Guide to the Frank P.Brackett Papers
Finding aid created by Russell Michalak
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, Claremont University Consortium
June 4, 2008
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Frank P. Brackett Papers
Creator:
Brackett, Frank P.
Dates: 1826-1975
Extent: 18 feet 17 boxes
Repository:
Claremont Colleges. Library.
800 N. Dartmouth Avenue
Special Collections. Honnold/Mudd Library
Claremont University Consortium
Claremont, California 91711
Abstract:
Dr. Frank Parkhurst Brackett was born in Provincetown, Mass. in 1865. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1887. Immediately
after he graduated he moved to California. In 1887, he taught at the McPherron Academy for boys in Los Angeles. In 1889
he married Lucretia Burdick in Pomona, California. He taught astronomy, mathematics, and Latin at Pomona College from 1892
to 1932. In 1912, he took a sabbatical to travel to Algeria to conduct experiments on government funded research project.
During World War I, he took another leave of absence from teaching to participate in the Commission in the Relief for Belgium.
At the same time, during World War I, he worked closely with Captain A. W. Stevens in Los Angeles on the Selective Service
Act of 1917. Brackett joined the R.O.T.C. and trained at Angel Island, in the San Francisco harbor, during the 1920s. From
1892 to 1932 Dr. Brackett, his colleagues and his students, as well as members of the community observed climatical, meteorological,
and solar observations at the Brackett Observatory on the Pomona College campus for the United States Department of Agriculture,
which later was renamed to the United States Department of Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Collection Number: h073
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English
Physical Location: Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library. Claremont University Consortium.
Information for Researchers
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact Special Collections Library staff.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Frank P. Brackett Papers. Special Collections, Honnold Mudd Library, Claremont University Consortium.
Acquisition Information
Gift from Alison Howell in 2004.
Processing Information
Arranged and Processed by Russell Michalak
Accruals
No addition to the collection is anticipated.
Biography of Frank Brackett
Dr. Frank Parkhurst Brackett was born in Provincetown, Mass. in 1865. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1887. Soon
after he graduated he moved to California. In 1887, he taught at the McPherron Academy for boys in Los Angeles. In 1889
he married Lucretia Burdick in Pomona, California. He taught astronomy, mathematics, and Latin at Pomona College from 1892
to 1932. In 1912, he took a sabbatical to travel to Algeria to conduct experiments on government funded research project.
During World War I, he took another leave of absence from teaching to participate in the Commission in the Relief for Belgium.
At the same time, during World War I, he worked closely with Captain A. W. Stevens in Los Angeles on the Selective Service
Act of 1917. Brackett joined the R.O.T.C. and trained at Angel Island, in the San Francisco harbor, during the 1920s. From
1892 to 1932 Dr. Brackett, his colleagues and his students, as well as members of the community observed climatical, meteorological,
and solar observations at the Brackett Observatory on the Pomona College campus for the United States Department of Agriculture,
which later was renamed to the United States Department of Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Frank P. Brackett's papers contain professional and personal correspondence, manuscripts, Pomona college documents, Personal
documents, Government publications, financial documents, illustrations, ephemera, and newspaper clippings and pamphlets.
Series Arrangement
Series 1, Correspondence, 1883-1975 and Undated
Subseries 1.1, Correspondence, 1883-1919
Subseries 1.2 Personal correspondence, 1891-1945
Series 2, Manuscripts, 1919-1975 and Undated
Series 2.1, Granite and Sagebrush, 1941-1951 and Undated
Subseries 2.2, More Granite and Sagebrush, 1944 and Undated
Subseries 2.3, History of Pomona Valley, Undated
Subseries 2.4, Biography of Theodore-Roosevelt-Gast, Undated
Subseries 2.5, Armistice Day Orientation, 1927
Series 2.6, Danville Historical Society, 1884
Subseries 2.7, Concerning the observatory and astronomy at Pomona College, Undated
Series 3, Pomona College, 1900-1948
Subseries 3.1, Financial documents, 1899-1948
Subseries 3.2, Business reports, 1894-1948
Subseries 3.3, Social Life, 1911-1947 and Undated
Subseries 3.4, Astronomy expedition, 1923 and Undated
Subseries 3.5, Astronomy department, 1893-1942
Series 4, Personal documents, 1865-1925
SubSeries 4.1. Financial documents, 1867-1925
Subseries 4.2, Legal documents, 1913-1941
Subseries 4.3, Genealogy, 1913-1951
Subseries 4.4, School Catalogues, 1887-1941
Series 5, Government documents, 1917-1949
Subseries 5.1, United States War Department, 1917-1936
Subseries 5.2, Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1916-1936
Subseries 5.3, Reserve Officers Training Corps -- California, 1918-1936
Subseries 5.4, War Department, Air Corps, Material Division, 1917-1933
Subseries 5.5, Department of Commerce, Civilian Aeronautics Administration, 1940-1949
Series 6, Illustrations, Undated
Series 7, Ephemera, 1826-1941
Series 8, Newspaper clippings and pamphlets, Undated
Subject Headings
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection
Brackett, Frank Parkhurst, b. 1865-1951
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Johnson, Albert, 1869-1957
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.)
Astronomy -- Pomona, College (Claremont, Calif.)
Commission for Relief in Belgium
Granite and Sagebrush
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.)-- Faculty
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.)-- Songs and music
Selective Service Act of 1917
United States. Army. Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.)
Western Americana, 1850-1999
manuscripts
scrapbooks
Series 1
Professional correspondence,
1883-1975 and Undated
Subseries 1.1
Correspondence,
1883-1919
Box 1, Folder 1
Correspondence,
1883-1888
Box 1, Folder 2
Correspondence,
1898-1905
Box 1, Folder 3
Correspondence,
1893-1905
Scope and Content Note
Brackett corresponded with colleagues from Dartmouth College, Goodsell Observatory at Carleton College, Yerkes Observatory
at Williams Bay, Wisconsin, University of Chicago, Lick Observatory at University of California National Academy of Sciences
- Committee on Solar Research, and Solar Observatory on Mt. Wilson, California. He wrote to employees of the Pacific Electric
Railway.
Box 1, Folder 3
Correspondence,
1906
Scope and Content Note
This folder contains correspondence between Professor Brackett and manufacturers of astronomical equipment.
Box 1, Folder 4
Correspondence,
1907
Scope and Content Note
This folder contains correspondence between Professor Brackett and manufacturers of astronomical equipment. Photographs and
blue prints of equipment are included. Also, Brackett corresponded with colleagues running Observatories in the United States
as well as in Australia and Europe.
Box 1, Folder 5
Correspondence,
1908
Scope and Content Note
This folder contains correspondence between Professor Brackett and manufacturers of astronomical equipment, invitations to
the dedication of Brackett observatory at Pomona College, and notes on the cost of the observatory at Pomona College.
Box 1, Folder 6
Correspondence,
1909
Scope and Content Note
This folder contains correspondence between Professor Brackett and manufacturers of astronomical equipment.
Box 1, Folder 7
Correspondence,
1910
Scope and Content Note
This folder contains correspondence between Professor Brackett and manufacturers of astronomical equipment.
Box 1, Folder 8
Correspondence,
1911
Scope and Content Note
This folder contains correspondence between Professor Brackett and his colleagues from observatories in America and Europe.
Box 1, Folder 9
Correspondence,
1912
Scope and Content Note
This folder contains correspondence between Professor Brackett and his colleagues in the astronomy field, manufacturers of
astronomical equipment, and with, Dr. Abott, a colleague from the Smithsonian, who Brackett travelled with to Algeria to conduct
research for the U. S. government.
Box 1, Folder 10
Correspondence,
1913
Scope and Content Note
This folder contains correspondence between Professor Brackett and paper manufacturers and manufacturers of astronomical equipment.
Box 1, Folder 11
Correspondence,
1914
Scope and Content Note
This folder contains correspondence between Professor Brackett and his colleagues as well as book publishers, and academic
libraries.
Box 1, Folder 12
Correspondence,
1915
Scope and Content Note
This folder contains correspondence between Professor Brackett and his colleagues, librarians who wanted to obtain a copy
of Brackett's recent publication in Pomona College's Astronomical Society's journal, and membership fees for the Astronomical
Society, and publications about the abolishment of the Fahrenheit thermometer by Honorable Albert Johnson from the U.S. House
of Representatives.
Box 1, Folder 13
Correspondence,
1916
Scope and Content Note
This folder contains correspondence between Professor Brackett and his colleagues, librarians who desired a copy of the recent
copies of Pomona College's Astronomical Society's journal, and membership fees.
Box 1, Folder 14
Correspondence,
1917
Scope and Content Note
This folder contains correspondence between Professor Brackett and his colleagues, librarians who desired to obtain Dr. Brackett's
article that was published Astronomical Society journal, and membership fees.
Box 1, Folder 15
Correspondence,
1918
Scope and Content Note
This folder contains correspondence between Professor Brackett and a colleague about obtaining a recommendation to teach at
Pomona College.
Box 1, Folder 16
Correspondence,
1919
Scope and Content Note
This folder contains an invitation from Meredith Snyder, the mayor of Los Angeles, to Professor Brackett to greet the Belgian King, Albert I in Los Angeles, California.
Box 2, Folder 17
Correspondence,
1920
Scope and Content Note
This folder contains correspondence between Professor Brackett and a librarians in regard to the acquisition of earlier publications
by the Astronomical Society journal.
Box 2, Folder 26
Correspondence,
1930 and 1933
Box 2, Folder 30
Correspondence,
1940-1945
Box 2, Folder 31
Correspondence,
1945-1948
Subseries 1.2
Personal correspondence,
1868-1937
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Box 3, Folder 1
Burdick family correspondence,
1868-1892
Box 3, Folder 2
Los Angeles School of Art and Design,
1891-1893
Box 3, Folder 3
Sympathy letters about Mary Brackett's death,
1893
Box 3, Folder 4
Trip to Algeria,
1911-1912
Box 3, Folder 6
Correspondence with Fong F. Sec,
1922-1937
Scope and Content Note
This folder contains correspondence between Professor Brackett and Fong F. Sec, who graduated from Pomona College in 1905,
about Fong's travels with his family, opinion about the formation of Scripps College in 1927, and the invasion of China by
Japan in the late 1920s.
Box 3, Folder 7
Christmas cards,
1926-1945
Box 3, Folder 8
Postcards,
1926 and Undated
Series 2
Manuscripts,
1919-1975
Scope and Content Note
This series contains Brackett's manuscript for Granite and Sagebrush, More Granite and Sagebrush, History of Pomona Valley,
the Danville Historical Society, Armistice Day Orientation, Concerning the observatory and astronomy at Pomona College, and
Biography of Theodore Roosevelt-Gast
Arrangement
Arranged by chapter.
Subseries 2.1
Granite and Sagebrush
1941-1951 and Undated
Note
Granite and Sagebrush was published in 1944.
Box 4, Folder 1
Brief outline of history - Granite and Sagebrush,
Undated
Box 4, Folder 2
Synopsis, Master copy parts I-IV,
Undated
Box 4, Folder 3
Synopsis, Master copy parts VI-VIII,
Undated
Box 4, Folder 4
Introduction and text, Chapters 1-3,
Undated
Box 4, Folder 5
Text, Chapters 4-6,
Undated
Box 4, Folder 6
Text, Chapters 7-8,
Undated
Box 4, Folder 7
Text, Chapters 9-10,
Undated
Box 4, Folder 8
Text, Chapters 11-12,
Undated
Box 4, Folder 9
Text, Chapters XIII-XIV,
Undated
Box 4, Folder 20
Text, Chapters XV-XVI,
Undated
Box 4, Folder 11
Text, Chapters XVI-XIX,
Undated
Box 4, Folder 12
Chapters 21-22, research on Pomona's families,
Undated
Box 4, Folder 14
Chapters 26-28 and 30,
Undated
Box 4, Folder 16
Chapter 30 1/2a and 30 1/2b,
Undated
Box 5, Folder 19
Chapters 40A and 40B,
Undated
Box 5, Folder 20
Notes for Pomona College history; quotes from Student Life, Metate, and Pomona Student,
Undated
Scope and Content Note
Student Life, Metate and Pomona Student are Pomona College student run periodicals.
Subseries 2.2
More Granite and Sagebrush
1944 and Undated
Box 5, Folder 21
More Granite and Sagebrush : Late correspondence, Clippings, Source materials,
Undated
Box 5, Folder 22
More Granite and Sagebrush : Manuscript and Correspondence,
1944
Box 5, Folder 23
Pomona faculty list,
Undated
Box 5, Folder 24
Proof pages of illustrations and title pages,
Undated
Box 5, Folder 26
Newspaper clippings : Reviews of Granite and Sagebrush,
1941-1951
Box 5, Folder 27
Granite and Sagebrush : Contents and outline,
Undated
Box 5, Folder 28
Granite and Sagebrush Copy 3,
Undated
Box 5, Folder 29
Granite and Sagebrush Copy 3.1,
Undated
Box 5, Folder 30
Granite and Sagebrush Copy 3.2,
Undated
Box 5, Folder 31
Correspondence about Pomona College history,
Undated
Box 5, Folder 32
Manuscript -- Pomona College history,
Undated
Box 5, Folder 33
Subject Sketches for College history,
1947
Box 6, Folder 1
More Granite and Sagebrush notes,
Box 6, Folder 2
Revised drafts of some chapters from More Granite and Sagebrush,
Box 6, Folder 3
Revised drafts of some chapters of More Granite and Sagebrush,
Box 6, Folder 4
Old drafts of parts of More Granite and Sagebrush,
Box 6, Folder 5
Introduction, Chapters 1-10 and Epilogue More Granite and Sagebrush,
Box 6, Folder 6
Correspondence with Allen Hawley and Richard Armour regarding Brackett's book,
1948
Subseries 2.3
History of Pomona Valley,
Undated
Box 7, Folder 1
Manuscript notes,
1919-1975
Box 7, Folder 2
Manuscript notes,
Undated
Box 7, Folder 3
Manuscript drafts and correspondence,
1919
Box 7, Folder 5
Manuscript notes and publications,
1931 and 1941 and 1975
Subseries 2.4
Biography of Theodore-Roosevelt-Gast,
Undated
Box 7, Folder 6
Manuscript notes,
Undated
Subseries 2.5
Armistice Day Orientation,
1927
Box 7, Folder 7
Manuscript notes,
ca. 1920s
Subseries 2.6
Danville Historical Society,
1884
Subseries 2.7
Concerning the observatory and astronomy at Pomona College,
Undated
Box 7, Folder 9
Manuscript notes,
Undated
Series 3
Pomona College,
1894-1948
Scope and Content Note
This series contains documents about Pomona College's finances, business reports, social life, astronomy expedition, and the
astronomy department.
Subseries 3.1
Financial documents,
1894-1948
Box 8, Folder 1
Financial reports,
1900-1903
Box 8, Folder 2
Real estate owned by Pomona College,
1900 and 1937-1948
Subseries 3.2
Business reports,
1899-1948
Box 8, Folder 3
Graduate Study at Claremont Colleges,
1894
Box 8, Folder 4
President's report to the Board of Trustees,
1899-1900
Box 8, Folder 5
Pomona College "Unclassified documents",
1897-1937
Box 8, Folder 6
Yale's Reconstruction plan,
1919
Box 8, Folder 7
History of the Claremont Colleges by Frank P. Brackett,
1926
Box 8, Folder 8
Pomona College Library,
1926
Box 8, Folder 9
Report of the President of the Claremont Colleges,
1927-1928
Box 8, Folder 10
Report from Pomona College to the Southern California Congregational Conference by Frank Brackett,
1934
Box 8, Folder 11
Report of on the Organization of the Claremont Colleges,
1936
Box 8, Folder 12
Departments and Degrees at Pomona College,
Undated
Box 8, Folder 13
Brackett observatory,
Undated
Subseries 3.3
Social life,
1911-1947 and Undated
Box 8, Folder 15
Pomona College pageant,
1913
Box 8, Folder 16
Announcements and invitations,
1913-1926 and Undated
Box 8, Folder 17
Greek system rules and regulations,
1915-1926
Box 8, Folder 19
Pomona College Songs and Hymns,
1923 and Undated
Box 8, Folder 20
Pomona College Plays and Players,
1925-1937
Box 8, Folder 21
Founder's Day and Commencement speeches,
1926
Box 8, Folder 22
Honoring F. P. Brackett,
1932
Box 8, Folder 23
Dr. Frank P. Brackett's Farewell address,
1932
Box 8, Folder 24
Honoring James Blaisdell,
1936
Box 8, Folder 27
Newspaper clippings,
Undated
Subseries 3.4
Astronomy expedition,
1923
Scope and Content Note
Frank Brackett and his students from Pomona College travelled to Santa Catalina Island, California to observe and record a
solar eclipse that occurred on September 10, 1923.
Box 9, Folder 1
Negatives of solar eclipse,
September 10, 1923
Box 9, Folder 2
Proof sheets and negatives of the expedition,
September 10, 1923
Box 9, Folder 3
Photographs,
September 10, 1923
Box 9, Folder 4
Photographs of the expedition,
September 10, 1923
Box 9, Folder 5
Wilson's map of Avalon and Catalina Island,
1923
Box 9, Folder 7
Pomona College Eclipse hunters Bagged Quarry : Director of Observatory Describes Successful Operations at Point on Catalina
Island, Los Angeles Daily Times,
September 19, 1923
Box 9, Folder 9
Darkness at Midday,
September 10, 1923
Biography/Organization History
Darkness at Midday is a movie about the total eclipse of the Sun at Santa Catalina Island on September 10, 1923. Dr. Brackett
applied for Copyright for the text of the completed drama in 1923. In August 1923 the movie was registered in the United
States Copyright office under Remittance no. 84996.
Box 9, Folder 10
Financial records for eclipse expedition,
1923
Box 9, Folder 12
Notes and programs about the eclipse expedition,
September 10, 1923
Box 9, Folder 13
Correspondence,
1923
Note
Brackett wrote the then Secretary of Commerce, President Herbert Hoover about the solar eclipse.
Box 9, Folder 13
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Pomona College,
1923
Subseries 3.5
Astronomy department,
1893-1942
Box 10, Folder 1
Test in Astronomy C2,
1917
Box 10, Folder 2
Examination in Astronomy B100a,
1926
Box 10, Folder 3
Astronomy C100A tests,
1903-1925
Box 10, Folder 4
Test in Astronomy B16,
1929
Box 10, Folder 5
Notes on Tycho Brahe's Mechanics,
Undated
Box 10, Folder 6
Outline of Astronomy and Renaissance Astronomers,
Undated
Box 10, Folder 7
Manuscript : An Astronomer's Thought of God in the Universe,
Undated
Box 10, Folder 8
Astronomy at Pomona College by Frank P. Brackett,
1929
Box 10, Folder 9
Notes on mathematics,
1893-1899
Box 10, Folder 10
Astronomy notebook,
Undated
Box 10, Folder 12
Publications about astronomy,
1910-1942
Box 10, Folder 12
Instrument shows Movies of the Sun,
1929-1930
Scope and Content Note
Professor Brackett and Captain A. W. Stevens are mentioned in the article.
Personal documents,
1865-1925
Subseries 4.1
Financial documents,
1867-1925
box 11, folder 2
Brackett family Ledger,
1939-1946
box 11, folder 3
Ledger from the Burdick, Bates, ad Burns families,
1868-1900
box 11, folder 9
Financial statements,
1916
box 11, folder 14
Checks and bank statements,
1918-1925
box 11, folder 16
Stock market graphs,
1946-1947
box 11, folder 17
California state and San Bernardino county tax receipts,
1865-1901
Subseries 4.2
Legal documents,
1913-1941
box 11, folder 19
Lucretia Brackett and the Mutual Building and Loan Association of Pomona, California,
1865-1901
Biography/Organization History
This document gives the Claremont Water Company rights to lay pipes and make aqueducts for water.
box 11, folder 20
Passports and Visas,
1865-1901
Subseries 4.3
Genealogy,
1913-1951
box 12, folder 1
Autobiography -- Manuscript copy,
Undated
box 12, folder 2
Notes on Autobiography -- Manuscript copy,
Undated
box 12, folder 3
Biography of Frank P. Brackett -- Professor Walter T. Whitney,
1951
box 12, folder 6
Brackett family genealogy,
Undated
box 12, folder 7
Frank Brackett's funeral service and obituary,
1951
box 12, folder 8
Dartmouth College 60th Anniversary for the class of 1887,
1947
Scope and Content Note
Frank Bracket graduated from Dartmouth College in 1887. This folder contains documents about his the reunion he attended
in 1947.
Subseries 4.4
School catalogues,
1887-1941
box 12, folder 9
Los Angeles High School yearbooks,
Undated
Note
The children in the Brackett and Bates families attended high school in Los Angeles County.
box 12, folder 10
Catalogue : McPherron Academy Boarding and Day School, Los Angeles, California,
1887
box 12, folder 11
St. Johnsburg Academy, Vermont,
1923
Biography/Organization History
Solomon Brackett, Frank Brackett's father, taught science at this preparatory school in Vermont.
Series 5
Government documents,
1917-1949
Subseries 5.1
United States War Department,
1917-1936
Scope and Content Note
Dr. Frank Brackett wrote to U.S. government officials about the expenditures of the Southern California Local Exemption Board
in connection with the Selective Service Act of 1917. United States congress passed the second act to draft civilians into
the United States military; the first draft occurred during the American Civil War.
Box 13, Folder 1
Correspondence, Local Exemption Board, Pomona, California,
1917-1919
Box 13, Folder 2
Publication -- Chronicles of the Selective Service Draft,
1918
Box 13, Folder 3
Chronology of the Selective Service Act of 1917,
1917-1919
Subseries 5.2
Commission for Relief in Belgium,
1916-1936
Scope and Content Note
These folders contain correspondence from German General Moritz Freiherr von Bissing, between Dr. Brackett, President Herbert
Hoover and Commission for Belgian Relief volunteers, pamphlets and newspaper clippings in German and Belgian, and a photograph.
Biography/Organization History
The Commission for Relief in Belgium began at the end of World War I. Brackett and other volunteers received a working visa
in order to help Belgians rebuild its infrastructure after the war.
Box 13, Folder 4
Correspondence with American officials from the Commission for Relief in Belgium,
1916-1917
Box 13, Folder 5
Correspondence with Governor General Moritz Freiherr von Bissing,
1916
Biography/Organization History
Governor General Von Bissing governed occupied Belgium during World War I. These letters are written in German.
Box 13, Folder 6
Correspondence between Dr. Brackett and President Herbert Hoover,
1916-1936
Box 13, Folder 7
Deportation at Wavre, Belgium as seen by an American Eye-witness,
ca. 1920-1929
Note
Taken from a lecture, "Belgium Enslaved", by F. P. Brackett.
Box 13, Folder 7
Professor Brackett's participation in the Commission for Relief in Belgium by Phebe Estelle Spalding,
ca. 1920-1929
Box 13, Folder 8
With the Commission for Relief in Belgium by Professor Brackett,
ca. 1920-1929
Box 13, Folder 9
Pamphlets,
1916-1917
Note
The pamphlets are written in English and Dutch.
Box 13, Folder 10
Newspaper clippings,
1916-1936
Note
The newspaper clippings are written in English and French.
Box 13, Folder 11
Work visa,
1916
Note
The work visa was issued by the Belgian government.
Subseries 5.3
Reserve Officers Training Corps in California,
1918-1936
Box 13, Folder 12
History of the R. O. T. C. at Pomona College, Claremont, California,
February 13, 1918-1927
box 13, folder 13
Establishment of Unit Reserve Officers Training Corps,
ca. 1920-1929
box 13, folder 14
Taps, the Publication of the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Encampment stationed at the Presidio of Monterey, California,
1927
Subseries 5.4
War Department, Air Corps, Material Division,
1917-1933
Box 13, Folder 15.1
War Department, Air Corps, Material Division, Reports,
1930
Box 13, Folder 15
War Department, Air Corps, Material Division, Correspondence,
1933
Box 13, Folder 15
Correspondence with United States War Department to establish courses at Pomona College,
1917
Subseries 5.5
Department of Commerce, Civilian Aeronautics Administration,
1940-1949
Box 13, Folder 16
Civilian Aeronautics Administration, Navigation test,
ca. 1940-1949
Box 13, Folder 17
Brackett Airport, Pomona, California,
Undated
Box 13, Folder 18
Government coupons,
1922 and Undated
Series 6
Illustrations,
Undated
box 14, folder 2
Pencil drawing of Frank P. Brackett,
Undated
box 14, folder 3
Portrait of Frank P. Brackett,
Undated
box 14, folder 4
Photographs of Pomona College students,
Undated
Series 7
Ephemera,
1826-1941
box 15, folder 3
Lingering memories,
1937
Scope and Content Note
A tribute to Lucretia Burdick Brackett. This keepsake was given to Frank Brackett when his wife died in 1937. It contains
Lucretia Brackett's letters and memorabilia.
box 15, folder 4
Leather receipt pouch,
ca. 1826-1899
Scope and Content Note
Thomas Burdick kept a leather pouch with his promissory notes for payment of goods sold to customers who lived in San Bernardino
County. Lucretia Burdick Brackett's father was Thomas Burdick.
box 15, folder 6
Manuscript on vellum,
1834
Note
The manuscript is written in German.
box 15, folder 7
Mason reunion on wood,
Undated
box 15, folder 7
Ribbon from Dartmouth College's class of 1887,
1887
box 15, folder 8
Commission for Belgian Relief medals,
1914-1919
box 15, folder 9
Herbert Hoover medal,
1914-1919
box 16, folder 1
Diplomas and awards,
1887-1909
Series 8
Newspaper clippings and pamphlets,
Undated
Box 17, Folder 1
Newspaper clippings,
Undated