By Emily Arbuckle, Kate Asmus, Alexanne Brown, Arielle Cohen, Sarah Davis, Emily Dunne, Pratt School of Information Students; Alexandra Farrugia, Pratt School of Information Intern
Title: Ida Mellen Green-Wood Cemetery Scrapbook, 1927-1954
Predominant Dates:1930-1937
Primary Creator: Mellen, Ida (1877-1971)
Extent: 2.0 Boxes
Arrangement: All materials are organized based upon original order, in which Ida Mellen arranged the files.
Subjects: ASPCA, Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887, Brooklyn--New York, N.Y., Brooklyn Theater Fire, Chadwick, Henry, Coney Island (New York, N.Y.), Cooper, Peter 1791-1883, DeWitt Clinton, DeWitt Clinton Monument, Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872, Guyre, John L., Henry Evelyn Pierrepont, Landscape architecture--New York (State)--New York--Designs and plans, Libbey, Laura Jean, Luckenbach, Lewis, McCallister, Ward, Miner, Henry, Montez, Lola, P. Schermerhorn, Photography, Poe, Edgar Allen, Proctor, Richard S. (1837-1888), Rehan, Ada, Remorard, August (1839-1912), Scrapbook Journaling, Sepulchral monuments--New York (State)--New York, Steinway Family, The Eagle Magazine for Women NYC, Tilyou, Ellen, Vosburgh, Abraham, Williams, Barney, Woodruff, Timothy
Languages: English
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.
ASPCA
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887
Brooklyn--New York, N.Y.
Brooklyn Theater Fire
Chadwick, Henry
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
Cooper, Peter 1791-1883
DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt Clinton Monument
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Guyre, John L.
Henry Evelyn Pierrepont
Landscape architecture--New York (State)--New York--Designs and plans
Libbey, Laura Jean
Luckenbach, Lewis
McCallister, Ward
Miner, Henry
Montez, Lola
P. Schermerhorn
Photography
Poe, Edgar Allen
Proctor, Richard S. (1837-1888)
Rehan, Ada
Remorard, August (1839-1912)
Scrapbook Journaling
Sepulchral monuments--New York (State)--New York
Steinway Family
The Eagle Magazine for Women NYC
Tilyou, Ellen
Vosburgh, Abraham
Williams, Barney
Woodruff, Timothy
One (1) hard cover/front cover with B/W image on inside
Five (5) pages of typed table of contents for the following fifty (50) pages of images.
Photo: 4.5" x 3.5"
Page Condition: Fragile
Notes: Photo: Costello, F. (driver)
Three (3) B/W photos attached to original page with handwritten notes.
Photos: All 4.5" x 3.5"
Page Condition: Fragile
Page 3: Four (4) B/W photographs & original page with handwritten notes
Photos: 1 @ 2.75" x 7.5”; 2 @ 3.5" x 4.5”; 1 @ 4.5" x 6”
Page Condition: Fragile, content on both sides
Page 4: Three (3) B/W photographs & original page with handwritten notes
Photos: 1 @ 3.5" x 4.5”; 2 @ 2.75" x 4.5”
Page Condition: Fragile, content on both sides
Three (3) B/W photos attached to original page with handwritten notes.
Photos: All 4.5" x 3.5"
Page Condition: Fragile
Notes: Ward McCallister
Page 7: Three (3) B/W photos attached to original page with handwritten notes.
Photos: All 4.5" x 3.5"
Page Condition: Fragile
Page 8: Two (3) B/W photos attached to original page with handwritten notes
Photos: All 3.5" x 4.5"
Page Condition: Fragile
Page 9: Two (2) B/W photos attached to original page with handwritten notes, five (5) photos total, one (1) pink slip of paper with handwritten notes.
Photos: Three (3) photos 4.5" x 3.5”, two (2) photos 4.5" x 2.75”, pink paper notes 6" x 4.5”
Page Condition: Fragile
Notes: William Marcy “Boss” Tweed, politician; Fannie the dog.
Page 10: Two (2) B/W photos attached to original page with handwritten notes.
Photos: All 4.5" x 3.5"
Page Condition: Fragile
Notes: “The big baby;” “Drowned in bathtub.”
Page 11: Two (2) B/W photos attached to original page with handwritten notes
Photos: All 4.5" x 3.5"
Page Condition: Fragile
Notes: Nellie Sanders “Nellie’s Garden”
Page 12: Two (2) B/W photos attached to original page with handwritten notes
Two (2) B/W photos loose from page
Photos: Three (3) @ 4.5" x 3.5"; One (1) @ 3.5" x 2¾"
Page Condition: Fragile (all loose photos encased separately)
Page 13: Four (4) loose B/W photos & original page with handwritten notes
Photos: Three (3) @ 4.5" x 3.5”; One (1) @ 3.5" x 2¾"
Page Condition: Fragile (all loose photos encased separately)
Page 14: Two (2) B/W photos attached to original page with handwritten note
Five (5) B/W photos loose from page
Photos: Four (4) @ 4.5" x 3.5"; Two (2) @ 3.5" x 2¾"
Page Condition: Fragile (all loose photos encased separately)
Five (5) photographs & original page with handwritten notes
Photos: 3 @ 3.5" x 4.5”; 1 @ 2.75" x 4.5"
Page condition: Fragile, 1” strip at left torn off and attached with tape, tears in top edge at middle and large tear and lower right; content on both sides; 3 photographs loose in mylar sheet
Notes: Henry Chadwick, “Father of Baseball”; John L. Guyre, fireman; Col. Abr. S. Vosburg, 71st Reg National Guard; Louis Moreau Gottchalk, American composer
Page 16: Four (4) photographs & original page with handwritten notes
Photos: 2 @ at 4.5" x 3.5"; 1 @ 4.625" x 6.5”
Page condition: [see page 15]
Notes: Barney Williams, actor; Lola Montez (Eliza Gilbert); George C. Tilyou, Coney Island; Henry C. Miner, Miner’s Theater
Page 17: Three (3) photographs not attached to original page.
Photos: All 4.5" x 3.5”
Page condition: Photographs in mylar sheet.
Notes: J. Florence, actor, author, dramatist; Ellen Tilyou; George C. Tilyou; Eliza Gilbert (Lola Montez), once mistress to the ruler of Bavaria.
Page 18: Two (2) photographs and original page with handwritten notes.
Photos: 1 @ 3.5" x 4.5”, 1 @ 4.5" x 3.5”
Page condition: Fragile
Notes: June Kiralfy, designed and produced; Kate Claxton; Ada Rehan; Brooklyn Theatre Fire Memorial.
Page 19: Three (3) photographs and original page with handwritten notes.
Photos: 2 @ 3.5" x 4.5"; 1 @ 4.5" x 3.5”
Page condition: Fragile
Notes: Mrs. Niblo, of Niblo Theater; Peter E. Dailey, performer; Billy West, “The Minstrel.”
Combined Memorials: Three (3) photographs and original page with handwritten captioning.
Photos: All 4.5" x 3.5”
Page condition: Fragile
Notes: Brooklyn Theater Fire; Firemen’s Monument; Soldier’s Monument
Page 21: Six (6) photographs & original page with handwritten notes
Photos: 2 @ 4.5" x 2.75"; 4 @ 3.5" x 4.5"
Page condition: Fragile, 1” strip at left torn off and attached with tape, sections of top edge torn off; content on both sides; 4 photographs loose in mylar sheet
Notes: Burham, buttons; Maximilian Fleischman, first compound yeast; John H. Shults, Shults Bread Company; John Matthews, soda fountain manufacturer
Page 22: Five (5) photographs & original page with handwritten notes
Photos: 5 @ 4.5" x 2.75"
Page condition: [see page 21]; 4 photographs loose in mylar sheet
Notes: Matthews; Henry Batterman; Burbank, tobacco; Henry Havermeyer, sugar; James S. Coward, shoes
Page 23: Two (2) photographs & original page with handwritten notes
Photos: 1 @ 4.5" x 3.5”; 1 @ 5.75" x 4.25”
Page condition: Fragile, 1” strip at left torn off and attached with scotch tape, small tear at top right corner; content on both sides
Notes: Chas. M. Higgins, India ink
Page 24: Four (4) Images & original page with handwritten notes
Photos: 2 @ 4.5" x 3.5”; 2 @ 2.75" x 4.5”
Page condition: [see page 23]
Notes: Lewis Luckenbach, steamships; Louis Bonard, ASPCA; Colgate, soap; John M. Bradstreet
Page 25: Five (5) Images & original page with handwritten notes
Photos: 1 @ 4.5" x 2.75"; 3 @ 3.5" x 4.5"; 1 @ 3.5" x 4" (torn)
Page condition: Fragile, with slight tearing at edges; content first side only; 3 photos loose in mylar sheet
Notes: John Anderson, tobacco; John M. Mackay; Chas Feltman, Coney Island; (William, Henry, Albert, Charles) Steinway
Page 27: One (1) B/W photo attached to original page with handwritten notes
Eight (8) B/W photos loose from page
Photos: 8 @ 4.5" x 3.5"
Page Condition: Fragile (all loose photos encased separately)
Notes: Benji Tracy: USN 1889-93, Major General Dahin, Major General George Strong, Churchill C Cambreleno
Page 28: Original page with handwritten notes
Six (6) B/W photos loose from page
Photos: 6 @ 4.5" x 3.5"
Page Condition: Fragile (all loose photos encased separately)
Notes: Henry Ward Beecher, Ira DeWitt Sankey, Talmage
Page 29: Three (3) B/W photos attached to original page with handwritten notes.
Photos: All 4.5" x 3.5"
Page Condition: Fragile
Notes: Brockholst Livingston: Judge N.S. Supreme Court, Harr M. Gescheidt, James Watson Gerard
Page 30: Original page with handwritten notes
Six (6) B/W photos loose from page
Photos: 3 @ 4.5" x 3.5"; 3 @ 3.5" x 2¾"
Page Condition: Fragile (all loose photos encased separately)
Notes: Townsend Harris: First Consul General to Japan, Timothy Woodruff: 3x Lieutenant Governor of NY, William J. Gaynor: Judge "No Words Same,” Dixon Lewis Hall (Congress AL), George Hall: Mayor of Brooklyn, Cyrus Porter Smith: Early Mayor for the City of Brooklyn
Page 31: Three (3) B/W photos attached to original page with handwritten notes
Photos: 2 @ 4.5" x 3.5"; 1 @ 3.5" x 2¾"
Page Condition: Fragile
Notes: Economist: Henry George, Agitator’s Relic: Catherine Anne Tone (Ireland)
Page 32: Two (2) B/W photos attached to original page with handwritten notes
Photos: All 3.5" x 2¾"
Page Condition: Fragile
Notes: Henry Beekman Delatour “President of the Brooklyn Surgical society- 1898”, Dr. Valentine Mott “Greatest Surgeon in the World - 1850s”
Page 33: Two (2) B/W photos attached to original page with handwritten notes
Photos: All 4.5" x 3.5"
Page Condition: Fragile
Notes: Richard A. Proctor: Astronomer, Ormsby M. Mitchell: Astronomer
Page 34-35: Nine (9) B/W photos attached to original pages with handwritten notes
Photos: 8 @ 4.5" x 3.5"; 1 @ 3.5" x 2¾"
Page Condition: Fragile
Notes: Daniel F. Appleton, Harper Brothers, David Hale, James Fordon Bennett, D.M. Bennett, Alden Spooner, Will Carleton, Alice & Phoebe Cary, Laura Jean Libbey
Page 37: Two (2) photographs and original page with handwritten notes
Photos: All 4.5 x 3.5”
Page condition: Fragile
Notes: John Carrega, Sea captain; Fireman McDougall Monument.
Page 39: Two (2) photographs and original page with handwritten notes
Photos: All 4.5" x 3.5”
Page condition: Fragile
Notes: Sarah W. Kairns; Elizabeth Cairns.
Page 40: One (1) photograph and original page with handwritten notes
Photos: 4.5" x 2.75”
Page condition: Fragile
Page 41: Three (3) photographs and original page with handwritten notes, four (4) photographs total.
Photos: 3 @ 4.5" x 3.5”, 1 @ 3.5 x 4.5”
Page condition: Fragile, top area of left margin taped on.
Notes: Marion Cozzens; Charlotte Canda; “Cutting and Bayard.”
Page 42: Two (2) photographs and original page with handwritten notes, four (4) photographs total.
Photos: 3 @ 4.5" x 2.75”, 1 @ 4.5" x 3.5”
Page condition: Fragile, top area of left margin taped on.
Notes: Do-Hum-Me Cow-Hick-Kee, young Iowa tribe warrior; Daniel L. Jones; Roger Williams, Founder of Rhode Island, monument dedicated to him but he is not buried here.
Page 43: Three (3) Images & original page with handwritten notes
Photos: 2 @ 4.5" x 3.5”; 1 @ 2.75" x 4.5”
Page condition: Fragile, slightly torn off at corners, rip at left top side; content on both sides; one (1) loose photo in mylar sleeve
Notes: Elmber Ambrose Sperry; Lula Goodman Sperry; Elias Howe; Sidney Edmonds; Richard Cary; Samuel B. Morse
Page 44: One (1) image and original page with handwritten notes
Photos: 1 @ 3.5" x 4.5"
Page condition [see page 43]
Notes: P. Schermerhorn; Henry E. Pierrepont
Three (3) B/W Images attached to original page with handwritten notes
Three (3) Loose B/W Images
Photos: 3 @ 4.5" x 3.5”; 3 @ 2.75" x 4.5”
Page Condition: Fragile (all loose photos encased separately)
Notes: Vanness-Parsons; -Guardino; Stephen Whitney; Chauncey’s Temple; Stubenbord-Sutherland; “The new style stone wall”
Pge 47: Two (2) images and original page with handwritten notes
Photos: 1 @ 4.5" x 3.5”; 1 @ 4.5" x 2.75"
Page condition: Fragile, torn along top edge; content on both sides
Notes: Mrs. Satterlee Packer; Henry Bergh, Bergh Society, ASPCA
Page 48: Six [6] images and original page with handwritten notes
Photos: 6 @ 3.5" x 4.5"
Page condition: [see page 47], Four (4) photos loose in mylar sheet
Notes: Edward J. Schieren; Merello, Volta; Lemken, Thomas Tilden; Abr. S. Scribner
Two (2) B/W Images attached to original page with handwritten notes
Three (3) Loose B/W Images
Photos: 4 @ 4.5" x 3.5”; 1 @ 2.75" x 4.5”
Page Condition: Fragile (all loose photos encased separately)
Notes: Horace Greenley, DeWitt Clinton “Father of the Erie Canal," Peter Cooper
Handwritten table of contents and notes
Notes: Index for the second half of the scrapbook. Includes the names of those not buried at Green-Wood: Franklin T. Hooper, George Serey, Theo. Hilton, and John R. Lockwood. Also references a Mr. Sammond, the gatekeeper at 24th and 6th Avenue.
Date: undated
One (1) page with handwritten notes and newspaper clipping, pasted on.
Notes: References John Anderson and his mausoleum, Amusing Epitaphs, and Daniel Appleton, the latter in a small newspaper clipping whose source is unknown.
Date: undated
One (1) half page, typewritten, and letter, typewritten. Attached to single sheet. Includes Marginalia.
Notes: Small typewritten biography on Henry Ward Beecher. Letter is from Lyman Beecher Stowe to Mellen regarding overgrown foliage on H.W. Beecher's gravestone. Verso of page includes fragment from another page in Folder 2 that has become stuck.
Date: undated and December 28, 1938, respectively
Three (3) pages, typewritten. Includes marginalia.
Notes: Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887. References topics of his sermons and lectures, as well as the following people: General Horation King, John T. Howard, Abraham Lincoln, Dr. William Taylor, Dr. Joseph Parker, Horace B. Claflin.
Date: undated
Three (3) pages, typewritten. Includes marginalia.
Notes: Biography on James Gordon Bennett, 1795-1872, and his son, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., 1841-1918. Top section of third page has torn away and can be found on the verso of the page containing Lyman Beecher Stowe's letter.
Date: undated
Four (4) small slips of paper, handwritten.
Notes: Pertains to James Gordon Bennett Sr. and references John Hay and Lt. Col. Robert Benson (1739-1823), governor of New York from 1777 to 1795. Bottom right slip references a "Barry," an actor in "The Rising Generation."
Date: undated
One (1) letter, typewritten and signed. Includes marginalia.
Notes: From Sydney H. Coleman, the Executive Vice-President of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) to Ida Mellen regarding her inquiry about Louis Bonnard.
Date: January 25, 1932
One (1) letter, typewritten and signed. Includes marginalia.
Notes: From Sara B. Hufcut from the ASPCA to Ida Mellen. Letter accompanied story about Louis Bonnard and his involvement with the ASPCA.
Date: February 11, 1932
Two (2) pages, typewritten.
Notes: Story about Louis Bonnard and the ASPCA, most likely written by Sara B. Hufcut.
Date: [February 11, 1932]
Two (2) small pieces of paper, typewritten.
Notes: Short biography of DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett, aka D. M. Bennett (1818-1882). Henry Ward Beecher and the Brooklyn Theater Fire also mentioned.
Date: undated
Two (2) cut out notes, typed and handwritten.
Notes: W. Chalmey's memorial; Henry Chadwick, sportswriter; and Will Carleton.
Date: undated
Two (2) pages, printed.
Notes: Descriptions on the lives of Alice (1820-1871) and Phoebe (1824-1871) Cary. References Edgar Allen Poe and Horace Greeley. Also provides coffin and funeral descriptions.
Date: undated
Four (4) notecards, handwritten, in separate sleeves.
Notes: Top left: R. Fulton Cutting (1912), Top right: Gen Abner Doubleday (1839), Bottom left: Cozzens, Tredle Smartwood (1856), Bottom Right: Robb S. Misley (d. 1934).
Date: undated
One (1) small piece of paper, typed and one (1) note, handwritten.
Notes: Dewitt Clinton: brief biography and mention of death by hydrothorax. Information about a bronze statue of Clinton.
Date: undated
Newspaper book review and notecard, handwritten.
Notes: About a book about DeWitt Clinton, written by Dorothy Bobbie. Handwritten note discusses Erie Canal.
Date: undated
One (1) piece of paper, typed with handwritten notes and shorthand. On verso, one (1) note, typed.
Notes: Peter Cooper (1791-1883) biography. Was an inventor and engineer, built locomotives. Founded Cooper Union in 1859. Typed note re: his business and associations.
Date: undated
Two (2) notes, handwritten, top one double-sided.
Notes: Peter Cooper nominated for US president by Labor Party, family information.
Date: undated
Two (2) letters from Coward Shoes.
Notes: Acknowledgement of letter from Ida Mellen, answering her inquiry about James S. Coward and the origin of Coward Shoes.
Date: 1935
Two (2) pages, typed.
Notes: Charlotte Canda (1828-1845). Died at age 17, very prominent and beautiful tombstone in the cemetery, with the dimensions of 17.
Date: undated
One (1) note, handwritten.
Notes: Mr. J. Florence (d. 1892), comedian, brief biography.
Date: undated
Four (4) notecards, handwritten, in separate sleeves.
Notes: Top left: Molly Fancher (sp). Top right: William H. English, clergyman of N. Covington, NY. Bottom Left: Fielding (no other info). Bottom Right: Adelina Patti.
Date: undated
Three (3) scraps, typed, glued to front of brittle page, one (1) full page on back.
Notes: General information about Green-Wood Cemetery, including incorporation history, who built their own tombstones, notes on battles that took place there, and where soldiers are buried.
Date: undated
One (1) note, handwritten and one (1) note, typed.
Notes: Narrative writing about Green-Wood Cemetery.
Date: undated
One (1) page, typed, with handwriting on back.
Notes: Horace Greeley (1811-1872) biography. Includes information about founding the New York Tribune. Handwritten note on back re: associations with suffragists and free-love groups.
Date: undated
Copy of "Ecumenical News."
Notes: More biographical information about Horace Greeley.
Date: 1927
One (1) picture and one (1) small newspaper clipping.
Notes: Picture of Horace Greeley. Clipping entitled, "Little Moments in History.”
Date: undated
Two (2) half pages, typed.
Notes: William J. Gaynor (1851-1913), a writer, lawyer, and mayor of NYC (1910-1913). Failed assassination attempt in 1910.
Date: undated
Three (3) half pages, typed.
Notes: James Watson Gerard (1794-1894). Writer, on NYC Board of Education, lawyer.
Date: undated
One (1) page, typed.
Notes: Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869). Very famous actor, originally buried in Rio. Removed and interred in Green-Wood in 1870.
Date: undated
Four (4) scraps of paper, typed.
Notes: John Craig Havemeyer (1833-1922), writer, sugar refiner; George Hall (1795-18??), mayor in 1854; Townsend Harris (1804-1878), merchant, consul general of Japan, politician.
Date: undated
One (1) page, typed.
Notes: Elias Howe (1819-1867), machinist.
Date: undated
Newspaper, book review, and article.
Notes: Review of a book about Townsend Harris by Carl Crow. News article about Japan during WWII that mentions Townsend Harris.
Date: undated
Two (2) pages, typed.
Notes: William Harkness’s obituary. Obituaries for James and Joseph Harper (brothers). James was mayor of NYC from 1844-1846.
Date: undated
One (1) note, handwritten and one (1) page, typed.
Notes: Former re: Mrs. Lee, says she died in Paris in 1610. Latter re: David Hale, a teacher whose tomb reminds Ida of a dinosaur.
Date: undated
One (1) note, handwritten and one (1) half page, typed.
Notes: Tom Johnson (1854-1911), mayor of Cleveland; Chester Jennings, landlord of City Hotel.
Date: undated
Two (2) half pages, typed, and one (1) notecard, handwritten.
Notes: Imre Kiralfy, director and producer of the Chicago World's Fair (typed). Brockholas Livingston, a private during the American Revolution.
Date: undated
Two (2) half pages, typed.
Notes: Dixon Hall Lewis; Lara Jean Libbey, a romance writer.
Date: undated
One (1) page, typewritten. Includes marginalia.
Notes: Biography of John William Mackay (1831-1902), co-founder of a cable company with James Gordon Bennett.
Date: undated
Three (3) small pieces of paper, handwritten.
Notes: Anecdotal information about St. Clair McKelway (b. 1845-????), editor-in-chief of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The location of his grave is also mentioned.
Date: undated
Two (2) pages, typewritten and handwritten, and one (1) clipping.
Notes: Biography of Dr. Samuel Latham Mitchill (1764-1831), professor at City College of New York and founder of New York Medical Repository. Small section about Tammany Hall. Verso contains a clipping, source unknown, pertaining to ice cream.
Date: undated
One (1) page of cut outs, typewritten. Includes marginalia.
Notes: Biography of Valentine Mott (1784-1865), surgeon general of Glen Cove, Long Island. Co-founder of short-lived Rutgers College with David Hosack and Samuel L. Mithchell. Also references Sir Astley Cooper. Marginalia references Morse, Montez, and Mott.
Date: undated
One (1) newspaper clipping and one (1) small piece of paper, handwritten.
Notes: Clipping from an unknown source references Mott. Handwritten slip pertains to Mott's mansion.
Date: undated
Four (4) small pieces of paper, handwritten.
Notes: Biographical notes on Ward Mitchell.
Date: undated
One (1) page, typed, with handwritten notes and shorthand.
Notes: Biography of Lola Montez continued. Written very poetically. Claims she was devoted to women's health, and was charged with bigamy.
Date: undated
One (1) page, typed, with handwritten notes and shorthand.
Notes: More information about Lola Montez (d. 1861). Describes her trip across western US, back to England and eventually to US.
Date: undated
One (1) newspaper advertisement.
Notes: For The Heavenly Sinner: the Life and Loves of Lola Montez, includes large amount of pictures, though a note that says no illustrations in the book.
Date: 1935
One (1) battered page, typed, and one (1) note, handwritten.
Notes: Samuel Finley Breese Morse. Brief history of parents and brother, information about his paintings, and how he was homeless, anti-Catholic, voted for the Know Nothings, and wrote for the New York Observer.
Date: undated
One (1) note, handwritten, one (1) newspaper clippings, and one (1) New York Herald Tribune article: “Baroness Venus Munchausen” by Isaac Goldberg.
Notes: Brief biographical information on Lola Montez. New York Herald Tribune: "Baroness Venus Munchausen" by Isaac Goldberg, reviewed by Clara Gruening Stillman.
Date: undated
One (1) page, typed. Includes marginalia.
Notes: Gives biographical information about Lola Montez, including nicknames, heredity, and a timeline of where she lived over her lifetime.
Date: undated
One (1) page, typed. Includes marginalia.
Notes: Lola Montez. Notes about her career, personal life, and political activities.
Date: undated
One (1) page, typed. Includes marginalia.
Notes: Continuation of notes about the political and personal life of Lola Montez.
Date: undated
One (1) page, typed. Includes marginalia.
Notes: List of lectures given by Lola Montez, with added reviews by Ida Mellen. "Beautiful Women," "Gallantry," "Heroines of Hist" (handwritten: I consider this a great lecture. I.M.), "Comic aspects of Love."
Date: undated
One (1) small note, typed, glued to larger paper.
Notes: Describes "Nell's Garden" and lists the amount of trees, angels, bowls, urns, rabbits, etc.
Date: undated
One (1) half page, typed.
Notes: Richard S. Proctor (1837-1888), author, discoverer, lecturer.
Date: undated
One (1) page, typed.
Notes: Quotes from famous people about graveyards.
Date: undated
One (1) picture and one (1) quarter page, typed.
Notes: Funeral Directors and Embalmers of the US and the erection the tomb for August Remorard (1839-1912).
Date: undated
Two (2) notecards, handwritten.
Notes: Al Reeves, banjo player; Ada Rehan, Metropolitan Opera
Date: undated
Three (3) half pages, typed, glued to paper.
Notes: William Steinway, a piano tuner; Henry Steinway, founder of the Steinway piano business; and Albert Steinway. Charles Steinway was also in pianos.
Date: undated
One (1) page, typed.
Notes: The Steinway Chart, repeats information from the preceding page.
Date: undated
One (1) letter, typed, and one (1) quarter page, typed.
Notes: Letter from Charles Scribners' Sons Publishing to Ida Mellen re: Abraham Scribner. Quarter Page: Ira Sankey, a singer with Moody.
Date: 1840 and undated, respectively
Three (3) sections of a page, typed.
Notes: Regarding Alden Spooner, publisher of the Daily Star and involvement in the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and Cyrus P. Smith, 4th Mayor of Brooklyn, Whig party.
Date: undated
One (1) page, typed, and one (1) half page, handwritten.
Notes: Mayor Charles A. Schieren and Theobald Wolfe Tone, grounded 1791.
Date: undated
One (1) note, typed and handwritten.
Notes: Theobald Wolf Tone (1768-1798), founder of United Irish Club and chaf de Brigade. His wife is also buried at Green-Wood. His son, William Theobald Wolftone (1791-1828), an author, and fought under Napoleon.
Date: undated
One (1) note, typed and handwritten.
Notes: William Marcy Boss Tweed (1823-1878). Note on verso states information came from a lithograph.
Date: undated
Two (2) small notes, typed.
Notes: Benjamin F. Tracy, Harrison's Secretary of the Navy in the 1880s. Includes note, "The imposing Oriental tomb of Vaness. Parsons near the main--entrance--(crossed out) gate to the cemetery."
Date: undated
Two (2) black & white photographs and two (2) notes, handwritten.
Notes: Photographs and notes regarding Trippe, president of Pan-Am Airways, and John Anderson (1857-1940). The reason for inclusion of the latter in this section is unclear.
One (1) page with handwritten and typed notes, glued to brittle paper.
Notes: Al Reeves, banjo player, and Ada Rehan, Metropolitan Opera.
Date: undated
One (1) note, handwritten, and three (3) black & white photographs.
Notes: Pertains to Roger Williams.
Date: undated
Three (3) notes, handwritten.
Notes: References the plant, Pachy Sandra. Also, Adelina Patti, a child star from the 1850s.
Date: undated
Four (4) notes, handwritten.
Notes: re: Green-Wood Gravestones , reference Smiths (sp?), Browne, Pierrepont, and Schermerhorn. Also the 1974 purchase of Belle Vue Brockholdt (sp?). Additional information on Thomas Nas.
Date: undated
One (1) newspaper clipping: The Eagle Magazine for Women New York City, "Pen Sketches."
Notes: Features biographical information on Phoebe & Alice Cary , Laura Jean Libbey, Peter Cooper, Horace Greeley, and De Witt Clinton by Ida Mellen.
Date: January 10, 1932
Two (2) newspaper clippings: The Eagle Magazine for Women New York City, "Pen Sketches"; remainder of preceding article.
Notes: see preceding item
Date: January 10, 1932
One (1) newspaper clipping: The Eagle Magazine for Women New York City, "Pen Sketches: She was the Queen of Comedy, Ada Rehan.”
Notes: Oversized and features biographical information on James Gordon Bennett, Henry Chadwick, Ada Rehan, Louis Gottschalk, and the Harper brothers by Ida Mellen. Features a picture of Henry Chadwick's grave.
Date: January 17, 1932
Two (2) newspaper clippings: The Eagle Magazine for Women New York City, "Pen Sketches: She was the Queen of Comedy, Ada Rehan"; remainder of preceding article.
Notes: see preceding item
Date: January 17, 1932
One (1) newspaper clipping: The Eagle Magazine for Women New York City, "Pen Sketches: Her Coolness Saved Hundreds: Brooklyn Theatre First Heroine, Now Lies Buried in Green-Wood Cemetery (sp) Ada Rehan."
Notes: Features biographical information on Kate Claxton, Three Morse Brothers, Elias Howe, Richard Proctor, "Boss" Tweed, Samuel L. Mitchell.
Date: January 3, 1932
One (1) newspaper clipping: The Eagle Magazine for Women New York City, "Pen Sketches: Her Coolness Saved Hundreds: Brooklyn Theatre First Heroine, Now Lies Buried in Green-Wood Cemetery (sp) Ada Rehan"; remainder of preceding article.
Notes: see preceding item
Date: January 3, 1932
One (1) newspaper clipping: The Eagle Magazine for Women New York City, "She Kept Secrets of the Kings But the unostentatious tombstone over Lola Montez grave in Greenwood Cemeter (sp)."
Notes: Features biographical information on Henry Ward Beecher, T. DeWitt Talmage, Ira D. Sankey, Lola Montez, and Mrs. William S. Packer. Note attached by Ida Mellen states that she is unhappy with the article.
Date: December 27, 1931
One (1) newspaper clipping: The Eagle Magazine for Women New York City: "She Kept Secrets of the Kings But the unostentatious tombstone over Lola Montez grave in Greenwood Cemeter (sp)"; remainder of preceding article.
Notes: see preceding item
Date: December 27, 1931
One (1) newspaper clipping: Brooklyn Eagle, "Stories of Love, Tragedy Told in Stone."
Notes: Features biographical information on Charlotte Canda, Charles Albert Garrett, Captain John Correja, Oscar Dietzel, and Maggie Dietzel.
Date: December 19, 1954
Hardback cover of Ida M. Mellen's Scrapbook.
Notes: Includes the tassel that kept book together.
Date: undated
