Alfred Bosworth papers, 1899-1956.
Collection Number: 22-2-3998
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Alfred Bosworth papers, 1899-1956.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
22-2-3998
Abstract:
Includes correspondence, publications,photographs, and newspaper clippings concerning
his work at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, the Boston Floating
Hospital for Infants and Children, the Kellogg and Postum Cereal Companies, and his
development of Similac Infant Formula.
Creator:
Bosworth, Alfred Wilson.
Quanitities:
2.4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Alfred Bosworth was an assistant and associate chemist at the New York State Agricultural
Experiment Station at Geneva between 1905-1916. While there he studied the chemical
and biological processes involved in the ripening of cheese and conducted studies
on the composition of several types of milk, including human milk. During this time
Bosworth developed an interest in infant feeding which paved the way for the discovery
of Similac Infant Formula.
Includes correspondence, publications, newspaper clippings concerning his work at
the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, the Boston Floating Hospital for
Infants and Children, the Kellogg and Postum Cereal Companies, and his development
of Similac Infant Formula.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Alfred Bosworth papers, #22-2-3998. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Bosworth, Alfred Wilson.
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station
Kellogg Company
Boston Floating Hospital for Infants and Children
Postum Cereal Co
Similac
Subjects:
Infant formula industry -- United States.
Malnutrition
Infants -- Nutrition
Breastfeeding.
Children -- Hospitals
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Biographical Material
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Biographical Information
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1900-1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Biographical Information-including bibliography
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1900-1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Bosworth's reprints
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1915-1918 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Photographs of Bosworth
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence with Harvard
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1907-1927 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Application for Employment in Biochemistry-University of Manitoba
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1921 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Civil Service application and rating
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1921 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence from Bosworth seeking employment
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19121-1924 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence concerning Ohio State position
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1937-1940 |
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Series II. Correspondence
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Auerbacher, L.J.
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1921-1924 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Blanchard, Marguerite
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1920-1921 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Bowditch and Crown, Cork and Seal Company
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1920-1921 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Brown, Elsie
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1921-1922 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Dennett, Roger H.
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1919-1926 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Dorr, Dudley
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1924 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Fischer, Martin
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1916 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
McCann, Marion
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1920-1923 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
VanSlyke, D.D.
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1921 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Wheeler, H.J.
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1899-1921 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Wilder, H.K.
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1920-1922 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Snell, F.D.
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1922-1923 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Concerning Copyright
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1920 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Correspondence to Bosworth
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1920s |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Correspondence from People Requesting Bosworth's Infant Formula
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1921 |
| Box 1 | Folder 24-25 |
Concerning Boston Floating Hospital
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1913-1937 |
| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Concerning Boston Floating Hospital and their Board of Trustees
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1915-1921 |
| Box 1 | Folder 26A |
Concerning Boston Floating Hospital
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1922-1923 |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Buffalo Foundry and Machine Company
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1924-1925 |
| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Dodge and Sons - Attorneys
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1917-1923 |
| Box 1 | Folder 29-30 |
Doughitt Engineering, includes plans
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1925-1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Dry Milk Company
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1917-1921 |
| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Elmer and Amend Company
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1917-1921 |
| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Kellogg Company
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1924 |
| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Mead Johnson and Company
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1921-1922 |
| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Mellin's Food Company; Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases (includes proposals)
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1919-1920 |
| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Merrell-Soule Company, Syracuse, New York
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1914-1922 |
| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
National Canners Association
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1917-1924 |
| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York
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1905-1913 |
| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Scientific Materials Company
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1919-1931 |
| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Postum Company and R.G. Coburn
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1923-1924 |
| Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Washington Agricultural Experiment Station; George Washington Coffee Refining Company
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1921-1923 |
| Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Correspondence with various companies about buying products and labels for infant
formula
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1924-1927 |
| Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Nucoa Butter Company and Abbott Labs
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1920s |
| Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Correspondence concerning purchase orders
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1926 |
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Series III. Reports
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| Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Commissions
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1904-1918 |
| Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Commissions-United States Department of Agriculture
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1904-1921 |
| Box 1 | Folder 47 |
Boston Floating Hospital-Annual Reports (1918, 1921); Reprints (1921-1934); By-laws
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1921-1934 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Bosworth's Infant Food; Similac-includes articles
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1921-1956 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2-3 |
Kellogg Labs-about Kellogg flavor
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1922-1923 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Bicarbonate Milk Powder
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1919-1920 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5-7 |
Butter Fat
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1924-1935 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Butter Oil
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1937 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Infant Food
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1924-1926 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Fat of Women's Milk-Studies
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1934-1934 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Milk Powder-correspondence
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1928 |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Milk Powder-Sales Portfolio
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1928 |
| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Milk Powder-Plant Data
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| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Milk Powder-Reports, Contracts, Correspondence
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1928 |
| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Milk Powder-Memos, Data, Correspondence
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1924-1925 |
| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Milk Powder-American Dry Milk Institute- Annual Business Meeting
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April 1927 |
| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Milk Powder-American Dry Milk Institute-First Annual Meeting
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April 1926 |
| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Milk Powder-Paper given at 4th Annual American Dry Milk Institute
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1929 |
| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Milk Powder-Report by Fritz Krull and other Publications
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| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Lab Reports of People Given Reconstructed Milk
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1918-1923 |
| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Sweetened Condensed Milk
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| Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Methods of Anaysis
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1920-1923 |
| Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Sketch of the Life and Work of Alfred Bosworth-Vol. V
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1879-1921 |
| Box 2 | Folder 24-25 |
Reconstructed Milk and the Chemical Investigations Involved with its Development,
Lecture-Vol. VI
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1920 |
| Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Bosworth's Reconstructed Milk, Franklin Infant Food, Similac-Vol. VII
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1924-1958 |
| Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Sketch of the Life and Work of Alfred Bosworth-Vol. VIII
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1919-1958 |
| Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Agreements-Vol. IX
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1924-1929 |
| Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Chemistry of Milk in its Relation to Infant Feeding-Vol. X
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Series IV. Publications
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| Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Articles
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1919-1921 |
| Box 2 | Folder 31 |
Newspaper clippings, correspondence, reports
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1925-1926 |
| Box 2 | Folder 32 |
"Outline for a Process for Making Improved Malted Grape Nuts"
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1923 |
| Box 2 | Folder 33 |
"The Story of Milk"-newspaper clippings
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1932 |
| Box 2 | Folder 34 |
"Value of Dairy Products in the Diet"
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1931 |
| Box 2 | Folder 35 |
"Visit with a Silent Milkman"- by Bosworth
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Publications, notebook, John Norton Labs Milk Machinery Plans
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1930s |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Publications-not by Bosworth
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1924-1944 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Course notebook-Bacteriological Exercises
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1911 |
| Box 3 |
Two bound copies of Bosworth's publications
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1903-1918 | |
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Series V. Various other Files
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Patent information
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1920-1926 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Patent information
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1922-1929 |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Patent information and agreements
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1924-1929 |
| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Bank statements, salary agreements, investment options
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1921-1924 |
| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Experiments
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1924 |
| Box 3 | Folder 9-11 |
Similac advertising
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1920-1939 |
| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Creamers-manufacturer's booklets
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| Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Photos-creameries
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