Burgess Family papers, 1850-1969

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Series III: John William Burgess Material



Box 4 Who's Who in America, 1928-1929


Box 4 Amherst College Alumni, 1867


Box 4 Amherst College--fraternity, 1867


Box 4 Photograph album of John W. Burgess and Ruth Payne Burgess and their son Elisha in Germany, 1906-1907



Box 5 Lithograph of Wilhelm I and Franz Joseph and Alexander II, Berlin, 1872


Books by John W. Burgess


Box 5 The European War


Box 5 America's Relations to the Great War


Box 5 Newspaper Clippings about John W. Burgess


Box 5 Picture of House

(unmarked, but likely home of J.W.B. in Tennessee, destroyed by Civil War)


Box 5 4 Pictures of women taken in Nashville

(probably J.W. Burgess's sisters)


Box 5 Liberty Ship John W. Burgess, 1944-1945


Box 5 Booklet--How I Found Amherst College and what I Found


Box 5 Invitation to become associated with the Complete Peerage


Box 5 New York Times Book review of Burgess's Reminiscences of an American Scholar,, 1934


Box 5 Resolutions Adapted on the Retirement of Professor Burgess--Columbia University,, 1934


Box 5 Installation of Dwight David Eisenhower as 13th President, 1948


Box 5 New York Times Articles referencing John W. Burgess


Box 5 Photographs of John W. Burgess


Box 5 Death Notices and Obituaries of John Burgess and Ruth Payne Burgess, 1931 1934, 1931, 1934


Box 5 Book by Lindsey Rogers