Finding Aid for the Alexander Graham Bell Collection LSC.0308
Finding aid prepared by K. Lopaty, May 1975; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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Online finding aid last updated 2006.
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Title: Alexander Graham Bell collection
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0308
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1880-1925
Abstract: Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was granted patents in 1874 on a multiple telegraph,
invented the telephone (1875) and the photophone (1880). The collection consists of works by and about Alexander Graham Bell.
Includes pamphlets, reprints, proceedings, portraits and geneological information compiled by Bell and others.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Alexander Graham Bell Collection (Collection 308). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E.
Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Biography
Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland; attended Edinburgh University; became assistant in London to his father,
who originated phonetic visible speech system for teaching the deaf; his father moved the family to Canada in 1870; from 1873-77
Bell served as a professor of vocal physiology at Boston University; he was granted patents in 1874 on a multiple telegraph
for sending two or more messages simultaneously over the same wire; invented telephone, 1875; in 1880 he patented the photophone;
his laboratory in Braddock Bay, Nova Scotia turned out hydrofoil speedboats and aerial locomotion by way of kites; Bell served
Clarke School for the Deaf at Northampton, Massachusetts for 51 years as teacher, researcher and president of the board; founding
member of the National Geographic Society in 1888, and president, 1898-1903; he died in Braddock Bay, August 2, 1922.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of works by and about Alexander Graham Bell. Includes pamphlets, reprints, proceedings, portrait of Bell,
Bell's letter to the Attorney General and one letter to Bell. Contains a first draft typescript of Catherine Mackenzie's book,
Alexander Graham Bell (1928). Publications document Bell's experiments and interests in a variety of fields, including sheep breeding, eugenics,
binaural audition, vocal physiology, aerial locomotion, and the telephone. Also includes geneological information compiled
by Bell and others.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Bells of St. Andrews (genealogical).
- Letters.
- Catherine Mackenzie manuscript on Alexander Graham Bell.
- Material regarding Bell's experiments and inventions.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Inventors -- United States -- Archives.
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bell, Alexander Graham -- Archives
Bell family.
Mackenzie, Catherine
folder 5
1. Langdon, W.C. The Growth of the Historical Collection Reprinted from the issue of the
Bell Telephone Quarterly.
April 1925
General Physical Description note: Pamphlet
folder 4
2. The
National Geographic Magazine. vol.14 no.6, Washington, D.C.
June 1903.
Scope and Contents note
Tetrahedral Principle in Kite Structure.
folder 4
3. Alexander Graham Bell, Discovery And Invention.
General Physical Description note: Pamphlet
Scope and Contents note
Reprinted from the
National Geographic Magazine, June 1914. Press of Judd & Detweiler, Incorporated. Washington, D.C.
folder 4
4. From the records of Alexander Graham Bell, Sex-Determination in Sheep.
General Physical Description note: Pamphlet
General Physical Description note: 2 copies.
Scope and Contents note
Reprinted from the
Journal of Heredity. vol.5 no.2, Washington D.C. February 1914.
folder 4
5. Alexander Graham Bell, Utility of Action And Gesture.
Scope and Contents note
Reprinted from the
Volta Review, for January 1915. Washington D.C., The Volta Bureau.
folder 4
7. Alexander Graham Bell, Who Shall Inherit Long Life?
General Physical Description note: Pamphlet
Scope and Contents note
Reprinted from the
National Geographic Magazine. June 1919. Washington D.C. Press of Judd & Detweiler, Incorporated.
folder 4
8. Alexander Graham Bell,
The Mystic Oral School - An Argument in its Favor. Washington, D.C., Gibson Brothers, Printers & Bookbinders.
1897.
General Physical Description note: Pamphlet
folder 4
9. Alexander Graham Bell, A Few Thoughts Concerning Eugencies.
General Physical Description note: Pamphlet
Scope and Contents note
Reprinted from the
National Geographic Magazine, February 1908. Washington, D.C., Press of Judd & Detweiler, Incorporated.
folder 5
10. Readings in Line Writing.
General Physical Description note: Autographed by Alexander Graham Bell.
folder 6
11. Photograph by Bell of man looking at Sheep.
October 2, 1909.
folder 5
12. The
National Geographic Magazine vol.19 no.1, Washington, D.C. Hubbard Memorial Hall,
January 1908. 1907.
folder 1
13.
The Bells of St. Andrews.
Scope and Contents note
Births, Marriages & Deaths of persons of the name of Bell; from the records of St. Andrews, Scotland. Compiled by Alexander
Graham Bell.
folder 4
14. Alexander Graham Bell, Experiments Relating to Binaural Audition.
Scope and Contents note
Reprinted from the
American Journal of Otology, July 1880. New York: Trow's Printing & Bookbinding Company.
folder 4
15.
Alexander Graham Bell, Upon the Electrical Experiments to Determine the Location of the Bullet In the Body of the Late President
Garfield, And upon A Successful Form of Induction Balance for the Painless Detection of Metallic Masses in the Human Body
.
1882.
Scope and Contents note
With the Author's Compliments. Washington, D.C. Gibson Brothers, Printers.
folder 5
16. Pound, Arthur,
The Telephone Idea. New York, Greenberg, Publisher
1926.
folder 4
17. Alexander Graham Bell,
Prizes for the Inventor Some of the Problems Awaiting Solution.
General Physical Description note: Pamphlet
folder 5
18. Nutting, William Washburn, The 'HD-4' A 70-Miler With Remarkable Possibilities Developed At Dr. Graham Bell's laboratories
on the Bras D'or Lakes.
1921.
General Physical Description note: Pamphlet
Scope and Contents note
From the
Smithsonian Report for 1919, Pages 205-210. (With 9 Plates) Washington Government Printing Office.
folder 5
19.
Sheep Catalogue of Beinn Ghreagh, Victoria County, Nova Scotia.
1904.
Scope and Contents note
Showing the Origin of the Multi-Nippled Sheep of Beinn Bhreagh, And Giving All the Descendants Down to 1903. Compliments of
Alexander Graham Bell. Washington D.C.
folder 5
20.
Readings in Line Writing.
General note
Dr. Bell's Copy.
folder 5
21. Bell, Alexander Melville,
Visible Speech and Vocal Physiology. The Volta Bureau Washington, D.C.: Press of Gibson Brothers.
folder 5
22.
Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences. vol.8, 9-20
March 4, 1907.
folder 4
23. Alexander Graham Bell,
Aerial Locomotion. Published by the Academy. Washington D.C.
1907.
folder 4
24. Alexander Graham Bell, Sheep-Breeding Experiments on Beinn Bhreagh.
Scope and Contents note
Reprinted from
Science, N.S., vol.36 no.925, pp.378-384. September 20, 1912. Compliments of Alexander Graham Bell, 1331 Connecticut Ave. Washington, D.C.
folder 5
25. Alexander Graham Bell,
The Inventor of The Electric Speaking Telephone.
folder 4
26. Alexandre Graham Bell,
Le Photophone De La Production Et De La Lumiere; Paris. Gauthier-Villars, Imprimeur-Libraire.
1880.
folder 4
27. Letter. Alexander Graham Bell to the Attorney-General.
October 26, 1885.
folder 4
28.
The Volta Review. Washington, D.C., vol.18 no.4,
April 1916.
folder 4
29. Alexander Graham Bell, Acrical Locomotion with a Few Notes of Progress in the Construction of an Acrodrome.
Scope and Contents note
Formerly President of the National Geographic Society (Dr. Bell). Reprinted from the
National Geographic Magazine, January 1907. Press of Judd & Detweiler, Incorporated.
folder 5
30. Bell, A. Melville, Pronunzia Inglese Visible. Insegnata. In Dodici Lezioni Catalogue of Works.
folder 3
31. Photo duplicated manuscripts relating to Bell's parents. Written for the
Beinn Bhreagh Recorder
1912, 1914.
folder 6
32. Mounted photograph of Alexander Graham Bell.
folder 6
33. Portrait of Dr. Bell receiving an academic degree; Edinburgh.
folder 2
34.
Alexander Graham Bell, by Catherine Mackenzie.
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
Scope and Contents note
First draft, to be edited and revised. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928.
folder 1
35. Letter to Alexander Graham Bell from John Macleov, encloses death certificate and receipt in the sum of $10.00.
October 27, 1920.
