Gleason Leonard Archer Personal Papers, 1790-1999 (MS108)

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Gleason Leonard Archer Personal Papers, 1790-1999 (MS108)

Description

The Gleason Leonard Archer Personal Papers document the personal and professional activities of Suffolk University’s founder. In addition to being an educator, Archer was also a prolific writer and popular radio broadcaster. The collection include manuscripts and typescripts of his published works, journals, speeches, and radio addresses; correspondence; biographical information; genealogy records; photographs; and personal artifacts. The collection also includes family papers, documenting the personal and business activities of members of Archer’s immediate and extended family through account books, contracts, correspondence and photographs.

A finding aid is available which describes and inventories this collection. Digital files are available at: https://dc.suffolk.edu/archer/

Collection Items

The third in a series of personal journals written by Suffolk University founder Gleason L. Archer.

A typed transcription of the second in a series of personal journals written by Suffolk University founder Gleason L. Archer.

The second in a series of personal journals written by Suffolk University founder Gleason L. Archer.

The first in a series of personal journals written by Suffolk University founder Gleason L. Archer.

Letter from Joseph F. Cercovich to Gleason Archer requesting two copies of On the Cuff, March 1, 1970.

Black and white, silent motion picture recording of a fishing trip made by Gleason L. Archer, including shots of Archer and friends gathered on the…

Includes a copy of The Ancestors and Descendants of Elisha Pratt of Turner, Maine by Francis H. Russel, 1963

Pictured left to right: Gleason L. Archer, Jr., Marian Archer, Allan Archer, Gleason L. Archer, Elizabeth Archer

Written on back of photograph: "Maria & Harry Snyder played checkers daily except on Sundays"

Written on back of photograph: "Maria Snyder & 3 daughters, Marian Osgood, Justine Connor, Elizabeth Archer"

Written on back of photograph: "boiling spring near cabin, Norwell"

This recording is part of Gleason L. Archer's radio series focused on legal issues for lay people.

Includes brief a biography about Archer's radio career and an index to the titles in the the "Law and the Home" radio series

Text on the front reads: "Practical Law in Private Class for Young Business Men. Apply at once to G. L. Archer, 826 Old South Building." Handwritten…

Text on the front reads: "Second Year. School opens Sept. 18, 1906." Tagline at bottom: "Three evenings a week for three thirty-one week years fit you…

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