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BOX 1 | Digital Files, 1928-1960 | ||||||||||||
The Digital Files consist of motion pictures, primarily ones made by the Crockers
with a home camera, but also include several newsreels. The original films were
digitized on September 22, 2008, by the donor, stored on a DVD-R, and organized
into seven video chapters. Each chapter runs about an hour in length, except the
last, which is thirty-three minutes long. Each chapter includes multiple
individual films. The chapter descriptions have estimated dates for the original
films and a skeletal contents description. A partial listing of contents was
provided by the donor and is filed in box 1 of the collection. Material types include digital files created by the donor from home movies and newsreels and a contents list. |
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Arranged as received. | |||||||||||||
DF | Films: "Crocker Family Archives," 1928-1960 | ||||||||||||
Digital ID: mss86263_248_001 | |||||||||||||
DF | Chapter 1: Maine (Lake Musquash), Sweden, Norway, Rome, Budapest, Japan, 1928-1934 | ||||||||||||
DF | Chapter 2: Hungary and Sweden, 1928-1932 | ||||||||||||
DF | Chapter 3: Stockholm, Tokyo, trip to China, Honolulu, 1933-1936 | ||||||||||||
DF | Chapter 4: Japan, ocean travel and global tourist footage, newsreel of zeppelin world trip, 1936-1937 | ||||||||||||
DF | Chapter 5: Iraq, 1948-1952 | ||||||||||||
DF | Chapter 6: New England, New York City, diplomatic activities of Marshall Green, 1928, 1950, 1960 | ||||||||||||
DF | Chapter 7: Japan, sinking of the USS Panay, Marshall Green, Iraq, Gerrish Island, D.C., 1937-1960? | ||||||||||||
BOX 1 | Partial list of film contents made by Lispenard Crocker Green ("Lisa"), undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 1-7 | Family Correspondence, 1900-1967 | ||||||||||||
Family Correspondence is the largest series and is primarily composed of letters
written by Edward and Lispenard to their parents and to each other while serving
abroad at various embassies and legations. The correspondence is organized by the
name of the family member who wrote the letter. Edward's correspondence begins
with letters from his college days at Princeton and during his service in U.S.
Navy in Europe during World War I. In addition to letters about his various
foreign service posts, he also writes frequently about family vacations in rural
Maine. Lispenard's letters begin with her youthful European travels followed by
her courtship and marriage to Edward Crocker. Material types include correspondence with some photographs as attachments. |
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Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent and chronologically therein. | |||||||||||||
BOX 1 | Crocker, Edward S., II | ||||||||||||
BOX 1 | 1900-1931 | ||||||||||||
(12 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 2 | 1932-1941 | ||||||||||||
(9 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 2 | Crocker, Lispenard Seabury | ||||||||||||
BOX 2 | 1921-Sept. 1923 | ||||||||||||
(7 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 3 | Oct. 1923-May 1925 | ||||||||||||
(12 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 4 | June 1925-Dec. 1926 | ||||||||||||
(10 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 5 | 1927-1934 | ||||||||||||
(13 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 6 | 1935-1938 | ||||||||||||
(6 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Crocker, Marion, 1924-1929, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Green, Lispenard ("Lisa") Crocker, 1931-1938 | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Green, Marshall, 1946-1950, 1967 | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Miscellaneous, 1909, 1923-1929, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 6 | Seabury, Katharine Emerson Hovey | ||||||||||||
BOX 6 | 1921-1928 | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 7 | 1929-1938 | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 7 | Seabury, William Marston, 1935-1938 | ||||||||||||
BOX 7 | General Correspondence, 1923-2003 | ||||||||||||
General Correspondence contains both professional and non-family personal correspondence. The State Department folders include both official letters and letters from colleagues at various embassy and consulate postings and is often personal in nature. This series also has a folder of letters from the writer Julian Street, a friend of Edward Crocker. | |||||||||||||
Arranged alphabetically into sets of personal, State Department, and Julian Street correspondence, and chronologically therein. | |||||||||||||
BOX 7 | Personal, 1928-1937, 1952, 1980, 2003, undated | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 7 | State Department, 1923-1933 | ||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 7 | Street, Julian, 1928-1935 | ||||||||||||
BOX 7-8 | Miscellany, 1895-1985 | ||||||||||||
The Miscellany series draws together biographical material, printed matter, and
writings. Of note is the self-published book produced by Lispenard ("Lisa") Green
in 1985. Transcripts of many of the letters in these papers as well as additional
biographical information can be found in her book. The news clippings file
pertains to both the Crocker and Seabury families. Material types include biographical material, writings, printed matter, news clippings, correspondence, and photographs. |
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Arranged alphabetically by type of material or subject matter. | |||||||||||||
BOX 7 | Biographical material and vital records, 1895, 1902, 1913-1923, 1934, 1941, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 7 | A Foreign Service Marriage, self-published book by Lispenard Green, 1985 | ||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Keller, Helen, correspondence and photograph, 1938-1942 | ||||||||||||
BOX 8 | News clippings concerning Crocker and Seabury families, 1924-1941, 1951, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Printed matter | ||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Japan, circa 1937-1946, undated | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Miscellaneous, 1923, 1939-1953, 1985, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Robinson, Douglas, "Mussolini," 1926 | ||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Sweden, 1929-1942, 1952-1953, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Writings by Lispenard Seabury Crocker, 1917, 1936-1942 | ||||||||||||
BOX 8-11 | Photographs, 1892-1954 | ||||||||||||
The Photographs series has folders of loose photographs organized by place or person and original photograph albums. Most of the photographs and albums are annotated. | |||||||||||||
Arranged alphabetically by name of person or name of location; albums are unarranged. | |||||||||||||
BOX 8 | California, 1924, 1934 | ||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Crocker, Edward S., II, 1897, 1918-circa 1950 | ||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Crocker, Edward, Lispenard, and Lisa, 1924-1954 | ||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Crocker, Katharine ("Kay"), 1925 | ||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Crocker, Lispenard Seabury, 1923-1940, undated | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 8 | El Salvador, 1923 | ||||||||||||
BOX 8 | Green, Lispenard ("Lisa") Crocker, 1924-circa 1942 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Green, Marshall | ||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Family photographs, 1943-1945, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Portraits, circa 1935-circa 1940 | ||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Hawaii, 1892, 1934-1937 | ||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Hungary, 1927-1929 | ||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Iraq, 1949-1950 | ||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Italy, 1925-1926 | ||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Japan, 1934-1940 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Maine | ||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Camp Musquash, Topsfield, 1911 | ||||||||||||
BOX 9 | General, 1907, 1924-1926, undated | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Miscellaneous and unidentified, 1923-1941, undated See also Container OV 1, same heading | ||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Miscellaneous family photographs, 1897-1914, 1924-1928, 1939-1943, undated See also Container OV 1, same heading | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 9 | Photograph album #1: "Edward Savage Crocker, Odds and Ends," 1896-1928 | ||||||||||||
BOX 10 | Photograph album #2: Crocker family photographs, 1896-1932 | ||||||||||||
BOX 10 | Photograph album #3: Seabury family photographs, circa 1902-1931 | ||||||||||||
BOX 10 | Photograph album #4-#5: Travel photographs from Europe, sailing and beach photographs in New England, and the Boston Aero Meet, 1911 | ||||||||||||
BOX 11 | Photograph album #6: Travel to Turkey,Greece, and Italy; camping and hunting in Maine, 1913-1914 | ||||||||||||
BOX 11 | Photograph album #7: Crocker, Burbank & Company, paper mill #1 combination cylinder and fourdrinier machine, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
BOX 11 | Photograph album #8: St. Mark's School memory book, Southborough, Mass., 1910 See also Container OV 1, same heading | ||||||||||||
BOX 11 | Photograph albums #9-#11, See Containers OV 1-2, same headings | ||||||||||||
BOX 11 | Poland, 1924-1925 | ||||||||||||
BOX 11 | Portugal, circa 1944 | ||||||||||||
BOX 11 | St. Mark's School, Southborough, Mass., circa 1905 | ||||||||||||
BOX 11 | Sweden, 1929-1933 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 11-12 | United States Embassy, Tokyo, Japan, 1941-1942 | ||||||||||||
The United States Embassy, Tokyo, Japan series holds documents relating to embassy
events in the lead up to and directly following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in
1941. In addition to the two volumes of 1941 embassy memoranda concerning
conversations with Japanese officials, the series includes a copy of an eight-page
"diary" by Edward Crocker for December 8, 1941, and a description of living
conditions during his incarceration. Material types include memoranda and writings. |
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Arranged alphabetically by type of material and chronologically therein. | |||||||||||||
BOX 11 | Diary entry by Edward S. Crocker for December 8, 1941 See 2022 Addition, Diary, for complete original carbon copy of diary covering Dec. 8, 1941 to Feb. 19, 1942 | ||||||||||||
BOX 11 | "Food During Incarceration of Tokyo Embassy Personnel, Dec. 8, 1941-June 6, 1942," undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 11 | Memoranda of 1941 Embassy conversations with Japanese officials | ||||||||||||
BOX 11 | Book I | ||||||||||||
BOX 11 | Jan. 8-July 8, 1941 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 12 | July 16-Oct. 7, 1941 | ||||||||||||
BOX 12 | Book II, Aug. 18-Nov. 24, 1941 | ||||||||||||
(4 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 12 | 2022 Addition, 1930-1942 | ||||||||||||
The 2022 Addition contains the original carbon copy of the 1941-1942 Tokyo embassy
diary of Edward S. Crocker covering the beginning of the detention of embassy
personnel after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 8, 1941, and stopping on
February 19, 1942. The diary provides a daily recounting of activities in the
American embassy and whatever news and information Crocker was able to gather from
outside the embassy. Also in the addition is a file of personal letters from
Sinclair Lewis and several photographs of the writer, as well as two letters by
Edward Crocker to family in the United States describing a 1935 trip to China
while stationed in Japan. Material types include a diary, correspondence, and photographs. |
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Arranged alphabetically by material type. | |||||||||||||
BOX 12 | Diary written by Crocker while detained at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, 1941, Dec. 8-1942, Feb. 19 | ||||||||||||
(2 folders) | |||||||||||||
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