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The Atkins Family in Cuba:
A Photograph Exhibit
by Megan K. Friedel, MHS Photograph Cataloger

  Introduction 
  Edwin and Katharine Atkins
  E. Atkins & Co.'s Estates in Cuba
  Snapshots of Cienfuegos, Cuba
  Life and Work at the Soledad Plantation
  The Harvard Botanical Station
  Sources for Further Research
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Sources for Further Research

"Atkins Family Photographs, ca. 1884-ca. 1958: Guide to the Photograph Collection." Massachusetts Historical Society. Click here to access the online finding aid to this collection.Robert M. Grey and Thomas Barbour holding two types of papaya cross-bred by Grey, Harvard Botanical Garden, Soledad, Cuba

"Atkins Family Papers, 1845-1950; bulk: 1870-1926: Guide to the Collection." Massachusetts Historical Society. Click here to access the online finding aid to this collection.

"Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum. Records of the Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum, 1899-1954 (inclusive): A Finding Aid." Arnold Arboretum Library and Archives, Harvard University. Click here to access the online finding aid to this collection.

Benjamin Allen.  A Story in the Growth of E. Atkins & Co. and the Sugar Industry in Cuba. New York: E. Atkins, 1925.

Edwin F. Atkins.  Sixty Years in Cuba.  Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1926.

Helen Atkins Claflin.  A New England Family.  Belmont, Mass.: Privately printed, 1956.

Rebekah E. Pite.  "The Force of Food: Life on the Atkins Family Sugar Plantation in Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1884-1900." Massachusetts Historical Review 5 (2003): 59-93.





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