Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, publications, and an album related to Professor Leo Lesquereux's family history, with a focus on the Young family. Correspondence is mostly from Leo Lesquereux to his granddaughter Ida Earhart Young, as well as letters from Lesquereux's daughter Anna Lesquereux Earhart to her daughter, Ida Earhart. Photographs include cartes de visite of the Elmer Eichener family including Great Aunt Aimee as a girl, N. Deleray, Countess Von...

Scope and Contents This collection holds material related to Professor Leo Lesquereux and his grand daughter Ida Earhart. Materials related to Lesquereux include notes, correspondence, lectures, and two diaries one from 1860 and another from 1872. The diaries document Lesquereux's daily activities, which include observations from his own research as well as on the research of others. The 1860 diary is in both English and French and the 1872 diary is in English. Items related to Ida Earhart include an autograph...