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Contact by e-mail archives@cshl.edu
(516)367-8414

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The Archives of the Laboratory contain books, papers, correspondence, and photographs relating to the scientific work, the scientists, the buildings, Laboratory history, and the meetings and courses that have been held here, as well as historical Long Island materials. The Archives supports the research of scholars from around the world. We continue to collect materials relating to Dr. James Watson and other CSHL scientists, Laboratory buildings, meetings, courses, events and news stories, and we acquire books on the history of genetics and molecular biology.

Genentech Center for the History of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Collections

Digital Collections

Laboratory Collections

• Photo Archives - some photos that are online.
• Biological Laboratory courses (1889-1923)
• Carnegie Institute of Washington files
• Carnegie Institution scrapbooks of photos (1900s to 1930s)
• Clipping files (newspaper clippings from 1903 to the present)
• CSHL Symposium files
• Charles Davenport and Reginald/Jane(Davenport) Harris files
• Eugenics and Eugenics Record Office materials-
  Some of these materials and materials from other eugenics collections can be seen in the Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement at the DNA Learning Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
• Historical Laboratory maps and building plans
• People files - photographs available.
• Kitty Brehme Warren scrapbooks
• Oral History interviews

Other items of interest:

• CSHL History (on the CSHL page)
• History of the CSHL Carnegie Library
• CSHL Listing of Directors
• Nobelists who attended CSHL Symposia
• History of Science: Archives and Oral History Meeting
  Banbury Center CSHL, 3-5 April 2005

For more specific information on the availability of materials or to arrange an appointment to use the Archives
please contact (516)367-8414 or archives@cshl.edu.
Please consult our Permission and Copyright Policies for any materials you wish to use.