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Fisher Family Correspondence and Photographs from David Tatlock

• HF-ID: HF2013-34
• Category: Research Files
• Creator: Tatlock, D., Foster, D.R.
• Associated Person: Fisher, R.T.
• Date: 2010 to 2023
• Location: Massachusetts
• Media: Mixed media
• Contents:
  • Correspondence, booklets, journals, photographs, book, photographs. 2 accordion folders.

• Abstract:
  • Folder #1:
  • Fisher Family History.
  • Carter Pond file - Report of the "Carter Pond Company 1926" (photocopy); Carter Pond Company correspondence and policies (laminated); email update from D. Tatlock March 2023
  • Correspondence between David Tatlock and David Foster about the R.T. Fisher Family and Richard T. Fisher. Booklets, journals, bio of R.T. Fisher written by his wife (Georgina Paine Fisher), a photocopy of "An Extracurriculum" of and by Charles Paine Fisher (2006), "The Elevator Story and Other Ups and Downs"
  • by Charles P. Fisher (February 1986). The book "Captains All" by
  • W.W. Jacobs with E.T. Fisher's signature (E.T. Fisher was father of R.T. Fisher). The book is stored in the Archive bookcase.
  • Received from D. Tatlock Feb. 22, 2011 the following booklets: "Collections of the Bershire Historical Scientific Society" 1900 copy was Edward Fisher's. "The Journal of Long Island History" Fall 1975 Ellen Thayer Fisher - Abbott's Sister. and "heir Lives and Times - Wallace Osgood Fenn and Clara Bryce Comstock Fenn" February 1994.
  • 2016 Folder includes a drawing of a blue bird by Anne Fisher for R.T. Fisher (April 31, 1926); Fisher genealogy from the 1890s; a letter from Gifford Pinchot to R.T. Fisher (October 18, 1904);
  • Interlude (additional information about the Fisher genealogy;
  • 2016 Additional Fisher family information - Betty Fenn.
  • 2016 R. Forbes paper "Richard Thornton Fisher 1876-1934 Selections from his publications with a memorial biography by Henry James" trying to find the original copy.
  • List of the births of R.T. Fisher's Great Grandfather's Children.
  • 2017 Correspondence with D.R. Foster about Shaler House, "My Berkshire" and "Stranger in the Woods". Bookmark made by Anne Tatlock. Carter Pond Company boat house correspondence and policies (photocopies).
  • 2017 "My Berkshire" by Eleanor Fisher Grose (Childhood Recollections written for my children and grandchildren). This book has been scanned.
  • 2017 Chapter 18 - General Charles Jackson Paine "The Modern Discoverer of Weston".
  • 2017 Emails on items dropped off at the Forest (RTF's machete, 2 "Life in Letters" and Grandmother's "After Thoughts".
  • 2017 Letter to D.R. Foster about improvements to the School House. Tatlock wants to rent from Harvard Forest. Tatlock's report on the summer of 1981, his job, motorcycles, etc.
  • 2018 Petersham Country Club, Petersham, Massachusetts (1922) booklet.
  • 2011 Carbon copies of 3 letters pertaining to Petersham Country Club business (annual dues, list of officers and directors and property information), 1935.
  • -2018 Returned the book "Unsinkable the History of Boston Whaler" by Matthew D. Plunkett, Foreword by Clint Fisher Crowell. Printed copy of cover photo, inside page with copy right, PP vi-3, and pp 182-183 for the archives. This is Richard T. Fisher, JR.
  • Folder #2:
  • Negatives received from D. Tatlock October 12, 2010 of gardens,
  • rooms, baby with R.T. Fisher, baby with G. Fisher (inside house,
  • outside, baby having a bath), toddler with adults, outside house,
  • getting a haircut, with mother.
  • Photographs received from D. Tatlock November 2016:
  • 1. R.T. Fisher as a baby, youth, adult and framed silhouette.
  • 2. Georgina Paine Fisher as a youth, young lady, in wedding dress, holding a child (R.T. Fisher, Jr.).
  • 3. R.T. Fisher's Relatives (cousins, aunts, uncles), pictures of the Berkshire Home where R.T.F. grew up.
  • 4. R.T. Fisher's dog (Johnny) and one photograph of R.T.Fisher with Johnny in front of the Fisher House, Petersham, MA.
  • 5. Georgina P. Fisher's Relatives - "The General" (C. Jackson Paine) and Sumner Paine (killed at Gettysburg July 3, 1863).
  • 6. Miscellaneous Photographs - Landscapes (some of Algeria 1939), Pittsfield, MA, some with no identification. ca. 1990s color pictures of the Fisher House and photograph of David Perkins of
  • Sunset Lane Farm, Petersham, MA ca. 2012 taken by D. Tatlock.
  • 7. 2017 Photographs of Abbott H. Thayer relatives: Aunt Kate Faulkner, Aunt Annie Handerson, Uncle Henry Henderson and Aunt Maria.
  • 8. 2011 4 Negatives: Child playing in 3 and child and woman in 4th negative. 2 photographs of a woman with a pony. 1 photograph of Georgina Paine with her horse Harlequin (1901). 2 photographs of a garden. 1 photograph of basset hounds. Two postcards of men working - pulling out a stump and planting seedlings. One lantern slide of a Map of Meadow Water Tract.
  • 9. August 11, 2017 Negative of Ellen Bowditch Thayer Fisher (Richard T. Fisher's Mother). Negative has been scanned.
  • Digital image:
  • Afterthoughts by a Grandmother (Georgina Paine Fisher Howland) privately printed for her grandchildren, 1955. Book loaned to Harvard Forest by D. Tatlock, scanned May 2017.

• Related Items:
  • Afterthoughts

• Archives Location: Map Room, stack 6, drawer 4
• Access: Active
• Provenance: David Tatlock donated these items to the Harvard Forest