Jedediah Horcrux Congreave fly fishing correspondence and photographs, 1925-1992

Summary

Creator:

Figgie Dog

Figgie Dog

Extent:

1 Electronic file

1 Box

1 Linear Feet 1 record cartons

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Citation

[Title / description, Box / Folder]. Jedediah Horcrux Congreave Fly Fishing Correspondence and Photographs, 1925-1992. MS 292. Your Name Here Special Collections, Carpe Diem University, City on a Hill, MA.

Background

Scope and content:

Content Description

Correspondence and photographs spanning 1925-1992 and documenting Jedediah Horcrux Congreave's interest in fly fishing. Included in the collection are letters to Congreave's father between 1925-1935; correspondence from and to diverse friends, colleagues, and associates sharing Congreave's interest in fly fishing; and photographs of many of Congreave's fishing expeditiions. More detailed descriptions of the materials are provided below.

Biographical / historical:

Biography

Jedediah Horcrux Congreave was born in Little Compton, Rhode Island on December 25, 1915. He died in Portland, Maine on April 18, 1999. Congreave was educated at Williams College (B.A., 1936) and Harvard University (Ph.D., Biology, 1948). He taught at Northfield-Mt. Hermon in Northfield, MA for the bulk of his career, serving in many administrative positions as well during his tenure there. Throughout his life, Congreave was an avid fly fisherman, and in 1998 he donated his collection of letters and photographs relating to his recreational activity to Carpe Diem University, where several of his close friends taught and which, in YNHSC, has an extensive collection documenting outdoor recreation and conservation atctivities in New England. Congreave never married and hand no children.

Physical description:

Some of the colored photographs are beginning to fade.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related

Separated material:

Separated Materials

The collection came to Carpe Diem University with 2 additional cartons of fishing and camping supply catalogs from the 1940s through the 1990s. These were separated from the collection because YNHSC does not collect mass-produced product catalogs. They were sent to the Smithsonian Museum of American History, which has an extensive collection of product catalogs, but there is no information on their ultimate disposition.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Flies, Artificial
Fly fishing
Fly fishing (West U.S.) -- Pictorial works
Fly fishing -- Pictorial works
Fly tying
Drawings (visual works)
Photographs

Names:

Figgie Dog
Figgie Dog
Figgie Dog
Congreave, Wilberforce
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
Child, Julia
Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic), 1904-1990

Terms of access:

Rights

Copyright for the materials created by Jedediah Congreave have been gifted to Carpe Diem University. Persons wanting to re-use those materials should first acquire permission from staff at YNHSC. Copyright for the materials created by correspondents in the colleciton belong to those correspondent or their beneficiaries. Persons wanting to re-use those materials are advised to obtain permissson from the copyright holders.

Preferred citation:

Citation

[Title / description, Box / Folder]. Jedediah Horcrux Congreave Fly Fishing Correspondence and Photographs, 1925-1992. MS 292. Your Name Here Special Collections, Carpe Diem University, City on a Hill, MA.

Location of this collection:

Lyrasis Special Collections

Lyrasis Library

3390 Park Avenue

New York

NY

10024

USA

Contact:

collections@lyrasis.org