Manuscripts
This small group of material primarily consists of photographs related to George Ellery Hale. Most of the photographs are identified at the back. The earliest photograph of Hale in this collection is at 7-months old. The bulk of the photographs are of Hale, his children and grandchildren. People identified in the photographs include but not limited to: William Ellery Hale; William Brackenridge Hale; Mary Scranton Browne Hale; Arthur A. Noyes; Margaret Hale (Scherer); Eveline Conklin (Hale); Emily Scherer; and Anne Scherer. In addition to the photographs, there are seven short stories and five drawings by Hale. The short stories are entitled: III Rigamarole; Old Santa; The Polar Bear's Watermelons; To Anne and the Girls; Alice and the Prancing Bunny; Alice Goes to Sea; and Jumpety Jack. There are two letters, both written by Hale, to Katherine Williams West Nichols and Margaret Hale (Scherer). Also included is a document about "The George Ellery Hale Ancestry of The Paul Armand and Margaret Hale Scherer Family." Finally, there are two clippings one of "Thomas Hale House, Circa 1640, Newbury" and the other of Hale's solar laboratory.
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