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Preliminary Guide to the Beatrice Marcy Sweeney Papers
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Paul Lee Donation

Box 1: 1

Address books (four small ring notebooks), ca. early 1980s

Box 1: 2

Bibliography - Papers published during the tenure of NSF Grant No. PCM 77-07099

Box 1: 3

Biographical/Personal (includes passports and visas, extra photos, pilot's license, divorce papers)

Box 1: 4

College of Creative Studies brochures (was a faculty member of CCS)

Box 1: 5

Commencement, 1993 - Program (including text of speech for presentation of the Beatrice M. Sweeney Memorial Award in Biological Sciences)

Box 1: 6

Costa Rica (UCLA Extension packet and University of Costa Rica material)

Box 1: 7

Honors and Awards (includes article in UCSB Campus about receiving honorary degree from the University of Umea, Sweden, 1986)

Box 1: 8

Professional Organizations (includes article in UCSB Faculty Notes about Sweeney being President of American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1980)

Box 1: 9

Resarch Notes (including notebook, with heading: Amazon, 1987)

 

Writings

Box 1: 10

Drafts of articles

Box 1: 11-12

Offprints of articles

 

Oversize (not foldered)

 

Diplomas

Box 1

BA, Smith College, 1936

Box 1

PhD, Radcliffe College, 1942

 

Beatrice (Poppy) De Marco Dennis Donation

Box 2

Biographical/Personal (includes birth certificate, Newton, Massachusetts, 11 Aug. 1914; marriage certificate, 1961; passport; hand drawn and colored flowers; and some correspondence ca. 1980-1989, including condolences, and a memorial by Poppy Dennis) Honors and Awards (plaque, in recognition as AIBS President, 1980)

 

Writings

Box 2

Offprints and correspondence

Box 2

Printing blocks (3 zinc plates on wood blocks, depicting graphs)

Box 2

Rhythmic Phenomena in Plants (proof and publicity), 1969

 

Photographs

Box 2

Marcy, Eleanor H. Nichols (Mrs. Henry O. Marcy, Jr.; mother of Eleanor Beatrice Marcy Sweeney) - 1 b/w mounted, 7" x 9"

Box 2

Marcy, Henry O., Jr. (father of Eleanor Beatrice Marcy Merwin Sweeney) - 1 b/w, mounted, 7 1/2" x 9 1/2"

 

Snapshots

Box 2

37 b/w (including childhood shots from ca. 1916 on; graduation from Smith College, 1936; family)

Box 2

4 b/w mounted (including one at Lake Placid, 1920)

Box 2

7 color (family, Lake Placid, house in Isla Vista)

Box 2

1 color slide (house in Isla Vista)

Box 2

Computer Files (2 5 1/4"floppy diskettes, many Wordstar files, contents unknown)

Box 3-11

Laboratory Materials

Scope and Content Note

Mainly research notebooks, files, and photographs