Chapter XI

This collection documents the mostly professional activities of Dr. Louise Sherwood McDowell. It includes photographs, correspondence, published materials, and notes related to her government defense work and defense courses taught at Wellesley College, alumnae association planning, and Dr. McDowell’s many travels. Of note is materials related to the now declassified Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard University, original drawings from “Very High-Frequency Techniques,” signed correspondence with many notable contemporary scientists, including Alexander Graham Bell. Of note are materials documenting her June-August 1914 trip to Holland and Germany, which describes the breaking out of World War I while she was staying in a small German town, and her successful attempt to get back to America.