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| Title: | Catterall, Helen Tunnicliff and Ralph C. H. Catterall Family. Papers |
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| Dates: | circa 1840s-1956 |
| Size: | 14.5 linear feet (18 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Helen Honor Tunnicliff Catterall (1870-1933), attorney and historian, was born in Macomb, Illinois, one of three daughters of Damon George Tunnicliff (1829-1901) and Sarah A. Bacon (1846-1933). Ralph Charles Henry Catterall (1866-1914), historian, was born in Bolton, England, the son of Ralph C.H. Catterall, Sr. (b. 1840) and Sarah Reed Catterall (b. 1838). The collection consists primarily of papers and photographs of the Catterall family. There are smaller amounts of material from the Tunnicliff family; the Bacon family; and members of the Meade family, who were related to Louise Cadot Catterall. |
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Ralph Charles Henry Catterall (1866-1914), historian, was born in Bolton, England, the son of Ralph C.H. Catterall, Sr. (b. 1840) and Sarah Reed Catterall (b. 1838). The family emigrated to the United States during his childhood. Catterall received bachelor's degrees from Bucknell University (1891) and Harvard University (1892) before completing his studies at University of Chicago, where he received a Ph.D. in history in 1902. He also taught history courses at the university from 1894-1902. In 1902, he became Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University. He became a full professor in 1905, and also served as head of the history department. He was best-known as the author of The Second Bank of the United States (University of Chicago Press, 1902). Catterall died in 1914 at the home of William Lyon Phelps, with whom the family had a long and close friendship.
Helen Honor Tunnicliff Catterall (1870-1933), attorney and historian, was born in Macomb, Illinois, one of three daughters of Damon George Tunnicliff (1829-1901) and Sarah A. Bacon (1846-1933). She received a bachelor's degree from Vassar College and a law degree from Boston University. Her career included work as a graduate fellow in the Department of Political Science at University of Chicago (1893-1894), law practice in Massachusetts and Illinois, teaching history at Cornell University, and research on the history of slavery for the Carnegie Foundation. Her 5-volume Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro was published by the Carnegie Institution 1926.
Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall (1897-1978) was the only child of Helen and Ralph Catterall. He attended Harvard University and served in World War I. He married Louise Fontaine Cadot (1899-1986) in 1923. The couple lived in Richmond, Virginia, where Catterall practiced and taught law. He was appointed to the Virginia State Corporation Commission in 1949, and served until 1973. Catterall published several critical articles on the judicial system.
The collection consists primarily of papers and photographs of the Catterall family. There are smaller amounts of material from the Tunnicliff family; the Bacon family; and members of the Meade family, who were related to Louise Cadot Catterall. The collection is organized into three series:
Series I: Papers, spans circa 1840s-1956. Best represented in this series are Helen Tunnicliff Catterall, Ralph C.H. Catterall, and Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall. Also represented are the family of Sarah A. Bacon; Lila Meade Valentine and the Meade family; Damon G. Tunnicliff; Ruth Tunnicliff; and other members of the Tunnicliff family. Materials include correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, publications, pamphlets, event programs, wedding books, genealogical records, clippings, engravings, place cards and calling cards. Files are arranged by family member, with correspondence among family members collected together.
Series II: Photographs, spans circa 1870s-1920s. There are photograph albums as well as loose prints and negatives. Many of the albums document Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall's childhood and young adulthood. Others contain travel photographs and family snapshots. Represented are the Catteralls, the Tunnicliffs, and their friends and extended family.
Series III: Memorabilia, contains a Catterall family scrapbook from 1899-1900, documenting the family's travels through Europe. In the scrapbook are correspondence and ephemeral items such as menus, tickets, programs, and stationery. This series also contains a lock of an unidentified person's hair.
Series I: Papers |
| Box 1 Folder 1 | Helen Tunnicliff Catterall, autograph books, 1879 |
| Box 1 Folder 2 | Helen Tunnicliff Catterall, correspondence, 1914 |
| Box 1 Folder 3-11 | Helen Tunnicliff Catterall, diaries, 1878-1888 |
| Box 2 Folder 1-8 | Helen Tunnicliff Catterall, diaries, 1889-1895 |
| Box 3 Folder 1-5 | Helen Tunnicliff Catterall, diaries, 1886-1900 |
| Box 4 Folder 1-7 | Helen Tunnicliff Catterall, diaries, 1901-1907 |
| Box 5 Folder 1 | Helen Tunnicliff Catterall, diary, undated |
| Box 5 Folder 2 | Helen Tunnicliff Catterall, piano instruction book, 1879 |
| Box 5 Folder 3 | Helen Tunnicliff Catterall, Russia travel narrative, typescript, 1907 |
| Box 5 Folder 4 | Ralph C. H. Catterall, Andersen School lecture program, undated |
| Box 5 Folder 5 | Ralph C. H. Catterall, autobiographical manuscript, undated |
| Box 5 Folder 6 | Ralph C. H. Catterall, biographical writings and obituaries, circa 1914-1915 |
| Box 5 Folder 7 | Ralph C. H. Catterall, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Sonnets from the Portuguese, circa 1895 |
| Box 5 Folder 8 | Ralph C. H. Catterall, certificates and diplomas, 1892-1903 |
| Box 5 Folder 9 | Ralph C. H. Catterall, Cornell University view book, 1911 |
| Box 5 Folder 10 | Ralph C. H. Catterall, correspondence, 1888-1906 |
| Box 5 Folder 11 | Ralph C. H. Catterall, diary, 1882 |
| Box 5 Folder 12 | Ralph C. H. Catterall, "Ninety Years of St. John's Parish," pamphlet, circa 1914 |
| Box 5 Folder 13 | Ralph C. H. Catterall, Portraits of the Harvard Faculty, 1892 |
| Box 6 Folder 1-4 | Ralph C. H. Catterall, typescripts, undated |
| Box 6 Folder 5 | Ralph C. H. Catterall, Universitaet Berlin handbook, 1902 |
| Box 6 Folder 6 | Ralph C. H. Catterall, University of Chicago convocation program, 1902 |
| Box 6 Folder 7 | Ralph C. H. Catterall, "Woman Suffrage in England," The Cornell Era, 1909 |
| Box 6 Folder 8 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, address book, 1912 |
| Box 6 Folder 9 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, "The Administration of Justice as Affected by Insecurity of Tenure of Judicial and Administrative Officers," typescript, undated |
| Box 6 Folder 10 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, The Bull, 1945 |
| Box 6 Folder 11 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, childhood writings and correspondence, circa 1897-1907 |
| Box 6 Folder 12 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, correspondence, 1949 |
| Box 6 Folder 13 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, correspondence, Edmund Pearson, 1935 |
| Box 6 Folder 14 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, "The Court of St. James's," correspondence and typescript, 1938 |
| Box 6 Folder 15 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, École Alsacienne anniversary pamphlet and student report, 1903 |
| Box 6 Folder 16 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, French lesson book, 1912 |
| Box 6 Folder 17 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, "Judicial Self-Restraint: The Obligation of the Judiciary," American Bar Association Journal, 1956 |
| Box 6 Folder 18 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, New Yorker, 1935 |
| Box 6 Folder 19 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, Reader's Digest, 1935 |
| Box 6 Folder 20 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, "Report of the Judicial Council for Virginia to the General Assembly and Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia," 1949 |
| Box 6 Folder 21 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, "States' Rights and Civil Rights," clipping, 1948 |
| Box 7 Folder 1-4 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, travel journals, 1910 |
| Box 7 Folder 5 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, "William v. North Carolina," Virginia Bar Weekly, 1943 |
| Box 7 Folder 6 | Louise Cadot Catterall, Bryn Mawr College course materials, 1917- 1918 |
| Box 7 Folder 7 | Louise Cadot Catterall, Humble Voyagers: Verses Issued by the Reeling and Writhing Club of Bryn Mawr College, 1919 |
| Box 7 Folder 8-14 | Catterall family, correspondence, 1894-1912 |
| Box 8 Folder 1-4 | Catterall family, correspondence, 1914-1918 |
| Box 8 Folder 5 | Catterall family, correspondence with William Lyon Phelps, 1912- 1945 |
| Box 8 Folder 6 | Catterall family, correspondence with Tunnicliff family, 1918 |
| Box 8 Folder 7 | Catterall family, guest book, 1908-1912 |
| Box 8 Folder 8 | Catterall family, journal, 1897-1901 |
| Box 9 Folder 1-3 | Catterall family, journals, 1902-1907 |
| Box 9 Folder 3 | Catterall family, "London in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth," engravings, undated |
| Box 9 Folder 4 | Catterall family, place cards, undated |
| Box 9 Folder 5 | Catterall family, theater program, Sarah Bernhardt farewell performance, 1892 |
| Box 9 Folder 6-7 | Catterall family, wedding books, circa 1896 |
| Box 9 Folder 8 | Bacon family, birth, death and marriage register, circa 1840s-1850s |
| Box 9 Folder 9 | Ingersoll, I.G. to Chancey S. Higbee, correspondence, 1873 |
| Box 9 Folder 10 | Meade, Lila Valentine, memorial program, 1936 |
| Box 9 Folder 11 | Meade family, "Record of 'M.C'." club book, circa 1887 |
| Box 9 Folder 12 | Tunnicliff, Damon G., memorial program, obituary and calling cards, circa late 19th century-1901 |
| Box 9 Folder 13 | Tunnicliff, Ruth, Alphonse Loisette, Physiological Memory or, The Instantaneous Art of Never Forgetting, 1888 |
| Box 9 Folder 14 | Tunnicliff family, correspondence, undated |
| Box 10 | Tunnicliff family tree, undated |
| Box 10 | Tunnicliff family, photostat of land lease, circa 1792 |
| Box 11 Folder 1 | Unidentified correspondence and bibliography, undated |
| Box 11 Folder 2 | Unidentified Christmas greetings, undated |
Series II: Photographs |
| Box 11 Folder 3-8 | Helen Tunnicliff Catterall, circa 1870s-1910s |
| Box 11 Folder 9 | Helen Tunnicliff Catterall with Helen Starrett Dinwiddie and Katharine Starrett Whitton, circa 1890 |
| Box 11 Folder 10-12 | Ralph C.H. Catterall, circa 1870s-1890s |
| Box 11 Folder 13 | Ralph C.H. Catterall and Helen Tunnicliff Catterall, circa 1896 |
| Box 11 Folder 14-15 | Ralph C.H. Catterall, Thayer Hall dormitory, Harvard University, circa 1892-1893 |
| Box 11 Folder 16-17 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, circa 1897-1920s |
| Box 12 Folder 1-4 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall, circa 1900s-1920s |
| Box 12 Folder 5 | Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall and Helen Tunnicliff Catterall, circa 1900s-1920s |
| Box 12 Folder 6 | Ralph C.H. Catterall, Sr., circa 1905 |
| Box 12 Folder 7 | Catterall family album, circa 1896-1910 |
| Box 12 Folder 8-9 | Catterall family albums, Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall's infancy and childhood, 1897-1900s |
| Box 13 Folder 1 | Catterall family album, Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall's infancy and childhood, 1903-1910 |
| Box 13 Folder 2 | Catterall family album, travel, circa 1890s |
| Box 13 Folder 3-4 | Catterall family albums, Catterall and Tunnicliff families, circa 1890s-1910s |
| Box 14 Folder 1 | Catterall family album, travel in England, circa 1900s |
| Box 14 Folder 2 | Catterall family album, travel in Russia, 1907 |
| Box 14 Folder 3-4 | Catterall family album, circa 1900s-1910s |
| Box 14 Folder 5 | Catterall family album, St. Paul's School and New England travel, circa 1911-1914 |
| Box 15 Folder 1 | Catterall family album, travel, circa 1910s |
| Box 15 Folder 2-3 | Catterall family albums, Harvard University, 1914-1918 |
| Box 15 Folder 4 | Catterall family albums, summer vacations, 1914-1922 |
| Box 16 Folder 1 | Catterall family album, circa 1920s |
| Box 16 Folder 2 | Bacon, William, undated |
| Box 16 Folder 3 | Bacon home, Hillsgrove, Illinois, 1894 |
| Box 16 Folder 4 | Bacon family, unidentified man, undated |
| Box 16 Folder 5 | Richey, Alice Gertrude, 1897 |
| Box 16 Folder 6-7 | Tunnicliff, Damon G., undated |
| Box 16 Folder 8 | Tunnicliff, George, undated |
| Box 16 Folder 9 | Tunnicliff, Ruth M., circa 1880s-1900s |
| Box 16 Folder 10 | Tunnicliff, Sarah Bacon, circa 1870s-1920 |
| Box 16 Folder 11-12 | Tunnicliff family, circa 1870s-1900s |
| Box 16 Folder 13 | Tunnicliff family, Boston, circa 1890-1891 |
| Box 16 Folder 14 | Tunnicliff family home, Macomb, Illinois, 1902 |
| Box 16 Folder 15 | Unidentified home, undated |
| Box 17 | Bacon and Tunnicliff families, album, circa 1890s |
Series III: Memorabilia |
| Box 18 | Catterall family, European travel scrapbook, 1899-1900 |
| Box 18 | Unidentified lock of hair |