Pamela Melcher Papers (CMS 101)

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Pamela Melcher was a painter born in New York City April 14, 1927. She was the daughter of John Stevens Melcher, Jr., and Betsy Flagg Melcher and the grandaughter of architect Ernest Flagg and Margaret Elizabeth Bonnell Flagg from her mother’s side. CMS 101 is composed of newspapers clippings, correspondence, diaries, poems, and photographs from 1939-1945, when Pamela Melcher was in her adolescence and spending time the estate of her maternal grandfather, Ernest Flagg, at 209 Flagg Place, Staten Island, New York. The building became a seminary for Society of Saint Charles-Scalabrinians and a temporary home for the Center for Migration Studies.

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