Emerson family papers

This collection contains papers of certain members of the Emerson family, especially regarding their connections to Beloit College.

Beloit College professor Joseph Emerson's papers include correspondence, addresses, American Education Society information, bank books and financial matters, bills and receipts, family letters, genealogies, journals, memorials, personal notes, photographs, publications, sermons, Skull and Bones Society (at Yale) information, will and testament.

Art curator Helen Brace Emerson's papers include correspondence, lecture notes, papers, photographs, and recollections. There is a large amount of documentation about establishing and curating Art Hall (which became the Wright Museum of Art), and particularly well represented are materials about the "College Portraits," paintings of various Beloit College alumni, faculty, administrators, and benefactors.

Ralph Emerson's papers contain correspondence from 1798-1839. Many other Emerson extended family members have correspondence in this collection as well.

Helen B. Emerson – Art Hall correspondence 1877-1935
Helen B. Emerson – College portraits correspondence 1892-1925
Joseph Emerson correspondence 1840-approximately 1926 (Clara Emerson's correspondence 1900-1926)
Joseph Emerson subject files up to 1955 (newspaper clipping)
Ralph Emerson correspondence 1798-1839
Emerson family correspondence 1790-1860