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Muller mss

 
Series: Photographs  

 
Scope Note: Arranged chronologically. Mostly contains photographs of Muller, his family, friends and colleagues.
Box 1  
1898?  Hermann J. Muller as a young child.

Copies, original is in the Oversize section

 
ca. 1900  H.J. Muller's father in Manhattan art metal workshop  

 
1906  Hermann J. Muller, age 16  

 
1906  Morris High School, New York. Morris Science Club

[Oversize]

 
1910  Hugo DeVries, standing in a greenhouse.

Photographic postcard

 
1910  Hugo DeVries standing outdoors with his wife and their young child in a baby carriage.

Photographic postcard

 
1913  First data papers  

 
1914?  Jacques Loeb, seated at desk and reading (2)  

 
1916 Hermann J. Muller  

 
1917-1918  Edgar Altenburg, standing outdoors at the University of Texas  

 
1918  Luncheon party for Sturtevant, Columbia University, "The flye room group":

H.J. Muller, Schrader, A.H. Sturtevant, Otto Mohr, Calvin B. Bridges, E. Anderson, Huettner, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Alexander Weinstein, the "Caveman"

 
1918  Julian S. Huxley  

 
ca. 1920  Edgar Altenburg standing outdoors with Frances John (Mrs. Theodore John), and two other people, near Austin, Texas  

 
1922, June  "Group outside the cottage of [?] Sanders, editor of Eugenics Review (the best periodical on the subject)..."

Includes, Hogben, J.S. Huxley, Sanders, stock, Edgar Altenburg and Garstrag

 
ca. 1922  Calvin B. Bridges, standing outdoors  

 
ca. 1922  Cattell, standing outdoors  

 
ca. 1922  Edward Conklin, seated indoors in an office or lab  

 
ca. 1922  Marian Irwin, standing outdoors  

 
1922?  McClung, standing outdoors  

 
ca. 1922  Metz, standing outdoors  

 
1922?  G.H. Parker, sitting outdoors  

 
ca. 1922  Helen Redfield, seated in an office or lab, wearing a white lab coat.  

 
ca. 1922  George Linius Streeter (1873-1948), portrait  

 
ca. 1922  A.H. Sturtevant, standing outdoors  

 
1922  Vavilov and Berg, with three others, sitting outdoors  

 
1922  Seven portraits of unidentified scientists  

 
ca. 1925  Hermann J. Muller, standing outdoors  

 
1926  Group photograph: International Botanical Congress - Agronomy and Genetics Section, Cornell

[Oversize]

 
1926-1927  X-ray data (12 copies)  

 
1927  Hermann J. Muller. Photograph by Bachrach, Fabian  

 
ca. 1927  Pete Oliver working in a lab with an X-ray machine at the University of Texas  

 
1928  Hermann J. Muller, Peter Oliver, and Theophilus Shickel Painter at work in a lab at the University of Texas, Austin  

 
1930?  Professor J. I. Davies standing outdoors with his "Anheuser bush"  

 
ca. 1930  Weier, Nachtheim and Anderson, seated on running board of car  

 
1931  A. Israel Agol working with a microscope in a lab  

 
1931  Solomon Levit, Hermann J. Muller, Carlos Offermann, and A. Israel Agol, in a lab  

 
1932, June  Front page of The Spark  

 
1932?  Ada (Muller) Griesmaier  

 
1932  Twins in Moscow at Levit's Institute for Medico-Genetics (2)  

 
1932  Roberts, Weier, Anderson, Weinstein, Nachtscheim standing outdoors  

 
ca. 1932  Dr. Oscar Vogt, standing outdoors at the Institut fur Gehirnforschung (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research), Berlin  

 
1933  Diploma of Election to the Academy of the U.S.S.R.  

 
1933  Muller, Streeter, Mrs. Vogt, Timofeef, and Dr. Vogt standing outdoors  

 
1934  Institute for Medico-Genetics under construction  

 
1934?  Group portrait, Moscow lab staff  

 
1934?  Anna Rachel Whiting working with a microscope in a lab  

 
1935, Apr.  Hermann J. Muller with N. V. Timofeef-Ressovsky? and Nicolai Ivanovitch Vavilov? in Leningrad, (USSR)  

 
1935, May 17  Namama  

 
1935?  Hermann J. Muller in a lab in Moscow, with A. A. Prokofyeva, Nicolai Ivanovitch Vavilov, Boris Ephrussi, et al.  

 
1935?  Roselee Raffel, working with a microscope in a lab in the USSR  

 
1936, Dec. 23  Muller, H.J. Attack on Lysenko, first page of paper  

 
1936  Daniel Raffel working with a microscope, Institute of Genetics, Moscow  

 
1936?  Nicolai Ivanovitch Vavilov  

 
ca. 1937  Raissa L. Berg, Russian geneticist  

 
1937  Portrait of Lysenko and title page of book  

 
1938, Feb. 26  Group photograph taken in front of the guest house of The Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh, Scotland

[Oversize]

 
1938  Group at a masquerade party:

including Hermann J. Muller, Thea Muller, Frances Albert Eley Crew, Charlotte Auerbach, Guido Pontecorvo, and Peo Koller, Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh

 
ca. 1938  C.D. and Margaret Darlington seated at table; Darlingtons, et al. standing outdoors  

 
1939, May  Thea Muller, Dr. J.M. Robson, Ada Griesmaier, and Mrs. J.M. Robson  

 
1939, Sept.  Phineas Whiting, Anna Rachel Whiting, Mr. and Mrs. Slizynski, standing outdoors at the International Genetics Congress, Edinburgh  

 
1940-1945  Plaque depicting F.A.E. Crew  

 
1942, July 30  J.H. McGregor, signed  

 
1942   Sketch on bracket fungus of Elk Lake in the Adirondacks  

 
1944, Feb. 9  John Buck, HJM, C. Stern, E.W. Schaeffer, S.C. Bishop, E. Adolph, and H.M. Smith in Rochester, NY  

 
1944, May  Hermann J. Muller, taken at UCLA by Hans Reichenbach Professor of Philosophy  

 
1945, Oct. 29  Group portrait taken at the International Geneticists' Conference at John Innes Horticultural Institute, London,

including Hermann J. Muller, Otto Mohr, Sinks, Winge, and Harland

 
1945, Dec. 10  Hermann J. Muller with King Gustav at the Nobel Ceremony, Stockholm  

 
1945-1966  Muller home on 1st Street, Bloomington, IN  

Box 2  
1946, Dec. 5  Hermann J. Muller, James B. Sumner, professor of Bio-chemistry at Cornell and Percy W. Bridgman, professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard, disembarking plane from Sweden after receiving Nobel Prize awards
 
1946  Group portrait of Hermann J. Muller, Tracy M. Sonneborn, Salvador E. Luria, Kenneth Mather, Norman Wingate Pirie, and Ralph E. Cleland in a lab at Indiana University, Bloomington  

 
1946  Hermann J. Muller and daughter Helen  

 
1946  Hermann J. Muller, Thea and daughter Helen  

 
1946  Hermann J. Muller and James Sumner  

 
ca. 1946 or 1947 Hermann J. Muller, Thea and Herman B Wells  

 
ca. 1946 or 1947  Hermann J. Muller, Herman B Wells and Fernandus Payne  

 
1947, Nov. 24  Student technicians in Muller's Lab: Lela Wong, Helen Byers and Doris Polly  

 
1947  Hermann J. Muller  

 
ca. 1947-1948  Hermann J. Muller at baggage claim in unidentified airport  

 
1947-1949  Four views of Hermann J. Muller and the lab staff at Indiana University, Bloomington:

The Kitchen staff; group photo; two female assistants; Muller with two female assistants

 
1948  Salvador E. Luria with a student in a lab  

 
1949  Portrait of Hermann J. Muller  

 
1949  Hermann J. Muller, using a jeweler's loupe lens to observe the contents of a vial  

 
1949  Group portrait of the Zoology staff at Indiana University, Bloomington, including Hermann J. Muller, Tracy M. Sonneborn, Alfred C. Kinsey, and Sears Crowell  

 
1950-1960  Two views of Price home with air raid shelter  

 
1951, Apr. 4  Group photograph: Animal Genetics Society of India

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1951, Apr.  Muller in Japan at conference: group photograph; Muller at blackboard; greeted as VIP at airport  

 
1951  Dr. and Mrs. Taku Komai  

 
1952, Dec.  Daughter Helen at 9 years old, used for X-mas card  

 
1952  Muller with unidentified man  

 
1954  Zoology Department staff, Columbia University  

 
1955, Dec. 21  Photograph of Mars with card "Happy birthday. The red thread slowly weaves its way upwards...Carl Sagan"

[Oversize]

 
1955  Hermann J. Muller teaching the Drosophila laboratory class in Jordan Hall at Indiana University, Bloomington  

 
1955  Dr. Fernandus Payne, Dean of the Graduate School at Indiana University, Bloomington  

 
1957, Mar. 25  Hermann J. Muller portrait  

 
1957, May  Stanley G. Smith, Manna, and S.P. Ray-Chaudhuri, taken at Forest Insect Laboratory, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada  

 
1957  Hermann J. Muller, at age 66  

 
1958, Sept. 8  Hermann J. Muller at a reception given by the USSR delegation at the Hotel Metropole, Geneva, Switzerland at the Geneva Conference - with Glass, Taylor Gustafsson, Alikhanian, et al.  

 
1958?  James F. Crow and family  

 
1958?  Hermann J. Muller, seated in his office  

 
1960, Dec. 28  Five photographs taken at 70th birthday dinner:

Thea Muller and HJM; H. Bentley Glass, Thea and Helen Muller; Edgar Altenburg and H. Bentley Glass; HJM, Cecile and Clarence P. Oliver; Irwin Oster (See: Festschrift volume, pp. 27a - 27c)

 
1960, Dec.  Juan Valencia, lecturing - standing in front of a blackboard and using a pointer; Ruby M. Valencia at work in a lab  

 
1960  Hermann J. Muller at work in the lab, holding glass vials  

 
1960-1967  Hermann J. Muller, Jonas E. Salk and Curt Stern  

 
1961, Apr. 11  Group photograph, including:

Judge Bryan, Urey, Pres. Kintz, Hermann J. Muller, Dean Palfrey and Lamb. Taken at reception preceding Alexander Hamilton awards at Columbia University

 
1962, Sept. 4  Group of people including Hermann J. Muller, Murphy, Pantazis, and White, listening to a speaker at a meeting in Vevey, Switzerland  

 
ca. 1962  Two views of Tracy M. Sonneborn, Hermann J. Muller, and Ganeff Thoday on a panel ("Reform for Teaching of Biology") at a meeting in Vevey, Switzerland  

 
1963  Hermann J. Muller and Jonas E. Salk, sitting together at a book-covered table and talking in the lab  

 
1963  Portrait of Hermann J. Muller, cropped from picture which included Jonas E. Salk  

 
1963  Five views of Hermann J. Muller at work in his lab  

 
1963  Hermann J. Muller at work in lab - drawing from photograph for Scientific Products

[Oversize]

 
1963   Hermann J. Muller with two students at Swarthmore College, Pa.  

 
1963  Hermann J. Muller with graduate student Dale Wagoner  

 
1963  Hermann J. Muller and Thea hiking at Elk Lake  

 
1965  J.J. Kerkis  

 
1965  Gregory Pincus  

 
1966  Manuscript of Muller's last speech, Chicago  

 
1967  Display in Muller's lab including jar with masked crab; close-up of crab  

 
1967  Memorial service exhibit  

 
1967  Muller's office  

 
1967  Dr. Elof Axel Carlson and Dr. Oscar Riddle in Muller's office. (5 views, both color and black & white)  

 
1968, Nov.  Virginia Mauck displaying photographs to be used in a Lilly Library exhibit on Muller  

 
1968  Edgar Altenburg  

 
1968  Five views of exhibit in Tokyo  

 
1968  Muller home, interior view  

 
1969  Genetic damage from radiation (fly sketch)  

 
1969  Two views of High school exhibit  

 
1969  "Ideal Subject is Fruit Fly"  

 
1969  Sonneborn's house  

 
1970, Aug. 26  Salvador E. Luria before giving Muller memorial lecture at Indiana University (portrait and two contact sheets)  

 
1970  Muller exhibit in Jordan Hall  

 
1970  Marcus Rhoades and Salvador E. Luria in Sonneborn's garden  

 
1973, June  Daughter - Helen (Muller) Htun, niece - Ruth (Kenter) McNeil and grandson - Kenneth J. Muller  

 
1974  Charlotte Auerbach  

 
undated, Beal  

 
undated, Cyrus Northrop Memorial Auditorium, University of Minnesota  

 
undated, Genetics Station, Tsarskoye, Selo. Formerly a mansion given by Queen Victoria to Grand Duke Michael Michaelovitch  

 
undated, Dr. Paul Gleess, Göttingen  

 
undated, Dontcho Kostoff (1897-1949), Bulgarian scientist  

 
undated, Jane Lyons, Muller's grandmother  

 
undated, Portrait of Muller by Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. and six proofs

[Oversize]

 
undated, Hermann J. Muller, Leo Szilard, Chisholm? and one other at Kitzbühel conference  

 
undated, E.B. Wilson  

 
undated, Drawing of Sewall Wright  

 
undated, Two unidentified portraits and miscellaneous photographs