Name/Title
Charles H. Simmons Papers, 1928-1939Entry/Object ID
2016.040Scope and Content
Collection of papers, pamphlets, news clippings, publications and correspondence of Charles H. Simmons, much of which pertains to Polar/Antarctic exploration and Captain Nathaniel Brown Palmer and the Mechanics Burial Ground, 1928-1939.
Folder 1 - materials relating to the Mechanics Burial Ground:
*Quit-claim deed (photocopy), Albert Stanton to Charles H. Simmons, March 1917
*record (photocopy) of "title to land" in the Mechanics Cemetery, Stonington, October 1905-August 1907.
*collection of deeds to the Mechanics Burial Ground and Stonington Cemetery (22), 1907-1908 (includes many stonington names)
*envelope with financial records of the Mechanics Burial Groun, 1905-1907
Folder 2 - materials relating to N.B. Palmer/Arctic and Antarctic Exloration:
*news clipping, The Hartford Courant, "Two Historic Buildings in Stonington," February 24, 1902 - Office of the town clerk and the Wampossett Inn (Womposset).
*Booklet, "Antarctica Discovered by a Connecticut Yankee, Captain Nathaniel Brown Palmer" by Lawrence Martin, Library of Congress, reprinted from the Geographical Review, October 1940
*collection of news clippings re. Admiral Bird's Arctic Exploration
*Two polar maps with notes on recent polar exploration, publised by the American Geographical Society
*Book, Stonington Antarctic Explorers, by Edward Swift Balch with a collection of related news clippings and correspondenceCollection
Charles H. Simmons Papers