info to be provide by NEDCC) Who are the key staff and consultants involved in the project, their qualifications and experience with this type of conservation procedure? A team of NEDCC book conservators, to be led by Deborah Wenders, Director of Book Conservation, will be involved with the Charles Eliot Scrapbook conservation project. Deborah has worked in the field of book conservation since 1979. Her varied education includes study at Centro del bel Libro in Switzerland, private and 3 group study in the U.S., and production in a commercial bindery. She is a member of AIC, the Guild of Book Workers, ALA, and SAA. She regularly teaches and lectures on the subject of scrapbook conservation. Other conservators working on various parts of the project include Mary Patrick Bogan and Todd Pattison, Senior Book Conservators, lyoshi Imai, Associate Book Conservator, and Jessica Henze, Assistant Book Conservator. Each conservator working with Deborah has extensive scrapbook conservation experience. How are the resources, monetary or in-kind, adequate to complete the project? The Trustees have a small restricted endowment for collections care and the income, approximately $6,500 annually, is used to conserve objects and archives from a prioritized list. $3,700 from this fund would be used to pay the balance of the Eliot scrapbook conservation if an American Heritage Preservation grant of $3,000 is awarded. The Trustees are able to conserve their collections systematically by matching organization funds with grant assistance. 4. Impact What impact will this conservation or rehousing project have on how the institution cares for its collection? Conserving the Charles Eliot Scrapbook will allow The Trustees to preserve a unique archival document from the 1890's when the organization was being founded and developing its place as a leader in the land preservation movement. The scrapbook had been out of circulation for most of the 20th century. Even though it saw little use, it still deteriorated at a rapid rate due mainly to the highly acidic papers used in its construction and the environment in which it was stored before being given to The Trustees by a family member. The scrapbook will also be digitized as a separately funded project. No funds from the AHPG grant will be used for digitizing the contents of the scrapbook. The digitization will be completed by David Mathews, Director of Imaging at NEDCC, and carried out after the individual pages have been collated and removed from the original binding, and before the conserved pages are re-housed in the new polyester envelopes and binding system. The digitized scrapbook will be available for use by researchers, decreasing the amount of handling of the original volume. This project will set the standard for the conservation and management of The Trustees founding and organizational documents. What impact will this project have on the community that your institution serves? The Charles Eliot Scrapbook contains a vast amount of information that reflects Eliot's goals for The Trustees and land preservation in the years around his founding the organization. For the first time, this information will be made available to researchers. This remarkable collection of information is central to The Trustees history and all those who are committed to the history of the land trust movement and ways of saving open space. Currently, the scrapbook is too fragile to handle and there is limited access to a tremendous historical resource. Conservation will allow Trustees members, staff, and the general public to examine the contents in greater detail. This latter group includes students, researchers, and scholars of historic preservation, landscape architecture, and environmental history. The collections are currently used by these groups as well as by authors, photographers, architects, city planners, agricultural historians, and ecologists. Digitization will give more people access to the scrapbook which will eventually be available as a digital book on our website. The Trustees continue to be a leader in the land trust movement. Their true significance, however, is in their unique role of preserving and interpreting land and the related collections and archival materials in a way that tells the story of human beings' interaction with the landscape over the centuries. The Eliot scrapbook recording progress in the fight to save the landmarks and landscapes of Massachusetts and providing a record of cutting edge developments in land conservation and preservation, is an important humanities resource. 4 the trustees of reservations DRAFT Charles Eliot Scrapbook Conservation Project Narrative I. Statement of Need The Trustees of Reservations is requesting $3,000 to support conservation of the Charles Eliot's 1890 scrapbook. The total project cost is $6700. The balance of the project cost will be paid for with funds from The Trustees of Reservations. Charles Eliot founded the organization in 1891 and his personal scrapbook contains newspaper clippings about land and historic preservation efforts in the U. S. and abroad, the only existing examples of early organizational documents and his notations up to his untimely death in 1897. What Kind of assessment has the institution undertaken? The need to conserve the scrapbook has been determined by The Trustees curatorial staff and researcher Ron Epps. Mr. Epps discovered the scrapbook in The Trustees files while researching the connection between our organization and Hancock County (Maine) Trustees of Public Reservations, founded by Eliot's father Charles W. Eliot. Working together, our curatorial staff and Mr. Epps noted the rapid deterioration of the only surviving document of its kind by Eliot. It is the single most important archival conservation project for The Trustees and it must be completed before there is any further loss of information and damage to the integrity of the scrapbook. Deborah Wenders, Director of Book Conservation, and Mary Patrick Bogan, senior Book Conservator at the New England Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) have completed a conservation assessment and recommended treatment report of Charles Eliot's scrapbook. The report has outlined the severe level of deterioration to the scrapbook. The support pages are dirty, discolored, brittle and acidic. The edges of the pages are chipped and shattering. There are numerous newspaper clippings and documents attached to the pre-gummed pages. Many of these attachments are folded and broken along the folds. NEDCC is located in North Andover, Massachusetts and their mission is to improve the conservation efforts of libraries, archives, historical organizations, museums, and other repositories; to provide the highest quality services to institutions without in-house conservation facilities or those that seek specialized expertise; and to provide leadership in the preservation and conservation fields. I the trustees of reservations DRAFT Please describe current collections care activities? The Trustees of Reservations preserves for public use and enjoyment properties of exceptional scenic, historic, and ecological value in Massachusetts and works to protect special places across the state. We have 101 properties, 10 of which are historic sites. CAP surveys of The Trustees XXXXX (need collections surveyed and dates here) collections by Robert Mussey determined the need for a centralized collections facility to provide for the long term preservation of the organization's archives and collections. The Trustees have been able to complete this CAP recommendation by acquiring the building that formerly housed the Kendall Whaling Museum collection in Sharon, Massachusetts. The Archives and Research Center (ARC) is a 15,000 square foot climate controlled facility that provides a secure, stable environment for the organizations archives and collections. The facility also provides areas for curatorial activities, collections management programs and access for researchers. The Trustees have developed plans for 5,000 linear feet of archival compact storage shelving within the ARC. The shelves will house the extensive archival collections of letters, documents, photographs, maps and plans in The Trustees collections that are significant representation of the cultural history we interpret at our properties located throughout Massachusetts. The Kendall Whaling Museum participated in a CAP survey in 1994. Robert Hauser, Museum Conservator, completed the archives and collections assessment. Patrick J. Slattery, Architect, completed the structural survey. The 1994 Kendall Whaling Museum CAP survey recommended relocating archives stored in the basement level to the first floor of the building, monitor the HVAC system to maintain 45-55% relative humidity and 66-68 degree Fahrenheit temperature, and create an Emergency Preparedness Plan. All of these recommendations are being followed by The Trustees at the ARC. Long term shelving of archives is on the 1st floor of the building, the HVAC system is set to maintain 50% relative humidity and 68 degrees Fahrenheit temperature and an Emergency Preparedness plan has been completed for the facility. 2. Project Design Describe the object(s), book(s), historic document(s), or specimen(s) that is the focus of the project and explain its significance to the institution and the community. The focus of the project is to conserve Charles Eliot's Scrapbook. There are 156 pages that contain newspaper clippings, project brochures and reports, and organizational documents relating to the founding years of The Trustees of Reservations from 1890 up 2 the trustees of reservations DRAFT to Eliot's death in 1897. This is the only surviving example of Eliot's personal collection of material related to his work as founder of The Trustees. It is a unique grouping of material that illustrates Eliot's goals for the organization. Describe the conservation activities in the project (treatment, storage improvement, or environmental improvements). NEDCC will be providing a thorough documentation, conservation, and re-housing of the scrapbook. Each page will be collated and the contents of each page will be itemized. The pages will be removed from the binding, surface cleaned and tested for solubility of inks. Each page will be treated as necessary to reduce acidity and repair any damage from folds or breaks. Each page will be encapsulated in a polyester film envelop. The encapsulated pages will be bound together in the original order, maintaining the same presentation as the original scrapbook, using a cloth covered binding structure. A custom constructed phase box will be created to contain the bound conserved scrapbook. The entire project will be photographed to provide images of the scrapbook before, during and after treatment. Each page, and all of the page contents, will be digitized as a separately funded project. The digitization will be paid for by The Trustees. No funds from the AHPG grant will be used for digitizing the contents of the scrapbook. The digitization will be completed by David Mathews, Director of Imaging at NEDCC and carried out after the individual pages have been collated and removed from the original binding, and before the conserved pages are re-housed in the new polyester envelops and binding system. The digitized scrapbook will be available for use by researchers, decreasing the amount of handling of the original archival volume. Creating a digital copy of the original scrapbook will also serve as a test case for us to make archival documents accessible on the internet. 3. Project Resources: Time, Personnel and Budget How much time will be allocated to the project? The project will take to complete. hours for disbanding and collating, hours for conservation and for re-housing the scrapbook. (Info to be provide by NEDCC) Digitizing the contents will also take place during the conservation process. However, as stated earlier, The Trustees will be funding this part of the project from a separate source. Therefore, the hours to complete digitization, though taking place during the conservation, are not included and will not keep the project from being completed during the required funding cycle. 3 the trustees of reservations DRAFT Who are the key staff and consultants involved in the project, their qualifications and experience with this type of conservation procedure? A team of NEDCC conservators, to be lead by Deborah Wenders, Director of Book Conservation, will be involved with the Charles Eliot Scrapbook conservation project. Deborah has worked in the field of book conservation since 1979. Her varied education includes study at Centro del bel Libro in Switzerland, private and group study in the U.S., and production in a commercial bindery. She is a member of AIC, the Guild of Book Workers, ALA, and SAA. She regularly teaches and lectures on the subject of scrapbook conservation. Her team of book conservators who will be working on the various parts of the conservation include Mary Patrick Bogan and Todd Pattison, Senior Book Conservators, lyoshi Imai, Associate Book Conservator, and Jessica Henze, Assistant Book Conservator. Each book conservator working with Deborah has extensive scrapbook conservation experience. The digitization of the scrapbook, a distinct and separate part of the project, will be overseen by David Mathews, NEDCC Director of Imaging Services. David Mathews previously held the position of Digital Imaging Studios Manager at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he managed multiple large-scale projects for publication, database development, and art history scholarship. In addition, Mr. Mathews has had extensive experience as an imaging photographer. During his tenure as photographer at the Harvard University Art Museums in the late 1990s, he helped pioneer their transition from traditional film photography to electronic media. How are the resources, monetary or in-kind, adequate to complete the project? The Trustees will be securing the additional funding to complete the scrapbook conservation through fundraising and donations to be coordinated by The Trustees Advancement Department. The total project cost is $6700. The Trustees will have available the balance of $3700 to fund the balance of the project in excess of the $3000 from AHPG. 4. Impact What impact will this conservation or rehousing project have on how the institution cares for its collection? Conserving the Charles Eliot Scrapbook will allow The Trustees to preserve a unique archival document from the 1890's when the organization was being founded and developing its place as a leader in the land preservation movement. The scrapbook had been out of circulation for most of the 20th century. Even though the scrapbook saw little use, it still deteriorated at a rapid rate. This was due mainly to the highly acidic papers used in its construction circa 1890. 4 the trustees of reservations DRAFT The bound pages of the conserved scrapbook, house in a custom phase box, will help insure the future preservation of this significant historical document created by The Trustee's founder. Re-housing the conserved pages will reduce damage from handling. Digitizing the contents, to be made available to researchers, will further reduce the need to handle the scrapbook, adding to the long term preservation of the scrapbook. The contents of the pages will be collated and a finding aid for the contents will be created to further reduce the need to regularly reference the book. The result of the conservation and rehousing will be a preserved historic document that can be safely housed in the ARC's climate controlled environment. What impact will this project have on the community that your institution serves? The Charles Eliot Scrapbook contains a vast amount of information that reflects Eliot's goals for The Trustees in the years around his founding the organization. This information needs to be made available to researchers and studied. This is an informal collection of information that is central to The Trustees history. The placement of clippings, where they came from, who collected them, how the book was created and specifically what type of information was being collected by Eliot are all questions that can be answered once the scrapbook is conserved. Right now, the scrapbook is too fragile to handle and we have limited access to a tremendous historical resource. Conservation will allow us to examine the contents in detail. Digitization will give more people access to the scrapbook and will one day be available as a digital book on our website. 5 Narrative Answers to these questions should not exceed a total of four pages. 1. Statement of need: What kind of assessment has the institution undertaken (Conservation Assessment Program survey (CAP), NEH Preservation Assistance Grants (PAG), state supported surveys, or other internal or external assessments)? Please describe current collections care activities. Reviewer criteria: Evidence that the project will address the needs identified in an assessment. Evidence that the institution is practicing good, responsible collections care. 2. Project Design: Describe the object(s), book(s), historic document(s), or specimen(s) that is the focus of the project and explain its significance to the institution and the community. Describe the conservation activities in the project (treatment, storage improvement, or environmental improvements). Reviewer criteria: Evidence that the project proposes an efficient, effective, and reasonable approach to accomplish clear goals and objectives. Evidence that the methodology and design are appropriate to the scope of the project. 3. Project Resources: Time, Personnel and Budget How much time will be allocated to the project? Who are the key staff and consultants involved in the project, their qualifications and experience with this type of conservation procedure? How are resources, monetary or in-kind, adequate to complete the project? Reviewer criteria: Evidence that the staff and consultants are appropriate for the project. Evidence that the time line is reasonable to accomplish the goals of the project. Evidence that sufficient funds have been allocated to accomplish the project. 4. Impact What impact will this conservation or rehousing project have on how the institution cares for its collection? What impact will this project have on the community that your institution serves? Reviewer criteria: Evidence that the collection will be better cared for after this project. Evidence that results of the project will be shared with the community. Charles Eliot Scrapbook 2 - scanned by NEDCC - 2021 filename Description of Scrapbook page Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_001 Scrapbook cover Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_002 Inside - scrapbook Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_003 Blank page Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_004 Blank page Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_005 Two news columns; p. 1 Mt. Desert Island - "from the Boston Transcript" May 6th 1881 - about pronunciation of Desert - Champlain "C.E. wrote the editorial, then there is a response to it... Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_006 Two news columns; p. 2 - Mt. Desert Railroad - approval Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_007 Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_008 Column 1: Handwritten: "From Farewell Address." Unclear who wrote it. Underneath calendar date cut out - March 30 - handwritten: 1882 AD. Thursday & quote from Taming of the Shrew. Column 2: Handwritten: From Building News. - article about the value of planting and how ignored by architects. Article - "The pronunciation of Mt. Desert - A Last Word." Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_009 p. 7 - Column 1 - Handwritten: "From the Building News" article re: Design of Streets - curved not straight. Continues into Column 2: article: New Hampshire Forest - destruction of the forest before legislature article: The Yellowstone Park Company, Jan. 20, 1883 article: The Yellowstone Park Company, Jan. 21, 1883 Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_010 Column 1 & 2: Handwritten: "Boston Rail Road Grade Crossings, R.R. - Commissioners Report 1882" Table of passengers to & from Boston Handwritten numbers underneath table. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_011 p. 9 Column 1: Handwritten: "R.R. Grade Crossings" X Column 2: Handwritten: "Feb. 1882" Article: Boston & Albany Railroad - 5 miles of road between Brookline and Newton Highlands for track. Article: "Grade-Crossings of North End Railroads" Handwritten: "Oct. 1883. Adv. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_012 Blank page - paste marks but no articles X Page 1 of 6 Charles Eliot Scrapbook 2 - scanned by NEDCC - 2021 Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_013 p. 11 - glued material that folds out. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_013a p. 11 - the folded-out material: article: Map of the land opposite the home of the late Mr. Longfellow - Longfellow Memorial Association - lists officers of association - includes father, Charles W. Eliot Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_014 p. 12 - column 1 - pasted material has been removed. X Column 2: article: "Hydraulic Mining - Gold Against Grain and Commerce in California" - destruction of land by mining Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_015 p. 13 - Handwritten page titled "Scraps" - copied Harpers Weekly X article about NY & Brooklyn Bridge - folded. Written by Montgomery Schuyler. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_015a p. 13 - Handwritten page titled "Scraps" - copied Harpers Weekly X article about NY & Brooklyn Bridge - folded out. Written by Montgomery Schuyler. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_016 p. 14 - 2 columns - Forest Legislation (From the New York Sun) - Adirondack bills - One - to prevent, in the interest of lumbermen, the preservation of the forests. Chamber of Commerce bill - protects portions of forests Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_017 Article: from The Sanitary Engineer - glued material that folds out. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_017a Article: from The Sanitary Engineer - glued material that folds out. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_017b Article: from The Sanitary Engineer - the folded-out material: . 214 article about the Administration of a Great City - 1884 - about London. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_018 Article in the Nation, p. 29 - The Social Movement in England - Jan. 10, 1884, p. 29 - glued material that folds out. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_018a Article in the Nation, p. 29 - The Social Movement in England - Jan. 10, 1884- glued material folded out by unreadable as a piece of newsprint blocks reading. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_018b Article in the Nation, p. 29 - The Social Movement in England - Jan. 10, 1884- the folded-out material: Part 2 - side 1. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_018c Article in the Nation, p. 29 - The Social Movement in England - Jan. 10, 1884- the folded-out material: Part 2 - side 2. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_018d Article in the Nation, p. 29 - The Social Movement in England - Jan. 10, 1884- - the folded-out material: Part 1. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_019 p. 17 - article - Art Criticism -and the Analogy between Art and check Literature - glued material that folds out and material glued underneath: the folded-out material: Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_019a p. 17 - article - Art Criticism -and the Analogy between Art and check Literature: folded with spatula - don't think relevant. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_019b p. 17 - article - Art Criticism - part 2. - the revealed material. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_020 p. 18 article Part II - The Social Movement in England - glued material that folds out. Page 2 of 6 Charles Eliot Scrapbook 2 - scanned by NEDCO - 2021 Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_020a p. 18 article Part II - The Social Movement in England - II. London, December 22. the folded-out material. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_020b Article - The Nation. Pg. 50 - Number 968 - the folded-out material. Continues article, Jan. 17, 1884. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_021 p. 19 - Article: re: Anti-railroad mass meeting - Letter to editor from Bishop Doane; Also article of meeting of the Northeast Harbor Association, Aug. 16th - resolution, listed Charles W. Eliot as president Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_022 p. 20 - column 1: The Cottagers Movement - re: RR for Bar Harbor and Mt. Desert; against Column 2: Paris Pavement - concrete 6 inches thick used in the Grand Boulevards. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_023 p. 21 - Folded article pasted on page. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_023a p. 21 - Folded article pasted on page. Unfolded but still another piece folded blocks article. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_023b p. 21 - Article: Mount Desert Herald. Friday, August 22, 1884. Anti-RR Meeting - agree to publish Charles W. Eliot letter against (father). The folded-out material. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_023d p. 21 Spatulas - fold back the above article to reveal another article pasted next to it. Article: Indignation at Bar Harbor. A Meeting to Oppose the Proposed Extension of the Green Mountain Railroad. August 20, 1884. Mentions letter from father, Charles W. Eliot. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_024 Blank page - paste marks but no articles Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_025 p. 23 Column one: Article: A Church Union - from an Unitarian point of view Column two: Handwritten: "Youngstown Daily News, 5-13-91" "An Expert's Opinion" - Charles Eliot Jr.-GOOD BIO OF ELIOT BACK IN THE DAY - Mill Creek, Youngstown OH - mentions working with Olmsted. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_025a p. 23 - unfolded back - article: Topics of the Time - p. 313. "Landscape-Gardeners Needed for America." Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_026 p. 24 - Blank page - paste marks but no articles Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_027 p. 25 - article - plan drawing of "Mr. Conelius Vanderbilt's Stable. Longintudinal section. Section-on-Line C.D." folded. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_027a p. 25 - article - plan drawing of "Mr. Conelius Vanderbilt's Stable. Longitudinal section. Section-on-Line C.D." folded. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_027b p. 25 - article - plan drawing of "Mr. Conelius Vanderbilt's Stable. Longitudinal section. Section-on-Line C.D." unfolded to show complete plan.- - The Sanitary Engineer, p. 475. 1884. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_027c p. 25 - article - that accompanies plan drawing, The Sanitary Engineer, p. 476. April 17, 1884. Discusses London, the City of Pullman, sewage, Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_027d p. 25 - article - that accompanies plan drawing, The Sanitary Page 3 of 6 Charles Eliot Scrapbook 2 - scanned by NEDCC - 2021 Engineer, p. 477. April 17, 1884. Discusses London, the City of Pullman, sewage-farming, conclusions re: Pullman Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_027e p. 25 - article - that accompanies plan drawing, The Sanitary Engineer, p. 478. April 17, 1884. Hot water heater. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_027f -folded Charges of Profession Practice - look at 027h Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_027g -folded Charges of Profession Practice - look at 027h Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_027h CU --folded Charges of Profession Practice - look at 027h Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_027i Back of - Charges of Profession Practice - look at 027h Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_028 p. 26 - Boston Society of Architects. Meeting announcement - Eliot will read a paper on "Landscape Gardening in its Relations to Architecture" -Friday, November 6 at 8 o'clock Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_029 Folded news articles. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_029a Partly unfolded news articles. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_029b Unfolded articles. Sunday November 13, 1887. Wrong side. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_029d Unfolded articles. Sunday November 13, 1887. "The Park System, Progress of the Work During the Present Season. The Back Bay, Arboretum, and Franklin Park. Features that will Awaken Public Appreciation and Pride. Drawing of the Back Bay Basin. Northerly Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_029d Folded news articles - can read - "A Gorilla in London" Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_029e Unfolded news articles - backside of article. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_029f Unfolded news article that continues article started on 29c - drawing of Arnold Arboretum looking westerly, and the Playstead in Franklin Park. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_030 p. 28. The Forestry Commission. Announcement of purpose and need for information and opinions. Written by J.B. Harrison, Franklin Falls, N.H. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_031 p.29-3-page - pamphlet that opens up: To Residents and Property- Holders in Magnolias - announcement of committee to consider the subject of a Village Improvement Society Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_031a p. 29 - 3-page pamphlet: To Residents and Property-Holders in Magnolias - announcement of committee to consider the subject of a Village Improvement Society - the flipside of this page - held in place with spatula. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_031b p. 29 - 3-page pamphlet: To Residents and Property-Holders in Magnolias - announcement of committee to consider the subject of a Village Improvement Society - the backside of this page glued to scrapbook. Committee members listed: Henry W. Foote, A.B. Underwood, James Perkins, William T. Piper, James H. Freeland Magnolia, Mass. Aug. 22, 1884 Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_032 p. 30 handwritten on top of page: Omaha, December 6 91 (?); headline: "Cleveland Talks Parks - The Distinguished Landscape Artist Gives Broad Views Concerning Them. They should be laid out with an eye to the future size and greatness of the community." Reprinting in letter to the editor of a letter from Mr. Cleveland about Omaha's park system as requested by George L. Miller, President of the Board of Park Commissioners, Omaha Neb. - two columns Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_033 p. 31 - cartoon drawing: "A Glad Surprise" with caption reading Page 4 of 6 Charles Eliot Scrapbook 2 - scanned by NEDCC - 2021 "During her husband's absence on a business trip, dear little Mrs. Childers employed a landscape gardener, who was recommended as being a "perfect artist." He had almost completed his work on Mr. C's return." Also a continuation of the article on 032. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_034 p. 32 2 news article columns. Column one: "Mystic and Charles River Valley Sewage. The following was received Metropolitan Sewerage Commission petition, continues in column two. Spatula seen in shot. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_035 p. 33 - Above petition continues. Discusses payments that each city and town needs to pay to "meet the cost of maintenance and operation." Signed by Ebenezer R. Hoar, William C. Endicott, John E. Sanford, Boston Nov. 7, 1891. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_036 Blank page - paste marks but no articles Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_037 Folded page. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_037a One column of folded page. Backside of article. Reads "What American sensitive to the good repute of his country, what New Yorker jealous of the fame of his State, but prefers almost any place to Niagara for a visit?" Excursion train traffic, unsightly buildings, vendors of cheap and silly knick-knacks. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_037b Article continues about Niagara. Petitions sent to State Legislature by Niagara Falls Association. The Secretary is J.B. Harrison of Franklin Falls, N.H. "Men and women who believe that the working people and children ought to have this wonderful spot preserved for their pleasure in holiday times, who feel that all classes are interested in restoring to Niagara its lost beauty a unique natural miracle of this kind should be protected, will do well to add their voices to the chorus." Next article talks about Germany and Socialistic agitations Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_037 Folded article - p. 264, The American Architect and Building News. Sideways - article by M.G. van Rennsslaer - encourages travel in US - Central Park, Prospect Park - Mr. Olmsted's best of all Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_037d Folded article - p. 264, The American Architect and Building News. Sideways - article by M.G. van Rennsslaer - encourages travel in US - Central Park, Prospect Park - Mr. Olmsted's best of all Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_037e Part 3: Unfolded article - p. 264, The American Architect and Building News. Sideways - article by M.G. van Rennsslaer - encourages travel in US - Central Park, Prospect Park - Mr. Olmsted's best of all Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_037f Part 2: Unfolded- p. 263, The American Architect and Building News. December 3, 1887. Beginning of article. "Landscape Gardening II" Drawing of church chapel with caption "From Bruges Belgium" - training landscape gardener - what it takes - knowledge of nature, but must know art - European travel used to be required, no longer Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_037g Part 1 : October 1, 1887 - The American Architect and Building News p. 157 2nd column is the start of "Landscape Gardening - I - Drawing of "Capital, St. Zeno, Verona - after Drawing by R. Barrott in The Architect" - Mr. Frank J. Scott author of "The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds" - 1870- - beyond just planting - artistic work that requires someone trained. Page 5 of 6 Charles Eliot Scrapbook 2 - scanned by NEDCC - 2021 Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_037h Part 1 : October 1, 1887 - The American Architect and Building News p. 158 - beyond just planting - artistic work that requires someone trained. Public waking up to fact that gardening is an art, and therefore artists are needed. Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_037 Part 1 : October 1, 1887 - The American Architect and Building News p. 159 - continues with need and what is required to be a landscape artist. Written by "M.G. van Rensselaer (to be continued)" Column 2 - discusses safe buildings - arches Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_037j Buildings and arches continues on this page - - The American Architect and Building News p. 160 - drawings and math Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_038 Blank page - paste marks but no articles Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_039 Blank page Charles-Eliot-Scrapbook_040 Back cover of scrapbook Page 6 of 6 Text and Performance Quarterly 11 (1991): 1-17 TEXT AND PERFORMANCE QUARTERLY Formerly Literature in Performance, Founded 1980. VOLUME 11 JANUARY 1991 NUMBER 1 Scrapbooks as Cultural Texts: An American Art of Memory TAMAR KATRIEL AND THOMAS FARRELL "Whenever 1 make my scrapbook, 1 always keep the thought in the back of my mind that I'll be able to show my children exactly what 1 was doing in the Summer of '87 That's my motivation. Because it's so much nicer for the memory of certain situations to get the pictures and memorabilia in an organized place where you can reach it, look through it, and put it back. Not like in a box under your bed, collecting dust, and they're not organized. It's much better to have it in a book It's almost like a movie. You can flip through the pages and you can just remember. It's like a spark to my memory-remembering the things that we did and said." Scrapbook keeper, 1987 "If I could do it, I'd do no writing at all here. It would be photographs; the rest would be fragments of cloth, bits of cotton, lumps of earth, records of speech, pieces of wood and iron, phials of odors, plates of food and of excrement. Booksellers would consider it quite a novelty; critics would murmur, yes, but is it art; and I could trust a majority of you to use it as you would a parlor game." James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men I. INTRODUCTION: SCRAPBOOKS AS A GENRE OF SELF The traditional interest of folklorists, anthropologists, historians, and other social scientists in elicited life-histories as a topic and method for scholarly inquiry finds its counterpart in studies which focus on indigenous processes of life-review. Spoken and published autobiographical renditions are prime exam- ples of culturally sanctioned forms of the self-told life, and these have been subject to both empirical and theoretical investigations. The underlying assumption concerning all autobiographical creations is, in Oring's words, that lives are not transcriptions of events. They are artful and enduring symbolic constructions which demand our engagement and identification. They are to be perceived and understood as wholes. They are texts. A text demands organization and coherence even when a life does not. And it is only to the extent that we can Tamar Katriel is on the faculty of the School of Education at the University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel; Thomas Farrell is Professor of Communication Studies in the School of Speech, Northwestern University. Vreserving America's Performing Arts. Papers from the Contenes on Presentation Manageat for Perform Arts Collection, April 28- May 1,1982, wahyha DC. E6. Cohen - Stratyner + B. Kueppers. 1985. SCRAPBOOKS IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS N.Y Theatre library Assoc 73-77. by Merrily Smith The Library of Congress has approximately 6,000 scrapbooks in its collections, all in various stages of degradation. In recent years, the Conservation Office has directed its attention to these items because treatment has been requested for several of them. In trying to cope with the diverse conservation problems this type of material presents, we soon discovered several facts. First, the problem of how to preserve scrapbooks and the materials in them is enormously complex. Second, there are no clear cut guidelines or easy answers regarding scrapbook treatment. Finally, none of the solutions available satisfies all the problems scrapbooks present, and almost all treatments, even those acknowledged to be less than ideal, require more time and money than most items can justify. The following discussion does not attempt to set forth definitive guidelines for treatment, nor is it a revelation of "the" solution to the scrapbook problem. It is, instead, an effort to outline the specific preservation problems commonly found in scrapbooks, to discuss some of the curatorial issues involved in scrapbook preservation, and to describe three different examples of scrapbook treatment carried out in the Conservation Office-what decisions were made concerning them, why they were made, and how they were implemented. One set of problems generally encountered in scrapbooks relates to the book itself: the pages and the binding. The paper or card leaves are frequently highly acidic and brittle by the time the book is presented for treatment. In this brittle condition they provide little or no physical support. Their acidic condition can also affect the chemical stability of mounted items. Sometimes, even when the quality of the paper is relatively good, the leaves are not durable enough to survive the punishment of repeated circulation. With the passage of time, they gradually tear and break, with the result that the items attached to them are themselves subjected to destructive wear and tear The nature of the binding structure can also lead to problems. Damage can occur when the binding structure is inappropriate for an album. In some cases the fronts are inflexible, hardly allowing the book to open at all. With time and use, the boards and leaves, especially if heavy, may begin to crack, and eventually become detached. The problem of inflexible joints is well solved by a structure that makes use of cloth hinges between card album leaves and corresponding card and joint strips. Although the presence of such cloth hinges and card joint strips allows flexibility in the joint area and easy opening of an album, problems frequently develop because of the incompatibility of lightweight (or low quality) cloth hinges with thick album leaves. Under these circumstances, frequent use, coupled with rough handling, quickly leads to structural failure. A second set of problems relates to the contents of scrapbooks-the nature of the items themselves and the manner in which they are mounted in the album. The diversity in type and condition of materials makes it very difficult to treat the scrapbook as a unit. Rapidly deteriorating materials can have adverse effects, both on adjacent items that are potentially more stable, and on the scrapbook itself. Some items suffer damage because their size, format, or weight make them unsuitable for inclusion in a scrapbook format. The scrapbook not only fails to protect them, but in some cases it promotes their demise. Materials in this category include oversize items, magazines and pamphlets. If oversize items are allowed to protrude, their edges can be damaged. If they are folded to keep them from protruding they frequently tear on the fold. Magazines and pamphlets are usually attached by the back page only with the result that, in handling, the text portion pulls itself out or unsecured pages are mutilated. MERRILY SMITH, a Liberal Arts Graduate from the University of Minnesota, received her training in conservation at the Newberry Library in Chicago under Paul N. Banks. After several years of private practice in Duluth, Minn., she joined the Library of Congress as a Senior Paper Conservator, in 1978. In October 1984 she was appointed National Preservation Program Specialist for the same institution. Merrily Smith is a fellow of the AIC. Publishing and speaking at conferences as well as conducting workshops and seminars continue to be a large part of her activities. 73 GILLIAN BOAL Accounts of the West ABSTRACT to preserve the original format and to retain as much arti- factual integrity as possible. The talk will illustrate the As materials were scarce in the American West, the variety of journals and their contents, and the ways they resourcefulness of the newcomers to California can be were used during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth seen by the variety of methods adopted to record events. centuries, and will show the range and development of the They kept journals by reusing original formats such as structures. account books and ledgers as scrapbooks. They were, how- There will be a focus on two case studies: the scrap- ever, ignorant of the long-term effects of the deterioration books of Mark Twain and of Jesse Cook. Mark Twain of the materials both chemical and physical. There are patented a scrapbook in the period of the "Ideal many examples in the Bancroft Library's Western Scrapbook." The popularity of the scrapbook form, com- Americana Collection. bined with the mechanization of book production, meant These "ephemera" are part of "history from below." that an individual could design a commercial scrapbook to They contribute to the popular culture in a way the high- suit his needs. Jesse Cook was Chief of Police in San end first folios do not. The words used to describe this Francisco and recorded Chinatown through a systematic material are themselves self-deprecating: "commonplace," series of photographs. This archive can be seen as part of "scrap." However they are a very rich resource contained the history of police surveillance; with its documentation in many varied forms: photographs, drawings, writings, of the first neighborhoods it is also useful for the study of printed materials, all needing to be conserved and pre- urban history in general. served. In the conservation department at the University of GILLIAN BOAL California, Berkeley, we have treated a variety of scrap- Rare Book Conservator books, commonplace books, and albums. They pose an University of California, Berkeley interesting challenge to conservators because of the need Berkeley, California Conservation of Scrapbooks and Albums CONSERVATION OF SCRAPBOOKS AND ALBUMS Postprints of the Book and Paper Group / Photographic Materials Group Joint Session at the 27TH Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, June 11, 1999, St. Louis, Missouri Compiler & Managing Editor SHANNON ZACHARY University Library, The University of Michigan Editorial Office 837 Greene St. 3202 Buhr Bldg. Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 (734) 763-6980 szachary@umich.edu http://aic.stanford.edu/bpg/ Conservation of Scrapbooks and Albums is published jointly by the Book and Paper Group (BPG) and Photographic Materials Group (PMG), specialty groups within the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC). Conservation of Scrapbooks and Albums was distributed to those who were BPG or PMG members in 1999. Additional copies are available for sale from AIC. All correspondence concerning claims, memberships, or address changes should be addressed to the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 1717 K Street, N.W., Suite 200, Washington, D.C. 20006. Papers for the joint session on scrapbooks and albums were selected by committee, based on abstracts. Papers were received by the compiler in the fall of 1999 following the session; there was no further peer review of the full text. Authors are responsible for the content and accuracy of their submissions and for the methods and/or materials described. Publication in this collection does not constitute official statements or endorsement by the Book and Paper Group, the Photographic Materials Group, or the American Institute for Conservation. Copyright © 2000 The Book and Paper Group The Photographic Materials Group American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. All rights reserved by the individual authors. Printed in the United States of America by McNaughton & Gunn, Inc. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992, American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Libraries and Archives. CONSERVATION OF SCRAPBOOKS AND ALBUMS Postprints of the Book and Paper Group / Photographic Materials Group Joint Session at the 27TH Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, June 11, 1999, St. Louis, Missouri Nancy Heugh and Andrew Robb, Session Co-Chairs Accounts of the West (abstract) GILLIAN BOAL 1 Images of the Southwest: A Tourist Album LAURA DOWNEY 3 Historical Photo Albums and Their Structures RICHARD HORTON 13 Glossary of Terms Relating to Photo Albums RICHARD HORTON 21 Champs délicieux: An Album of Twelve Rayographs by Man Ray SYLVIE PÉNICHON 29 Conservation Considerations for a Thomas Eakins Photograph Album MARY SCHOBERT 33 The Structure's the Thing! Problems in the Repair of Nineteenth-Century Stiff-Paged Photograph Albums MARY WOOTTON, TERRY BOONE & ANDREW ROBB 37 Interim Report on the HRHRC Photograph Album Survey Introduction 45 1. Nineteenth-Century Photograph Albums: Structure, Condition, and Treatments OLIVIA PRIMANIS 47 Interim Report on the HRHRC Photograph Album Survey 2. Developing a Conservation Survey Database for Photograph Albums MEG BROWN 65 Interim Report on the HRHRC Photograph Album Survey 3. Photographs in Albums: Observations, Treatment Comments, and Some Survey Results BARBARA N. BROWN 69 Interim Report on the HRHRC Photograph Album Survey Photograph Album Survey Forms 80 4. Glossary of Terms for the Photograph Album Survey MEG BROWN, COMPILER 85 Preserving Americas Performary Arts. Ed. B. Cohen- Stratyner + B. Rueppers. N.Y : Theatre Library Arix. 1985. SCRAPBOOKS by Robert DeCandido The quote from Hamlet, "Smile and smile and be a villain," (1,5,43) highlights two features of scrapbooks. They do smile at you. At their best they are captivating, charming and full of surprises. Even at their worst they are overwhelm- ingly informative. Yet along with their value and glamour, they have some villainous preservation problems. Before discussing them in detail I want to give you a brief history of the development of the scrapbook or album as a form. I initially assumed that a few well-placed questions and some brief and easy research would give me the relevant informa- tion, which I could then, in turn, pass on to you with an air of knowledgeability and deep scholarship. Neither this nor any other method of research I tried was of any avail. Little or nothing has been written on the scrapbook as a format. Therefore what I have to tell you is, to some degree, the result of deduction and conjecture. We can start by characterizing what a scrapbook is. Unlike earlier compilations, such as Proverbs or those of Confucius, it is a personal creation, formed by an individual's thoughts and tastes to fill that individual's needs and desires. The fact that a scrapbook is indeed a book also gives it a distinctive quality. A scrapscroll is a conceivable thing but it would be a very different kind of thing from a scrapbook. Another intrinsic quality of a scrapbook is that it is derivative. Its content is largely or entirely obtained from sources outside the compiler. In this respect it differs from diaries and journals. One would expect, then, the earliest scrapbooks to date from a time when literacy was fairly widespread, respect for and interest in the individual was high and the materials for bookmaking were inexpensive, or at least, affordable. That does seem to be the case. So far, the beginning of the 16th century is the earliest that I have been able to find objects which meet the above qualifications. They are albums in the form of commonplace books. These were popular devices wherein "intellectual young men recorded good sayings and notable observations." They were also called table books. Hamlet's notable observation about smiles and villains was written by him into his tables. ² Commonplace books differ from our modern concept of a scrapbook and from those we will be considering at this conference because the quotations were usually written out by the collector rather than mounted from other sources into 2 book. The 17th century also saw the development of a type of album very different from commonplace books but much closer to our idea of the physical form of a scrapbook. These were albums of prints and drawings compiled by serious collectors. William W. Robinson, in his essay, "This Passion for Prints," describes 17th century print collectors' practices: "Serious amateurs, including Samuel Pepys, preserved most of their prints in albums such volumes constituted the backbone of every collection or 'cabinet' formed during that period." Elaborate schemes for organizing these albums, by type and subject, but not usually by artist, were created. These albums are rare in the United States but much more common in Europe. A large proportion of the 20 million prints at France's Bibliothèque Nationale are still in volumes. I have examined one such book in the New York Public Library, a collection of architectural prints compiled in the late 18th century.4 The prints in this volume were not so much preserved as they were incarcerated. The book had played the part of Procrustean Bed instead that of protector. A number of prints had been folded to accommodate them to the size of the leaves and some had even been trimmed to fit. The development of newspapers and magazines in the 18th century had a profound effect on scrapbooks. Their ephemeral nature, brevity and timeliness made them ideal candidates for scrapbooks and they have formed the staple diet of clippers ever since. Among the first to be exploited were the fashion magazines which appeared in France and England in the last quarter of the century. After receiving his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Fordham University, ROBERT DECANDIDO entered the field of library and archives conservation. For the last ten years he has held administrative positions in the Conservation Division of The New York Public Library's Research Libraries. Also in the 18th century was developed the technique of grangerizing. In 1769 William Granger published a history of England which included blank pages on which could be pasted whatever illustration the purchaser chose. Once conceived, the idea was expanded to include books that were not produced with this intent which were disbound and then rebound with additions. These additions might include such things as letters and autographs as well as pictorial illustra- tions. These strange combinations of printed book and scrapbook, also known as extra-illustrated books, became popular in the 19th century. The 19th century was the heyday for scrapbook makers. Cheap job printing, chromolithography and the newly developed art of photography all added grist to the avid compiler's mill. Thematic scrapbooks were the forte of Victorian times, orderly, sentimental and message-laden. From this time, too, date the earliest theater-related scrapbooks that I have been able to find. Certainly the vast majority of theatrical scrapbooks in this county were created in the late 19th and 20th Scenturies. This is the time period sometimes referred to as the Era of Bad Paper Nowhere is bad paper more evident than in these scrapbooks. The history of the scrapbook has not yet been written, but it ought to be. We need to know more so that we can better appreciate and preserve these complex, charming and villainous children of our minds. OTES G.B. Harrison ed. Shakespeare, the Complete Works. New York; Harcourt, Brace & World, 1952, note on p. 895. Hamlet, a bookish sort, brings his "tables" even to a tryst with his father's ghost. The stage direction for this line makes it clear that Hamlet is writing even as he speaks. thifford Ackley. Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt. Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, N.Y. Graphic Society, C. 1981. Robinson's essay is printed as front matter in this volume. Though the term "preserved" may, in the present context, seem incongruous some of the alternatives to albums were much worse. Robinson notes that for display purposes "Pepys had the prints mounted on boards and varnished before he set them into frames." This uncataloged volume is identified only by the legend, "Die Zierliche Baukunst" lettered on the front cover. This is rather atypical-anoymity not being one of the usual features of scrapbooks. nes Granger. Biographical History of England. London; T. Davies, 1769. 69 INNOCENT BYSTANDER by CULLEN MURPHY THE SCRAPBOOK C harles H. Hoyt was the proprietor A NEW HOYT FARGE." "HER CHILD An accidental encounter with of the Madison Square Theater and ALSO DEAD." a writer of farces-one of the most suc- two briefly famous lives Hoyt saved everything. He received cessful playwrights of Cilded Age New scores of telegrams-beige rectangles of York. Hoyt's wife, Caroline Miskel Hoyt, cheap paper bearing the classic logo and Tharlestown 6." The road sign came was a rising young star of the stage, promotional apparatus of The Western a surprise, and stirred a memo- renowned for her beauty and charm. Union Telegraph Company ("21,000 ry. I had ventured into New Hampshire Charles Hoyt's name means nothing Offices in America. Cuble Service to All in order to pick up a child at camp; un- to most people now, but two songs the World"). Most of the messages are expectedly, the route now offered a col- from one of his shows, A Trip to China- printed in blue or purple teletype; some lateral opportunity. There was time to town, are still widely familiar-"The of them are handwritten, displaying the spare, and I turned off the state high- Bowery and "After the Ball." Charles varied but fluid penmanship of the clerks way and headed into town. The detour vas-only for about a hundred years. Charlestown was familiar because of a scrapbook that came into my hands one afternoon three decades ago, when I worked à summer job at a sprawl- ing flea market in Connecticut. Some boxes of books had just been taken off a truck-the residue of an estate sale. They contained mostly a collection of bound volumes of The Harvard Crimson from 1893 through 1912, which for some réa- son 1 needed to have. The owner of the flea market didn't really deal in books, and he sold the boxes to me for $12. The most important volume in them was one I hadn't seen and discovered only later, buried at the bottom. It was a scrapbook, as big as an old Bible, compiled in 1898 by a man mourn- ing the death during childbirth of his and Caroline lived on Thirtieth Street, who rendered dots and dashes into Eng- wife and newborn son. The scrapbook near Madison Avenue, and moved in lish. Florenz Ziegfeld, the theatrical man- opens with an inscription in pencil on the highest theatrical and artistic cir- ager and producer of the Ziegfeld Fol- the flyleaf: cles. When Caroline died. on October lies, sent a telegram, and SO did his wife, Words kindly meant, sweet in thought, 2, 1898, at the age of twenty-five, the Anna Held, the diminutive, hourglass- softening the sorrow if they could not event was given prominent coverage waisted French comedienne who was remove it. in all the New York newspapers-the famous for bathing in milk. (Her mes- They were and are gratefully appreciated by me. Times. the Daily News; the Journal, the sage was transcribed, "Receiver mes con- Chas. Hoyt. Sun, the Tribune, the Herald, the Press, dolences les plus sympatigues.") Sain Shu- the World, the Telegram. the Telegraph: bert, one third of the theatrical Shubert And then, on page after page, carefully "END GAME SUDDENLY." "SHE WON Brothers, who would die in a train wreck pasted down and sometimes anno- CREAT SUCCESS IN 'A CONTENTED a few years later, sent a telegram, as did tated, come all the telegrams and let- WOMAN." "WAS ONE OF MOST BEAUTI- the theatrical manager Charles Frohman, ters and calling cards and newspaper FUL OF YOUNGER ACTRESSES." "MADE who would go down with the Lusitania. clippings that accumulated in the days. A SENSATION IN "A TEMPERANCE There is a cable from James J. "Cen- after his loss. TOWN." "WAS SOON TO REAPPEAR IN tleman Jim Corbett, who wrested the 22 THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY NOVEMBER 2001 heavyweight boxing title from John L. New Hampshire, close by the quaint old baroque and circumventing delicacy. Sullivan, and one from Charles G. Dawes, town of Charlestown. A special car will For a while Hoyt was confined to a who would win a Nobel Peace Prize (for take the body there to-morrow." sanatorium in Hartford. Then he re- the economic reconstruction of Germany turned to Charlestown. He died there after World War I) and serve as Calvin C harles Hoyt, for all his success in November of 1900, at the age of Coolidge's Vice President. lon Broadway, was at heart à New forty-one. Friends from New York came When he had finished mounting the Hampshire man. He was born in Con- up by train for the funeral; theaters in telegrams, Hoyu moved on to person- cord, and served a term in the state New York that night went dark. A local al letters, affixing one to a page, some- legislature, Charlestown, where he main- newspaper, The Claremont Advocate, pre- times using the envelopes as pockets. He tained a large house, lies on the Con- served the scene at the mausoleum. received condolences from the great necticut River, roughly halfway between Mr. Lane, the undertaker, with assist- Broadway impresario David Belasco and Keene and Hanover. There, in the vil- ance, placed the casket in the niche from the distinguished actress Minnie lage cemetery, Caroline Miskel Hoyt was reserved, between Flora Walsh and Maddern Fiske. ("My sir," she wrote, laid to rest, the baby boy in her arms. Caroline Miskel Hoyt, and the nu- "It was not my good fortune to know Among the abundant tributes of flow- merous floral tributes were then your lovely wife büt placed at the further corridor, be- tween the walls As the western even so I have been sky was tinged with the lowering sorely grieved at her gleams of the sun, the Mausoleum death and wished was lighted up with a beauty never to deeply to tell you be seen again, for all that remained so.") The notepaper of this line of Hoyts were enclosed within the walls, and envelopes are often thickly edged The mausoleum in the Charlestown in black, a form of cemetery was not hard to find-a gran- stationery once stan- ite structure with a slate roof and HOYT dard in the reper- chiseled on the lintel. The ornate toire of bereavement. bronze doors were sealed tight. I asked Personal calling cards a groundskeeper if the mausoleum were once standard meant anything to him. He replied with a too-left on a tray af- shrug of genial helplessness and went ter a sympathy call, back to work. The place where Hoyt's or sent along with mansion once stood, on Main Street, is flowers. Hoyt pasted now occupied by a bank. them into the book The article in the Advocate a century when he was finished ago was probably correct in one respect: with the letters, sev- that the tomb's interior would never eral to a page. The car- again see the sun. But I'm not SQ sure toonist Thomas Nast that the monument holds all that re- left his card. mains of "this line of Hoyts." The scrap- Newspaper clip- book, after all, has continued to circulate pings fill out the in the outside world. To whom it was scrapbook, yellowing entrusted under the terms of Hoyt's will and brittle; for refer- I have not discovered; perhaps it went ence Hoy preserved to the primary heir, a man named Frank the names and datelines of the news- ers was a bouquet with a white ribbon McKee. Somehow it passed safely down papers and pasted them above the sto- bearing the words "Last Act." The news- the generations until a brief moment ries, which report the sudden onset of paper article relating this fact is the last of períl at the flea market, when it was calamity and offer admiring assessments item in Hoyt's scrapbook. accidentally rescued. Over the years I of Caroline Hoyt's brief career. "It has But it was not the last act. Over have shown the scrapbook to many peo- been a long time," the New York Journal time I have collected some information ple, all of whom have been drawn in and observed, "since a death in the theatri- about what happened to Hoyt. It turns touched by the tragedy it distills. The cal profession has created such a pro- out that he survived Caroline by little scrapbook is now in the custody of the found sentimenti of sorrow." The news- more than two years. He had lost his Charlestown Historical Society. paper stories often end with some variant first wife, Flora Walsh, in 1892; the loss Charles Hoyt wrote some of the most on the following (from the New York of a second, together with a child, seems successful farces of his cra. He might Press): "The burial will take place near to have unhinged him. Press accounts have appreciated the irony that it is his Mr. Hoyt's home in the granite hills of make reference to his condition with a grief that remains most palpably alive. 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Executive Education, Innovation Lab, Allston Alterations The Crane Estate's palatial abode and hillside Casino Complex Photograph Courtesy of the Trustees EHIND THE "GREAT HOUSE" on the Crane Estate in Ipswich, Massachusetts, a B vast lawn rolls out half a mile to a bluff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Few New England landscapes are as majestic as this "Grand Allée"-and far fewer are open, year-round, to the public. Even better, visitors to the site are encouraged to picnic, read, lounge, and play games on the grassy slopes, and explore easy walking http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/08/an-ipswich-idyll 1/4 5/30/2016 The Crane Estate in Ipswich Massachusetts Harvard Magazine trails, including one leading down to Crane Beach. Or they may tour the 59-room mansion, a rare survivor of America's early twentieth-century country-estate era. "We want people to gather here and enjoy this unique place," says Bob Murray, regional manager of Trustees (previously The Trustees of Reservations), which has owned the property since 1949. "Pictures and words don't do the landscape justice: people just HIGHLIGHTS OF have to come see it." CLASSICAL CHINA In its heyday, the estate on Castle Hill was an opulent showpiece and summer playtime paradise. Jun 22-Jul 2, 2016 with the HAA An Italianate "Casino Complex" tucked into the allée's first hillside had a courtyard with a CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS. saltwater swimming pool that was bookended by two villas: one housing a ballroom, the other HARVARD Alumni Association providing "bachelors' quarters" for the young men who visited Chicago plumbing magnate Richard T. Crane Jr., his wife Florence, and their two children. Nearby were a bowling green, tennis court, maze, log-cabin playhouse, golf course, and deer preserve. The Cranes also ran a self-sustaining farm, with livestock, an orchard, and lush vegetable and rose gardens, along with You Might Also Like: an on-site 134,000-gallon underground water cistern and a coal-fired power plant to supply electricity. Josep Lluís Sert's International Style icon is The Trustees can't recreate the Cranes' luxurious utopia. But a three-year, $1.5-million updated restoration and improvements project has helped foster the estate's spirit of relaxed sociability and extend aspects of the Cranes' lifestyle to a much wider audience. The 2,100-acre property Harvard Architect couple (which encompasses the nearby Crane Wildlife Refuge) is among 112 sites owned by the are transforming Boston's Trustees that exhibit "exceptional scenic, natural, and historic beauty" across the state; these landscape range from vegetable farms, a creamery, and rural woodlands to wildlife sanctuaries and community gardens in Boston. The most recent fundraising campaign, spearheaded by Modernist homes in president and CEO Barbara Erickson, has promoted improvements to the nonprofit's "signature cultural resources": Naumkeag, a Gilded Age mansion with gardens, in Stockbridge (see "Spring Lexington and Cape Cod Forward," March-April 2013, page 24D), and Castle Hill, which are both National Historic Landmarks. In Ipswich, the restoration focused on the allée and the Casino Complex, designed and planted more than a century ago by landscape architect Arthur A. Shurcliff, B.S. 1896. The Trustees pulled out swaths of unfettered growth within and around the allée that had obscured Shurcliffs original vision for decades, and replanted his orderly columns with more than 700 new trees that are growing in nicely. The restored Casino Complex now offers a fine-cut lawn for croquet (the pool was filled in long ago by Florence Crane), framed by a new brick terrace and comfortable chairs and tables. A Mediterranean feel persists, with "wonderful ornamentation: the Bacchanalian relief figures and marble statues," Murray notes. "The whole complex is beautifully integrated within the allée and the house." The former ballroom now holds a café, along with a billiards table, other games, and coloring kits. The original stone fireplace works and may help warm visitors, if needed, through October 16: the end of the season for the café and Trustees-run events like concerts, outdoor movies, scavenger hunts, and the new guided tours of the Great House. (The grounds themselves are open all year, and two special events are planned: The Crane Estate Art Show and Sale, November 6-8, and Christmas at Castle Hill, December 4-6.) Those who tour the house as "Guests of the Cranes" are led around by a "maid" or "butler" brimming with tidbits on family history and the eclectic décor. The story is that Richard Crane, a fanatical sailor, was on a yacht in Ipswich Bay when he first saw Castle Hill and decided to buy it. He snapped up the first parcel in 1910 and would amass a total of 3,500 acres before his death in 1931-including what's now Crane Beach. (Privatizing it earned him no friends in town.) The imposing, Stuart-style English manor-a patchwork of architectural styles such as Baroque and Palladian-was designed by David Adler and completed in 1928. The side facing the allée features a main building with an inset terrace buttressed by two symmetrical wings. Second- floor porches and bay-windowed bedrooms offer stunning views of the water. The interior has a surprisingly rustic and homey feel for a mansion, perhaps due to the hodgepodge of decorating styles-ornate Georgian (Adler salvaged and installed wood-paneled rooms from a 1732 London townhouse, for example), alongside Greek Revival, Italian Renaissance, and Art http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/08/an-ipswich-idyll 2/4 5/30/2016 The Crane Estate in Ipswich Massachusetts Harvard Magazine Deco. Most impressive, however, are the bathrooms-befitting a plumbing millionaire. Each of the seven bedrooms has its own, many outfitted with then-cutting edge Art Deco fixtures and one decorated almost entirely in Delft tiles. Richard Crane's features a large tub with gleaming silver-plated piping and faucets, a shower with 12 nozzles, a white marble floor, and heated towel rack. His wife's is pale green with delicate glass shelving and loads of gray-veined marble providing an archway over the sink, the tub-surround, and flooring accents. The Crane Company manufactured iron and steel pipes, valves, and fittings, but starting in 1914, when Richard Cane inherited the top post, he expanded into modern bathroom fixtures; the company's exhibit at the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair featured the "world's largest shower." "We like to joke," says the butler during one tour, "that this is the house that toilets built." In fact, it was the second one. The Cranes initially built (between 1910 and 1912) a lavish Italian Renaissance Revival mansion designed by the Boston architecture firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, but razed it in 1924; according to family legend, Florence Crane never liked the "Italian fiasco" because it was too "cold and drafty." She did, however, keep the matching Casino Complex and her beloved Italian garden, both built between 1913 and 1915. Designed by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and his brother John Charles Olmsted, the garden is a hidden oasis: a forest of trees was transplanted and arranged to intentionally shroud the walled tea houses, water fountain, and abundant perennial flower beds. (The garden is currently under restoration.) Crane later dismissed the Olmsteds and hired Shurcliff, their former associate, to work on the Casino Complex landscaping and to design the allée. "We can speculate that it was because they had a very different vision for a much more open landscape at the estate," Murray adds, "and that Crane didn't want that. But we don't know for certain what the reasons were." Sweeping views are well worth the half-mile walk across the hilly Grand Allée. Photograph by Harvard Magazine/NPB Shurcliff (a mentee of Olmsted firm partner Charles Eliot, A.B. 1882, the son of Harvard president Charles William Eliot and the primary founder of The Trustees of Reservations in 1891) lived down the road from the Cranes. He certainly shared the Olmsteds' naturalist aesthetic. "But one aspect of his genius," Bob Murray notes of the allée's meticulous design, "was the way he took this European aesthetic and adapted it to the New England landscape." Shurcliff enhanced the inherent hilliness and dramatized the approach to the Ipswich Bay and ocean vista: benches on the bluff overlook Ipswich's Little Neck Harbor, Plum Island, and several beaches as well. He seamlessly tied the landscape to the formidable hilltop home by ensuring that the land was sheared down to a lawn (echoing the aristocratic grounds in English country homes) and installing a rigorously spare and symmetrical planting structure. Florence Crane reportedly loved her new "English manor" and spent extended summers there until she died in 1949, having previously bequeathed the estate to the Trustees. Parts of the property have been open to the public ever since, according to Murray. Within the last 15 http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/08/an-ipswich-idyll 3/4 5/30/2016 The Crane Estate in Ipswich Massachusetts I Harvard Magazine years, about $6 million has been invested in capital improvements, starting in 2000 with the wholesale renovation of a shingle "cottage" on the estate (where the Cranes lived while the "Great House" was being built). The Trustees now run it as The Inn at Castle Hill. Murray is now overseeing the first phase of the Italian garden restoration. Plans include reviving the water features and replicating the original Rainbow Fountain sculpture by Bela Lyon Pratt, restoring the wooden pergola that links the teahouses, and replanting the flowerbeds. By next spring, the sanctuary is slated to open for walkers, gardeners, and sun- lovers-anyone seeking a quiet and beautiful spot. Florence Crane's former rose garden, however, will be left as is. "We envision that," Murray says, "as someplace we can enjoy. as a romantic ruin." 0 Comments Harvard Magazine Login + Recommend Share Sort by Best Start the discussion Be the first to comment. Subscribe D Add Disqus to your site Add Privacy CONTACT/ABOUT CUSTOMER SERVICE DONOR SERVICES E-NEWSLETTERS ADVERTISE MY ACCOUNT FAQ HARVARD All Content ©1996-2016 Harvard Magazine Inc. All right reserved Privacy Policy Tube MAGAZINE http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/08/an-ipswich-idyll 4/4 CHARLES ELIOT, WAVERLY OAKS, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE LAND PRESERVATION MOVEMENT WHERE IT ALL BEGAN Charles Eliot "As Boston's lovers of art united With this prescient rallying cry, landscape architect to found the Art Museum, SO her lovers Charles Eliot concluded his February 19, 1890 letter, entitled "The Waverly Oaks," to the editor of Garden and of Nature should now rally to preserve for themselves Forest-a letter that outlined a "scheme" to save some of and all the people as many as possible of these scenes of the "finest bits of natural scenery near Boston," for the natural beauty which, by great good fortune, still exist "delight [of] many future generations." In his letter, Eliot near their doors." singled out the Waverly Oaks, a stand of 22 mighty and ancient oaks on a steep hill in Belmont, and the Upper Falls of the Charles River, as examples of potential country parks that would provide fresh air, scenic beauty, and opportunities for quiet repose, as antidotes to the ills of urban life. In his letter to Garden Eliot's letter became the catalyst for a movement and Forest, Charles that convinced the Massachusetts State Legislature to Eliot mentioned, as establish, just one year later, a unique statewide organiza- an example of natural tion "for the purposes of acquiring, holding, maintaining scenery worthy of and opening to the public beautiful and historic places protection, "At the within the Commonwealth." Thus The Trustees, the first preservation organization of Fohn Upper Falls of Charles River the stream flows its kind in the world, was born. darkly between rocky and broken banks, from which hang ranks upon ranks of graceful Hemlocks." This site in Sherborn would several years later become Rocky Narrows, the oldest of The Trustees' properties. of the flows DID YOU KNOW? The Waverly Oaks were also the setting for an important proposal in Trustees' history. Arthur Shurcliff, the landscape architect of Castle Hill and its renowned and glorious Allée, proposed marriage to Margaret Homer Nichols under the Oaks in 1904. Shurcliff, a student and eventual colleague of Charles Eliot in Frederick Law Olmsted's Brookline landscape architecture firm, would go on to design Colonial Williamsburg, the Charles River Esplanade, and Old Sturbridge Village, among many famous sites. far Background: Waverly Oaks, 1896. Photograph by Nathaniel L. Stebbins, Courtesy DCR Archives. lived America, 2/7/2017 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size RE: Charles W. Eliot & The Trustees From : Alison Bassett Tue, Feb 07, 2017 01:07 PM Subject : RE: Charles W. Eliot & The Trustees 2 attachments To : 'Ronald Epp' Cc : Nicole Lapenta Hi Ron - So nice to hear from you! I am afraid that I don't believe we have anything that you are looking for: "Other than your self-published TOR standing committee reports does your catalog contain any references to Eliot files that may have been duplicated from Harvard or deposited from Harvard." Nicole - have you come across anything else in the library or the stacks? We have just completed going through Eliot's Scrapbook. His father is referenced on the following pages: check p. 59, 2; p. 72a; p. 88, 1; p. 99, 3; p. 117, 2; p. 123, 7; He made a speech with his son about the land conservation movement. Vice President of the Massachusetts Park Defense League You can find the scrapbook online here: https://thetrustees.access.preservica.com/archive/sdb%3Acollection%7C9767813d- 631f-4fbd-abb4-5a985c1341d7 In the annual reports are, of course, references to Charles W. since he was President of The Trustees(1905-1908) You can access the annual reports online too. I downloaded the annual report and then did a search on "Charles W. - later years will give you returns on the Charles W. Eliot 2nd - at one point they were both attending meetings at the same time (starting in 1922 I think). did https://thetrustees.access.preservica.com/archive/sdb%3Acollection%7C19bc610b-db4d-4908-aa08-5d1444e1c9b8 Standing Committee: Third Meeting April 15, 1897 The Secretary (John Woodbury) read to the meeting letters received from Mrs. Chas. Eliot and Mr. Charles W. Eliot - sure wish we had these letters as they were probably about the death of Charles Eliot on March 25th Standing Committee Meeting Notes: November 27, 1926 The Secretary (Charles Eliot 2ndy reported the death of Charles W. Eliot, President of the Corporation I'm wondering if the Appalachian Mountain Club has anything? http://www.outdoors.org/about/amc-library.cfm They had a few things of interest regarding Charles Eliot. There are letters at the MA Historical Society that are to/from Charles W. not sure if any concern conservation though perhaps selecting those individuals involved with the start up of TTOR would limit the result returns. They do have Gov. & Mayor Eustis Russell's papers - he was instrumental in helping with the Metropolitan Parks etc. - correspondence with Charles W. Eliot president, Harvard University, 1.1, 1.11, 1.16, 8.5, 12.4: 5 letters. http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0340 Sorry we couldn't be more helpful. Let us know we will see you again. Cheers, alison st Alison Bassett Archives & Research Center Manager Trustees I Archives & Research Center 27 Everett St. I Sharon, MA 02067 MAILING ADDRESS: 396 Moose Hill Street I Sharon, MA 02067 abassett@thetrustees.org 781.784-8200 ext. 1600 (phone) 0000 thetrustees.org Visit our online collections - where history grows! www.thetrustees.org/collections From: Ronald Epp [mailto:eppster2@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2017 10:47 PM To: Alison Bassett Subject: Charles W. Eliot & The Trustees 2/6/2017 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net Font Size RE: Charles Eliot Scrapbook From : Alison Bassett Thu, Dec 22, 2016 09:07 AM Subject : RE: Charles Eliot Scrapbook 2 attachments To : 'Ronald Epp' Hi Ron - So great to hear from you and we are so glad you will be closer to the ARC as well as to Acadia. Yes we have been waiting for the arrival of your book with your signature inside! Please don't forget us. Also thank you ahead of time for the Rev.'s book too. We have Dakota Jackson trying to finish up annotating the scrapbook articles. Just yesterday I sent the following to Keith Morgan and Alec Goriansky - she discovered that at least one article was pasted in there after Eliot's death. Have a happy holiday! I hope your move back to CT. goes smoothly. We all hope to see you again in 2017 - perhaps you could give us a sample of your book presentation too as we are all avid amateur historians! We have a researcher going through the Eliot Scrapbook and creating annotations regarding each article in it. We hope to have her project finished in the next couple of months but I thought I would share with you some of her observations. The hyperlinks will take you directly to the online collections catalog and the scrapbook pages there. By pressing "download", you can open up the pages that she is referencing. Notes from the researcher: The scrapbook highlights the movement to preserve as much land as possible in response to rapid development and overcrowding in cities. At the same time, there was a growing awareness from an emerging middle class that taking time out of work for leisure was important for health and happiness. While this created a public awareness for the need of public land access, it also put a considerable strain on existing areas that were not protected by the state. These factors led to a growing movement to preserve land via private and public means, provide access to land for a larger percentage of the public, and a sense of foresight in development and infrastructure. 1. The articles on these pages sum up Eliot's interests - [page 36-37] the preservation of Civil War battlefields in North Carolina and Gettysburg in conjunction with the preservation of Yellowstone and places in Massachusetts and New York. 2. The creation of the Trustees: Page 41c-d gives the entire act of the incorporation of the organization. It notes that the Trustees will not have capital stock, but instead acquire and hold land by "grant, gift, devise, purchase or otherwise" not exceeding the sum of $1 million. 3. An article posthumously added: Charles Eliot's words on preserving land, probably one of the last times he spoke to the public. [pg. 140, 3 column] ? He discusses the need for more public transportation to reservations, as well as the balance between landscape architecture and the natural world. ? "The establishment and the successful working of this commission proves that at least one great and complex American democracy is alive to the usefulness of the beautiful and value of public open space; also that this democracy is capable of cooperation and of foresight, ready to tax itself severely for an end which it believes in, and able to secure as executors of its expressed by undefined desires commissioners capable of realizing these desires in a remarkably comprehensive and equitable 4. Frederick Law Olmsted wrote an article about his time as the head of the first Yosemite Commission, in a response to a report by Century Magazine, and clears up some misrepresentations of his actions during his term as chairman [pg.27e-g, 5-7 columns] ? Olmsted clears up some peoples beliefs that his time as chairman was full of mismanagement by discussing the preservation of forests in Yosemite Valley. ? He gives an outline of who should be a Commissioner, and the values they should have. 5. An article by Elizur Wright's daughter, Ellen Wright, arguing for the preservation of Middlesex Fells. [pg. 78, 1-3 columns] ? She shares a preface by her father, who was a life-long supporter of preserving the Fells, where he pleads for the preservation of the "People's Forest". ? She notes that more breathing spaces are necessary because of an increased population. ? Ellen Wright's complete book on preservation can be found here. Cheers, alison trustees 125 Alison Bassett Archives & Research Center Manager Trustees I Archives & Research Center 27 Everett St. Sharon, MA 02067 MAILING ADDRESS: 396 Moose Hill Street I Sharon, MA 02067 abassett@thetrustees.org I 781.784-8200 ext. 1600 (phone) 2/6/2017 XFINITY Connect 0000 thetrustees.org Visit our online collections - where history grows! www.thetrustees.org/collections From: Ronald Epp [mailto:eppster2@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 5:14 PM To: Alison Bassett Subject: Re: Charles Eliot Scrapbook A Hi Alison, Far too much time has lapsed since we last contacted one another, understandable in a year when we are celebrating both national park centennials and a 125th anniversary. I write to tell you that I've rented for the next year an apartment in Simsbury CT, just a bit northwest of Hartford. I'll be traveling throughout New England quite routinely and plan on stopping by to see you this Winter. I don't know if you have secured a copy of my Creating Acadia National Park but I'd like to present you with a copy. The 2nd edition of the Historical Sketch of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations that Dr. Eliot's son--the Rev. Samuel A. Eliot-- wrote about was published this month with an essay by me on the Eliots that I'd like to add to the ARC. My holiday letter is attached. Merry Christmas to you and the ARC staff ! Ronald Epp From: "Alison Bassett" To: "Ronald Epp" Cc: "Alex goriansky" Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 8:27:03 AM Subject: RE: Charles Eliot Scrapbook A Hi Ron - We have been wondering about you! I hope you both saw last week's post on Facebook that I did about Acadia; the Eliots & Dorr for the 100th NPS celebration. Attached is the list of articles found in the scrapbook. The earliest article in the scrapbook is 1888 so it would be terrific to look at the other one. Volunteers have been busy annotating the articles too. I found it interesting that there are 15 articles by/about J.B. Harrison, commissioner of forests for New Hampshire and secretary of the American Forestry Association, and two by Sylvester Baxter who was a genius at public relations in his early efforts to create parklands. Looking forward to further discussions! Cheers, Alison trustees 1251 t Alison Bassett 2/6/2017 XFINITY Connect Trustees I Archives & Research Center 27 Everett St. I Sharon, MA 02067 MAILING ADDRESS: 396 Moose Hill Street Sharon, MA 02067 abassett@thetrustees.org 781.784-8200 (phone) 0000 thetrustees.org From: Ronald Epp [mailto:eppster2@comcast.net] Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2016 8:34 PM To: Alison Bassett Cc: Alex goriansky Subject: Charles Eliot Scrapbook A Hi Alison, I have spent the last month on Mount Desert Island participating in the centennial of Acadia and the NPS. After eight papers presented here, I'm looking forward to relaxation in Pennsylvania where I have to examine more closely the copies I made of pages from the Eliot Scrapbook in your possession. Congratulations on the TTOR 125th! Alexander Goriansky and I spent several hours in his home in Northeast Harbor, where he allowed me to examine five notebooks of Charles Eliot still held by family members. One of these contains scores of pages of newclippings relating to conservation activities in North America and Europe; they appear to be dated before 1885. The content does not appear to overlap the scrapbook in your possession--but -- to complement it. I don't know whether Keith Morgan has seen this document; and if so, it appears unlikely that he saw it before writing his Introduction to the centennial edition of Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect. I'm disinclined to speculate at this point and want to wait until I return home late next week to refresh my memory about your scrapbook content. But clearly, Eliot was deliberately compiling resources for the task ahead. Let us talk in about ten days. Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net image001.png 14 KB 125 0000 image002.jpg KB thetrustees.org 2/7/2017 XFINITY Connect As I may have told you, when I next visit he ARCH --within the month, I hope--I want to bring along a signed copy of the Dorr biography and a copy of the second edition (2016) of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, with an original essay by Rev. Samuel A. Eliot and my new essay about Eliot's contributions to this first born child of the TOR. I've recently been combing the Charles W. Eliot Papers Harvard online finding aid for hints of his conservation interests. There are files on Hetch Hetchy, Lafayette National Park, and conservation organizations with which he had an affiliation. But NO indication of his decades of leadership in your organization. Could I have missed the obvious? Other than your self-published TOR standing committee reports does your catalog contain any references to Eliot files that may have been duplicated from Harvard or deposited from Harvard. It is now a decade since I carefully scrutinized your standing committee volumes during Eliot's presidency and while I still have my notes, I wondered whether your inventorying and cataloging revealed primary--or secondary- source material about Charles W. Eliot's TOR activities circa 1905-1926. Finally, I much appreciate your including me in the loop of information described below. These are issues that are close to my research interests as well. Has there been any response from Morgan or Goriansky to date? I hope that Dakota Jackson's Scrapbook annotation process has moved forward. I am now spending two weeks out of every month in an apartment I have rented for 2017 in Simsbury CT while retaining my primary residence in PA. I will arrange with you a day trip to the ARC in late February or March. All the Best, Ronald Epp 124 Sawyers Path Simsbury, CT 06070 603-491-1760 (Cell) From: "Alison Bassett" To: "Ronald Epp" Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 9:07:40 AM Subject: RE: Charles Eliot Scrapbook Hi Ron - So great to hear from you and we are so glad you will be closer to the ARC as well as to Acadia. Yes we have been waiting for the arrival of your book with your signature inside! Please don't forget us. Also thank you ahead of time for the Rev.'s book too. We have Dakota Jackson trying to finish up annotating the scrapbook articles. Just yesterday I sent the following to Keith Morgan and Alec Goriansky - she discovered that at least one article was pasted in there after Eliot's death. Have a happy holiday! I hope your move back to CT. goes smoothly. We all hope to see you again in 2017 - perhaps you could give us a sample of your book presentation too as we are all avid amateur historians! 2/7/2017 XFINITY Connect online collections catalog and the scrapbook pages there. By pressing "download", you can open up the pages that she is referencing. Notes from the researcher: The scrapbook highlights the movement to preserve as much land as possible in response to rapid development and overcrowding in cities. At the same time, there was a growing awareness from an emerging middle class that taking time out of work for leisure was important for health and happiness. While this created a public awareness for the need of public land access, it also put a considerable strain on existing areas that were not protected by the state. These factors led to a growing movement to preserve land via private and public means, provide access to land for a larger percentage of the public, and a sense of foresight in development and infrastructure. 1. The articles on these pages sum up Eliot's interests - [page 36-371 the preservation of Civil War battlefields in North Carolina and Gettysburg in conjunction with the preservation of Yellowstone and places in Massachusetts and New York. 2. The creation of the Trustees: Page 41c-d gives the entire act of the incorporation of the organization. It notes that the Trustees will not have capital stock, but instead acquire and hold land by "grant, gift, devise, purchase or otherwise" not exceeding the sum of $1 million. 3. An article posthumously added: Charles Eliot's words on preserving land, probably one of the last times he spoke to the public. [pg. 140, 3 column] ? He discusses the need for more public transportation to reservations, as well as the balance between landscape architecture and the natural world. ? "The establishment and the successful working of this commission proves that at least one great and complex American democracy is alive to the usefulness of the beautiful and value of public open space; also that this democracy is capable of cooperation and of foresight, ready to tax itself severely for an end which it believes in, and able to secure as executors of its expressed by undefined desires commissioners capable of realizing these desires in a remarkably comprehensive and equitable 4. Frederick Law Olmsted wrote an article about his time as the head of the first Yosemite Commission, in a response to a report by Century Magazine, and clears up some misrepresentations of his actions during his term as chairman [pg.27e-g, 5-7 columns] ? Olmsted clears up some peoples beliefs that his time as chairman was full of mismanagement by discussing the preservation of forests in Yosemite Valley. ? He gives an outline of who should be a Commissioner, and the values they should have. 5. An article by Elizur Wright's daughter, Ellen Wright, arguing for the preservation of Middlesex Fells. [pg. 78, 1-3 columns) ? She shares a preface by her father, who was a life-long supporter of preserving the Fells, where he pleads for the preservation of the "People's Forest". ? She notes that more breathing spaces are necessary because of an increased population. ? Ellen Wright's complete book on preservation can be found here. Cheers, alison tristees 1251 Alison Bassett Archives & Research Center Manager Trustees Archives & Research Center 27 Everett St. I Sharon, MA 02067 MAILING ADDRESS: 396 Moose Hill Street I Sharon, MA 02067 abassett@thetrustees.org 781.784-8200 ext. 1600 (phone) 0000 thetrustees.org Visit our online collections - where history grows! www.thetrustees.org/collections From: Ronald Epp [mailto:eppster2@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 5:14 PM To: Alison Bassett Subject: Re: Charles Eliot Scrapbook A Hi Alison, Far too much time has lapsed since we last contacted one another, understandable in a year when we are celebrating both national park centennials and a 125th anniversary. T 2/7/2017 XFINITY Connect I'll be traveling throughout New England quite routinely and plan on stopping by to see you this Winter. I don't know if you have secured a copy of my Creating Acadia National Park but I'd like to present you with a copy. The 2nd edition of the Historical Sketch of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations that Dr. Eliot's son--the Rev. Samuel A. Eliot-- wrote about was published this month with an essay by me on the Eliots that I'd like to add to the ARC. My holiday letter is attached. Merry Christmas to you and the ARC staff ! Ronald Epp From: "Alison Bassett" To: "Ronald Epp" Cc: "Alex goriansky" Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 8:27:03 AM Subject: RE: Charles Eliot Scrapbook A Hi Ron - We have been wondering about you! I hope you both saw last week's post on Facebook that I did about Acadia; the Eliots & Dorr for the 100th NPS celebration. Attached is the list of articles found in the scrapbook. The earliest article in the scrapbook is 1888 so it would be terrific to look at the other one. Volunteers have been busy annotating the articles too. I found it interesting that there are 15 articles by/about J.B. Harrison, commissioner of forests for New Hampshire and secretary of the American Forestry Association, and two by Sylvester Baxter who was a genius at public relations in his early efforts to create parklands. Looking forward to further discussions! Cheers, Alison trustees 125 Alison Bassett Archives & Research Center Manager Trustees | Archives & Research Center 27 Everett St. I Sharon, MA 02067 MAILING ADDRESS: 396 Moose Hill Street Sharon, MA 02067 abassett@thetrustees.org 781.784-8200 (phone) 0000 thetrustees.org From: Ronald Epp [mailto:eppster2@comcast.net] Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2016 8:34 PM To: Alison Bassett Cc: Alex goriansky Subject: Charles Eliot Scrapbook A Hi Alison, I have spent the last month on Mount Desert Island participating in the centennial of Acadia and the NPS. After eight papers presented here, I'm looking forward to relaxation in 12/22/2016 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net Font Size RE: Charles Eliot Scrapbook From Alison Bassett Thu, Dec 22, 2016 09:07 AM Subject : RE: Charles Eliot Scrapbook 2 attachments To : 'Ronald Epp' Hi Ron - So great to hear from you and we are so glad you will be closer to the ARC as well as to Acadia. Yes we have been waiting for the arrival of your book with your signature inside! Please don't forget us. Also thank you ahead of time for the Rev.'s book too. We have Dakota Jackson trying to finish up annotating the scrapbook articles. Just yesterday I sent the following to Keith Morgan and Alec Goriansky - she discovered that at least one article was pasted in there after Eliot's death. Have a happy holiday! I hope your move back to CT. goes smoothly. We all hope to see you again in 2017 - perhaps you could give us a sample of your book presentation too as we are all avid amateur historians! We have a researcher going through the Eliot Scrapbook and creating annotations regarding each article in it. We hope to have her project finished in the next couple of months but I thought I would share with you some of her observations. The hyperlinks will take you directly to the online collections catalog and the scrapbook pages there. By pressing "download", you can open up the pages that she is referencing. Notes from the researcher: The scrapbook highlights the movement to preserve as much land as possible in response to rapid development and overcrowding in cities. At the same time, there was a growing awareness from an emerging middle class that taking time out of work for leisure was important for health and happiness. While this created a public awareness for the need of public land access, it also put a considerable strain on existing areas that were not protected by the state. These factors led to a growing movement to preserve land via private and public means, provide access to land for a larger percentage of the public, and a sense of foresight in development and infrastructure. 1. The articles on these pages sum up Eliot's interests - [page 36-37] the preservation of Civil War battlefields in North Carolina and Gettysburg in conjunction with the preservation of Yellowstone and places in Massachusetts and New York. 2. The creation of the Trustees: Page 41c-d gives the entire act of the incorporation of the organization. It notes that the Trustees will not have capital stock, but instead acquire and hold land by "grant, gift, devise, purchase or otherwise" not exceeding the sum of $1 million. 3. An article posthumously added: Charles Eliot's words on preserving land, probably one of the last times he spoke to the public. [pg. 140, 3 column] ? He discusses the need for more public transportation to reservations, as well as the balance between landscape architecture and the natural world. ? "The establishment and the successful working of this commission proves that at least one great and complex American democracy is alive to the usefulness of the beautiful and value of public open space; also that this democracy is capable of cooperation and of foresight, ready to tax itself severely for an end which it believes in, and able to secure as executors of its expressed by undefined desires commissioners capable of realizing these desires in a remarkably comprehensive and equitable 4. Frederick Law Olmsted wrote an article about his time as the head of the first Yosemite Commission, in a response to a report by Century Magazine, and clears up some misrepresentations of his actions during his term as chairman [pg.27e-g, 5-7 columns] ? Olmsted clears up some peoples beliefs that his time as chairman was full of mismanagement by discussing the preservation of forests in Yosemite Valley. ? He gives an outline of who should be a Commissioner, and the values they should have. 5. An article by Elizur Wright's daughter, Ellen Wright, arguing for the preservation of Middlesex Fells. [pg. 78, 1- 3 columns] ? 12/22/2016 XFINITY Connect Alison Bassett Archives & Research Center Manager She shares a puface by her father, a life-long Trustees I Archives & Research Center supporta of the Fells. 27 Everett St. | Sharon, MA 02067 MAILING ADDRESS: 396 Moose Hill Street Sharon, MA 02067 Ellen veights complete house on abassett@thetrustees.org I 781.784-8200 ext. 1600 (phone) prescription care be found 0000 here. thetrustees.org Visit our online collections - where history grows! www.thetrustees.org/collections From: Ronald Epp [mailto:eppster2@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 5:14 PM To: Alison Bassett Subject: Re: Charles Eliot Scrapbook A Hi Alison, Far too much time has lapsed since we last contacted one another, understandable in a year when we are celebrating both national park centennials and a 125th anniversary. I write to tell you that I've rented for the next year an apartment in Simsbury CT, just a bit northwest of Hartford. I'll be traveling throughout New England quite routinely and plan on stopping by to see you this Winter. I don't know if you have secured a copy of my Creating Acadia National Park but I'd like to present you with a copy. The 2nd edition of the Historical Sketch of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations that Dr. Eliot's son--the Rev. Samuel A. Eliot-- wrote about was published this month with an essay by me on the Eliots that I'd like to add to the ARC. My holiday letter is attached. Merry Christmas to you and the ARC staff ! Ronald Epp From: "Alison Bassett" To: "Ronald Epp" Cc: "Alex goriansky" Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 8:27:03 AM Subject: RE: Charles Eliot Scrapbook A allow posset called 7/14/15 to say 1/18/14 that Visit TTOR feending ? gove dec was contret approved. info for Project in it ated Laureace Eliot. 7/15/15 Charles Eliot Scrapbook Conservation Project The origin of The Trustees of Reservations can be traced to March 5, 1890, when the New England periodical, Garden and Forest, carried a letter by Charles Eliot entitled "The Waverly Oaks." Next year, 2015, will mark the 125th anniversary of this important publication. The author, Charles Eliot, was a young landscape architect then practicing in Boston, who proposed the establishment of what would become The Trustees of Reservations, the first private nonprofit conservation organization of its kind in the country. In honor of this anniversary, the Archives & Research Center seeks funding to conserve the only piece of Charles Eliot memorabilia that The Trustees of Reservations own - Eliot's personal scrapbook. The first page reads in Eliot's handwriting "Newspaper Scraps Concerning Trustees of Public Reservations and Metropolitan Parks Commission." It contains not only Eliot's own clipping of his letter in Garden and Forest, but other newspaper clippings about land and historic preservation efforts in the United States and abroad, project brochures and reports. Articles about the initial Trustees meetings at MIT were carefully placed in here too. The 156- page scrapbook contains important documentation of Eliot's views on conservation, as well as information about the foundations of The Trustees of Reservations before Eliot's untimely death in 1897. The Need The need to conserve the scrapbook has been determined by The Trustees' curatorial staff along with researcher, Ronald H. Epp, Ph. D., who discovered the scrapbook in the files of Eliot's nephew, Charles Eliot II. Working together, this group noted the rapid deterioration of this important document. As the single most important conservation project for The Trustees, it must be completed before there is any further loss of information and damage to the integrity of the scrapbook. The Project In 2009, Mary Patrick and Deb Wender, Book Conservators at the New England Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) completed a conservation assessment and made a recommended treatment report of the scrapbook. The report outlines the severe level of deterioration - pages are dirty, discolored, brittle and acidic; newspaper clippings are folded and several are broken along the folds; page edges are chipped and shattering. We are seeking $10,000 to have NEDCC conserve nd(re-house the Charles Eliot Scrapbook. Each page will be cleaned and treated if necessary to reduce acidity and to repair any damage from folds or breaks. A digital photo will be taken of every page to provide greater accessibility to Trustee staff and researchers. Then each page will be encapsulated in a polyester film envelop and rebound for long term preservation. The Result The Charles Eliot Scrapbook contains a vast amount of information that reflects Eliot's goals for The Trustees in the years around his founding of the organization. By having NEDCC perform this conservation work, this remarkable collection of information will be available to everyone interested The Trustees' history and to all those who are committed to the history of the land trust movement and to saving open space. The scrapbook will be safely house in the Archives & Research Center's climate controlled environment. Digitization will give even more people access to the scrapbook. online/Searchotals access ? dubic As we all celebrate the beginnings of The Trustees of Reservations, the opportunity to save this piece of history is crucial. ? A Trustees of Reservations Oral History Project: Recommendations for Next Steps Need and Opportunity for a TTOR Oral History Project In April 2013, former executive director and long-time Trustees supporter Gordon Abbott passed away. Abbott's death has reminded The Trustees of the pressing need to capture the experiences and expertise of its board members and staff through oral history interviews. A short list of potential interviewees was developed in May 2013, and expanded upon with input from Trustees staff. Thirty potential interviewees, including current and former staff and board members, were identified (see complete list below). Broadly, the interviewees fall into three categories: Current and former staff members and volunteers whose experiences illuminate the day-to-day operations and institutional history of The Trustees; Current and former board members and donors, who are closely associated with a specific property; and Current and former board members who, in addition to their work with The Trustees, have played prominent roles in land conservation across the state. As David Outman's 2008 proposal, Voicing Land Conservation: Building an Archive of Landscape Narratives suggests, information gleaned from these interviews could contribute to education and outreach materials and management plans, directly supporting The Trustees' mission. The proposal additionally outlines a broader thematic approach to oral histories at The Trustees, which focuses on the potential for interviews to record the values of people involved in land conservation, and, when shared with supporters and research, provide an opportunity to consider how an individual's experience of the land and land conservation informs their values. Next Steps The Trustees are well-positioned to begin conducting oral history interviews because of the excellent materials developed for the 2008 Voicing Land Conservation pilot project. These materials include sample questions and legal forms needed to donate a recording to The Trustees, as well as a step-by- step process for reaching out to interviewees and conducting interviews. The short-term priority should simply be to speak with the oldest and most vulnerable interviewees first. A staff member with good knowledge of the interviewees should provide guidance in prioritizing the list, and be the first one to reach out to interviewees about the project. With the appropriate introductions and supervision from a staff member, graduate interns or volunteers could conduct preliminary research about interviewees, and begin interviews at once. Next, the Archives and Research Center staff should outline policies for archiving oral history recordings and eventually transcripts, and explore opportunities for recruiting additional interns and volunteers to conduct less urgent, but vitally important interviews, with Trustees staff and younger board members. In addition to the formal oral history interviews outlined above, more informal interviews and Story Corps-style events might be incorporated into existing Trustees programming. For example, a simple interview booth staffed by a volunteer or intern, could be set up at the next board meeting. Board members would be prompted to record a short memory of their work with The Trustees, or could conduct an interview with a colleague. Similar activities could also be conducted at the annual all-staff meeting. Page 1 of 3 Potential Interviewees The following list of potential oral history interviewees was developed in May 2013 by Alison Basset, Wes Ward, and Dave Outman, with additional input from the Advancement team and Mark Wilson. Outreach to additional staff would undoubtedly produce additional names. In addition to the groups of interviewees below, past presidents Andy Kendall and Fred Winthrop were identified as excellent candidates for interviews, in addition to Fred's wife, Susan Winthrop. Interviewees whose experiences illuminate the day-to-day operations / institutional history 1. Davis Cherington: according to Mark Wilson, first conservation staff member TTOR hired; served as VP for Land, Community, and Conservation and Deputy Director; started the Massachusetts Land Conservation Trust 2. Tom Foster: TTOR staff member of 30 years, who retired from position as VP for Field Operations in 2007 and worked in the Greater Boston region. 3. Christopher Kennedy: current staff member who has worked with TTOR since the 1980s; previous regional director for Martha's Vineyard, where he now serves as superintendent. 4. Bob Murray: current staff member of 30 years; hired by Gordon Abbbott straight out of college; rose through ranks of field staff at Castle Hill, and now serves as operations manager for Northeast / Greater Boston regions; age: mid-50s 5. Stanley I (Stan) Piatczyc: Western Region director who retired fifteen years ago; recommended by Mark Wilson 6. Peter Pinciaro: current, long-time employee; operations manager for Greater Boston who worked at Crane Estate for many years 7. Ann F. Powell: former director of Development; retired in 2010; age: early 70s 8. Caroline D. Standley: first full-time director of development, beginning in the 1980s; profiled in 2007 annual report. 9. Wes Ward: current employee who has worked with TTOR since 1981; VP, Land Conservation Interviewees who are closely associated with a specific property or region 10. Frances (Frannie) Colburn: Board member; Historic Resources Committee; Life Trustee; cataloged collections at Stevens Coolidge Place and Castle Hill and implemented organization- wide system for documenting collections and historic houses. 11. Ralph and Betsy Gordon: donors of part of the Norris Reservation in Norwell; active volunteers and life trustees; couple is younger than some other potential interviewees 12. Geraldine Millham: recommended by Laurie O'Reilly; current volunteer who was instrumental in Westport Town Farm before it was managed by TTOR; interviewed in 2011 annual report 13. Tom O'Donnell: recommended by Laurie O'Reilly; select board member in Hingham who played a key role in protecting World's End. Current and former board members and volunteers who, in addition to their work with The Trustees, have played prominent roles in land conservation across the state 14. Eugenie (Genie) Beal: Charles Elliot Award (2007); involved in the Boston Natural Areas Network (BNAN) since its founding, and instrumental in developing connection between BNAN and The Trustees; first chairwoman of the Boston Conservation Commission; founding Director of the Boston Environment Department, Special Assistant to the Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs; age: late 60s. Page 2 of 3 15. Wiliam (Bill) Clendaniel: Board member; Historic Resources Committee; TTOR Deputy Director, 1979 - 1988; Director, Mount Auburn Cemetery, 1988-2008. 16. Albert (AI) Creighton: major donor; instrumental in creation of Manchester-Essex Conservation Trust; board member under multiple directors; age: early 90s a. Peter Creighon: major donor; Al's son; founder of Conservation Council; very active in BNAN; age: late 40s. 17. Wil Hastings: recommended by Laurie O'Reilly; board chair of Hilltown Land Trust in western Massachusetts, a group TTOR is formally affiliated with; may be quite elderly 18. Norm Walker: recommended by Laurie O'Reilly; played a major role in protection of Bullitt Reservation, and knew Ann Bullitt as a child; featured in 2010 annual report Other Board Members 19. Janice and Roger B. Hunt: long-time volunteers and board members, who have been involved with TTOR since he 1970s; though in her 80s, Janice is active and in good health; Roger, in his late 80s, is less active 20. Jane Saltonstall: major donor; knew Gordon Abbott well through Manchester Yacht Club; age: mid-80s 21. Preston H. (Sandy) Saunders: past Chairman of the Standing Committee, and Kate Saunder's (former VP for advancement) father; still working though in his late 80s 22. Norton Q. Sloan: major donor; past board member; Steve Sloan's father; lives in Ipswich; age: mid-70s 23. F.S. (Syd) Smithers: past board chairman; lives in western part of the state; age: early 70s 24. Peter Spang: board member; Historic Resources Committee 25. Mary Waters Shepley: long-time donor, past board member, and active volunteer; age: 80s 26. Hope Wigglesworth: knew Gordon Abbott well from Manchester Yacht Club; current member of Chairman's Council 27. Henry (Harry) and Gale Guild: recommended by Steve Sloan and Yati McMahon; chair of Charles Elliot Society in 2000 Resources for Choosing a Digital Recorder Oral History in the Digital Age, a project of the Institute of Museums and Library Sciences, has a great resource for selecting a digital recorder. Story Corps's National Day of Listening instructions include recommendations for portable audio players. Before purchasing a recorder, however, we should take a careful inventory of the equipment that may already be owned by The Trustees, as there may well already be an adequate recorder on hand! Page 3 of 3 XFINITY Connect Page 1 of 2 XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.ne + Font Size Re: Charles Eliot Scrapbook Proposal From : Ronald & Elizabeth Epp Wed, Jan 22, 2014 03:23 PM Subject : Re: Charles Eliot Scrapbook Proposal 1 attachment To : Alison Bassett Dear Alison, Thank you for the documents and especially the link to the Appleton Farms exhibit. I would likely have missed this and it brought back memories of my last visit there about four years ago. A Historic Resources Committee meeting and House "tour" where we could roam about the Appleton residence at will. This then brought back memories of being given the Appleton Finding Aid (in 2007) after I had made the connection between Francis R. Appleton Sr. (HC '75) and G.B. Dorr (H.C. '74). Dorr left behind nothing substantial about his Harvard years and here in the attic of the Crane Estate--in FRA's hand-- were his Harvard diaries, expense inventories, theatre stubs, etc. EVERYTHING saved!!! From the evidence he provided about the expenses and events I was able to extrapolate to young Dorr. The scrapbook conservation project description is well done but I would offer one idea for "The Result" section. It is unclear whether after the conservation work is done how will the information contained in the scrapbook "be available to everyone." To me, this implies public accessibility through the Internet. If so, will there be a feature that allows one to enter a search term and find all occurrences of that identifier (e.g. all clippings related to the Adirondacks)? Bravo as well for the oral history project and the inclusion of more than a handful of people with whom I've benefited from knowing. Finally, what continues to astound me about the Trustee holdings is the apparent lack of interest shown by graduate students who are searching for dissertation projects. (I did incidental searches in Dissertation Abstracts). As I moved through your archives--and others--I thought that your rich resources are not being "mined" by budding academics. Am in error on this point? Have the Trustees ever engaged in outreach to the many graduate programs (in history, public policy, environmental studies, sustainability, natural resource management) in Massachusetts, I wonder? All the Best, Ronald Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net From: "Alison Bassett" To: "eppster2@comcast.net" Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 3:37:08 PM Subject: Charles Eliot Scrapbook Proposal Dear Ronald Epp; So nice to speak with you today! Your e-mail jolted us into action and we quickly wrote up the attached one-pager just this week. Thank you saying "yes" to Miriam's request of support, as well as, the re-write to your will concerning the scrapbook project. I have attached the oral history proposal that I mentioned too. http://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=177342&tz=America/New_York& 1/22/2014 XFINITY Connect Page 1 of 1 XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.ne + Font Size Of Farm & family From : Ronald & Elizabeth Epp Mon, Mar 10, 2014 06:18 PM Subject : Of Farm & family To : shd@ttor.org Dear Susan, Thanks to Alison Bassett, I recently learned about your "Of Farm and Family" exhibit available on the web. I examined the biographical essays most carefully. Wonderfully executed! It transported me back some six years ago when Susan Edwards and you gave me such liberal access to the TTOR attic archives at the Great House of the Crane Estate. I recall not only my discovery of Charles Eliot's Scrapbook documenting the founding of the Trustees but also that Francis Randall Appleton, Sr. was in the Harvard class one year behind George B. Dorr. From the most meticulous records kept by FRA, Sr., I was able to extrapolate to the life and times of Dorr, whose personal information about those years is minimal. Then to find that the two of them were allies in the effort during the first decade of the 20th-century to extend the Harvard Yard down to the Charles River, a project Appleton championed with the Harvard Riverside Associates. Sorry for the rambling, but I wanted to give you a sense of my indebtedness to you and other TTOR staff for after such a long time I can now report that The Making of Acadia National Park: A Biography of George B. Dorr will be published by The Friends of Acadia as part of the 2016 centennial of the National Park Service and Acadia National Park as well. We are now in the copyediting stage and much in the manuscript concerns the Eliot family, and especially the founding of TTOR as the model for the trustee organization on Mount Desert Island. If you'd like a sample, I can forward it to you. I hope we get to meet once again now that I'm further removed from Massachusetts. If I can ever be of help to you in serevice to TTOR, do let me know. All the Best, Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net http://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=189154&tz=America/New_York&. 3/10/2014 XFINITY Connect Page 1 of 3 XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.ne Font Size RE: Charles Eliot Scrapbook Proposal From : Alison Bassett Thu, Jan 23, 2014 12:51 PM Subject : RE: Charles Eliot Scrapbook Proposal 2 attachments To : 'Ronald & Elizabeth Epp' Cc : Miriam Spectre HI Ronald - It's so wonderful to have your insights! Thank you for taking the time. I have been here just over a year and you are spot on in voicing the research opportunities that graduate students might have here. To that end, Miriam has been busy reviewing and standardizing all the completed finding aids. She has now finished about 29! We have presented a mock-up page to the web designers (see attached) Each finding aid will be on the associated property's history page and then on the ARC page. I have attached the mock-up, The finding aids will be downloadable PDFs. We hope to also put them up on the ArchiveGrid (http://beta,worldcat.org/archivegrid/) too. Of course, our long term goal is to have Past Perfect records on-line but that is going to take some more staff to get there. Because only about 12 per cent of our collection has been processed we are hesitant to reach out to graduate programs at the moment, a grant to finish the work on the Appleton Farm collection was turned down, but we did receive a grant for a year to hire another part-time archivist to process the collections. Last week I did make a nice connection with Ted Widmer at Brown University so I am hoping to get another set of summer interns as last year's were terrific. Onward and upward! Best, alison the trustees of reservations FIND YOUR PLACE Alison Bassett Archives & Research Center Manager The Trustees of Reservations I Archives & Research Center 396 Moose Hill Street I Sharon, MA 02067 abassett@ttor.org 781.784.8200 tel I 781.784.4796 fax Web: thetrustees.org I Facebook: facebook.com/thetrustees I Twitter: twitter.com/thetrustees From: Ronald & Elizabeth Epp [mailto:eppster2@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 3:23 PM To: Alison Bassett Subject: Re: Charles Eliot Scrapbook Proposal Dear Alison, Thank you for the documents and especially the link to the Appleton Farms exhibit. I would likely have missed this and it brought back memories of my last visit there about four years ago. A Historic Resources Committee meeting and House "tour" where we could roam about the Appleton residence at will. http://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=177628&tz=America/New_York&.. 1/23/2014 XFINITY Connect Page 2 of 3 This then brought back memories of being given the Appleton Finding Aid (in 2007) after I had made the connection between Francis R. Appleton Sr. (HC'75) and G.B. Dorr (H.C. '74). Dorr left behind nothing substantial about his Harvard years and here in the attic of the Crane Estate--in FRA's hand-- were his Harvard diaries, expense inventories, theatre stubs, etc. EVERYTHING saved!!! From the evidence he provided about the expenses and events I was able to extrapolate to young Dorr. The scrapbook conservation project description is well done but I would offer one idea for "The Result" section. It is unclear whether after the conservation work is done how will the information contained in the scrapbook "be available to everyone." To me, this implies public accessibility through the Internet. If so, will there be a feature that allows one to enter a search term and find all occurrences of that identifier (e.g. all clippings related to the Adirondacks)? Bravo as well for the oral history project and the inclusion of more than a handful of people with whom I've benefited from knowing. Finally, what continues to astound me about the Trustee holdings is the apparent lack of interest shown by graduate students who are searching for dissertation projects. (I did incidental searches in Dissertation Abstracts). As I moved through your archives--and others--I thought that your rich resources are not being "mined" by budding academics. Am in error on this point? Have the Trustees ever engaged in outreach to the many graduate programs (in history, public policy, environmental studies, sustainability, natural resource management) in Massachusetts, I wonder? All the Best, Ronald Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net From: "Alison Bassett" To: "eppster2@comcast.net" Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 3:37:08 PM Subject: Charles Eliot Scrapbook Proposal Dear Ronald Epp; So nice to speak with you today! Your e-mail jolted us into action and we quickly wrote up the attached one-pager just this week. Thank you saying "yes" to Miriam's request of support, as well as, the re-write to your will concerning the scrapbook project. I have attached the oral history proposal that I mentioned too. I hope I will get a chance to meet you in April! Best, alison the trustees of reservations FIND YOUR PLACE Alison Bassett Archives & Research Center Manager The Trustees of Reservations Archives & Research Center 396 Moose Hill Street I Sharon, MA 02067 abassett@ttor.org 781.784.8200 tel 781.784.4796 fax Web: thetrustees.org I Facebook: facebook.com/thetrustees I Twitter: twitter.com/thetrustees http://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=177628&tz=America/New_York&. 1/23/2014 3/9/2016 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - FW: Stewardship in Action @ the ARC: Eliot Scrapbook From : Alison Bassett Wed, Mar 09, 2016 12:04 PM Subject : FW: Stewardship in Action @ the ARC: Eliot Scrapbook 2 5 attachments To : eppster2@comcast.net Hi Ron- Attached are photos that our processing archivist took of the newly conserved Eliot scrapbook! We had it conserved at the NEDCC. Currently we have two interns annotating the articles for us. BTW another intern is processing the Charles Eliot II Papers. Enjoy! alison 1_Charles_Eliot_Scrapbook_Arrival-7.jpg 41 KB TTOR 10 CHARLES ELIOT 2_Charles_Eliot_Scrapbook_Arrival-2.jpg SCRAPBOOK 75 KB 1890 3_Charles_Eliot_Scrapbook_Arrival-10.jpg 36 KB 4_Charles_Eliot_Scrapbook_Arrival-8.jpg 58 KB in ATTOR_10_Charles_Eliot_Scrapbook_finding_aid.docx 72 KB https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=357975&tz=America/New_York&xim=1 1/1 XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net 1_Charles_Eliot_Scrapbook_Arrival-7.jpg Thuster of %02-274-8 sinding 2_Charles_Eliot_Scrapbook_Arrival-2.jpg https://web.mail.comcast.net/h/viewimages?id=357975 1/4 3/9/2016 XFINITY Connect TTOR.10 CHARLES ELIOT SCRAPBOOK 1890 3_Charles_Eliot_Scrapbook_Arrival-10.jpg https://web.mail.comcast.net/h/viewimages?id=357975 2/4 3/9/2016 XFINITY Connect 4_Charles_Eliot_Scrapbook_Arrival-8.jpg https://web.mail.comcast.net/h/viewimages?id=357975 3/4 3/9/2016 XFINITY Connect 4/4 https://web.mail.comcast.net/h/viewimages?id=357975 6/13/2015 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Charles W. Eliot, 2nd Papers From : Ronald Epp Sat, Jun 13, 2015 11:47 AM Subject : Charles W. Eliot, 2nd Papers To : arc@ttor.org Greetings, In 2007 I inventoried at the Great House the Charles W. Eliot 2nd Papers after an interview with his son Lawrence had been arranged by Susan Edwards. I've been reviewing this lengthy reference tool when it occurred to me that the ARC may have developed an Eliot (1900-1993) finding aid. Is this the case? I'm preparing an article on Eliot's forceful role in Maine where he fought against limiting Acadia National Park development when federal authorities were attempting to establish a fixed park boundary. May of his writings in your collection provide an intellectual context for his actions and I would be interested as well in paying another visit in early August to the ARC to examine and photocopy selective documents. I look forward to hearing from you. Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=298283&tz=America/New_York&xim 1/1 6/13/2015 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net +1 Font Size = RE: Charles W. Eliot, 2nd Papers From : Alison Bassett Sat, Jun 13, 2015 12:16 PM Subject : RE: Charles W. Eliot, 2nd Papers 1 attachment To : 'Ronald Epp' Cc : Nicole Lapenta Great to hear from you Ronald Epp! Happy 100th birthday Acadia National Park too! You will be glad to hear that we are moving forward in trying to get the Eliot Scrapbook conserved and that we will be creating a searchable article synopsis too. Other good news is that we will soon have 24 finding aids posted online too. But alas we have been concentrating on our properties as that is what our staff and members are needing so that they can understand and appreciate the properties more. But alas we have not started to process and create Trustee staff finding aids, I have copied Nicole, who replaced Miriam, as the head archivist, and may be able to tell you more. I'm hoping that we have a copy of your inventory list and interview with Lawrence, if not I may ask you to bring a copy when you visit us in August. Let us know when you might like to visit so that we can be ready for you! Looking forward to hearing from you. Best, Alison the trustees of reservations FIND YOUR PLACE Alison Bassett Archives & Research Center Manager The Trustees of Reservations | Archives & Research Center 396 Moose Hill Street | Sharon, MA 02067 abassett@ttor.org 781.784.8200 tel 781.784.4796 fax Web: thetrustees.org | Facebook: facebook.com/thetrustees | Twitter: twitter.com/thetrustees From: Ronald Epp (mailto:eppster2@comcast.net] Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 11:48 AM To: Alison Bassett Subject: Charles W. Eliot, 2nd Papers Greetings, hhttps://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=298299&tz=America/New_York&xim=1 1/2 6/13/2015 XFINITY Connect In 2007 I inventoried at the Great House the Charles W. Eliot 2nd Papers after an interview with his son Lawrence had been arranged by Susan Edwards. I've been reviewing this lengthy reference tool when it occurred to me that the ARC may have developed an Eliot (1900-1993) finding aid. Is this the case? I'm preparing an article on Eliot's forceful role in Maine where he fought against limiting Acadia National Park development when federal authorities were attempting to establish a fixed park boundary. May of his writings in your collection provide an intellectual context for his actions and I would be interested as well in paying another visit in early August to the ARC to examine and photocopy selective documents. I look forward to hearing from you. Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net image001.png the trustees 1 KB of FIND YOUR PLACE https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=298299&tz=America/New_York&xim=1 2/2 XFINITY Connect Page 2 of 2 Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 4:16:59 PM Subject: Charles Eliot (R. Epp) Dear Miriam, I hope that you and the TTOR archives have been moving forward with the ambitious plans we discussed so many years ago. This morning, I was online researching the historic Cambridge newspapers at the Cambridge Public Library, sources that were not available online several years ago. As I looked at a Cambridge Tribune entry for July 19, 1902, my eye caught (on the left-hand column of page 2) the name of Charles Eliot. It turned out to be a rather lengthy review of his father's mammoth biographical tribute to his son. I've copied the page but the typeface is so small that one needs a magnifying glass to read it. Unless you already own a copy, you may wish to pursue this and add it to your collection. My wife and I moved in August 2011 to a retirement community in south central Pennsylvania, just outside chocolate city, Hershey. Penn State Hershey Medical Center then became our "home" as Elizabeth battled squamous cell carcinoma for more than a year until she died here at home last January 6th. I've managed to crawl out of my devastated state, suffered through knee replacement surgery this summer, and now am buoyed by the news that I've finally got a publisher for The Making of Acadia National Life: a biography of Founder George B. Dorr. Obviously, the Eliot family and TTOR will have a prominent place therein when it is published in the Spring of 2016, the centennial of the National Park Service and Acadia. I'm headed up to Mount Desert over the Veterans Day weekend and should I have some free time on the way back on the 15th, I'll stop by the archives. All my Best, Ronald Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net http://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=165734&tz=America/New_Y.. 12/2/2013 XFINITY Connect Page 1 of 2 XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.ne + Font Size Eliot Scrapbook From Ronald & Elizabeth Epp Mon, Dec 02, 2013 10:50 AM Subject Eliot Scrapbook To : mspectre@ttor.org Dear Miriam, I hope your holiday was satisfying. Two weeks ago I returned from a ten day trip to Mount Desert. While there I had breakfast with Tim Garrity, the president of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. I was telling him about my role in unearthing the Eliot Scrapbook at the Crane Estate back in 2007. Your name came up when I informed him about the finding aid that you had developed. The MDIHS has the original log books kept by Charles Eliot when the Champlain Society for formed in 1880. I suggested that your finding aid might help interpret the transcriptions of the society log books (now being loaded onto the Maine Memory Network (www.mainememory.net) I also suggested that you be considered for their speaker series (www.mdihistory.org/). Would you have any reservations about me sharing this finding aid with Tim Garrity? On a related matter. You may wish to expand your provenance information for that finding aid. To that end, I offer you the following from my files. After I discovered the scrapbook in July 2007, I brought the matter immediately to the attention of Susan S.C., Edwards who was then Director of Historic Resources. She was unaware of its existence and on further inquiry said that no other TTOR staff knew of it. At that time I was a member of the TTOR Historic Resources Committee and I queried the membership on their awareness of this scrapbook to no avail. Edwards suspected that it was part of a larger collection of Eliot family resources recently given by Lawrence Eliot, who lived a half mile from the Crane Estate on 275 Argilla Rd., Ipswich, MA (Iceliot@comcast.net 978-356- 3742) I interviewed him on July 12, 2007 and according to my notes Lawrence Eliot said that the Charles Eliot scrapbook was known to Charles William Eliot II but not to Lawrence, his son, who was limited in his abilities due to dyslexia. "There was no family interest or awareness of the importance of the Eliot Scrapbook." Afterwords, Lawrence invited me to his home on several occasions and shared family information with me. I have not spoken to him since then. You may wish to contact him. There may also be a file on the Lawrence Eliot gift among the TTOR records; if so, I'd appreciate seeing it if that is possible. You may also recall that in May of 2009, Eliot family scholar Keith Morgan and I visited your new quarters and examined once again the Scrapbook, Morgan validating its authenticity. I hope this information is not a burden to you. I offer it because my scholarly efforts benefited from the information provided in finding aid provenance notations. Most cordially, Ron Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net From: "Ronald & Elizabeth Epp" To: mspectre@ttor.org http://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=165734&tz=America/New_Y.. 12/2/2013 XFINITY Connect Page 1 of 4 XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.ne + Font Size Re: Ronald Epp Visit From Ronald & Elizabeth Epp Tue, Nov 26, 2013 04:53 PM Subject : Re: Ronald Epp Visit To : Tim Garrity Hi Tim, First, I had not seen the group photograsph you sent. Quite arresting! All I've seen from the Massachusetts Historical Society is their catalog record which states: eight photographs, 18 1/2 X 10 1/2 b&w "The images depict views of Mount Desert island and Somes Sound, ME; the Champlain Society's tent site on the Sound; and various members of the Society, including Charles Eliot and his brother, Samuel Atkins Eliot. The photographs were taken by Marshall perry Slade and are identified in the hand of S.A. Eliot." You could always request copies from the MHS if in doubt. Comparing my notes taken at the MDIHS in December 2004 against this description leads me to believe that they are one and the same. What do you think? Tim, you should also know of my long standing preoccupation with the Eliot family; educator Charles W. Eliot because of his intense involvement with Mr. Dorr, and his son because of his peioneering role in developing the land trust concept in Massachusetts. Over the years I've read the first thirty volumes of proceedings from the Massachusetts Trustees of Reservations (TOR), carefully identifying Eliot's role in the development of that organization and then the role of his father who assumed the presidency of that group for two decades following the deathj of his son. Six years ago I was fortunate to discover in an attic atop the TOR Crane Estate in Ipswich (MA) the one and only scrapbook kept by Charles Eliot detailing the origin and growth of the New England land conservation movement that evolved into the TOR. It contained hundreds of chronological arranged news clippings, TOR meeting announcements, and other memorabilia carefully pasted therein by the hands of Charles Eliot. This was clear documentation of the evolution of the New England conservation movement in the 1880's and 1890's. The existence of this scrapbook was not known to anyone because it had been received recently from an Eliot relative as part of a larger collection and the family had paid no attention to this collection (with the possible exception of Charles W. Eliot II). I took extensive notes about the content of the scrapbook and then faced the challenge of making TOR staff aware of what a historic find was in their collections. When the TOR established their first Archive and Research Center in 2008, their new archivist, Miriam B. Spectre, created the finding aid that I have attached. Unfortunately, as is typical of some archives there has been almost no effort to publicize the existence of this primary research material. Miriam, however, would be a wonderful speaker for your programs in the years ahead!!! Perhaps she and I could team up for a talk? If you would like me to email you a copy of the Charles Eliot Scrapbook finding aid for your archives, just ask. All the Best, Ronald Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net http://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=164446&tz=America/New_.. 11/26/2013 XFINITY Connect Page 1 of 1 XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.ne Font Size Charles Eliot & the Olmsted Papers Project, Vol. 9 From Ronald & Elizabeth Epp Sun, Feb 05, 2012 07:14 PM Subject Charles Eliot & the Olmsted Papers Project, Vol. 9 To David Schuyler Cc mwilson@ttor.org Dear Professor Schuyler: I learned of your involvement in editing the final volume of the Olmsted Papers a few days ago. It occurred to me that a recent archival discovery, compiled by Charles Eliot, should interest you. As a member of the Massachusetts Trustees of Reservations (TTOR) Historical Resources Committee, I was able to access in 2007 their archives at the Crane Estate in Ipswich (MA); I had been tracing the overlap between this group founded by Charles Eliot and another land trust established in 1901 by Eliot's father (Charles W. Eliot) and George B. Dorr in Maine, the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. At the Crane Estate I uncovered a previously unknown Charles Eliot scrapbook, a unique personal record of the establishment of the Trustees and the intellectual development of Charles Eliot during the early years of his partnership with Codman and Olmsted. The Scrapbook is in the holdings of the new Trustees Archives and Research Center in Sharon, MA. My most recent information is that the archive curators are awaiting responses to grant applications to support its conservation. The intent is to have the New England Document and Conservation Center itemize the content of each page, collate content, remove each page for surface cleaning, encapsulate each in polyester film, and rebind in original order. The entire project will be photographed to provide digitized images of scrapbook content before, during, and after treatment. The Scrapbook provides a chronology of Eliot's organizational labors to launch the Trustees. But more importantly, it contains original signed documents with Eliot's marginalia and hundreds of newspaper clippings collected from sources that spanned the continent. It covers the years 1889 until his death seven years later. Editorials, position papers, commission reports, legislative bills, policy statements covering public and private land trust initiatives comprise the bulk of this dense archive that had been passed down within the Eliot family for a century with no one apparently attaching significance to its content. (You can access an article that refers to the scrapbook on the Trustees web pages (www.ttor.org), "The Archivists Dream," Spring 2009 issue of Special Places, pgs. 2-6) The clippings carry titles familiar enough today but new to the Gilded Age era: public pleasure gardens; the preservation of scenery; safeguarding natural beauty; the charms of nature; denuded land tracts; governmental preservation of natural scenery; the grandeur of the Hudson Palisades; forest harvesting movements; and advocacy efforts to preserve the Adirondacks. Occasional marginal notations suggest that these clippings formed both a conceptual framework and specific terminology for Eliot's conservation initiatives, efforts he would have shared with his partners. Until I retired to Cornwall PA in the fall of 2010, I had careers as a philosophy professor, managing editor of a journal published by the Association of College and Research Libraries, and academic library director. As a member of the TTOR Historical Resources Committee.I most recently completed a manuscript on the Acadia National Park park founder George B. Dorr. Part of my motivation for examining the Trustee archives was to trace Dorr's intellectual development. In due course I was able to demonstrate that Dorr's land preservation partnerships with Harvard President Charles W. Eliot, John D. Rockefelller, Jr., and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. were vital to the establishment and growth of Acadia National Park and the National Park Service. If I can be of any assistance please let me know, after all F&M is but a half hour from here. You might wish to contact Mark Wilson, the Manager of the Trustees Archive and Research Center (781-784-8200 or mwilson@ttor.org). Most Cordially, Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Cornwall Manor 532 Sassafras Drive Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net http://sz0122.wc.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=29189&tz=America/New_Yor...2/5/2012 Page 1 of 2 Charles Eliot & Land Trust Movement From To " Date 03/21/2010 11:11:47AN Dear Professor Brewer, Thank you for responding to my posting on your web page. I appreciate your interest in the Charles Eliot scrapbook and the source material contained therein that influenced his intellectual development. Even though I was trained in ancient philosophy, I ought to explain that my conservation roots track back to undergraduate and graduate environmental philosophy courses I taught at the universities of Memphis and Hartford (1972-93). In mid-life, I secured a second masters degree This time in librariy science) and edited a scholarly monthly journal before taking on the role.e of director of libraries until my administrative career ended in southern New Hampshire in 2006. My wife and I are long standing members of the Massachusetts Trustees of Reservations (TTOR) and frequent visitors to Acadia National Park. In 2000 I began a lengthy project to write the first archival-based biography of park founder George B. Dorr, tracing his Massachusetts intellectual development that proved so relevant to his pioneering conservation labors in Maine. Access to the TTOR documentation led to the 2007 discovery of the Eliot scrapbook in the dusty archives at the Crane Estate in Ipswich. Despite my unbridled expression of delight at the historical significance of this discovery, the TTOR administration only attached significance to the scrapbook when I secured support from Boston University art historian Keith N. Morgan. His republication of the 1902 edition of Charles W. Eliot's Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect by the Library of American Landscape History/UMASS Press (the publisher of my forthcoming biography of Mr., Dorr) in 2000 brought renewed attention to Eliot's pioneering role in New England natural and cultural preservation. The Scrapbook currently is held in the at the new TTOR Archives and Research Center in Sharon, MA. They are awaiting responses to grant applications to support its conservation. The intent is to have the New England Document and Conservation Center itemize the content of each page, collate content, remove each page for surface cleaning, encapsulate each in polyester film, and rebind in original order. The entire project will be photographed to provide digitized images of scrapbook content before, during, and after treatment. The Scrapbook provides a chronology of Eliot's organizational labors to launch the Trustees. But more importantly, it contains hundreds of newspaper clippings collected from sources that spanned the continent covering the years from 1889 until his death seven years later. Editorials, position papers, commission reports, legislative bills, policy statements covering public and private land trust initiatives comprise the bulk of this dense archive that had been passed down within the Eliot family for a century with no one apparently attaching significance to its content. (You can access an article that refers to the scrapbook on the Trustees web pages [www.thetrustees.org], click on About Us, then Publications, select Spring 2009 issue of Special Places, pgs. 2-6) The clippings carry titles familiar enough today but new to the Gilded Age era: public pleasure gardens; preservation of scenery; to guard natural beauty; the charms of nature; tracts of denuded land; governmental preservation of natural scenery; the Palisades of the Hudson; the forest movement; and advocacy of preserving the Adirondacks. Occasional marginal notations suggest that these clippings formed both a conceptual framework and specific terminology for Eliot's efforts in Massachusetts. I'm a member of the TTOR Historical Resources Committee and we have a meeting scheduled at the ARC on April 20th. I intend to request a status report on the Scrapbook at that time and would gladly present issues that you would like me to bring to the table. Beyond the Dorr biography which addresses the relationships between the Maine and Massachusetts Trustees, in the years ahead I'd like to publish a piece that addresses the commonalities and differences that arc the history of both organizations, variances that yielded rather quickly a national park for one organization and phenomenal statewide success in the last several decades for the other. What remains unclear is how each impacted on their land trust progency. I look forward to hearing from you and continuing this discussion. Most Cordially, https://webmail.myfairpoint.net/hwebmail/mail/message.php?index=952 3/21/2010 Page 1 of 2 RE: Eliot scrapbook narrative From "Susan Edwards" To "eppster2@myfairpoint.net Date 09/16/2009 10:29:49 AM Good morning, Ron, Good to hear from you. I thought I had sent you the next meeting date. My apologies. We have the date of October 13 at Castle Hill for the next meeting from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. The formal meeting will begin at noon but we have scheduled the first hour for a site visit to see project accomplishments on the property. I do so hope you can make it. We will also schedule the date for our first meeting of 2010! Thank you for reviewing the grant narrative draft. I appreciate it and am always grateful for your comments and feedback. Perhaps Mark told you that we are also submitting a proposal to NEH for half the cost of the compact shelving project. That is due in December. I look forward to talking with you soon. All best, Susan From: eppster2@myfairpoint.net [mailto:eppster2@myfairpoint.net) Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:23 AM To: Susan Edwards Cc: Mark Wilson Subject: Re: Eliot scrapbook narrative Hi Susan & Mark, I've just returned from Mount Desert and yet another major find in the legal archives of the attorney to Mr. Dorr and J.D.R. Jr. As I complete the final chapters of the Dorr biography, I'm excited with this new documentation but hopeful that I won't stumble across anything revolutionary. In my judgment the application for funding the Charles Eliot Scrapbook Conservation project is excellent! You two have well situated the importance of this unique resource within the context of the history of the Trustees and the mission of the ARC. I'm sorry that I was not available to provide input to the drafts but frankly I don't think my feedback would have improved the final document. I'd appreciate being kept in the loop about this project and if I can help in any way do let me know. By the way, Susan, regarding my earlier message about future HRC meetings, do you have a date and location for the next meeting? All the Best, Ron Epp Quoting Susan Edwards : Hi, Here are my edits and revisions to the grant proposal narrative. All best, Susan Susan C.S. Edwards Director of Historic Resources The Trustees of Reservations Long Hill, 572 Essex Street https://webmail.myfairpoint.net/mail/message.php?index=1600 9/16/2009 Page 1 of 2 Scrapbook grant From "Mark Wilson" To "eppster2@myfairpoint.net"