Henry P. de Forest papers, 1898-1947.
Collection Number: 3214
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Henry P. de Forest papers, 1898-1947.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3214
Abstract:
Correspondence and printed material relating to fingerprinting, the history of fingerprinting
in the United States, crime, and the International Society for Personal Identification.
Also includes correspondence with J. Edgar Hoover. Photographs (originally used as
lantern slides in lectures) about the Bertillon method of criminal investigation.
Also, material pertaining to Columbia University and Cornell University; vacation
journals and memorabilia; correspondence with and about Clinton Scollard; photographs
of friends at Fulton, New York; clippings and correspondence concerning World War
II, the Explorers' Club, and his medical practice. Also contains material concerning
his pilgrimages to the shrines of St. Joseph du Mont-Royal, Our Lady of Lourdes, and
St. Anne de Beaupre.
Creator:
De Forest, Henry Pelouze, 1864-1948.
Quanitities:
1.4 cubic feet.
1 mapcase folders.
Language:
Collection material in English
Henry Pelouze deForest (Cornell University Class of 1884), born in 1864 in Fulton,
New York, was a physician who practiced medicine in New York City. He was also Secretary
of the Class of 1884, Cornell University; Secretary of the Class of 1890, College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University; Librarian of the Cornell Club of
New York; historian of the Alpha Mu Pi Omega Medical Fraternity; major and surgeon
of the 13th Coast Artillery of the New York National Guard; Political Surgeon and
Chief Medical Examiner for the Municipal Civil Service Commission of New York City;
and President of the International Society for Personal Identification. He invented
the dactyloscope.
Correspondence and printed material relating to fingerprinting, the history of fingerprinting
in the United States, crime, and the International Society for Personal Identification.
Also includes correspondence with J. Edgar Hoover. Photographs (originally used as
lantern slides in lectures) about the Bertillon method of criminal investigation,
including a portrait of Alphonse Bertillon. Also, material pertaining to Columbia
University and Cornell University; vacation journals and memorabilia; correspondence
with and about Clinton Scollard; photographs of friends at Fulton, New York; clippings
and correspondence concerning World War II, the Explorers' Club, and his medical practice.
Also contains material concerning his pilgrimages to the shrines of St. Joseph du
Mont-Royal, Our Lady of Lourdes, and St. Anne de Beaupre and a set of bookplates he
designed for the Cornell Club library and other individuals and libraries. (3714)
Correspondence with classmates, other class secretaries, and Cornell University officials,
photographs, newspaper clippings, and other printed material (59 volumes) concerning
the activities and deaths of the members of the Class of 1884 and the "Early Eighties,"
a group of 1880-1889 class members; reunions of the Class of 1884, especially its
45th, 50th, 52nd, 55th, and 60th; the Class of 1884 fund; alumni trusteeship candidacies,
annual Cornell dinners, and other events and business of interest to alumni; the Cornell
Association of Class Secretaries; and "The Story of Cornell" bookplate, designed by
De Forest and intended for use in a proposed historical department of the Cornell
University Library to be known as "The Story of Cornell." Also, vital statistics (1
vol.) of class members. In addition to de Forest's correspondence with classmates,
there is scattered correspondence with Carl L. Becker, John Henry Comstock, Simon
Henry Gage, Hu Shih, and Howard A. Stevenson, editor of the Cornell Alumni News. (41-4-833,
41-4-1282)
A composite of mug shots, Bertillon measurements and fingerprints of Will West and
William West, an infamous case that showed the importance of a fingerprint system
over the Bertillon system (1901-1904)
Also one Cornell banner.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Henry deForest papers, #3214. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Bertillon, Alphonse, 1853-1914
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972.
Scollard, Clinton.
Explorers\' Club
International Society for Personal Identification
Shrine of St. Joseph du Mont-Royal
Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes
Shrine of St. Anne de Beaupre
Cornell University. Class of 1884
Cornell University -- : Alumni and alumnae.
Places:
Fulton (N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.)
Subjects:
Bookplates.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
Fingerprints.
Crime and criminology.
Bertillon system.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Bookplates.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Correspondence, Papers, and Miscellaneous
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Poems and Songs; 1937-1939 ,
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1937-1939, 1944 |
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T.S.S.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence; 1935-1939 , 1941 ,
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1935-1939, 1941, 1944 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence; 1923-1924 , 1928-1929 , 1935-1936 , 1941 ,
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1923-1924, 1928-1929, 1935-1936, 1941, 1946-1947 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence, cards, memos; 1926-1928 , 1933-1935 ,
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1926-1928, 1933-1935, 1940-1941 |
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Scope and Contents
re: medicine, family, alumni affairs
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence, cards, clippings; 1940-1941 ,
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1940-1941, 1946 |
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Scope and Contents
re: medicine, family, contact lenses
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence;
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1938-1941 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Clippings - James Burke;
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1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Clippings;
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1937-1946 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Clippings; 1932 , 1938 ,
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1932, 1938, 1943-1946 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Magazine clippings (APS); 1944 ,
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1944, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Newspaper Clippings (APS); 1942 ,
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1942, n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Atlantic Daily News;
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1912 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Medical Publicationns - periodicals, pamphlets; 1920's , 1938-1943 ,
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1920's, 1938-1943, 1946 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Miscellaneous Publications - pamphlets; 1922 , 1938 ,
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1922, 1938, 1940-1941 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Misc. Publications - pamphlets; 1938 ,
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1938, 1941-1946 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Misc. Publications - pamphlets; 1906 , 1939 ,
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1906, 1939, n.d. |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Dr. Andrew J. Gilmour;
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1905-1913 |
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Scope and Contents
Pamphlets, rough drafts, typescripts and manucripts
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Alpha Mu Phi Omega Medical Fraternity - Pamphlet, corres.;
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1923 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Associated Physicians of Long Island - Clippings, pamphlets;
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1941 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Biloxi, Miss.; 1933 ,
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1933, 1943 |
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Scope and Contents
Post cards, pamphlets, corres., clippings
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Adventurer's Club - corres., pamphlet;
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1943 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Plaza Trust Company - pamphlets, corres.; 1928 , 1931 ,
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1928, 1931, 1939 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
British War Relief - clippings, corres.;
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1941 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
A Visit to Mrs. Abby W. Stevens - corres., pamphlets, maps;
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1933 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
A Visit to Mrs. Abby W. Stevens - corres., daily account;
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1934 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Trip to Washington D.C. - corres., clippings;
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1935 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Clinton Scollard - corres., cards, pamphlets;
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1929-1933 |
| Box 2 |
Snapshots taken by J.D. McIntyre (bound volume);
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1898 | |
| Box 2 |
Medical Records, 7th Army Corps, Panama Park, Fl. (bound volume);
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1898 | |
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Scope and Contents
Records, notes, autopsy reports
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| Box 2 |
Notebooks - misc. notes and addresses (bound volumes, 5);
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n.d. | |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Vacation to Haines Falls, NY (4 folders);
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1935 |
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Scope and Contents
Corres., clippings, post cards, daily accounts
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| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Vacation to Haines Falls, NY (4 folders);
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1928 |
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Scope and Contents
Corres., photographs, daily accounts, cards, clippings
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| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Memorabilia - cards, printed material; 1923 , 1932 , 1939 ,
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1923, 1932, 1939, 1941 |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Memorabilia - menu, cards, printed material;
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1920's-1940's |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Memorabilia - misc. printed material; 1920's , 1937 ,
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1920's, 1937, 1946 |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Holton-Arms school - 30 year Anniversary;
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1931 |
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Scope and Contents
Corres., cards, menu, periodical, speeches
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| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Christmas Cards and Greetings (2 folders);
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1940-1941 |
| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
A Pilgrimage to the Shrine of St. Joseph Du Mont-Royal - post cards;
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1932 |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
A Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Sainte Anne De Beaupre - post cards, photographs, corres.;
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1921 |
| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
A Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes - post cards;
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1931 |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
A Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Dr. W.M. Locke - photographs;
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1932 |
| Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Bookplate, Ida Wilkinson Harlan - corres., photograph, clippings;
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1921-1932 |
| Box 4 | Folder 6a |
Bookplates designed by Henry de Forest;
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1910-1940 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Luther Rice Dickinson vs. Lee de Forest - corres., stock certificate;
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1931 |
| Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Vacation to Willoughby Lake, Wesymore, Vermont;
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1932 |
| Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Trip to Washington D.C. - corres., post cards, memorabilia;
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1936 |
| Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Trip to Pelenville and Return - post cards, corres.;
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1935 |
| Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Culver's Lake, NJ with Mrs. Margaret Colman;
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1935-1936 |
| Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Trip to Hartford - corres., momentos;
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1935-1936 |
| Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Valentine Material - pamphlets, corres., clippings;
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1929 |
| Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Birthday Greetings - corres., cards, lists;
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1936 |
| Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Christmas, Birthday, Correspondence;
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1935-1936 |
| Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Valentine - corres., account, poem (M.C.);
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1932 |
| Box 4 | Folder 17 |
Christmas, Birthday, Gifts and Acknowledgements;
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1931 |
| Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Christmas Cards and Greeting;
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1933-1934 |
| Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Color Blindness - printed material, pamphlets, corres.;
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1931 |
| Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Arches by John E. Phifer - pamphlet, t.s. copy;
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n.d. |
| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Columbia Univ., Commencement Day;
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1945 |
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Scope and Contents
Programs, clippings, name cards, corres., peridocials
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| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Columbia Univ., Alumni Day - corres., pamphlets;
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1938-1939 |
| Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Columbia Univ., Commencement Day - corres., programs, clippings;
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1939 |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Columbia Univ., Commencement Day - corres., programs, clippings;
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1936 |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Columbia Univ., Alumni Day - corres.;
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1936 |
| Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Columbia Univ., College of Physicians and Surgeons Alumni Dinners - programs, menus;
1905 , 1910 ,
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1905, 1910, 1911 |
| Box 5 | Folder 7 |
Columbia Univ., College of Physicians and Surgeons Alumni Association (5 folders);
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1936-1938 |
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Scope and Contents
Corres., lists, clippings, cards
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| Box 5 | Folder 8 |
Columbia Univ., College of Physicians and Surgeons New York Alumni Association;
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1939 |
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Scope and Contents
Corres., constitution, by-laws
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| Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Columbia Univ., Alumni Affairs - corres., misc. printed material; 1914 , 1923 , 1927
, 1939 ,
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1914, 1923, 1927, 1939, 1945 |
| Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Columbia Univ., College of Physicians and Surgeons Class Lists - (2 unbound volumes);
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1865-1936 |
| Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Cornell Univ., "Month at Cornell, May 1926;"
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1926 |
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Scope and Contents
Corres., research notes, case history, pamphlets
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| Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Trip to Ithaca - daily account (t.s.);
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1930 |
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Scope and Contents
Description of 9.5 hour auto trip from NYC to Ithaca and preparations and mention
of Hudson ferry crossing.
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| Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Cornell Univ., Inauguration of Edmund Ezra Day - corres., cards, memos;
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1937 |
| Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Cornell Univ., Professorship for Medical Research - corres.;
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1920 |
| Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence - misc. printed material, pamphlet, t.s. article; 1921 , 1934-1935
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1921, 1934-1935, 1938-1939 |
| Box 6 | Folder 6 |
Finger-Print and Identification Magazine;
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1938 |
| Box 6 | Folder 7 |
"The First Finger-Print File in the United States," article by H.P. de Forest;
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1938 |
| Box 6 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence, (3 folders) - lists, pamphlet, clippings, cards;
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1937-1938 |
| Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Evolution of Dactyloscopy in the United States, Acknowledements 1931-1932 - corres., clippings; 1931-1933 ,
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1931-1933, [ -1935] |
| Box 7 | Folder 2 |
Finger Print Expert State Civil Serve Commission - corres., M.C. Exam;
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1916 |
| Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Dactyloscopy - Castellanos Correspondence (Finger Printing Inmates in Insane Asylums);
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1930 |
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Scope and Contents
Corresp., t.s. and c.c. report
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| Box 7 | Folder 4 |
Personal Identification, Identification by Comparison of Roentgenograms of Nasal Accessory Sinuses May 27, 1927, J[ournal of the] A.M.A. - magazine article (t.s. and c.c.);
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1927 |
| Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Dactyloscopy - Bibliography of Finger Prints - Other Sources 1931;
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1931 |
| Box 7 | Folder 6 |
Personal Identification, Correspondence in re: Manuscript: First Finger Print Bureaus
of the United States - corres.;
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1930-1931 |
| Box 7 | Folder 7 |
Dactyloscopy, Bibliography of Fingerprints, books in the library of Henry Pelouze
de Forest;
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1931 |
| Box 7 | Folder 8 |
"The Evolution of Dactyloscopy in the United States" - rough drafts (t.s.);
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1903 |
| Box 7 | Folder 9 |
Dactyloscopy - Dactyloscope correspondence in re: the Dactyloscope which was invented
by Henry P. de Forest, M.D., in 1912; 1924-1929 ,
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1924-1929, 1930-1933 |
| Box 7 | Folder 10 |
Personal Identification, "Invisible Finger and Palm Prints," Dr. Eug. Stockis;
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1911 |
| Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Personal Identification, "Development of Fingerprints on Paper," Eug. Stockis, M.D.;
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n.d. |
| Box 7 | Folder 12 |
Personal Identification, "The One Finger Classification," Dr. Eug. Stockis;
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1914 |
| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
"The Evolution of Dactyloscopy in the United States," Lecture with Lantern Slides
by Henry P. de Forest, M.D.;
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1936 |
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Scope and Contents
Corres., lists, reports, fingerprint cards
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| Box 8 | Folder 2 |
The Seventeenth Annual Convention of the International Association for Identification;
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1931-1932 |
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Scope and Contents
Corres., clippings, slide listing, pamphlet
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| Box 8 | Folder 3 |
Federal Bureau of Investigation, John Edgar Hoover Corres., M.C. notes;
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1936 |
| Box 8 | Folder 4 |
The Testimonial Dinner to Henry Pelouze de Forest, M.D., Jan. 26, 1935, Hotel McAlpine - corres., clippings, notes;
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1935 |
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Scope and Contents
-Contains a photographic reproduction of the first set of prints ever taken for official
us by the US Government
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| Box 8 | Folder 5 |
Dactyloscopy - Reprints of Charles Stockley Collins - These three reprints were recieved
in Jan. 1932, 1921 ,
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1921, 1925 |
| Box 8 | Folder 6 |
Numbered list of persons to whom "Evolution of Dactyloscopy in the United States"
was sent;
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n.d. |
| Box 8 | Folder 7 |
Evolution of Dactyloscopy in the United States - corres. with the printers, the Beil and Evans Co., 850 Market St., Youngstwn, Ohio;
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1931 |
| Box 8 | Folder 8 |
"The First Fingerprint Bureau in the United States," original mss. copy (carbon sent
to printer);
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1931-1932 |
| Box 8 | Folder 9 |
Dactyloscopy - Bibliography; also, personal identity - bibliography; 1916 ,
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1916, 1917 |
| Box 8 | Folder 10 |
Dactyloscopy - Ernest Reichert - Fingerprint Game - corres., charts for game;
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1942-1943 |
| Box 8 | Folder 11 |
Personal Identification - International Association for Identification - "Sparks from
the Anvil" - Periodical;
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1933-1934 |
| Box 9 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence (3 folders); 1920's , 1930-1937 , 1938-1940 ,
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1920's, 1930-1937, 1938-1940, 1943 |
| Box 9 | Folder 2 |
The Evoultion of Dactyloscopy in the United States - pamphlets, article, t.s.;
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1930 |
| Box 9 | Folder 3 |
de Forest Articles - articles, t.s., pamphlets;
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1931-1933 |
| Box 9 | Folder 4 |
Personal Identification, "Wanted Posters" - broadsides, m.c. letters; 1936 , 1938
,
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1936, 1938, 1942 |
| Box 9 | Folder 5 |
Dactyloscopy;
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n.d. |
| Box 9 | Folder 6 |
Criminology, Reference Material (2 folders); 1916 , 1926 , 1931 ,
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1916, 1926, 1931, 1935-1938 |
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Scope and Contents
Pamphlets, reprints, articles, t.s., periodicals
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| Box 9 | Folder 7 |
Crime (2 folders) - clippings;
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1931-1938 |
| Mapcase Folder 1 | MU-1176 |
Cornell banner
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Scope and Contents
Orange felt pennant with white "Cornell" sewn on.
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| Manuscript Box 88 |
Certificates for Major and Surgeon of the 13th Coast Artillery of the New York National
Guard
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1908-1909 | |
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Series II. Photographs
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Scope and Contents
-Photographs for Lectures on Criminology, Fingerprints, and the Bertillon System
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| Box 10 | Folder 1 |
Bertillon System; Police Headquarters, Dresdon; 1907
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| Box 10 | Folder 1 |
Police Dept., Dresdon, Uniform of High Officers (Capt., Lieut., Sergt.)
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| Box 10 | Folder 1 |
Police Dept., Dresdon, Uniform of patrolmen of various grades
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| Box 10 | Folder 1 |
Impersonation; Voight, (Capt. von Koepenick) who in officer's uniform arrested the
mayor and took the city funds in Koepenick, Germany. (New York Tribune, 1908)
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| Box 10 | Folder 1 |
Criminal Photography - Forgery of Check, original signature smoothly outlined
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Scope and Contents
Forgery showing tremor due to slow tracing. Also signature showing tremor of old age
with shapely marked corners at end of writing. Plates XXXIV, XXXV, XXXVI. Paul, Friedrich
"Handbuch der Kriminalistisohen Photographie"
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| Box 10 | Folder 1 |
Forgery: Bible said to have been Martin Luther's sold for a large sum of money. Entire
book was a forgery. (Berlin, Sept. 19, 1907)
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| Box 10 | Folder 1 |
Bertillon System. Tripod used for criminal work in photographing rooms, dead bodies,
etc.: will hold apparatus and a man. (Folded for transportation, Sept. 19, 1907
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| Box 10 | Folder 1 |
Bertillon System. Giant camera, showing method of use. Sept. 19, 1907
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| Box 10 | Folder 1 |
Bertillon System. (a) Unknown woman who has forgotten her own identity. (b) Unknown
man, identity desired
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| Box 10 | Folder 1 |
Habitual Criminal. Convicted and punished 67 times in the Tyrole, Austria. Four photographs
at different ages. 4 Bertillon pictures: 1906, Innsbruck; 1908, Bozen; 1909, Meran; 1910, Innsbruck
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| Box 10 | Folder 2 |
Criminal Photography. Giant camera showing position of murdered girl, Hamburg. Plate
XXVIII. Paul, Friedrich "Handbuch der Kriminalistisohen Photographie"
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| Box 10 | Folder 2 |
Lust murder (Lustmord) from the criminal records of Hamburg, showing the position
of the body and its surroundings. Plate XVII. Paul, Friedrich "Handbuch der Kriminalistisohen
Photographie"
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| Box 10 | Folder 2 |
Bertillon System. Showing cigar store and corpse of a murdered woman killed by an
axe-blow at back of head as she turned to get cigars for the criminal. 1903
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| Box 10 | Folder 2 |
Showing corpse as it was found the morning after the murder.
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| Box 10 | Folder 2 |
Bertillon System. Body of murdered Insurance Agent Hartmann, as it was found after
being exhumed. Dresdon, Sept. 1907
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| Box 10 | Folder 2 |
Bertillon System. Bodies of unidentified men kept in cabinet of Police Headquarters.
All were identified after some days or weeks. Berlin, Sept. 19, 1907
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| Box 10 | Folder 2 |
Bertillon System. Profile and front view of unidentified woman found drowned. Kept
on exhibitation in cabinets of Police Headquarters instead of in morgue. Body identified.
Dreson, Sept. 11-19, 1907
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| Box 10 | Folder 3 |
Bertillon System. Details of stand made to show place and date upon the negative itself,
movable numeral used: (4 illus.), Dresdon, Sept. 11-19, 1907
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| Box 10 | Folder 3 |
Bertillon System. Card register for men, Dresdon, Sept. 1907
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| Box 10 | Folder 3 |
Bertillon System. Room for Daktyloskopie. Cabinet with work table. Finger-print stand.
Framed instruction cards. Dresdon, Sept. 11-19, 1907
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| Box 10 | Folder 3 |
Bertillon System. Finger-prints of Henry P. de Forest, Police Surgeon, New York City,
on glass. Photo by obliquely transmitted light. Berlin, Sept. 28, 1907
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| Box 10 | Folder 3 |
Bertillon System. Two finger prints made by the same criminal. Same enlarged. Burlgary.
Crispi Case, New York City
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| Box 10 | Folder 3 |
Bertillon System. Portion of safe door, showing experimental finger-prints. Value
entirely destroyed by retouching of negative. "New York World" 1911.
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| Box 10 | Folder 5 |
Finger-prints on cards used in the Fulton Savings Bank, and in about one hundred other
banks in the State of New York for identification of the depositors,June 12, 1912. Presented by William J. Lovejoy, Cashier of Fulton Savings Bank
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| Box 10 | Folder 5 |
Personal Identity. The veins of the back of the hand as a means of identification
as suggested by Prof. Arrigo Tamassia, Professor of Legal Medicine at the Univerity
of Padua, Italy. Legend under each one of the four photographs
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| Box 10 | Folder 5 |
Criminal Photography. Collection of weapons and instruments from the Criminal Museum
at Christiana, Norway, 1912
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| Box 10 | Folder 5 |
Criminal Photography (Murder case). Amilon murdered for robbery, 1901 and put in a barrel. Murderer, Frederick Gustave Emmanuel Hanson sentenced to life
imprisonment and died there in 1908. Stockholm, Sweden
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| Box 10 | Folder 5 |
Criminal Photography (Murder case). Girl baby, nine months old, strangled Apr. 4, 1912, at Ralambstorg, near Stockholm, Sweden, by her father Earl Ludwig Nordahl, a shoe-maker.
He concealed the baby in some underbrush near the road just outside of the town
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| Box 10 | Folder 6 |
Review of Bureau of Police. Dept. of Public Safety, Philadelphia, Oct. 1910, at Philadelphia Ball Park
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| Box 10 | Folder 6 |
Police Department New York., Uniform: Rogues' Gallery (in colors), plate 52a Police
Dept. Annual 1911
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| Box 10 | Folder 6 |
Daktyloscopie. Finger Print Bureau, Christiania, Norway, 1906
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| Box 10 | Folder 6 |
Bureau of Physical Examination, Civil Service Commission. Joseph A. Ruddy taking fingerprints
of candidates. Picture taken by Brosnan, Bd. W.S., Dec. 12, 1915
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| Box 10 | Folder 6 |
Daktyloscopie. Bertillon System. Tripod set up with camera in position. Berlin, Sept. 19, 1907
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| Box 10 | Folder 7 |
Portrait of Mary E. Holland, (nee) Trowel, born Urbana, Iowa, Feb. 20, 1857, died Wesley Memorial HospitalMar. 27, 1915, (Chicago, Ill.) Presented by J. Herbert Taylor, Mar. 30, 1915
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| Box 10 | Folder 7 |
Daktyloscopie. Portrait of Johannes Evangelista Purkinje, 1787-1869. (This name is pronounced: Poor - keen - ye). In "Biology and its makers;" by W.A.
Lacy, N.Y.: Holt, 1915, p.267 (Best portrait found)
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| Box 10 | Folder 7 |
Daktyloscopie. "Finger-prints" of an armless vagrant, Scientific American, June 8, 1918
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| Box 10 | Folder 8 |
Portrait of Sir William J. Hersohel. (In colors)
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| Box 10 | Folder 8 |
Portrait of Sir William J. Hersohel. (from a recent photograph from life)
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| Box 10 | Folder 9 |
Tattooing a Burmese boy
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| Box 10 | Folder 9 |
Tattooing
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| Box 10 | Folder 10-15 |
Unidentified, including photographs of Sir Edward Henry, the Pacific Ocean near La
Jolla, and misc. photographs on criminology
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| Box 10 | Folder 16 |
Dr. H.P. de Forest tells of Famous Falley Seminary," scrapbook of clippings of article
from Oswego Palladium-Times; 1943
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| Box 10 | Folder 17 |
Illustrations of James Johnson and H.P. de Forest used in Finger Print and Identification Magazine
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| Manuscript Box 88 | O/S Folder 1 |
Bertillon, Alphose. Autographed portrait of Alphonse Bertillon, Chief of the Paris
Secret Service Police, Died Feb. 17, 1914. Presented by M. Bertillon to Henry P. de Forest , M.D., Sept. 13, 1912
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25 x 30.5 cm
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Mounted on board.
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Scope and Contents
-was originally in Box 10 Folder 4
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Gelatin silver prints.
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| Manuscript Box 88 | O/S Folder 2 |
A composite of mug shots, Bertillon measurements and fingerprints of Will West and
William West, an infamous case that showed the importance of a fingerprint system
over the Bertillon system, 1901-1904
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Scope and Contents
Digital composite created by RMC staff to illustrate one of Bertillon's cases. The
original items used for this composite are located at the National Archives (Will
West, Leavenworth Inmate #3426, and William West, Leavenworth Inmate #2626; ARC Identifier:
580698)
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