Title: Ida Mellen Green-Wood Cemetery Scrapbook, 1927-1954
Arrangement
All materials are organized based upon original order, in which Ida Mellen arranged the files.
Abstract
Ida Mellen's scrapbook is a collection of photographs and articles depicting details of Green-Wood Cemetery and associated people and events, dating from 1927-1954 (bulk 1930-1937).
Administrative/Biographical History
Ida May Mellen (b.1877 - d. 1970), a long time Brooklyn resident, was born in New York City to parents Mary Davis and Andrew Jackson Mellen. She attended Brooklyn’s Lockwood Academy, Browne’s Business College (graduating class 1900) and then the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole (1908-1910), finally securing a job at the New York Aquarium in 1916 as secretary to the Aquarium Director.
Ms. Mellen worked her way from secretary to major involvements in scientific research, culminating in the discovery of the aquarium fish plathelminth parasite Neobenedenia melleni, named in her honor after her death in 1970, and securing her name among the top early ichthyologists and biologists.
Following twelve years at the New York Aquarium, Ms. Mellen took her leave to pursue her passion for writing and spent her remaining years publishing many articles and books ranging from fiction to nonfiction on her many topics of interest, including, but not limited to, cats, pigs, aquatic life, and rooftop gardening. She was also an avid scrapbooker, and hoped to fill a scrapbook with 300 of her published articles.
The bulk of Ms. Mellen’s personal papers and scrapbooks can be found at the New York Public Library. This scrapbook is the combined effort of article collecting and amateur photography from a series of trips to Green-Wood Cemetery, from which she lived five to six blocks from at 547 East 4th Street in Brooklyn, NY.
Other names published under: George Otis & Esmeralda de Mar.
Ida Mellen Green-Wood Cemet...
