Brouwer/Milliken Collection
Scope and Contents
The materials in this collection are primarily comprised of collected research and materials related to Greenwich history broadly and the specific history of a handful of important families and properties. These inclue the Meads, Palmers, and Reynolds, along with some of their associated properties. This research includes general history, but also genealogical information collected about everyone possible in the "Families and Individuals" sub-series. She also focuses on a few local preservation and natural conservation societies. There is also a box of photographs, and a box full of recorded audio materials, although many are not currently listenable as the reel-to-reels are suffering from acetate degradation called vinegar syndrome. The casette tapes have not been digitized.
Dates
- Creation: 1740-1986
Conditions Governing Access
There are no conditions governing access to this material.
Conditions Governing Use
Casettes require a casette player, slides are best viewed over a lightbox with loup.
Biographical / Historical
Irene Brouwer and Phoebe Milliken performed this research and collected these materials over the course of their lives. They donated this research themselves to the Greenwich Historical Society in 1987. Irene Brouwer was the wife of noted architect Dirk W. Brouwer, and Phoebe Milliken was the wife of noted textile heir Gerrish Milliken, Jr.
Full Extent
5.75 Linear Feet (6 Letter size document boxes, 1 letter size half document box, 1 banker's box of recordings, 1 separated box of reel to reels in need of conservation, 1 slide box, 1 card catalog box.)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection has been arranged into four series.
Series I: Histories, Research, and Genealogies. This includes the box of slides and the card catalog.
Series II: Printed Materials
Series III: Photographs
Series IV: Recordings
- Title
- Guide to the Brouwer/Milliken Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Ashley Aberg
- Date
- November 7, 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Greenwich Historical Society Repository
47 Strickland Road
Cos Cob CT 06807 United States
203-869-6899
203-861-9720 (Fax)
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