Collections : [Connecticut College -Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives]

This series contains a variet of publications including newspaper clippings, prisoner of war bulletins and miscellaneous publications including an account of December 30, 1943 flight and crash, a poem entitled Christmas Eve in 'Forty Four, and a copy of Barth Hard Times from May 5, 1945).

This series contains the records of Arboretum land acquisition and use. This includes correspondence, deeds, and maps, lists of flora and fauna, and financial records. Of particular interest are the original landscape plan and map developed by A.F. Brinckerhoff between 1931 and 1936. This series is divided into four subseries: Land tract records, Maps and plans, Gardens and plant lists, and General. Subseries A is organized by tract number then by date.

The following people sent congratulations to Perkins: Abbott, Grace; Aime, Adah Hopkins; Alexander, Elizabeth; Anderson, Mary; Baker, Elizabeth Faulkner; Bannon, Anna C.; Barcalo, E.J.; Barnard, Seymour; Beard, Emma; Belding, Josephine; Bidwell, Bertha; Blankenhorn, Mary D.; Blatchly, Charles K.; Bloch, Maurice; Block, Siegfried; Block, S. John; Bolg, Madeline; Bonney, John W.; Boorstein, Samuel w.; Boyle, Edward F.; Brady, Peter J.; Brandeis, Susan; Brown, Dorothy Kirchwey; Brown, Stewart; Bruere, Jane; Buckley, Edward W.; Bulbs, Jeannette; Bureau of Inspection; Bureau of Statistics; Bureau of Women; Burns, John J.; Campbell, Kate; Carr, Emma J.; Catrevas, Christine; Cefaranno, Joseph; Chairman Office; Cherry, Charles E.; Childs, Grace and Richard; Clark, Mary Augusta; Clasen, William F.; Coleman, Robert F.; Collins, Winnie; Connor, Jeremiah F.; Cooper, Robert J.; Corwin, E.H.L.; Cunningham, Frederick H.; Daly, Mark H.; DeBisschop, F.J.; Deckelman, Charles; Deluca, Anthony M.; Derby, John H.; Deutschberger, Samuel; Devins, Mrs. Edward A.; Dewson, Mary; Dodge, martin; Donahue, William H.; Downey, P.J.; Doyle, William; Dreier, Mrs. H. Edward; Dreyfuss, Henrietta R.; Dutcher, Elizabeth; Dutton, Geo. P.; Eben, Mary; Eberle, Steenie; Elliott, Marion; Ernst, Morris L.; Erskine, W.R.; Fahey, Sara, H.; Fields, Harold; Finley, John H.; Fitzmaurice, Robert M.; Flaesch, Charles C.; Flynn, John J.; Folks, Homer; Foster, Lily F.; Frank, Lawrence K.; Frankel, Florence Hulton; Freiberger, Sadie; Goericke, Ann; Goldberg, H. Charles; Goldmark, Josephine; Goldsmith, Irving H.; Good, Mrs. William H.; Gorman, William J.; Graham, Thomas; Greembaum, S.; Guilfoyle, Leo J.; Hall, George A.; Halliday, Jane Caskey; Hanning, Helen; Hardy, Edward M.; Harned, Daniel V.; Harris, Louis I.; Haskins, G.F.; Havens, L.; Hawley, Betty; Heller, Judith; Higgins, John D.; Himmelwright, A.L.A.; Hill, L.W.; Hodson, William; Hofheimer, Mrs. Henry; Hopkins, Mary R.; Howells, Mrs. John; Huffaker, Lucy; Hughes, P.J.; Hughes, William M.; Huyck, Edmund N.; Hyers, John Samuel; Industrial Board; Industrial Committee of Central Branch of; the Y.W.C.A., Buffalo, New York; Jackson, Edward D.; Jackson, Percy; Jarvis, R.W.; Johnson, Ethel M.; Johnstone, Floyd W.; Jordan, William F.; Karlin, William; Keenan, James J.; Kehoe, Laura D.; Kelly, Florence; Kellor, Frances; Kennaday, Paul; Kenyon, Dorothy,; King, Edith Shatto; Kingsbury, John A.; Kirkus, Alfred R.; Kirivan, A.C.; Klots, Allen T.; Klueg, Grace B.; Kurzman, Samuel R.; Lang, F.H.; La Guardia, F.H.; Lasker, Florina; Lathrop, Julia C.; Leach, Agnes; Leighton, Etta V.; Leslie, Warren; Lewis, W.E.; Lewisohn, S.A.; Lewy, Dr. K.; Little, Alice R.; Lobsenz, Johanna; Lockwood, Charles C.; Lovejoy, Owen R.; Lynch, James M; Lynch, Thomas M.; McCracken, John W.; MacDonald, George D.; McGlade, P.J.; McMahon, Minnie M.; Maddock, Elizabeth; Maginnis, Samuel Abbot; Magovern, Mae A.; Marakle, W.A.; Marguilies, Larry J.; Merrill, Mabel G.; Merritt, Charles F.; Meyer, Max; Mills, Harriet May; Minassian, David; Minor, Jeanie V.; Moot, Adelbert; Morgenthau, Henry; Morley, R.B.; Moskowitz, Marcella; Murphy, Hugh J.; Nathan, Mrs. Frederick; Nelle; Newman, Pauline; Norris, Jean H.; Norris, Katherine H.; Nunan, W.J.; Nye, B.W.; O'Brien, Philip J.; O'Hanlon, John M.; Old-Timers; Osnato, Michael; Otis, Mrs. Stanley L.; Parsons, Geoffrey; Paterson, Mrs. J.H.; Paterson, Evelyn B.; Patton, W.A.; Peabody, A.; Peck, Edith W.; Penfield, William Warner; Perhamus, Belle; Phillips, Nathaniel; Pierce, Florence C.; Pierson, T.G.R.; Pisani, Antonio; Pollak, Marion; Porter, H.F.J.; Potofsky, Jacob S.; Prince, George M.; Wuinn, Barbara S.; Rabiner, A.M.; Radin, Herman T; Razovsky, Cecilia; Referees, State Dept. of Labor; Richards, W.C.; Rothstein, Henrietta; Ruly, Freda; Ryan, Jeremiah; Rybicki, Edward C.; Sabloff, Janet; Sayer, Henry D.; Scannell, J. Frank; Schneiderman, Rose; Schilling, John M.; Schwartz, Louis G.; Seigworth, V. Freda; Shinn, Anne O'Hagan; Shientag, Bernard L.; Sire, Lillian R.; Smith, Alice C.; Smith, Sudney J.; Snyder, Leroy E.; Spence, Peter C.; Stearns, Martin H.; Stein, Gertrude R.; Stokes, Harold Phelps; Straus, Dorothy; Strauss, Isabel; Strauss, M.L.; Sullivan, John D.; Swain, Reba T.; Sawn, F.H.; Tausky, Alesander A.; Taussig, Elsa; Taussig, Frances; Tead, Clara; Tingley, Mrs. L.M.; Townsend, Mark; Van Beuthuysen, H.; Van Kleeck, Mary; Van Rensselaer, Lolita Coffin; Van Vranken, Elizabeth; Wear, D. Walker; Weyl, Bertha; Whelan, Charles; Whipple, James S.; Whipple, Caroline A.; Whitney, Albert W.; Widdener, Margaret; Wilder, H.K.; Williams, Arthur; Wilson, Harlow S.; Wilson, Marion; Wolff, W.D.; Wolff Industrial Service; Woods, Halle D.; and Woodward, Alice; Woodycrest Camp; Worne, CT;

This series consists of individual and group military honors, training certificates, and official appointment notices. It also includes official forms and records covering Irwin's military career and from Stalag Luft I during his imprisonment and completed casualty questionnaires pertaining to the crash of January 11, 1944. Some of the copies are of poor quality and partially illegible.

This series includes biographies, news clippings, news releases, programs, and photographs of dancers, choreographers, and administrators in School of Dance and American Dance Festival history. There are also labanotation scores for two dances by Doris Humphrey and one by Sophie Maslow.