Beatrice Momsen Collection
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DONOR:
Beatrice (Bibi) Momsen
SIZE:
13 cubic feet
SCOPE & CONTENT:
Richard Paul Momsen (1890-1964) correspondence, diaries, passports, photographs.
Dorothea Ann Grace (nee Harnecker) Momsen (1806-1984) correspondence, diaries, passports, photographs.
Beatrice Ellen (Bibi) Momsen autobiographical materials including papers, photographs, travel slides, films and artifacts.
Mount Holyoke College; Scandinavian Seminar to Denmark; Columbia University. Personal and Elderhostel travel to: Brazil; Central America; Denmark; Easter Island; Greenland 1960’s-1990’s; Iceland; Norway; Switzerland; Tahiti and French Polynesia, Las Cruces, NM.
Family and ancestral pictures, books, artifacts relating to: Graf Zepellin trip Rio de Janerio to Akron, Ohio, 1933; South America, mostly Brazil 1920’s-2000; Central America
BIOGRAPHY:
Richard Momsen was an international lawyer; born in Milwaukee, WI; law degree from George Washington University; consular service in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; first American admitted to the Brazilian Bar; founder of Momsen, Leonardos e Cia. of Rio de Janerio, Brazil, and Momsen & Freeman of New York City; representation of American firms abroad and their interests to many congressional committees; represented the United States in Congresses relating to trade and Latin America.
Dorothea Momsen was born in Mexico City; wife of Richard Paul Momsen; translator of Luiz Edmundo’s book, Rio in the Time of Vice-roys, and various articles from Portuguese to English; unpublished manuscript on and pictures of Americans from southern U.S. states and Texas who emigrated to Brazil after the US Civil War; privately printed novel based on the same, Bethuna.
Biographical information includes photographs & family trees for the following families:
Gilles; Groth; Grunert; Harnecker, including Laurence Luis Otto Harnecker: Latin American Manager of Singer Sewing Machine Company; Joosty; Marchlein; Mom(m)sen, including William Henry Momsen, Superintendent of Milwaukee House of Corrections; Stone (Beatrice Momsen Stone 1962-1988)