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SOURCES

This is not a bibliography but an informal list of sources, included primarily for that person of the future who will again bring Worcester Tech's history up to date.--M.M.T.

The Journal, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1897-1964
WTI and WPI, 1885-1896

Minutes of Corporation, 1865-1964
Tech Catalogs
Tech Yearbooks
Tour of Tech buildings and fraternity houses
Presidents' reports
Worcester Newspapers
Worcester Directories
Pictures: American Antiquarian Society; Worcester Tech, Faculty, Alumni office, Library, Roger Perry; Marvin Richmond; Kenneth Gould; Esther Goddard; Edward Cournoyer
Map: Antiquarian Society
Scrapbooks: Francis W. Roys; Civil Engineering Department; H. B. Smith, 1908-1913; Chemistry Department; Electrical Engineering Department (and miscellaneous papers); Public Relations
Seventy Years of the W.P.I., Herbert F. Taylor, 1937
One Hundred Years of W.P.I. (Unpublished), Francis W. Roys
Manuscript, Complete History, Zelotes Coombs, three boxes
Personal Journals, Jerome Howe
Court House Registry of Deeds and Probate, Courtesy of Gerald Fales
Report of House of Representatives, Dexter S. King, 1869
Worcester County Free Institute, Report prepared for Vienna Exposition of 1873
Historical Pamphlets prepared for International Exhibition, 1876
Letters of John Boynton
Letters of Ichabod Washburn
Speeches of Stephen Salisbury II and III
Letters of Stephen Salisbury II and III
Summary of First Ten Years, Prepared by Thompson
History of Worcester County, Crane
Antique Tin and Tole Ware, Its History and Romance, Gould, 1958
So You Want to Be an Engineer, Nourse and Webbert, Harper and Brothers
Worcester of 1898, Rice
History of Worcester County, Hurd, 1889
The Bench and Bar, Charles F. Aldrich
History of Worcester County, Vol. I and II, 1879
Worcester Tech Life, Smith, 1925
Autobiography and Memorials of Ichabod Washburn, 1878
Heart of Commonwealth, 1881
Letters of Harold B. Smith, Antiquarian Society
C. O. Thompson's Book of Miscellaneous Papers, 1865-1872
The Worcester Book, Rice
Papers of Emory Washburn
Papers of George F. Hoar
Reminiscences of the Class of '77, Chase
Papers and Letters of Seth Sweetser
File in Manuscript Room, Antiquarian Society
Letters of Charles Washburn
The Worcester Magazine
Rice Clippings
Technical Training at the Worcester Free Institute, Alden, 1885
Narragansett Historical Society Papers
Evolution of the Tin Business, 1900, Roundy
Letters of Albert Richey, 1905
Collection of Miscellaneous Papers, 1868-1880
Catalogs, Programs, Circulars, Antiquarian Society
Notes of Washburn Genealogy
Washburn Family, Sharpe, 1892
The History of Hancock, New Hampshire, 1889, Hayward
Richard Higgins and His Descendants, Higgins
Seth Sweetser and His Decendants, 1938
Historical Sketch, Emory Washburn, 1861
Chronology--from 1908 Aftermath
History of New Ipswich, 1852
History of Hillsborough County, 1885
Historical Discourse, Edwin G. Adams, 1857
Reminiscences of Life in Templeton, Miscellaneous
Reactor Clippings File, Wilbur
History of Mason, 1858
American Boynton Directory, 1884
Boynton Family Constitution and By-Laws, 1883
Boynton Family in England, 1884
The Boynton Family, 1884
History of Athol, Lord, 1953
Pamphlets: The Tin Peddler's Dream; The Blacksmith's Plan; The Parson's Vision; The Worcester Idea; The Nation-Wide Service
Fragments of W.P.I. History, Taylor, 1912
Miscellaneous Papers, 1888-1894 Deeds of Gifts Miscellaneous Papers, Programs, Catalogs, Reports, Circulars, 1895-1897
The Log, 1888
Obituaries, Antiquarian Society
L'Expose, 1892
Miscellaneous Collection--Antiquarian Society, 1871-1890
Alden Hydraulic Laboratory, Allen, 1948
Developments at the Alden Hydraulic Laboratory, 1929
Ten Years Development, 1930-40, The Journal
Alden Hydraulic Laboratory at W.P.I., from Hydraulic Laboratory Practice, 1929
Brief History of Financial Transactions between Laboratory and Allen, 1948
Circulars, Alden Hydraulic Laboratory
Report, 1961, Hooper
Alumni Association of W.P.I., 1895
Addresses by E. Washburn and S. Sweetser
Statement of Work and Needs, 1883
Progress of Tech Education, Quarter-Century Review, Fuller, 1894
The Boynton Family, 1897
Engler's Report to Trustees, 1905
Earle's Report, 1931
The Technical World, Conant, 1904
W.P.I., Alumni Fund Board, 1925
The Engineer of Tomorrow, Endowment Fund Committee
Alden Absorption Dynamometer History of Hydraulics, Hunter Rouse and Simon Ince, 1957
Physics at W.P.I., Masius, 1942
Salisbury Papers, 1902-1905
Lectures, Albert Waite
A Narrative History of the Harrington Family, Bouley
Techni-Forum, 1962

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