Amory Austin Collection Relating to Heraldry
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Amory Austin Collection Relating to Heraldry 1865-1917
Austin, Amory
Biographical History for: Amory Austin Collection Relating to Heraldry 1865-1917
Biographical Note Amory Austin was born to Ivers James Austin and Elizabeth Turner Amory Austin on July 24, 1849, in Boston, Massachusetts. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1871 and an S. B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also in Cambridge, in 1873. He worked in analytical chemistry. In 1890, Austin was appointed expert compiler in the Statistical Division of the Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. He died on January 4, 1920, in Newport, Rhode Island.
Scope and Content Note The Amory Austin Collection Relating to Heraldry spans the years circa 1865-1917 and consists of notes, notebooks, and other papers relating to heraldry collected by Austin. Included also is an obituary of Ivers James Austin, a Massachusetts politician, and a letter to him.
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Austin, Ivers James, letter and obituary, 1865, 1889
Notes on heraldy
Arms, crests, seals, and signals, drawn and printed, undated
Arms attributed to early Saxon and other kings, Apr. 1897
Book of Public Arms, 1894
Continental Sees, undated
Continental universities, undated
Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, kings of Germany, and kings of Italy descended from Charlemagne, undated
England
Cambridge and Oxford, undated
Colleges of Cambridge, undated
Herald's College, undated
Hospitals and charitable institutions, undated
London livery companies, undated
Monastic houses in England and Wales, undated
Organizations of public interest, undated
Public and grammar schools in Wales, undated
Societies, undated
Towns and districts, undated
Universities, colleges, and technical schools, undated
Wives of sovereigns, undated
General orders for countries and towns, undated
Handbook of English Cathedrals, 1896
"Heraldry," Encyclopedia Britannica, 1890
India, undated
Italy: counts, kings, and dukes, undated
Robert I, King of the Scots (Robert the Bruce), 1897
Russian crowns, undated
Societies, clubs, and other organizations, undated
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, undated
Universal (encyclopedia), 1894
Miscellaneous, undated
Heraldic listings, undated See Oversize
Notebooks, undated
Printed matter, circa 1891-circa 1917
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Heraldric listings, undated (Container 3)