' . Essex Institute Annual Report April 1, 1971 -March 31, 1972 OFFICERS David P. Wheatland (1955), President Charles S. Tapley (1949), Vice-President Albert Goodhue (1954), Secretary Edward H. Osgood (1969), Treasurer COUNCIL Term expires 1973 : J. Sanger Attwill (1953) Sargent Bradlee (1970) Ernest S. Dodge (1951) James R. Hammond (1968) Term expires 1974 : *Kenneth B. Murdock (1959) Mrs. Bertram K. Little (1959) Willoughby I. Stuart (1971) Charles S. Tapley (1949) •[Peter B. Seamans (1972) Term expires 1973 : Moses Alpers (1970) Edward C. Johnson, 3rd (1967) Richard S. West (1967) David P. Wheatland (1955) Term expires 1976 : fMrs. W. Benjamin Bacon (1972) W. Hammond Bowden (1955) Robert W. Lovett (1970) Andrew Oliver (1971) Ex-Officio Mrs. W. Benjamin Bacon, Chairman, Ladies Committee (October 1969) Mrs. James A. Marsh, Chairman, Ladies Committee (October 1971) Dates after names indicate original election to the Council. * Resigned April 8, 1972 f Elected May 16, 1972 326 . . ' STANDING COMMITTEES LADIES Mrs. W. Benjamin Bacon *Mrs. James A. Marsh, Chairman FINANCE Willoughby I. Stuart, Chairman Augustus P. Loring Edward H. Osgood David P. Wheatland MUSEUM J. Sanger Attwill, Chairman Moses Alpers Sargent Bradlee James R. Hammond Mrs. John Hand Edward C. Johnson, 3rd Mrs. Bertram K. Little William B. Osgood Richard S. West LIBRARY Robert W. Lovett, Chairman Benjamin W. Labaree W. Hammond Bowden Kenneth B. Murdock Sargent Bradlee Charles S. Tapley David P. Wheatland PUBLICATIONS W. Hammond Bowden, Chairman Robert W. Lovett Ernest S. Dodge Kenneth B. Murdock MAINTENANCE James R. Hammond, Chairman Albert Goodhue Ray K. Moore HONORARY CURATORS Honorary Curator oj Silver Honorary Curator of Coins Honorary Curator of Costumes Honorary Curator oj Dolls Honorary Curator of Essex County History * Elected October 1971 Martha Gandy Fales Lea S. Luquer John R. Burbidge Madeline O. Merrill Samuel Chamberlain 327 STAFF David B. Little, Director and Managing Editor LIBRARY Mrs. Charles A. Potter Librarian Miss Mary M. Ritchie Assistant Librarian Mrs. Arthur R. Norton Reference Librarian Mrs. Thomas L. Haggerty, Jr. Manuscript Librarian Miss Judith F. Beston * j* Miss Mary Elizabeth Copeland * f Miss Susan Frisch J Mrs. D. Randall Williams, Jr. Library Assistants * John H. Wheeler Library Page Miss Anne Famam Boston University American Studies Scholar EDUCATION Miss Mary Larsen1 MAINTENANCE Ray K. Moore Superintendent Wilfred J. Pelletier Assistant to Superintendent Mrs. Robert J. Beechey, Sr. Housekeeper * Mrs. William Cook Assistant Housekeeper George R. Crowdis Wallace L. Henshaw Richard H. Kiely Edward G. Leonard Leon Morency2 Constables * Part-time f Temporary 1. November l, 1971 2. June 10, 1971 MUSEUM * Mrs. Gilbert R. Payson Curator * Mrs. John Hassell Registrar Robert Egleston John Wright Assistant Curators * Mrs. Emerson H. Lalone Assistant to the Curator * Miss Mary Huntley Assistant to the Registrar * Miss Mary Silver Smith3 * Kevin Antos Museum Assistants * Mrs. Montgomery Merrill * Mrs. Ray K. Moore * f Miss Ellen Shrigley * J Miss Beth Carver John Carr * f David Gavenda Charles David Todd House Guides Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Bums4 Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hunt Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Gibson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ray K. Moore House Custodians ADMINISTRATION Miss Kathryn Burke Assistant Treasurer Mrs. M. K. Cunningham Administrative Secretary * Mrs. Irving J. Duffy Office Manager * Mrs. Hugh Nelson Administrative Assistant * J Miss Linda M. Blocker6 3. May 1971 4. Resigned June 1971 5. June 1971 6. Resigned August 1971 328 The following reports were read at the Annual Meeting, May 1 6, 1972. The President and the Curator illustrated their talks with slides. They, along with the Librarian, have revised their texts, but not their messages, for publication. REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT The Institute has again achieved another successful year, and I attribute it to three primary factors. The generosity of our friends and members has continued unabated, and this in spite of the uncertain times. The response to communications from the Director, as well as some from just “out of the blue,” has indi¬ cated the faith in the Institute’s operations — besides giving encourage¬ ment to all on its staff. Another factor is the dedication of those who work here, both pro¬ fessional and voluntary. It is impressive to contemplate the time and energy that is contributed by each one, and the spirit and loyalty they demonstrate. The third factor responsible for the progress is that it has been possible to carry on a program generated by my predecessor. Albert Goodhue, who served as president of the Council for ten years, was largely instrumental in engineering many changes and furthering several important projects. It has been our good fortune to be able to continue with many of these and it is to these that this year’s success may be attributed also. The Council held their regular monthly meetings and enthusiastically implemented all the details to further these projects. There have been hitches, however. There was a slight hesitation, for instance, when the purchase of a pickup truck was proposed. There were a few adverse comments, particularly from the Treasurer, who was undoubtedly thinking that the first cost was not the last. The truck was primarily for the use of Buildings and Grounds and, as this was James R. Hammond’s chief interest, and, as he has done such a magnificent job of caring for all the real estate — entirely gratis — the addition of a pickup truck to aid and foster his enthusiasm seemed a bargain and the motion was carried. Since maintenance is one of our big expense items, it is a great credit to the Director that he has so skilfully contrived to keep up our rambling plant in spotless condition and at the same time to tackle many items that had been neglected so long that they have become what might be termed 329 330 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS deferred maintenance. Such items, of course, are now very necessary, as well as expensive, and unfortunately become a heavy load on top of the daily upkeep. A basement storage room in the southwest corner of the museum building is the final area to be renovated. The lighting and electric wir¬ ing will be completely redone, eliminating a tremendous hazard, and the room will be fireproofed as well. This has been the program in the entire basement, and the installation of electric conduits throughout the building with a bank of cutouts in the basement has been among our greatest assets, even though it is seldom appreciated as it is almost en¬ tirely concealed. We are so fortunate to have a generous donor who not only understands the necessity for redoing the entire electric service, but also insists that it be of the finest quality. The marvelous costume collection, in which our Honorary Curator of Costumes John R. Burbidge has revived a new interest by his shows, is being carefully packed in specially designed boxes and shelved on racks made for them on the third floor of the Safford House. It has been very important to take all the dresses off hangers to prevent tearing, due to their weight and their aging material. The culmination of a three-year project of filing the broadsides, clip¬ pings, notices, etc., is regarded with relief. Over seven thousand pieces were unstuck from cards, unfolded, flattened, placed in appropriate acid-free folders, and filed in wide metal drawer cases. Likewise, the drawings, prints, engravings, and cartoons have been separately mounted in acid-free mats. All these, and the broadsides, are being card indexed with cross references. It is a great satisfaction to have all these available, and also to have these fragile pieces preserved and protected. It never ceases to be amazing how so much is accomplished and how so many wonderful treasures come to light in the process of redoing and reordering our affairs and material. There is still much more to go through yet, and the great problem of deciding what to keep and pre¬ serve will be a source of constant and lively discussions for years to come. Respectfully submitted, David P. Wheatland President REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR Once again it is my happy privilege to stand up here and thank you for making possible what you see around you. Seventy-five members of our audience tonight are enjoying the comfort of our new chairs pro¬ vided by last year’s gifts. Our library reading room and offices have been painted; there is a wall-to-wall carpet in the reading room. We are rebuilding the booklift from the library basement to the Margaret H. Jewell room in the attic. The third floor front of Safford House has be¬ come two safe and accessible storerooms for our costume collection. Our organ will soon go to C. B. Fisk, Inc., in Gloucester for restoration. Under the central office in the front of this building our museum staff is organizing the storage of our textile collection in a bright, clean room provided by your generosity two years ago. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has helped us greatly in this work by giving us four storage cases, good advice, and encouragement. We are deeply grateful to Larry Salmon, Curator of Textiles at the Museum of Fine Arts, and to his staff. When this room is done, we have the money in hand to trans¬ form the corner basement room on the armory side from a dismal mess to a useful storeroom for more of our museum objects not on exhibition. As you can see, we are not spending your money on the transporta¬ tion, insurance, and installation of such ephemera as large loan exhibi¬ tions. We can enjoy such exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Bos¬ ton, without worrying about their expense. Instead, we are continuing the program set forth in the leaflet, “A Preliminary Report to Our Donors” which we mailed to you in 1968 and again in March 1971. Preservation is our primary responsibility; presentation follows. We are improving the quality of our spaces, our storerooms, as well as our exhibition galleries, so that our collections will be safe and accessi¬ ble in them. We are reducing the size of our collections to a volume we can manage by disposing of those objects we can neither use nor even preserve. We are using the money received from the sale of those ob¬ jects to put back in good order the objects we want to keep. Our ex¬ penditures, therefore, are for capital improvements of lasting value. The new construction completed at the time I came to Salem brought the size of our library and museum close to the maximum we can ex¬ pect to support, yet it is not big enough to house the collections we al¬ ready have and wish to keep. We need a building in which to show our 331 332 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS carriages, sleighs, and fire engines, to store our study collection of furni¬ ture and tools, and to operate a workshop, thus bringing together col¬ lections and equipment presently inaccessible in several locations. Draw¬ ings of such a building, to be located on our Brown Street parking lot, were prepared by a design class at the Boston Architectural Center and displayed here from November 18 to December 1, 1971. While none of these proposals is just what we want, they do demonstrate the feasibility of the project. Through the generosity of an anonymous donor we have begun an educational program to enrich in the county schools the teaching of colonial and American history, with special emphasis on the history of Essex County. From our first beginnings we have divided our efforts evenly between our library, our museum, and our publications. Now we are adding education as a fourth endeavor to be equal with each of the other three. As there is no space available in our present buildings for classroom use, our educational specialist Mary Larsen is doing her teaching in the Salem schools. When we can afford to do so we will tear down the Annex and replace it with a building containing a single class¬ room, an office, and the necessary heat, light, and plumbing. We are budgeting a deficit of $50,000 for our current fiscal year, a situation from which a treasurer can wring buckets of tears. This figure merely means that what we intend to do this year will cost $50,000 more than our income from restricted and unrestricted endowment. Our income from unrestricted endowment, indeed, is not enough to cover our payroll. We do not consider it prudent to include in our budget a figure representing the gifts we hope to receive. As gifts come in this year, they will appear on our quarterly balance sheets to reduce the size of the projected deficit and, we hope, to eliminate it. We will not spend any of this $50,000 before we have the money in hand. The Essex Institute is a going concern. Thanks to you, our members and friends, we are operating in the black. Our Ladies Committee continues to be an enduring and priceless asset, bringing a warmth of welcome to our special events which en¬ hances the beauty of our museum and makes our visitors glad they came. Behind the scenes the ladies have organized and managed the de¬ tails of these events, kept our galleries and period houses bright with flowers, and performed many other useful tasks. There have been other benefits, too. Last year I reported the gift from ANNUAL REPORT 1971-1972 333 the Ladies Committee of a motion picture film projector. This year they have given us a slide projector which can be operated, if not always controlled, by the speaker, and the lay figures on which we show our costumes to such advantage. All of our Ladies Committee are volunteers, but not all of our volun¬ teers are members of the Ladies Committee. Some of our volunteers are men. Without our volunteers our programs would be sadly re¬ duced. With them we show our houses, dress our lay figures and pro¬ vide them with period hair stylings, catch up on routine office work, treat the leather bindings on our books, organize our collection of photographic negatives, and build in our shop equipment we could never afford to buy. Some institutions shy away from volunteers because they believe that volunteers require too much staff time in training and supervision. The matching of the skills offered with the needs of the institution is some¬ times difficult. We have been singularly fortunate in this matching, per¬ haps because our needs are so many and our staff is so small. The success of our volunteer program is visible to everyone who enters our doors. Our volunteers have brought new life to the Essex Institute, and we are deeply grateful to them. The maintenance of our elderly buildings becomes an increasingly serious problem as wages rise in the building trades and skilled crafts¬ men become harder to find. Our Maintenance Committee has patched where it can, but some situations require drastic measures. The bequest of Margaret H. Jewell put a new roof on the library and a storeroom holding over a mile of bookshelves beneath it. The Andrew-S afford House has no such funds to call upon, but its roof, too, must be replaced, its balustrades lowered to the ground, repaired, and fastened to the roof again. The acids present in our city air have pitted the copper gutters and flashings; northeast storms and the hot summer sun have curled and cracked the asphalt shingles. The Andrew-S afford House is one of the few great brick town houses, complete with its stable and brick-walled stable yard, still surviving in America. Halfway measures are not enough to preserve a building so beautiful and so much in the public eye, especially when it is owned by an institution such as ours. John Andrew built this house in 1818 to the highest standard of construction. We face a decision on its roof soon. I hope that we will replace this roof with one acceptable to John Andrew, 334 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS despite the initial expense, so that the house may be protected from the weather for many years to come. The Essex Institute has a concern for Essex County today as it does for Essex County in the past, and a special concern for the city of Salem. We opened up our museum and auditorium on several evenings, there¬ fore, to provide a spacious and dignified setting for the Salem Redevel¬ opment Authority’s presentation to city officials and to the public of the proposals for Salem’s redevelopment. As I do not see anyone taking notes, I will omit a reading of the list of concerts, lectures, and films presented during the past year. There were many of them. We will publish the list in the October issue of our His¬ torical Collections along with the other annual reports. I do want to men¬ tion, however, the three concerts given by The Collegium Musicum un¬ der the direction of Dennis M. Michaud, an orchestra and chorusjoined by our little organ which, despite its many infirmities, sang with the voices of angels. I credit these concerts with the revival of interest in our organ and the raising of money with which to rebuild it. One good thing leads to another in this lovely and responsive place. We are dealing with beauty here, and with a record of the past which exists in no other place. The preservation of our collections is our chief concern. Our capital endowment funds exist for this one purpose. The struggle to preserve our collections ends only with defeat. Winning it gives us the opportunity to win it again, and win it we must, day after day, and year after year. This is not a reasonable situation. Wiser heads than mine predict the demise of specialized institutions such as ours and the consolidation of our collections into great, federally supported, in¬ stitutions located in our major cities. Beauty inspires faith, however. Together they can, and they do, raise havoc with reason. The faith which built the Essex Institute and still sustains it, the achievements of the past which it contains have brought to life a beauty which triumphs over reason. May faith and beauty long prevail. Respectfully submitted, David B. Little Director REPORT OF THE LIBRARY Work on projects is a continuing task and a part of our daily rou¬ tine. Although the upheaval of the library began with the reconstruc¬ tion in 1966 and ended in 1968, there was an accumulation of work to be done on our collections in the library dating back to its beginning. These past six years of organizing, shelf-reading, mending, rebinding of books, cataloging, and countless other jobs have put our library in good shape. Despite efforts, however, our projects are by no means com¬ pleted. What has been done is gratifying and spurs us on toward the completion of our tasks. I should like to comment on one of our projects tonight. Mr. Little and I spent many hours this past year sorting, comparing duplicates, checking the completeness of sets and of individual volumes of uncata¬ loged encyclopedias, dictionaries, lexicons, and gazetteers which have been shelved in dirty corners for years. They date from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries; most have English and American imprints, but other European countries are represented. We selected to remain in the library the best representative copies re¬ lating to the early history of our country, specifically Essex County, using as a guide the books that were owned by educators, historians, scholars, physicians, judges, lawyers, and businessmen. Many belonged to the very men whose names are synonymous with this institution: Henry Wheatland, Joseph Story, Francis Peabody, Daniel A. White, and Thomas F. Hunt, who started our China collection. In all we handled 2,060 volumes. Miss Ritchie has begun the catalog¬ ing with the completion of 318 volumes. We shall catalog 330 more, adding in all 648 to our collection. The remaining volumes will be dis¬ posed of since most of them are either incomplete or duplicate copies. May I add that projects such as this one have to be squeezed into time taken from our regular work. We have increasing demands on our staff from scholars and other institutions, along with extra activities and projects. In this report I want to emphasize the important collections that we have. Regretfully, I can cite only a few; however, I hope it is enough to whet your appetite and stimulate interest so that you may appreciate with us that our library resources cannot be matched anywhere. In January I met with Philip Chadwick Foster Smith, Curator of 335 336 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS Maritime History and Managing Editor of the American Neptune , from the Peabody Museum; Gengean Riley, from the National Maritime Historic Site; Robert Murray, author of Chronicles of Salem , a very suc¬ cessful play concerning Salem history presented by Historic Salem, Inc.; Mrs. Donald F. Hunt, Custodian of the Assembly House; and John Wright, Assistant to the Curator in our museum. The meeting was called to review and talk over possibilities of restoring Salem buildings. Although many buildings of historic value have been razed, I am eager to help interested persons and groups who come to seek our aid and suggestions for keeping our remaining buildings of historic value. Our library has the sources to help: maps, plans, pictures, and histori¬ cal data. We also serve individuals who seek to date their houses to ob¬ tain house plaques from Historic Salem, Inc. The most helpful source is our collection of mounted pictures of buildings, streets, and views of Salem, of which the largest and foremost part is the Cousins Collection. Frank Cousins, citizen of Salem, was an enterprizing businessman, a prominent dry goods merchant, a photographer, and a writer on colo¬ nial architecture. He died at the age of seventy-four in 1925. A few years before his death he sold to the Essex Institute his rare collection of valuable negatives and photographs. Mr. Cousins began work as a cash boy for the firm ofj. B. and S. D. Shepard, leading dry goods store on Essex Street in Salem. Both his brothers, Thomas and Joseph Henry, were employed in the same firm. In 1868 the three brothers formed a partnership under the name of Cousins Brothers in a building on the corner of Essex and St. Peter streets which was razed after a fire in 1899. In 1872 Frank succeeded to the business after his brothers had died and continued it until 1907 when he retired. Under Frank’s supervision the business grew to such a size that it occupied the whole building except for one store. He called the store Frank Cousins’ Bee-Hive. Frank Cous¬ ins, while still in the retail business, began the publication of views of Salem and other cities. He traveled as far as New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., to add to his collection. Ill health forced him to give up the project. Nevertheless, he had a fine collection of negatives and photographs of historic places. Before 1925 he sold the entire lot of about five thousand negatives to the Essex Institute. He was also a stu¬ dent of the history of Salem and he collaborated with Philip M. Riley in the publication of Wood Carver of Salem, a story of the life of Samuel Mclntire, the famous Salem architect. In 1899 he was appointed a ANNUAL REPORT 1971-1972 337 money clerk in the Boston post office and held that position until he re¬ tired in 1907. Mr. Cousins was always a Republican. He was chosen a presidential elector for President Harrison and in 1907 was a member of the Electoral College. He was a member of Essex Lodge, all of the higher Masonic bodies, the Essex Institute, the Salem Athenaeum, and he was a contributing member of Post 34 of the G.A.R. He attended the First Baptist Church. He was unmarried, and died leaving a brother Charles of Salem, and several nieces and nephews. Another of our important collections is a mass of American trade catalogs. Once again we are indebted to the persons who started this great institution. They indeed were farsighted when they collected these trade catalogs. At that time many people considered them to be mere curiosities, but our founding fathers knew that they would become his¬ tory, and indeed they have. In this special collection are 2,050 items filed in 140 boxes and cataloged under their subject listings. They are “Busi¬ ness Americana,” fascinating examples of advertising and the mail order business. They were printed by the best printers. As methods of illustra¬ tion and printing developed they grew in size and quality and in the last half of the nineteenth century their copy was often written by outstand¬ ing authors and historians. They were also embellished with woodcuts and lithographs executed by the best artists and engravers. They depict the American way of life as our country grew. The earliest is an interesting one, printed January 1, 1790, advertising “Bristol Crown Window Glass and Glass Bottles for Exportation” by Lucas, Pater & Coathupe’s. It lists the size in detail and indicates “five per cent discount for money or a month’s credit, the drawback in all cases the Property of the Manufacturer.” Other items from that date to the twentieth century are included along with Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck catalogs that are familiar to all of us. The value of this collection became apparent when in February our Curator Mrs. Payson received an enquiry from an author in Montreal, Canada, who was writing an article for National Historic Sites, published through the Queen’s Printer, Ottawa, for government departments to use as a guide for refurnishing old houses. Most of Montreal’s furniture was from cabinet shops of English-speaking cabinetmakers and fol¬ lowed either English or United States styles. She asked for the furniture catalog of Gerrish & O’Brien, manufacturers of parlor, dining room, and chamber furniture, 175 Blackstone Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 338 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 1883-1884, an illustrated catalog with the prices of the “Parlor Suites ranging from $40 to $500, and Chamber Suites from Si 8 to $250, in walnut, mahogany and cherry.” We had two copies and loaned one of them to the author. Her excitement and amazement in locating this catalog, after writing to the Smithsonian Institution, the Winterthur Mu¬ seum, and other places, is recognized in her letter of thanks to Mrs. Pay- son and the Institute. She sent her blessings to the library for having such a treasure. In addition to this collection we have among our broadsides over six hundred examples of trade advertisements. Among our cataloged items we have a number of valuable English and American sample books dat¬ ing from 1770. Several of these in the tool and hardware category were photographed this year for Old Sturbridge Village. When I check our holdings against the rare books catalogs, of which we receive hundreds a year, I am amazed at the amount of material on the book market that we already have in our collection. For example, I list six items that appeared in one catalog. An Ingenious Puzzle, for the Amusement of Children, Charles Bai¬ ley, publisher, Manchester, Mass., 1858. (Job Printing neatly executed at the Salem Gazette office.) An Address to Farmers on the Following Interesting Subjects. 1. The character of a complete Farmer. 2. The importance of Manure. 3. Labor. 4. Exchanging Work. 5. The profits of a Nursery. 6. The Advantages of an Orchard. 7. The manage¬ ment of Cyder. 8. Keeping a Day-book. 9. Contracting Debts. 10. Cloathing and Diet. 11. Engaging in Lawsuits. 12. Good Neighborhood. 13. Education. Printed in Salem, Mass., by John Dabney, 1795. We have two copies. The Rising Monument by Hannah F. Gould, a broadside poem printed on silk, Newburyport, September 1840. Report of a Committee of the Linnaean Society of New England, rela¬ tive to a large marine animal supposed to be a Serpent, seen near Cape Ann, Mass, in August, 1817. Printed in Boston, Mass., 1817. The Boys of Brimstone Court (and other stories), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, an Essex County author. Printed in Boston by D. Lothrop & Co., 1879. First edition of children’s stories by the author. ANNUAL REPORT I97I-I972 339 The Andover Catechism by Samuel Phillips, entitled The Ortho¬ dox Christian: or a Child well instructed in the Principles of the Christian Religion . . . Designed for the Use and Benefit ofi the Children in the South Parish in Andover, To Whom it is Dedicated. Boston, 1738, first edition. Samuel Phillips was the uncle of the founder of Phillips Academy, Andover. All came to us as gifts. Advertised in another catalog were two autograph letters by John Greenleaf Whittier. Our Oak Knoll Collection, named from the poet’s residence in Danvers, Massachusetts, has over five hundred letters writ¬ ten by Whittier and a thousand reproductions of Whittier letters in other libraries. It represents the largest assembly of letters written by Whittier in the country. In addition, and increasing the value of our collection, we have over eight hundred letters written to Whittier from outstanding literary and political figures and more than a hundred manuscript poems. Rounding out the collection we have an extensive group of Whittier’s first editions and copies of biographical and critical books written about the poet, a nucleus of indispensable material for the Whittier scholar. At the summer meeting of the Haverhill Whittier Club held at the poet’s birthplace I spoke on “The Oak Knoll Collec¬ tion at the Institute.” You can see our tremendous responsibility to maintain, guide, and watch over our collections. We have restrictions on their use and re¬ searchers have access to them only under our supervision. One hundred and sixteen serious researchers used our manuscript col¬ lections, an increase of thirteen over last year. They came from thirty states, including all the Atlantic states from Maine to Florida, from Canada, England, Australia, and Zanzibar. They used five hundred col¬ lections and seven hundred items in manuscript. The count of items in¬ cludes boxes, envelopes, and log books as it is impossible to count the individual items. Eighteen of our patrons were working on doctorates, twelve on master’s degrees, and twenty-two were writing books. Forty- three United States colleges and universities were represented. The fol¬ lowing subjects were covered: shipping, politics, decorative arts, China trade, Civil and Revolutionary wars. The Essex County subjects in¬ cluded legal history, colonial history, racial and social history, China merchants and trades, loyalists, Hawthorne, and Whittier. Among the scholars using our library were: H. M. Amiji, from Zan- 340 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS zibar, studying for a Ph.D. at Princeton; Roger T. Anstey, from Canter¬ bury, England, doing research for a book on the Atlantic slave trade and abolition; Abdul M. H. Sheriff from the University ofDar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Salem-Zanzibar trade in ivory, 1870-1914, for a book; Mrs. William H. Baum from Brandeis University for her dissertation, “Salem, Massachusetts, Religion and Social Structure, 1720-1820”; for her dissertation, Miss Lorraine Coffey, Boston University, “Port of Newburyport, Massachusetts”; Mr. Bruce S. Bazelon of the Coopers- town graduate study program, on museum administration. Also James Campbell from Weston Geophysical Research, Inc., looking for ac¬ counts of earthquakes, seaquakes, and tsunamis in the Caribbean. Charles E. Miller, Jr., Department of History, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, gathered material for the Bicen¬ tennial; and, doing a survey of shipping during the American Revolu¬ tion for the National Park Service, Dr. John D. R. Platt. Mrs. Harry C. Thomson, from Evanston, Illinois, author of Murder at Harvard, came to gather information on the Joseph White murder here in Salem. Au¬ guste Toussaint came from Forest-side, Mauritius, researching Ameri¬ can trade with the Indian Ocean. Nancy Goyne Evans made three visits from Winterthur, her subject American decorative arts, specifically furniture, used eighty-six manuscript collections to fmd documentation of the leading cabinetmakers in the eighteenth century. Although our scholars explored many areas of our rich collections, there are many un¬ touched areas of research in the material that lies dormant on our shelves ready to be brought to light. Our manuscript-users also used our secon¬ dary sources which are necessary as backup material for their pursuits. In addition to the manuscript-users we had 330 people researching gen¬ ealogy; 275, Essex County history; 100 on witchcraft and related sub¬ jects, such as haunted houses and superstitions; 350, New England his¬ tory; 250, maritime history; 100 on slavery and negroes; and 50 on decorative arts. The total number of library patrons was 4,261. To our manuscripts we added: by gift 119 items and 9 large collec¬ tions and by purchase, 70 items. In printed material we added: by gift 711 items and by purchase, 70 items. We have had eleven visiting groups containing 182 individuals, from Gordon College, Salem State, and West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, High School. Special exhibitions were prepared relating to the talks I gave on witchcraft, local history, Hawthorne, and Whittier. We pre- ANNUAL REPORT I97I-1972 341 pared a special exhibit in the auditorium of our rarest and earliest im¬ prints in June for the International Conference of Bibliophiles. I spoke before the 3rd and 4th grade pupils of the Horace Mann School on “Witchcraft and Salem History”; also at the Swampscott High School on the same subjects and again at the Salem High School for a summer school session. Gerald Morris, Director of the Maine Historical Society at Portland, Maine, brought four Bates College students for instructions on our methods of cataloging and classifying manuscripts. Mr. Morris while at Mystic Seaport adopted some of our methods of handling manuscript material and the students were working on a student-scholar-library project. I also spent three days with Prof. J. Buckner, James Shavick, and Si¬ mon Abbott from Sir George Williams University, Montreal. They filmed documents, artifacts, and building locations related to the witch¬ craft hysteria of 1692. I also worked with Media Workshop, on a multi-media program about the history of Salem entitled Salem — Through Multi-Media. We cooperated with the museum on exhibits in the auditorium for Abraham Lincoln and the Christmas season. We continued with our Boston University, Department of History, doctoral program in American and New England studies. Edmund Lynch left in September and Anne Farnam succeeded him. When she completed a project in the library, she moved to the museum to work on textiles. Our workshop on Essex County, initiated on August 11, 1970, met again on June 29 and 30, 1971, for the presentation of papers by scholars on Essex County history. By this means more scholars become aware of our rich resources. Our microfilm machine was put to good use. We had requests for William Wheelwright letters, books on early American architecture, Burnap-Burnett genealogy, account books of silversmiths, the Rever¬ end Samuel Johnson papers, Manasseh Cutler notebooks, and many items on early medicine. We retain the microfilm negative on these orders, thereby enlarging our microfilm holdings and saving our origi¬ nal papers from overuse. Because of the rare and fragile nature of our books our Council has voted to cease the practice of making interlibrary loans. 342 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS We have bound 280 books; added 1354 cards to the main catalog; enlarged our manuscript collection by cataloging 1203 items, 137 vol¬ umes, 70 account books, and 16 large collections. Items of correspon¬ dence amounted to 710. We received 1,279 periodicals by gifts, ex¬ change, and subscription. We continue to assist Essex County authors who come to our library for their research: Joseph E. Garland, Daniel J. Foley, Virginia Grilley, Truman J. Nelson, Mrs. Frank Pulsifer, Slater Brown, Mrs. Charles Fladley Watkins, Paul B. Kenyon, Nina F. Little, Philip C. F. Smith, Chester E. Frost, Maude Crowley, and Mrs. Philip H. Lord with Mrs. Peter Gamage, who found in our library some of the material for their book Marblehead — The Spirit of ’76 Lives Here , which was published this year. Mr. Harold P. Hadley joined the Salem News staff on March 17, 1931, and became editor of the News in i960. As a newspaperman he was in¬ terested in Frank C. Damon, former city editor of the News , and he knew that we had the Frank C. Damon collection. Frank C. Damon was born December 28, 1865, in Middleton, Massachusetts, in the part of the town known as the Parish. He was the son of William Thomas and Carrie E. (Henderson) Damon. He started with the Salem News at its inception in 1880 as a Danvers correspondent and agent. He left after two years to finish his high school education and graduated from Holten High School in Danvers in 1883. He returned to the News and became city editor on January 1, 1889. He resigned this post in 1896 due to an illness which lasted for four years. He was postmaster of Danvers from 1921 to 1925. In the 1920’s and 1930’s he was the historian and feature writer for the Salem News and the collection we now have was the re¬ sult of this phase of his life. He died on January 22, 1941, at the Veter¬ ans’ Hospital in Chelsea. Mr. Hadley volunteered to help us arrange this collection, which came to the Institute about 1940. It is a large accumulation of newspaper clippings, pictures, and data on houses and events in Salem and other Essex County cities and towns in the 1920’s, which had been stored in boxes and files untouched until this year. It is an extremely important source for the history of Essex County in its time. From May 1971 to March 1972 Mr. Hadley came to our library thirty-seven days in all. He has finished his work and made available another collection of value to the study of Essex County history. ANNUAL REPORT I97I-I972 343 Our veteran volunteers are Sargent Bradlee, who continues to use his skills on the preservation of our leather-bound books, J. Andrew Heath and Gilbert R. Payson, both working with the photograph collection, and Dr. W. Benjamin Bacon. In January we welcomed back Miss Elea¬ nor Broadhead, whose busy schedule kept her away for a year. Her ex¬ perience and knowledge make her as valuable as another staff member. Mrs. Ralf P. Emerson continues to be our consultant on colonial history and early colonial shipping, and Mrs. Ralph L. Thresher contributes her skills as our consultant on genealogy. Our part-time help included Susan Frisch, Scott Bozek, and Char¬ lotte Ballou Williams. Our veteran part-time help are Judith Beston and John Wheeler. We added Mary Elizabeth Copeland, who is study¬ ing for her master’s degree in Library Science at Salem State College. I am happy to announce that the members of our library staff with their educational qualifications and their performance as librarians have been awarded professional status and specific titles by the Council: Miss Mary M. Ritchie, Assistant Librarian and Cataloger ; Mrs. Arthur R. Nor¬ ton, Reference Librarian ; Mrs. Thomas L. Haggerty, formerly Emily Hood Nichols, Manuscript Librarian. With our professional staff, part-time help, our capable and untiring volunteers, we record another year in the library as a library that does not stand still. This year we have served more researchers than in any of the last five years, and provided information on more diversified sub¬ jects. Our collections grow in quality and accessibility. Scholars con¬ tinue to be amazed at the amount of material and the scope of subjects in our library, both in print and manuscript. My sincere thanks to our volunteers and to our co-workers in the other departments, also to Mr. Wheatland, our new president, Mr. Lit¬ tle, and the members of the Council. All take a part in making the in¬ stitution great. My special thanks go to Albert Goodhue for all the assistance he has afforded me and the library staff over the past twenty- seven years. Respectfully submitted, Dorothy M. Potter Librarian REPORT OF THE MUSEUM Between April 1, 1971, and March 31, 1972, our museum and historic house attendance increased as follows: 1971-72 1970-71 Increase Museum second-floor galleries 59,213 50,086 9,127=18% Gardner-Pingree House 5,503 3,793 1,710=45% Crowninshield-Bentley House 2,281 1,521 760=50% John Ward House 5,413 3,476 1,937=56% Peirce-Nichols House 1,086 878 208=24% Assembly House (opened June 18, 1971) 246 The opening of the Assembly House at 138 Federal Street was one of the chief events of the year. From members of families who had lived in the house consecutively since it was built in 1782, we received many gifts which enabled us to furnish it in clean, newly papered or painted rooms. Particularly striking are the downstairs parlor with its elaborate carved furniture brought from the Orient during the nineteenth cen¬ tury, and the small Victorian parlor on the second floor complete with rococo-revival furniture and a whatnot displaying typical bric-a-brac. A beautiful day for the opening and a refreshing punch provided by our Ladies Committee made our members’ preview a gala occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hunt are custodians of the Assembly House, while in the Peirce-Nichols House Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Gibson, Jr., have replaced Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Burns who resigned in June of 1971. Mr. and Mrs. Ray K. Moore continue as custodians of the Gardner- Pingree House, and Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Montgomery Merrill are regular guides in that house. Our special summer staff house guides, Beth Carver and Ellen Shrigley, and Sunday guides John Carr, David Gavenda, and Charles David Todd, had an exceedingly busy season. It was also due to our sixty-four volunteer guides that we were able to show so many visitors through the houses here on our premises. These volunteers gave us 2070 hours of guiding in the Ward, Crowninshield- Bentley, and Gardner-Pingree houses, and thirty-three of them com¬ pleted the thirty hours of guiding we hope for during the summer season. It has been almost a full-time job for Mrs. Lalone of our museum staff to schedule the guides and keep record of the number of visitors to the houses and museum, as well as the admission charges and museum sales. 344 ANNUAL REPORT 1971-1972 345 The front-door count of visitors to the Institute was 65,298, or 6,085 more than those checked into the museum on the second floor. Of the visitors to the museum alone, we had 207 children’s groups and 19 adult groups. The latter included the Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Historic Columbus (Georgia) Foundation, the Boston China Students’ Club, and the Salem Council on the Aging. The museum staff gave talks to many groups, both children’s and adult, and the Ladies Committee and volunteer guides helped show them the houses, and provided hospitality for many. A number of museum volunteers have assisted us in various projects. Several young people have contributed greatly to our efforts, devoting school or college vacation time to helping us. They were Nancy Juvelis and Polly Roberts, Peter Cannon and Angus West, all of whom per¬ formed excellent work. Mrs. John Hand and Mrs. William A. Slade, Jr., as well as H. Sherman Holcomb and William M. Houghton, continued as museum volunteers. These gentlemen, with W. Benjamin Bacon, worked with Ray Moore installing shelving in the costume storage area, and Mr. Holcomb made an appropriate frame for Governor John Lev- erett’s seventeenth-century embroidered cuff. Malcolm Johnson has worked with John Wright of our staff in coordinating our military equipment, and Miss E. Lolita Eveleth, working with Dorothy Lalone, has given generously of her years’ accumulation of knowledge in going over a large portion of our collection of lace. Mrs. Richard Merrill, our Honorary Curator of Dolls, has greatly improved the appearance and safety of our dolls by equipping them with proper stands. We on the museum staff are grateful to all these volunteers for their help, as we are to our guides and to the Ladies Committee. Our Spring Lecture Series in 1971 was highly successful in bringing outstanding lecturers, and an audience of both old and new Institute friends, to our auditorium. The speakers and their subjects are listed in the Calendar of Events for the year, as are the year’s exhibitions. In June of 1971 the Ladies Committee arranged a basket lunch in connection with the beautiful exhibition “Brides and Flowers,” and here another volunteer, Honorary Curator of Costumes John R. Burbidge, dressed the specially acquired mannequins in wedding finery of the past from our Essex Institute collections, while his talented wife created a confec¬ tion of a wedding cake, real frosting on a styrofoam base, so splendidly Victorian in its wealth of sugar embellishments that besides being a 346 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS tempting part of this exhibition, it was later lent for the 1971 Christmas exhibition at the Concord Antiquarian Society. Again at Christmas time Mr. Burbidge costumed festive figures in Christmas regalia of 1870 and 1920, and the contrast in styles was carried out even in the two Christmas trees, decorated by Daniel J. Foley and the Ladies Committee respectively. A listing of the exhibitions is not enough even to suggest the pleasure taken by our visitors in the loan exhibitions of colorful still-life paint¬ ings lent by the artist Harry Sutton, nor in the imaginative sculptural collage show lent by its creators, John R. Burbidge and Louis Mangi- festi, nor in the variety of toleware collected over many years by Miss Helen C. Hagar, and lent through the courtesy of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site. An exhibition of Essex Institute material, “Two Views of Napoleon,” was held in our print gallery, and made use of the wonderful Napoleonic prints and relics in our museum collections, and of the library’s British cartoons which present a less sympathetic ap¬ proach to the Emperor’s career. Thanks to the matting project carried on over the last two years, and the acquisition of standard-sized frames, we are now able to display such material safely and appropriately. As usual, there is a constant demand for photographs of our objects for publication in scholarly articles, and in fact a slide of an English blue “chinoiserie” chintz (1750) mentioned below was included in a film¬ strip made in England this year. A few of our objects have been lent out to nearby institutions, to the Peabody Museum of Salem, the Marble¬ head Arts Association, and the Currier Gallery in Manchester, New Hampshire. These were all for special exhibitions. The museum staff is also providing objects and slides for use in Mary Larsen’s educational program. Our burgeoning supply of postcards of our houses and ob¬ jects is selling well. Our Museum staff’s education continues, and this year Robert Egle- ston and John Wright each attended a program at Old Sturbridge Vil¬ lage, dealing with the arts of the tinsmith and the cabinetmaker. The Curator went to the annual symposium of the American Ceramic Cir¬ cle in Montreal, and the Collectors’ Weekend seminar at Old Stur¬ bridge Village. John Wright lectured at meetings of the Boston Chapter of the American Society of Appraisers in Lynnfield, and the New En¬ gland Society of Woodcarvers in Lexington, while the Curator spoke at gatherings of historical and antiquarian societies in Worcester, Ipswich, and Milton. ANNUAL REPORT 1971-1972 347 The generosity of many donors has enhanced our collections. During the year we received 395 gifts, and our registrar, Martha Hassell, assisted by Mary Huntley and Mary Silver Smith, accessioned 448 objects, in¬ cluding loans, purchases, and previously unaccessioned items. For the Assembly House, Mr. and Mrs. John de Laittre gave a rosewood melo- deon which may formerly have been a part of the furnishings in that house. It was made by William P. Hastings of Portland, Maine, and is a delightful feature of the second-floor Victorian parlor. Mrs. Dudley Milliken gave a large Chinese rug for the Oriental parlor of the Assem¬ bly House, and it provides a perfect setting for the carved teakwood furniture. A handsome Federal period mahogany desk-and-bookcase was the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Sutton in memory of Mr. Sut¬ ton’s mother, Mrs. Harry Sutton (Elinor Putnam Gardner). This piece had descended in the family of John Gardner for whom Samuel Mcln- tire built our Gardner-Pingree House in 1804. Also from a Salem house, and returned to its original setting, is a beautifully carved set of Victorian rococo-revival parlor furniture, the gift of William H., Benjamin, and Richard S. Shreve. Formerly here as a loan in the parlor of the D aland House, this recently reupholstered furniture now forms an integral part of this lovely room. In memory of Gracia Randall, Mrs. Gay Anderson gave us this year a 1750 English chintz bedspread and matching va¬ lances, printed with wood-blocks in indigo blue. The pattern is in the popular mid-eighteenth-century “chinoiserie” style, and is identical with the design on a small square of chintz given to the Institute in 1 873 . A square of similar size is missing from the bedspread, and according to the family documentation, it appears that our 1873 fragment was origi¬ nally taken from this very bedspread. Of particular Salem interest are the gifts of a large gilt-framed mirror originally in the house built by Nathaniel Silsbee at 94 Washington Square in 1818, this mirror the gift of Mrs. F. H. Appleton; and a silver pitcher and Windsor chair which had belonged to Isaac Hacker, Salem schoolmaster around 1800, from Mr. and Mrs. William P. Hacker. Strong in their Salem connections are gifts from Mrs. Franc D. Ingra¬ ham, a silk patchwork quilt made by her grandmother, Ann Maria (Pingree) Wheatland, and dresses worn in the Salem Village scene of the Tercentenary Celebration in 1926, another worn on the occasion of an early Chestnut Street Day, and a third worn at the Salem Assembly. From S. Prescott Fay we received as gifts two small sewing tables of the Federal period, probably made in Salem, and a pair of Chinese export 348 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS porcelain baskets with trays, rose medallion in pattern, which had been brought from China by the donor’s great grandfather, John Bryant, at one time supercargo on Derby vessels. As bequests left to us by Mr. Fay we received fine furniture of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, and a large collection of English and American glass. Numerous other donors have added to our collections, and we are grateful to all of them. As well as giving us art objects and artifacts, several have given us slides of some of our exhibitions. Among these were Mrs. William B. Freeman, Benjamin Little, and Richard Merrill. We enlarged our collections in some directions and diminished them in others through the sale of duplicate material or objects unrelated to the Institute’s purposes. These included some paintings and a number of tools, the latter going to another institution. A landmark long familiar in our back garden, the cupola from the Pickman-Derby-Brookhouse mansion, having become infested with termites and the woodwork be¬ yond repair, was dismantled in June of 1971. The fresco by Come which decorated the interior of its dome has been given to the Peabody Mu¬ seum of Salem, the most appropriate repository for the preservation of this dramatic marine painting. Details of recent maintenance work done on our historic houses are listed elsewhere. In the preservation of museum objects, we have had four paintings restored this year, and one sculptured piece. The latter, our wood bust of Paracelsus which originally adorned the nineteenth- century apothecary shop of James Emerton on Essex Street, and our eighteenth-century oil portrait of Benjamin Gerrish by John Green¬ wood, were both preserved by professional conservators through finan¬ cial support from the Council on the Arts and Humanities of the Com¬ monwealth of Massachusetts. Here in the museum we are doing the best we can with far too limited space, in trying to improve storage conditions for our collections. Prints have been matted and are being stored in cabinets; costumes and textiles are being sorted, aired, cleaned, better cataloged, and arranged in our new textile storage area, thanks to the professional experience of Anne Farnam who is giving us temporary help in this field. Baskets, tools, and woodwork are gradually being classified, sorted, and cleaned, and here Robert Egleston has greatly ad¬ vanced this work. Mrs. Beechey and Mrs. Cook, our housekeepers, have not only kept our main buildings and historic houses in their usual pristine condition, ANNUAL REPORT 1971-1972 349 but have often assisted the Ladies Committee by providing morning coffee for those attending our lecture and film programs and other spe¬ cial events. Ray K. Moore, Superintendent, his assistant Wilfred J. Pel¬ letier, and Kevin Antos who worked for us after school helped our museum staff in more ways than we can enumerate. From the Director and fromj. Sanger Attwill, Chairman of the Mu¬ seum Committee, we have received constant support and encourage¬ ment. We feel grateful for the cooperation and help of the office and library staff members, as well as for that of our constables, who help keep order in these days of tremendous school visitations, watch our treasures carefully, and click visitor attendance. Particularly, I want to thank my colleagues on the museum staff for their ability to do well the things that must be done, and for their patience and perseverance. Somehow they manage to keep their heads above water in the deluge of ever increasing demands for service. The new professional titles they have earned are only a part of the recogni¬ tion they deserve. Respectfully submitted, Huldah M.Payson Curator of the Museum REPORT OF THE TREASURER For the fiscal year which ended March 31, 1972, operating in¬ come was $105,870. Operating expenses were $169,440, leaving a deficit of $63,570. During the year we received $36,950 in gifts solicited for current operations. We also received gifts for restricted purposes total¬ ing $285,530. The market value of endowment funds on March 31, 1972, was $2,720,000 compared with $2,413,000 a year ago. Financial statements prepared by our auditors accompany this report, and the books of the Institute are available in the treasurer’s office to any members who wish to see them. Respectfully submitted, Edward H. Osgood Treasurer CONDENSED BALANCE SHEET March 31, 1972 Cash Savings Bank Deposits Bonds — Book Value Stocks — Book Value Real Estate $ 16,755.20 71,245.00 901,118.86 874,103.25 1,062,795.25 Total $2,926,017.56 FUNDS Restricted as to Principal and Income 559,317.81 “Margaret Duncan Phillips Fund” 22,616.19 “George S winner ton Parker Memorial Lecture Fund” 40,000.00 Restricted as to Principal Only- 538,253.96 Unrestricted as to Principal and Income 738,046.06 Essex Institute Fund 700,036.30 Surplus Principal 288,084.66 Income Accounts 39,662.58 $2,926,017.56 350 ANNUAL REPORT 1971-1972 351 CONDENSED INCOME ACCOUNT Investments Dues Other Income TOTAL INCOME Deduct: Miscellaneous Income Credited: Restricted Income Accounts 57,911.06* Restricted Income From Investments 34,583.00 108,258.61 6,996.85 79,239.81 Add: Restricted Income available for General Operations 3,874.92 NET INCOME AVAILABLE FOR GENERAL PURPOSES EXPENDITURES Corporation 13,773.2 6 Salaries 124,929.23 Buildings and Grounds 21,364.90 Publication 3,168.99 Safford House 5,001.64 78 Federal St. 1,205.65 INCOME OVEREXPENDED 194,495-27 92,494.06 102,001.21 105,876.13 169,443.67 ($63,567.54) * Includes miscellaneous donations from 208 donors in the amount of $24,438.56. 352 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS FUNDS— RESTRICTED AS TO PRINCIPAL AND INCOME March 31, 1972 Pingree House Endowment Fund Gift of Anna W. Ordway, Stephen Phillips, David P. Wheatland, Lucia P. Fulton, Stephen Wheatland, Mary K. Wheatland, and Martha Ingraham 112,234.60 Additions to Fund — April 1, 1971 to March 31, 1972 David P. Wheatland 9,805.48 10% of Income added to Principal 986.23 10,791.71 123,026.31 Peirce-Nichols House Endowment Fund Established September 1967 40,805.73 Additions to Fund — April 1, 1971 to March 31, 1972 Mrs. George Nichols 25,000.00 Mrs. Clarence Hardenbergh 2,000.00 67,805.73 Crowninshield-Bentley House Endowment Fund Established March 1964 Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Bradlee, Mrs. Alfred C. Harrison, and James R. Hammond 11,334-75 Assembly House Endowment Fund Established December 1967 Gift of Stephen Phillips, Mrs. Karl deLaittre, Mr. and Mrs. Bertram K. Little, John deLaittre, Mrs. Rosamond deL. Ward, Mrs. R. A. Wellington, Bailey Aldrich, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Griffith, and Mrs. Talbot Aldrich 23,719.42 Additions to Fund — April 1, 1971 to March 31, 1972 Mrs. Karl deLaittre 2,858.88 26,578.30 ANNUAL REPORT I97I-I972 353 Library Fund “Purchase and preservation of books and manuscripts for the Library” Gift of: Martha G. Wheatland 10,800.00 Nancy D. Cole “Ichabod Tucker Fund” 5,000.00 “Thomas Cole Fund” 5,000.00 Stephen W. Philhps 3,000.00 Alden Perley White 1,136.11 Wm. Gray Brooks 500.00 Jones and Washington Very Memorial Fund “Acquisition, care and preservation of books and manuscripts of Essex County authors, also care and maintenance of cemetery lot.” Gift of Lydia A. Very Duplicate Book Fund EstabUshed 1968 “Acquisition and preservation of rare books, broadsides and other printed materials” Willoughby Herbert Stuart, Jr. Memorial Fund “Acquisition of tangible objects — not for maintenance of any kind” EstabUshed 1965 Gift of Mrs. Willoughby H. Stuart, Jr., Mrs. Stuart Pratt, and Willoughby I. Stuart George S. Parker Memorial Lecture Fund Established September 1964 Gift of The Parker Charitable Foundation and Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. M. Barton “Annual Lecture” James A. Emmerton “Support of Historical Collections” Augustus Story “Purchase, preservation and pubhcation of historical material, proceedings and memoirs” 25,436.11 24,450.03 40,000.00 25,809.78 15,000.00 10,000.00 10,000.00 354 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS Elizabeth C. Ward “Purchase of books and pictures relating to China and the Chinese” Margaret Nowell Graham Memorial Lecture Fund “Annual Lecture” Gift of Mrs. Charles P. Howard Dr. William Mack Medical Library Fund “Purchase of rare and expensive works of merit in medicine and surgery” Harriet P. Fowler “Salary of an assistant librarian who shall have charge of donations made by Miss Fowler” Salem Lyceum “Support of Free Lectures” Elizabeth R. Vaughan “Care of Doll House” Henry W. Belknap “Purchase of objects for Museum” Frederick Lamson “Purchase of objects for museum, illustrating early New England life and customs” Essex County Natural History Society “Natural History or Horticulture” Essex Historical Society “Historical Purposes” Caroline R. Derby “Care of Derby Tomb, balance to be used for general purposes” Anonymous (Net) Restricted for Special Purposes 9,000.00 5,062.58 5,000.00 3,000.00 3,000.00 3,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 700.00 700.00 500.00 7,290.05 FUNDS INVESTED IN SECURITIES $418,693.64 ANNUAL REPORT I97I-I972 355 Crowninshield-Bentley House Fund Established April 1959 Peirce-Nichols House Memorial Pingree House Gift of Anna P. Phillips, Richard Wheatland, Stephen Wheatland, David P. Wheatland, Lucia P. Fulton, Anna Ordway, Martha Ingraham, and Stephen Phillips John Ward House Fund Estabhshed May 1961 FUNDS INVESTED IN REAL ESTATE 67,628.67 38,325.38 30,000.00 4,670.12 Funds — The Margaret Duncan Phillips Fund Income for Pubhcation Dept, after 10% of Income is added to Principal Balance, April 1, 1971 22,420.48 Income 1971-1972 — $1,957.58 $1,761.87 to Pubhcation Dept.; 10% or $195.71 to Principal 195.71 Funds — The George Swinnerton Parker Memorial Lecture Fund Estabhshed January 1969 “One or more lectures to be given annually” Gift of the Parker Charitable Foundation 140,624.17 $559,317.81 22,616.19 $40,000.00 356 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS FUNDS— RESTRICTED AS TO PRINCIPAL ONLY Income for General Purposes of Essex Institute March 31, 1972 GENERAL ENDOWMENT FUNDS Benefactors: Stephen Phillips Legacy $200,000.00 George B. Farrington 25,129.86 Dr. Edward D. Lovejoy 10,000.00 Charles Davis 5,000.00 Jennie K. Hyde 5,000.00 David Pingree 5,000.00 Arthur W. West 5,000.00 Robert Peele and Elizabeth R. Peele 2,120.00 Harriet Rose Lee 2,000.00 Stephen Phillips 2,000.00 John Peabody Monks, m.d. 1,000.00 Margaret D. Phillips 1,000.00 Clement Stevens Houghton 500.00 Harold Peabody 500.00 William Gardner Barker 400.00 Charles Hastings Brown 200.00 William Agge 100.00 MEMORIAL ENDOWMENTS Benefactors: In Memory of: Eleanor Hassam Hassam Fund 82,239.48 Miss Jenny Brooks Henry Mason Brooks 54,789.62 Mrs. Stephen Willard Phillips Hon. Stephen Goodhue Wheatland (1824-1892) 20,000.00 Mrs. Ira Vaughan Ira Vaughan (1864-1927) 10,000.00 From his children Robert Samuel Rantoul 6,000.00 Mrs. Richard Spofford Russell Thomas Franklin Hunt (1814-1898) 5,000.00 Miss Alice B. Willson Francis Henry Lee 5,000.00 George Swinnerton Parker Bradstreet Parker (1897-1918) Richard Perkins Parker (1900-1921) 5,000.00 Mrs. Morton Prince, formerly Clara Endicott Peabody Fanny Lithgow Payson (1828-1856, wife of Arthur Lithgow Payson) 5,000.00 ANNUAL REPORT 1971-1972 357 Benefactors: In Memory of: William Crowninshield Endicott Ellen Peabody (1833-1927, wife of William Crowninshield Endicott) 5,000.00 George Peabody Gardner; Mrs. Augustus Peabody Loring, formerly Ellen Gardner; Mrs. George Howard Monks, formerly Olga Eliza Gardner; John Lowell Gardner Eliza Endicott Peabody (1834-1876, wife of George Augustus Gardner) 5,000.00 Miss Fanny Peabody Mason Fanny Peabody (1840-1895, wife of William Powell Mason) 5,000.00 James Duncan Phillips Stephen H. Phillips 5,000.00 Miss Mariam Shaw Miss Clara Endicott Sears 5,000.00 Mrs. William Sutton William Sutton (1800-1882) 5,000.00 Miss Caroline O. Emmerton, Mrs. David Mason Little, Mrs. George Hodges Shattuck, Mr. David Kimball, Mrs. Katherine Kimball Barker, Mrs. Talbot Aldrich, Mrs. Rosamond de Laittre John Bertram 4,150.00 Charles Stuart Osgood Charles Stuart Osgood 3,000.00 Mrs. Arthur W. West Arthur W. West 2,000.00 James V. Eagleston Capt. John H. Eagleston 1,600.00 Joan U. Newhall Joan and Milo Newhall James H. Turner 1,800.00 Mrs. William Page Andrews William Page Andrews 1,000.00 Mrs. Franklin Green Balch, Mrs. Charles Pickering Bowditch, Miss Cornelia Bowditch, Ingersoll Bowditch, Mrs. Ernest Amory Codman Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838) 1,000.00 Frances D. Higgins Merian Fiske Donoghue 1,000.00 From his descendants Nathaniel Frothingham 1,000.00 Mrs. Alpheus Hyatt Alpheus Hyatt 1,000.00 Francis Welles Hunnewell Willard Silsbee Peele 1,000.00 Mary C. White Daniel Appleton White 1,000.00 Manuscript Preservation 1,000.00 Life Membership Fund 25,250.00 Miscellaneous Memorial Funds Henry Tucker Daland Mary Crowninshield Ellis 4,475.00 Rev. James Potter Franks Thomas Gardner William Gray 358 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS In Memory of: Richard and Ellen U. Harrington Dr. James J. Higginson Joseph Augustus Peabody Austin Derby Pickman Hon. Benjamin Pickman David N. Pousland Robert Rantoul Mary Ann Seaver Dr. J. Francis Tuckerman Lucy Saltonstall Tuckerman William Crowninshield Waters Daniel Appleton White Edmund B. Willson Kate Tannatt Woods $538, 253.96 FUNDS— UNRESTRICTED AS TO PRINCIPAL AND INCOME Income for General Purposes of Essex Institute March 31, 1972 Benefactors: George L. Ames $122,224.65 William C. Endicott 50,000.00 Margaret H. Jewell 40,000.00 Walter Scott Dickson 35,393-n David Pingree 35,000.00 Assembly House Fund 35,000.00 Safford House Fund 33,947-57 Mary S. Rouse 32,830.64 Lucy W. Stickney 30,158.25 William B. Howes 25,000.00 William J. Cheever 20,000.00 Elizabeth L. Lathrop 15,457.50 Robert Osgood 15,000.00 Luis F. Emilio 12,201.95 Clara B. Winthrop 12,048.84 Mary Eliza Gould 11,512.24 Neal Rantoul 10,300.00 Mary Endicott Carnegie 10,000.00 Fanny P. Mason 10,000.00 Seth W. Morse 9,929.24 Elizabeth Wheatland 7,626.66 ANNUAL REPORT 1971-1972 359 Benefactors: Elizabeth C. Ward 6,973.22 George Wilbur Hooper 5,000.00 Annie C. Johnson 5,000.00 Edward S. Morse 5,000.00 Grace M. Parker 5,000.00 Stephen Willard Phillips 5,000.00 Abel H. Proctor 5,000.00 Marion Felt Sargent 5,000.00 George Plummer Smith 4,770.00 Abbie C. West 4,075.00 Esther C. Mack 4,000.00 Ellen B. Laight 4,000.00 Mary S. Cleveland 3,828.14 Harriet C. McMullan 3,000.00 Edith C. Philbric 3,000.00 Lucy A. Lander 2,500.00 Dudley L. Pickman 2,500.00 David P. Wheatland 2,000.00 J. Frederick Hussey 2,000.00 Frank P. Fabens i,959.37 Abbey W. Ditmore 1,500.00 Charles L. Pierson 1,100.00 Francis B. C. Bradlee 1,000.00 Esther Files 1,000.00 Susan S. Kimball 1,000.00 Helen D. Lander 1,000.00 Augustus Peabody Loring, Jr. 1,000.00 Isabel S. Newcomb 1,000.00 Legacy u/w Sophie O. Nichols 1,000.00 Elizabeth S. Osgood 1,000.00 Mary T. Saunders 1,000.00 Annie G. Spinney 1,000.00 J. Henry Stickney 1,000.00 Grace A. Glover 870.55 Annie S. Symonds 778.70 Sarah A. Cheever 500.00 Annie F. King 500.00 Abigail O. and Mary E. Williams 500.00 Sally A. Bowen 500.00 Arthur F. Blanchand Bequest 260.43 Bessom S. Harris Legacy 200.00 William B. Osgood 100.00 Essex Institute contributions assigned to endowment 67,000.00 $738,046.06 36o ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS FUNDS— UNRESTRICTED AS TO PRINCIPAL AND INCOME March 31, 1972 ESSEX INSTITUTE FUND Established May 1964 Balance, March 31, 1971 $677,134.22 Additions to Fund — April 1, 1971 to March 31, 1972 22,902.08 $700,036.30 ANNUAL REPORT 1971-1972 361 The enlargement of the museum and library of the Essex Institute, completed in June of 1967, made possible an improvement in the care of the collections they contain. Some of the housekeeping achievements begun or completed between June 1, 1967, and April 1, 1972, are listed below. Our friends may well be proud of the work their gifts have supported. David B. Little I. MUSEUM 1. The main gallery, the portrait gallery, and four storerooms were relighted, all of the old wiring replaced with new, higher capacity, wiring. 2. The Corinthian capitals in the main gallery have been rebuilt. 3. The clock comer in the main gallery has been glassed in for the protection of the clocks displayed there. 4. Eight excellent exhibition cases have been acquired by gift and purchase for use in the auditorium and McCarthy Gallery. 5. The textile storeroom has been rebuilt, cases and racks installed, and the task of checking and storing textiles has begun. 6. The third-floor costume storage rooms in Safford House have been rebuilt and equipped with storage racks; the task of sorting, checking, cleaning, and packing costumes is proceeding. 7. Furniture once stored in the hostile environment of overcrowded cellars and attics in several Institute buildings is now assembled in a good storeroom lent to the In¬ stitute for that purpose. 8. The number of sliding panels for the storage of paintings has been doubled. 9. Most of our collection of prints, drawings, and watercolors have been matted with all-rag cardboard and stored flat in acid-free folders in dust-tight steel cases. 10. One hundred frames, in five sizes, have been acquired to contain and protect our matted pictures when they are placed on exhibition. II. Eleven paintings, many prints, and one wood sculpture have been restored. 12. A film projector, slide projector, and two loudspeakers have been acquired. 11. LIBRARY 1. All of Daland House except the second floor has been relighted, all of the old wir¬ ing replaced with new, higher capacity, wiring. 2. The Margaret H. Jewell Room, an excellent book stack containing over a mile of shelving, has been created from the damp, dirty, and dismal attic of Daland House. 3. The overcrowding in other book storage areas has been reduced, making possible some relocation of books and a long-needed inventory. 4. Books relating to the civil history of Essex County have been rescued from storage areas outside the library. They are being cataloged and placed on the shelves. 5. The program of repairing and rebinding books has been accelerated. ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 362 6. The broadside collection, maps, and genealogical charts have been removed from unsatisfactory mounts, unfolded, and stored flat in acid-free folders in dust-tight steel cabinets. 7. The George Francis Dow Collection of Caricature has been matted with all-rag cardboard and stored flat in acid-free folders in dust-tight steel cabinets. The task of cataloging the collection has begun. 8. The complete run of the Salem Evening News has been microfilmed. 9. All copying of manuscripts and printed materials can now be done on the premises. We have purchased a facsimile copying machine and a microfilm camera unit. 10. The reading room and offices have been painted, a carpet laid in the reading room. 11. The furniture in the Victorian parlor of Daland House has been restored. III. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 1. Our gardens behind the Institute, including the grounds at Safford and Crownin- shield-Bentley houses, well chewed up or neglected during the construction peri¬ od, are now the beautiful Louise Du Pont Crowninshield Gardens. 2. The gardens at the Peirce-Nichols and Assembly houses on Federal Street are again a delight. 3. The Assembly House has been repaired, repainted, furnished, and opened to the public. 4. A new roof has been placed on Daland House; other roofs have been repaired. 5. A new foundation has been placed under the Lye-Tapley Shoe Shop, other mea¬ sures taken at the Doll House and John Ward House, to prevent further insect in¬ festation. 6. The exteriors of our wooden buildings, other than the Peirce-Nichols House, and the trim of our brick buildings have been painted. 7. The fence in front of the Peirce-Nichols House has been repaired and painted. 8. A program of interior painting in all of our buildings has begun. 9. Six handsome and distinctive signs now mark our properties. Our volunteers have built and installed a handsome bulletin board on the wall of the museum outside the front door. 10. The houses at #3 and #5 Brown Street have been demolished, the land put to use as a parking lot until a building is placed on it to display our carriages, sleighs, and fire apparatus, to store our furniture, to contain a workshop, and to provide space for a central heating plant. 11. The curved brick wall surrounding the Safford House stable yard has been re¬ pointed. ANNUAL REPORT 1971-1972 363 CALENDAR OF EVENTS April 1, 1971 - March 31, 1972 Spring Lecture Series April 8. Dr. Lloyd E. Hawes: Period Ceramics Used in the Colonies and in the Nation until 1820. April 15. Jane C. Giffen: Textiles in New England. April 22. Nina Fletcher Little: Face and Fancy Painting in New Eng¬ land. April 29. Martha Gandy Fales: Early American Silver. May 6. Roland B. Hammond: How Do You Know It’s Old? Training Course for House Guides April 29, May 13, May 20, and May 27. June Fete: Lecture , Exhibition , and Basket Luncheon June 4. Daniel J. Foley: Life’s Pleasant Ornaments — Gardens and Flowers. Exhibition of the Institute’s own collection of wedding dresses and bridal ensembles arranged by John R. Burbidge, Honorary Cura¬ tor of Costumes, and the museum staff. Luncheon, flowers, and hospitality by the Institute’s own Ladies Committee. June 29-30. Scholars’ Workshop on Essex County History. August 25 - October 10. Exhibition of still-life paintings by Harry Sut¬ ton, Jr. October 17 - November 27. Exhibition of ceramic sculpture by John R. Burbidge and Louis Mangefesti. November 7. Lyceum Lecture. Benno Forman: Adventures of a Furni¬ ture Detective. November 18 - December 1. Exhibition of designs for a carriage house by students at the Boston Architectural Center. September 26, October 31, and December 5. Three concerts by The Collegium Musicum. Dennis M. Michaud, Director of Music. 364 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS December 5, 1971 - January 15, 1972. Christmas Exhibition. January 16 - April 27. Exhibition: Two Views of Napoleon. January 20 - March 5. Exhibition of toleware from the collection of Helen C. Hagar. Lent by the Salem Maritime National Historic Site. January 28-29. Educational Film Festival. Film Series: A Broader View of Art January 25, 26, and 27. Yankee Painter: The Works of Winslow Homer. February 29, March 1 and 2. Greece, The Golden Age. March 28, 29, and 30. American Realists, from Colonial Times to 1913. March 12. Lyceum Lecture. Gerald Griffin: Poetic Tributes to Haw¬ thorne: From Lowell to Lowell. Meetings Sponsored by Outside Institutions Symposium, Inaugural Committee, State College at Salem, April 29, 1971. Historic Salem, November 15 and December 7. Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, November 17. Salem Redevelopment Authority, December 1, 2, and 3, 1971, and March 14 and 16, 1972. ANNUAL REPORT I97I-I972 365 DONORS TO THE ESSEX INSTITUTE FUND April 1, 1971 - March 31, 1972 Aldrich, Nelson W. Allen, Mrs. Frank G. Anonymous Attwill, J. Sanger Axelrod, Leonard Bacon, Dr. William Benjamin Barker, Miss Elizabeth G. Batchelder, Mrs. George L., Jr. Blair, Mrs. George K. Boulger, James H., Jr. Bourgoin, Mrs. Alice S. Bourne, Philip W. Bowden, Mr. & Mrs. W. Hammond Bradlee, Mr. & Mrs. Sargent Broadhead, Eleanor Brown, Chester A. Buhler, Mrs. Yves Henry Bunting, Dr. Arthur H. Butler, Mrs. Helen H. Butler, Warren H. Butterfield, Roger Carlman, Mrs. Philip L. Carr, Mrs. Helen V. Carr, John H., Jr. Carroll, Mrs. Henry G. Carroll, Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Chamberlain, Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Chenery, Augustine J. Chilton Book Company China Students’ Club, Inc. Chisholm, Mrs. William Clapp, Mary A. Clark, C. E. Frazer, Jr. Cole, Mr. & Mrs. Ted Cook, Mr. & Mrs. Wallace C. Coolidge, Lawrence Copeland, Mrs. Charles H. P. Crocker, Mrs. U. Haskell Curtis, E. Mabel Danielson, Mrs. Richard E. Daughters of the American Revolution, Col. Timothy Pickering Chapter de Laittre, John De Mouth, Wayne F. Dimond, Mr. & Mrs. Lee A. Driver, Mrs. Robert M. Durnin, Richard G. Dyer, Mrs. John R. Eastman, Mr. & Mrs. Roger K. Ellis, Mrs. Raymond Emerson, Mrs. Thomas H. Endicott, William Ervin, Adele Q. Fellows, Joseph E., Jr. Felton, Mrs. Cornelius C. Felton, Mrs. Cornelius C., Jr. Felton, Mrs. W. Sidney Freeman, Mrs. William W. K. Freiberg, Malcolm French, Mrs. Stanley G. Friends of the Manchester Public Library Gardner, Mr. & Mrs. G. Peabody Gildrie, Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Goldstein, Albert M. Goodhue, Albert Goodhue, Nathaniel M. Goodhue, Pauline B. Goodspeed, George T. Griffin, Mr. & Mrs. Gerald R. Gring, Mrs. Paul Hacker, Mr. & Mrs. William P. Hammond, Mr. & Mrs. Roland B. Hand, Mrs. John Harper, Amelia M. Harrington, M. C. Hixon, Frederick W. Holcomb, Mr. & Mrs. H. Sherman Holyoke, Charles E. Hood, Mr. & Mrs. Harvey P. Houghton, Mr. & Mrs. William M. Howson, Mrs. Hubert A. Hunneman, Mrs. Dexter R. Hunneman, Eleanor S. 366 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS Jainschigg, Mrs. J. G. Jaques, Mrs. Rupert Ward Johnson, Malcolm Kauders, Mr. & Mrs. Erick Kent, Mrs. Gertrude B. Kittredge, Mrs. Wheaton, Jr. Knight, Russell W. Langmaid, Mr. & Mrs. Bradshaw Larrabee, Mr. & Mrs. Milton E. Levy, Babette M. Lewis, George, Jr. Little, Mrs. Bertram K. Lord, Mr. & Mrs. Philip H. Lovett, Robert W. Lynch, Marie L. McCandless, Mrs. John A. McCrea, Vice Adm. & Mrs. John L. McKay, Hunter Macomber, Harold G. Marchand, Mrs. Wilfred Marcus, Alfred H. Mason, Mrs. Henry L. Mayer, H. Andre Van H. Means, Augustus G. Meo, Peter B. Murdock, Kenneth B. Murray, Dr. Josephine L. Museum Contribution Box Nichols, Mr. & Mrs. Henry C. Nichols, John D., Jr. Nutting, Donald E. Oliver, Andrew Otten, Mrs. Vernon C. Parker Brothers, Inc. Parker Charitable Foundation Parker, Mrs. Francis T. Pattee, Mrs. Arthur L. Peabody, Amelia Peirson, Mrs. Edward L. Perley, Eleanor S. Philbrick, Richard B. Phillips, Charlotte Palmer, Foundation, Inc. Phillips, Edward H. Phippen, Mrs. Walter G. Pickering, George W., Co. (The Horae E. Davenport Foundation) Pingree, Mrs. Sumner Porter, Mr. & Mrs. Olin V. Potter, W. Sutton Pulsifer, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Rantoul, Harriet C. Robinson, Mrs. William H., Jr. Rogers, Bertha F. Rogers, Fred R. Ropes, Mrs. Lawrence G. Ross, Mr. & Mrs. J. Clifford Rydgig, Mrs. Stephanie Saltonstall, Hon. & Mrs. Leverett Seamans, Mrs. Peter B. Sharf, Mr. & Mrs. Frederic A. Shepard, Mr. & Mrs. Frederick J., Jr. Smith, Mrs. Philip Horton Smith, Mr. & Mrs. W. Gordon Stenberg, Henry G., Jr. Steward, Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Steward, Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert L. Storrow, James J. Sutton, Harry, Jr. Sweetser, Dana I. Swope, Mr. & Mrs. William A. Taft, Edward A. Taylor, Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Y. Thompson, Dr. & Mrs. Richard H. Thorndike, Mrs. Richard K. Townsend, Gertrude Train, Mr. & Mrs. Middleton Tripp, Mrs. Jane B. Twohey, Cherry F. Upton, King Usher, Mrs. Abbott P. Vose, Mr. & Mrs. S. Morton Wallace, William & Co., Inc. Weissman, Edward N. Wendt, Mrs. Henry O. West, Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Wetherbee, Nathaniel G. Weyburn, Mrs. Lyon ANNUAL REPORT 1971-1972 367 Wheatland, Mrs. David P. Wheatland, Stephen White, Mr. & Mrs. John C. Whitehill, Mrs. Walter M. Wight, Crocker Winthrop, Clara B. (u/w) Wirling, Eliot I. Women’s Forum (Salem Five Cents Savings Bank) Woodward, Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Xanthaky, Mrs. Nicholas Yerrinton, Margaret J. DONORS TO THE JAMES DUNCAN PHILLIPS LIBRARY Abrams, Harry N., Inc. Adams, Frank P., Sr. Alpers, Mr. & Mrs. Moses American Antiquarian Society Ames, Faber K. Andrews, Hilda L. Bagley, Francis Baker’s Island Association Battista, Frank G. Bauhan, William L., Inc., Noone House Beales, Ross W., Jr. Belknap, Carroll York Bond, C. Lawrence Boston College Law School, Environ¬ mental Law Center Boston University Press Bradlee, Sargent BrinckerhofF, Mrs. H. Winship Broadhead, Eleanor Broadhead, Elizabeth Brooks, George E., Jr. Browne, Edward Cox and Browne, Charlotte Crowninshield, Estate of Burke, Edward S. Burnap, L. Richard Butterfield, Roger, Inc. Carberg, Edward W. Cate, Mary Ropes Chapman, Mrs. Victor F. Childs, Sr. Julien R. Churchill, Asaph Claffey, William H. Clark, C. E. Fraser, Jr. Coffey, Edward A. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Connelly, Mrs. Charles J. Cook, David C., Publishing Co. Cotting, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cumpston, John S. Currier, Dudley Davis, Stilman G., Jr. Dawes, C. Burr Dixon, Mrs. Leroy L. Dodge, Ernest S. Donnell, Robert Phippen Dummer, William Dyer, Mrs. Richard Eilts, Hermann Frederick Ellis, Mrs. Raymond W. Emerson, Mrs. Ralf P. England, Mrs. Clifford W. Farber, Bernard Foley, Daniel J. Fonda, Douglass C., Jr. Frary, Mrs. Charles S., Jr. Fulton, Mrs. John F. Gamage, Mrs. Peter Garland, Joseph Gavenda, David T. Giles, Mrs. Paul Goodwin, Mrs. Emerson Griffin, Gerald Richard Grilley, Virginia Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. Hagaman, Adaline P. Hagar, Helen C. Hammond, Margaret L. Hammond, Roland B. Hardenbergh, Mrs. Clarence Harrington, Michael J. Harvard College Library, Department of Printing and Graphic Arts Harvard University, The Agassiz Museum Heath, Mrs. J. Andrew 368 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS Hebard, Franklin A. Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Historic Salem, Inc. Historical Survey Associates, Inc. Holcomb, H. Sherman Hooper, Edwin B. Houghton, William M. Hussey, Harold Dudley Isern, Jose Jackson, Russell Leigh Jewett, David M. Jewett, Everett D. Johnson, Mrs. L. C. Johnson L. Grace, Estate of Johnson, Malcolm Jones, Mrs. Alice Hanson Kenyon, Paul B. Kimball, Frederick M. Knight, Ernest H. Lamont, Corliss Lawson, Mrs. Ralph Lebanon Area Library, East Lebanon, Maine Lefavour, Mrs. Edgar L. Lindsley, Mrs. Joseph Little, Mrs. W. Irving Lord, Mrs. Philip H. Lyford, Frederick S. Lynn, Mass., City of, Planning Department Lynn Historical Society McCann, Kenneth S. McDougall, Daniel R. Maine Historical Society Manchester, Mass., Town of Marblehead Historical Society Marchand, Mrs. Wilfred Martin, Mrs. Ivan J. Merriam, Robert C. Merrill, Mrs. Montgomery Missouri, University of Mlot-Mroz, Josef Moran, John W. Mueller, Roger C. Myopia Hunt Club National Gallery of Art Naumkeag Trust Company Neville, Joe New Hampshire Historical Society New York State Joint Legislative Commission on Transportation Nichols, Henry C. Norton, Arthur R. Ogilby, Mrs. John David Oliver, Andrew Osgood, Mary E. Oxford University Press Parker, Franklin Parkhurst, Winnifrid C. Partridge, Albert L. Payson, Mrs. Gilbert R. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Perley, Eleanor S. Perrotti, Mrs. Theodore Phillips, Asa E., Jr. Pingrey, Chalis S. Pollard, Ruth E. Popular Library, Inc. Proper, David R. Pulsifer, Mrs. Frank Pulsifer, Mrs. Harold T. Putnam, Alfred P. Putnam, Mrs. Alfred P. Rantoul, Harriet C. Ray, Gordon N. Regnery, Henry, Co. Reps, John W. Revolutionary War Bicentennial Commission Ritchie, Mary M. Rosa, Alfred Felix Salem Athenaeum Salem Chamber of Commerce Salem Maritime National Historic Site Salem Public Library Salvation Army, New Y ork Headquarters Sargent, Winthrop W. Scotti, N. David Seamans, Mrs. Peter B. Shepley, Hayden Smith, Mrs. Frank E. Smith, Nolan E. Smith, Philip C. F. Southern Illinois University Swasey, John Moriarty Talbot, Barbara Ann Tapin, Homer K. Thomas, Mrs. Elias Thompson, Mrs. J. G. ANNUAL REPORT 1971-1972 369 Thomson, Helen Thought and Work Club Train, Middleton Trask, Richard B. Trumbull, James C. University Microfilms University of the Pacific Van Ravenswaay, Charles Vanderbilt University Press Viera, Mrs. Edward Walker, Harold S. Wang, Eugene Y. C. Warner, Jesse L. The Whaling and Marine Manuscript Archives, Inc., Nantucket, Mass. Wheatland, Stephen Wiggin, Mrs. Richard L. Williams, Mrs. H. Walter Wright, John H. Zielinski, E. J. Zoll, Samuel E. DONORS TO THE MUSEUM AND HISTORIC HOUSES Abbot, Mrs. Edith D. Anderson, Mrs. Gay Andrews, Mrs. Warren J. Appleton, Mrs. F. H. Baird, Mrs. Gordon P. Barker, Elizabeth Bartlett, Mrs. Alden T. Broadhead, Eleanor Broadhead, Elizabeth Brown, Mrs. Francis Brown, Harry Browne, Charlotte Crowninshield, Estate of Browne, Edward Cox, Estate of Brownell, Fred, Jr. Cate, Mary R. Clark, Mrs. Sanford S. Collins, Mrs. Marilynn Currier, Dudley S. Danvers Historical Society De Kay, Mrs. Rodman de Laittre, Mr. & Mrs. John Dixon, Mrs. Leroy L. Doble, Frank C., Estate of Edwards, Dean Fahs, Mrs. Raymond Fay, S. Prescott Fay, S. Prescott, Bequest of Fitzhugh, Lena G. Giles, Mrs. Paul D. Goldsmith, Gertrude B. Guardabassi, Frederick Hacker, Mr. & Mrs. William P. Hagar, Helen C. Ingraham, Mrs. Franc D. Lothrop, Mrs. Francis B. Marchand, Mrs. Wilfred Mayberry, Mrs. Roger Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Milliken, Mrs. Dudley Morss, Mrs. Henry A., Jr. Mulcahy, Mary E. Nichols, Thomas Williams Slocum Noonan, Timothy J. Odell, Mrs. Raymond H. Oikle, Mrs. Marian Osgood, Mary E. Oxner, Mrs. Edwin K. Peabody Museum Phillips, Mrs. Stephen Pollard, Ruth E. Riches, Mrs. George E. Robertson, Donald Robinson, Mrs. William H. Roland, Mrs. Phillips H. Rossi, Mrs. Louis Russell, Mrs. Richard S. Saunders, Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Shaw, Mrs. C. A. Shaw, Gertrude M. Shreve, Benjamin Shreve, Richard S. Shreve, William H. Stetson, Clifford W. Sutton, Mr. & Mrs. Gardner Thomas, Mrs. Elias 370 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS Tyler, Ruth Watson, Mrs. M. Annette Watts, Mrs. Albert E. Wheatland, Stephen White, Goddard M. Willey, Mrs. Dorothea W. Wilson, Frederick R. Wright, John H. DONORS TO SPECIAL PROJECTS Anonymous: Assembly House repairs; lighting maintenance; improvement of portrait gallery; renovation of textile storage room and southwest basement room; educational program Assembly House Endowment Fund: de Laittre, Mrs. Karl Smith, Mary Silver Conservation or preservation of maritime material relating to Salem or Essex County: Salem Marine Society Costume Fund: Axelrod, Leonard Curtis, E. Mabel French, Stanley G. Goodhue, Pauline B. Knight, Russell W. Meo, Peter B. Rogers, Fred R. Townsend, Gertrude Yerrinton, Margaret J. Essex County Economic Ffistory Project: Davisson, William I. Dugan, Dennis J. Repairs for the Crowninshield-Bentley House walks and gardens: Bradlee, Mr. & Mrs. Sargent Library purposes: Abbott, Lilly S. Bradlee, Sargent Jewell, Margaret H., Bequest of Louise du Pont Crowninshield Gardens: Harrison, Mrs. Alfred C. Peirce-Nichols House Endowment Fund: Ervin, Adele Q. Hardenbergh, Mrs. Clarence Nichols, Mrs. George Photographs and negatives: Berkal, Leonard A. Frost, Chester E. Merrill, Richard Sexton, Markham W. Pingree House Endowment Fund: Fulton, Mrs. John F. Wheatland, David P. Salary for Northeastern University - Essex Institute summer program: Hodgkinson, Harold D. Organ repair: Bourne, Philip W. Bradlee, Sargent Bunting, Dr. Arthur H. Cole, Mr. & Mrs. Ted Copeland, Mrs. Charles H. P. Crocker, Mrs. U. Haskell Danielson, Mrs. Richard E. Endicott, William Felton, Mrs. Cornelius C., Jr. Hacker, Mr. & Mrs. William P. Hunneman, Eleanor S. Kittredge, Mrs. Wheaton, Jr. Marchand, Mrs. Wilfred Peabody, Amelia Porter, Mr. & Mrs. Olin V. Shepard, Mr. & Mrs. Frederick J., Jr. Smith, Mr. & Mrs. W. Gordon Wheatland, Mrs. David P. Wight, Crocker Wirling, Eliot I. For contributions toward the illustrations for Frank Mansur’s article on Swampscott in the January 1972 Historical Collections: Blood, Robert E., Jr. Breed, Richard P. Brown, Chester A. ANNUAL REPORT 1971-1972 371 Carpenter, William T. Chase, Alfred E. Clapp, Mary A. Cooke, Mr. & Mrs. Theodore C. Durkee, Donald Ewing, Charles M. Godard, Mrs. G. Dewey Heath, J. Andrew Johnson, Richard B. Linscott, H. D. Lynn Historical Society Mayo, Mrs. Frederic B. Smith, George W. Stafford, Philip H. Swampscott Historical Society Swampscott Public Library Walker, Harold S. Warnock, D. J. Contribution for illustrations of Mrs. Bertram K. Little’s article on “The Blyths of Salem,” January 1972 Historical Collections: Colonial Society of Massachusetts Box hedge for Essex Institute garden: Russell, Mr. & Mrs. Renouf NECROLOGY 1971-1972 Date Elected Date Deceased Batchelder, Edgar Marden May 7, 1934 Carson, Mrs. William M. June 2, 1971 (Elise) Farley, James E. September 19, 1939 Fay, Arthur D. December 16, 1958 Goodwin, Mrs. Frederick S. January 8, 1946 Ingalls, Mrs. Walter Renton May 15, 1956 Klashman, Mrs. Lester M. September 13, 1971 Keen, Prof. C. Milburn, Jr. February 4, 1964 Mahoney, Mrs. William M. July 20, 1966 Millspaugh, Mrs. R. Plant August 6, 1968 Morrison, James A. December 1, i960 Newell, Mrs. Lewis W. December 12, 1950 Nichols, Miss Edith E. September 15, 1964 Nichols, Miss Millicent M. October 2, 1933 Phippen, Mrs. Walter Gray December 5, 1967 Robinson, William H., Jr. June 11, 1957 Shattuck, Miss Ruth June 8, 1937 Simonds, Mrs. Gifford K. April 1, 1965 Smith, Marquis S. April 10, 1945 Waller, Admiral J. B. W. January 4, 1962 June 2, 1972 November 3, 1971 March 25, 1972 July 6, 1971 November 23, 1970 February 15, 1972 October 11, 1971 April 25, 1972 June 6, 1972 March 4, 1971 July 20, 1971 January 12, 1972 July 16, 1971 September 13, 1971 September 25, 1971 July 8, 1971 May 1972 February 26, 1971 August 8, 1971 June 8, 1971 372 ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION 1. Date of Filing: September 28, 1971. 2. Title of Publication: Essex Institute Historical Collections. 3. Frequency of Issue: Quarterly. 4. Location of Office of Publication: Essex Institute , 132 Essex St., Salem, Mass. 5. Location of General Business Offices of the Publishers: Essex Institute , 132 Essex St., Salem, Mass. 01970. 6. Names and Addresses of Publisher and Editor: Publisher: Essex Institute, 132 Essex St., Salem, Mass. Editor: David B. Little, 132 Essex St., Salem, Mass. 7. The owner is the Essex Institute. 8. Known Bondholders, Mortgagees, and other Security Holders Owning or Holding 1 Percent or More of Total Amount of Bonds, Mortgages, or Other Securities: None. 9. The purpose, function, and nonprofit status of this organization and the exempt status for federal income tax purposes: Have not changed during preceding 12 months. 10. 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