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Lucy A. Morse Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-011
Abstract
This collection was donated by Lucy A. Morse in 1942 in memory of her mother, Lydia Brownell Smith Morse class of 1850. The collection has a large number of shoes from all over the world including China, Malta, Argentina, France, and the US among others. The collection also includes general information about shoes as well as a photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thumb. A pair of Mrs. Tom Thumb's shoes, bought at auction after her death, is part of the shoe collection. This collection also includes...
Dates:
1770-2004; 1800-1900
Wheaton Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC-001
Abstract
The Wheaton Family Collection covers the years 1721-2009. The bulk of the collection relates to the years 1779-1905. The collection shows the activities of an affluent family in the small town of Norton, MA. Laban Morey Wheaton and Eliza Baylies Chapin Wheaton were both active in the community, and established Wheaton Female Seminary. Eliza Baylies Chapin Wheaton contributed a great deal to the town of Norton by helping to renovate the Trinitarian Congregational Church and building the...
Dates:
1721-1994; 1779 - 1905
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- Greece 1
- Highland House. Highland (NC) 1
- Highlands, NC 1
- Italy 1
- Jessie Leland Hunt Foster (Class of 1899) 1
- Laban Morey Wheaton, 1796-1865 (Founder of Wheaton Female Seminary) 1
- Laban Wheaton, Judge, 1754-1846 (Founder of Wheaton Female Seminary) 1
- Lily (Alice Joséphine) Pons, 1898-1976 (Operatic soprano & actress) 1
- Lucy A. Morse 1
- Mary Abigail Chapin (Mrs. John Jay) Smith (Mary Abigail "Abbie", Mrs. John Jay Smith) (Class of 1873) 1
- Mary Lyon, 1797-1849 (American women's educator) 1
- Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump Magri (Lavinia Warren), 1841-1919 (American proportionate dwarf known as Mrs. General Tom Thumb) 1
- Norton. (Mass) 1
- Samuel Austin Chapin, 1811-1890 (Wheaton Trustee, 1890) 1
- Samuel Valentine Cole, Rev. Dr., 1851-1925 (Wheaton President, 1897-1925) 1
- Santa Clara (CA.) 1
- Strong, Elizabeth "Eliza" Frances Wheaton, 1795-1834 (Wheaton Female Seminary founded in her memory) 1
- Towle, Eunice Makepeace, c. 1806-1894 (Portrait painter) 1
- Trinitarian Congregational Church (Norton, MA) 1
- Wading River Manufacturing & Canal Company (founded 1837) 1
- Wheaton College. Office of the President (Norton, MA) 1
- Wheaton Manufacturing Co. 1
- Wheaton Seminary (Norton, MA) 1
- Wheaton, Eliza Baylies Chapin, 1809-1905 (Founder of Wheaton Female Seminary) 1
- Wheaton, Fanny Morey (Mrs. Laban), 1764-1849 (Wheaton Seminary founder) 1
- Wheaton, George, Dr., 1728-1803 (Father of Judge Laban Wheaton) 1 ∧ less
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