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BUILDINGS UNEARTHED IN EGYPT
Sanborn Has Discovered Ruins at Gizeh, Memphis and Dendereh.
Published On Saturday, May 05, 1917 12:00 AM
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Ashton Sanborn '05, assistant curator of the Egyptian section in the University Museum of Philadelphia, has been for the past two seasons in Egypt with the expedition from that Museum. The expedition is in charge of Clarence S. Fisher, G. '08-09, who was formerly associated with the University Palestinian Expedition and with the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts expedition in Egypt.
Sanborn reports that work has been done at Gizeh, Memphis and Dendereh. At Gizeh a portion of the extensive necropolis belonging to the period of the Old Empire was cleared. Besides a number of stelae, the most interesting discovery was a vauit built of interlocking bricks; this is a unique example of such construction at so early a date. At Memphis the expedition is still engaged in uncovering a great complex of buildings dating from the reign of Merenptah (ca. 1225-1215 B. C.), the son of Rameses the Great. Thus far nearly the whole of a large festival temple, or palace, has been cleared and richly inlaid walls found.
The recent bequest of $500,000, made by the late Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., of Philadelphia, for the work of the Egyptian section in the University Museum in that city, is a gift unparalleled in archaeology and places the work in Egypt on a permanent basis. |
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Sanborn, Agnes Goldman, 1887-1984. Papers, 1752-1984: A Finding Aid
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women
Radcliffe College
February 1986
© 1986 Radcliffe College
Descriptive Summary
Call No.: 59-4--85-M120
Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: AGNES (GOLDMAN) SANBORN, 1887-1984
Title: Papers, 1752(1808-1984)
Quantity: 5 cartons, 1 folio+ folder
Abstract: Photographs, correspondence, genealogical and biographical materials of Agnes (Goldman) Sanborn, bacteriologist and civic activist.
Processing Information:
Preliminary inventory: February 1986
By: Jane S. Knowles
Acquisition Information:
Accession numbers: 59-4, 77-M214, 85-M120
This collection was given to the Schlesinger Library by Agnes (Goldman) Sanborn in December 1958, and by Sarah (Sanborn) Moench, daughter of AGS, in June 1985.
BIOGRAPHY
Agnes (Goldman) Sanborn, bacteriologist and civic activist, was born in New York City on August 30, 1887, the youngest daughter of Julius Goldman and Sarah (Adler) Goldman. AGS attended the Sachs School for Boys and Girls, founded by her uncle Julius Sachs, and received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College (1909), A.M. from Columbia University (1913) and Ph.D. from New York University (1923). She joined the American Red Cross during World War I and served in Palestine as a bacteriologist, 1918-1919. After the war she was employed by the New York Board of Health and then held a fellowship from Bryn Mawr at the Phipps Institute in Philadelphia, 1924-1925. She married Ashton Sanborn, whom she had met in Palestine, on December 25, 1924, and continued her work in Philadelphia until the end of the year. After moving to Boston she worked at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital. When the Sanborns' daughter Sarah was born in 1928, AGS gave up her work as a bacteriologist and turned to volunteer work. She was first vice-president of the Cambridge League of Women Voters, was editor of its publication Items, and helped to organize LWV lobbying for the Lend Lease Act in Massachusetts. In the late 1930s and 1940s she was involved in refugee work with the United Jewish Appeal and Spanish Refugee Aid. She was co-founder and later president of the Cambridge Community Center, and a member of the Home Industries Department and the Alliance of Settlements. She supported civil rights and civil liberties through the American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund.
In 1933 the Sanborns moved from Boston to 7 Meadow Lane, Cambridge, to enable their daughter to attend Shady Hill School. They then lived at 147 Brattle Street (1940-1970); following her husband's death, AGS moved to 1010 Memorial Drive. She died in 1984.
Cyrus Ashton Rollins Sanborn, archaeologist and museum administrator, was born in Rochester, New Hampshire, on March 13, 1882, the only child of George Hobbs Sanborn and Lillian Knight (Hodgdon) Sanborn. The Sanborns were a long-established New Hampshire family who traced their ancestry back to Alfred the Great. On the death of his father in 1888, LKHS and CARS moved to Massachusetts and CARS attended Somerville Latin High School. He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Harvard in 1905, attended the Harvard Graduate School, 1907-1909, and received his A.M. in 1908. He held a number of fellowships at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1909-1912 (where he was also executive secretary, 1911-1912), including the Charles Eliot Norton fellowship from Harvard, 1909-1910, and the Sheldon Traveling Fellowship. He studied at the University of Munich in Germany (1913-1914), traveled extensively in Greece, and took part in excavations at Corinth and elsewhere. He was appointed Assistant Field Director of the University Museum (Philadelphia) expedition to Egypt, 1915-1920, with leave of absence 1918-1919, when he served as executive secretary to the American Red Cross Commission to Palestine. From 1920-1925 he was editorial secretary to Dr. George A. Reisner, leader of the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Egyptian expedition. In 1923 he was appointed librarian of the MFA and, in 1925, Secretary of the Museum. He was editor of the Boston Museum Bulletin, 1925-1952, and Education Officer, 1934-1942. On his retirement he became acting Editor-in-Chief of the t 1952-1953, and editor of the Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt. His publications include book reviews and articles on Egyptian archaeology, many published in the Boston Museum Bulletin.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
This multi-generational collection of family papers is divided into the following three series:
I. Photographs of AGS, CARS, and their families, #1-12
II. Papers of Agnes (Goldman) Sanborn #13-78. Biographical and autobiographical material on the Adler-Goldman families; genealogical data; personal correspondence of AGS with friends and family documenting AGS's college career at Bryn Mawr, work with the American Red Cross in Palestine, courtship, marriage and family life, and later career as civic activist and volunteer; also included are AGS's scientific publications.
III. Papers of Cyrus Ashton Rollins Sanborn, #79-198. Clippings; genealogical data about the Sanborn, Brewster, Hobbs, Knight, and Hodgdon families; 19th century Sanborn family papers including Civil War diary of Colonel Cyrus King Sanborn; correspondence between CARS and his mother, wife, and daughter; professional correspondence and publications; papers of Sarah (Sanborn) Moench. |
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