Clarence G. Campbell Collection
Scope and Contents
The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives houses the personal papers of Clarence Gordon Campbell. The collection ranges from 1923 to 1938. The Collection is entirely comprised of Clarence G. Campbell’s Personal Papers and all of his papers are contained under one record group. This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, reprints, published journals, and speeches/addresses. His career as eugenicist, scientist, and writer is well documented in this collection.
Dates
- Creation: 1923 - 1939
Creator
- Campbell, Clarence G., 1868-1956 (Person)
Usage Restrictions
Archival materials may be used for research purposes only. Usage of material to support decisions about the person who is the subject of the materials, or in a way that causes substantial damage or distress to them is prohibited. When visiting the physical repository, archival materials must remain in the archival reading area. Item duplication is to be done by archivists. Fees are applied to copies made. Digital photography is permitted by users. Due to the very fragile nature of some materials in this collection, some are available through photocopies, while still others must be used under the supervision of an archivist.
Biographical / Historical
Campbell was born Clarence Gordon Campbell on April 28, 1868 in Marshall Field, Indiana. He married Helen Fahnestock and on January 28, 1897, the couple had one daughter, Helen Campbell. Helen would go on to marry Captain Clarence G. Michalis, 104th Field Artillery Division, and have a son named Clarence F. Michalis.
Campbell graduated from Wabash College with honors in 1883. He was a member of the Indiana Gamma chapter of the Phi Kappa Psi society. He earned his Ph.B. from Michigan in 1888 and his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1890. Campbell served as an outpatient physician at Bellevue Hospital until 1898 and as a visiting physician at New York Hospital from 1897 until 1900 before opening his own practice. He traveled in Asia and the Pacific Islands serving as a physician and studying racial traits.
Campbell served as the first president of the Eugenics Research Association, starting from its incorporation in 1928. He was also the president of the American Eugenics Society in the late 1920s. He was a regular contributor to Eugenical News, the official publication of The Eugenics Research Association, and Eugenics, the official publication of American Eugenics Society. In 1925, he published "Common Wealth: a study in social philosophy" through The Century Co. He was a major proponent of the creation of a Eugenics Center at The Carnegie Institute of Washington in Cold Spring Harbor.
Campbell spoke at numerous congresses and conferences on the subject of eugenics and helped organize the International Congresses on Eugenics. He was a member of the Genetic Association, the Social Hygiene Society, the Sociology Society, the American Institute, the Galton Society and the International Council on Eugenics. He was a fellow of the British Eugenics Society as well as a director and honorary president of the Eugenics Research Institute.
Extent
3 boxes (1 linear foot)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Clarence G. Campbell Collection documents the career of Clarence G. Campbell, noted eugenicist and first president of the Eugenics Research Association. The collection consists of typescripts or reprints of articles, news clippings, ephemera, and letters.
Arrangement
RThe finding aid for this collection has been arranged into four series: Correspondence, Manuscripts, Reprints, and Ephemera. The Ephemera Series also contains published journals.
The Correspondence Series is arranged alphabetically by the last name of the party Campbell was corresponding with. Where letters to multiple parties refer directly to each other, the letters were kept together and additional corresponding parties are noted in the finding aid.
Most of the manuscripts are not dated. Some manuscripts were grouped together when there was a clear shared topic. Manuscripts that had multiple drafts were given their own folders, while the remaining manuscripts were placed in an uncategorized folder. Some of the manuscripts are for articles that can be found in the reprints series. When manuscripts were accompanied by letters addressing them, they were instead placed in the Correspondence Series. These manuscripts are marked in the finding aid.
The Reprints Series contains several issues of Eugenical News, the official publication of The Eugenics Research Association. Other reprints were divided into those that were written by Campbell and those that were written by others.
The Emphemera Series contains flyers, brochures, handwritten notes, and other assorted papers.
- Series I: Correspondence, 1928-1938
- Series II: Manuscripts, 1923-1936
- Series III: Reprints, 1926-1937
- Series IV: Ephemera, 1929-1932
Provenance
The Clarence G. Campbell Collection was donated by Clarence Michalis (grandson of Clarence G. Campbell) in 2009 via Philip Reilly.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724 Phone: (516) 367-8414 Fax: (516) 367-6843 Email: archives@cshl.edu
Subject
- Campbell, Clarence G., 1868-1956 (Person)
- Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 (Person)
- Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943 (Person)
- Merriam, John C. (John Campbell), 1869-1945 (Person)
- Bacheller, Irving (1859-1950) (Person)
- Baker, O. E. (Oliver Edwin) (1883-1949) (Person)
- Blakeslee, Howard Walter (1880-1952) (Person)
- Cook, Robert C. (Robert Carter) (1898-1991) (Person)
- Cooper, Frank (1869-1946) (Person)
- Crocker, William H. (William Henry) (Person)
- Curtis, Ottis F. (Person)
- Darwin, Leonard (1850-1943) (Person)
- Dublin, Louis I. (Louis Israel), 1882-1969 (Person)
- Fisher, Irving, 1867-1947 (Person)
- Flowers, Robert Lee (1870-1951) (Person)
- Goethe, C. M. (Charles Matthias) (1875-1966) (Person)
- Hodson, Cora B. S. (Cora Brooking Sanders) (Person)
- Huntington, Ellsworth (1876-1947) (Person)
- Johnson, Albert (1869-1957) (Person)
- Keith, Arthur, Sir (1866-1955) (Person)
- Little, C. C. (Clarence Cook) (1888-1971) (Person)
- Lorimer, Frank (1894-1985) (Person)
- Lowden, Frank Orren (1861-1943) (Person)
- Norton, Marion S. (Marion Stephenson) (1888-) (Person)
- Osborn, Frederick Henry (Person)
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1887-1969) (Person)
- Perkins, Harry Innes (1862-) (Person)
- Riddle, Oscar (1877-1968) (Person)
- Spengler, Joseph J. (Joseph John) (1902-1991) (Person)
- Storer, Florence Edith (Person)
- Van der Lyn, Theodore N. (Person)
- Wilmer, William Holland (1863-1936) (Person)
- Carnegie Institution of Washington (Organization)
- Title
- Clarence G. Campbell Collection
- Author
- Finding Aid prepared by Lara E. Tewes Updated by Tom Adams Rewritten by Kate Pigliacelli, 2024
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives Repository
Library & Archives
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
One Bungtown Rd
Cold Spring Harbor NY 11724 USA
516-367-6872
archives@cshl.edu