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
