The Papers of Elizabeth H. Burrows, 1916-2002

The records in this collection contain correspondence, financial documents, ephemera, and a wide array of personal material from the lives Elizabeth H. Burrows and her husbands, Philip A. Slamon and H. Morris Burrows.

As art collectors, the Burrows kept careful records of their collections of American silver, jewelry, Delft pottery, and Chinese enamels. Documents related to their collections include correspondence to dealers and museums regarding loans, appraisals, and acquisitions; inventories of items on loan; and records of the Burrows' acquisitions and sales. A subseries of research material is comprised of clippings, catalogues, and appraisals of artworks, as well as records and correspondence relating to the silver on loan at the Clark and general communications on the Clark’s activities and correspondence with director Michael Conforti.

The personal materials in the collection include historical items related to the families of Elizabeth and Morris Burrows, Philip A. Salmon, and their extended social networks of friends and relations. Holidays and vacations taken by Burrows are represented by detailed itineraries, ephemera, and typed travel diaries which provide Burrows' impressions of sites visited in Europe, Asia, and throughout the United States.

Scrapbooks belonging to Morris Burrows, his late wife Eunice Sage Burrows, and Sage's father Darrow Sage, depict the lives of their families in the early part of the twentieth century. Philip A. Salmon’s World War II photography scrapbook documents events and sites in western Europe in 1944 and 1945, including images of Paris' liberation and celebrations accompanying VE Day.

Personal ephemera in the collection includes small collections of medals, pins, and jewelry; World War II service medals; the high school and college yearbooks of Elizabeth and Morris Burrows and Eunice Sage; a barometer and two silver objects; an engraved cup and a bowl; photographs of collectible automobles cars, church and social activities, college reunion documents, and research on local history.