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    American Conservatory at Fontainebleau records, Catalog Record Only The bulk of the collection is comprised of student applications. Also featured are publicity materials, other administrative records, and publications documenting the activities of the Fontainebleau Alumni Association. The Student Applications series contains applications that students submitted for the music and fine arts schools between 1947 and 1980. While many applications include students' photographs, résumés, petition and reference letters, college and university transcripts, G....
    • Contributor: Rawson, Thérèse Casadesus - Glass, Philip - Raposo, Joe - Tailleferre, Germaine - Grantham, Donald - Casadesus, Robert - Conservatoire Américain De Fontainebleau - Milhaud, Darius - Boulanger, Nadia - Hindemith, Paul ... Rawson, Thérèse Casadesus - Glass, Philip - Raposo, Joe - Tailleferre, Germaine - Grantham, Donald - Casadesus, Robert - Conservatoire Américain De Fontainebleau - Milhaud, Darius - Boulanger, Nadia - Hindemith, Paul - Makris, Andreas - Talma, Louise - Hailstork, Adolphus C. - Widor, Charles-Marie - Copland, Aaron - Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1922
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    Sergei Rachmaninoff archive, Catalog Record Only The Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive contains material related to his life and career after he and his family left Russia in 1917 to establish themselves in the United States. Of particular importance are Rachmaninoff's holograph music manuscript scores and sketches, representing his compositional process and creative thought during the last half of his life. These scores include not only manuscript and published scores of Rachmaninoff's...
    • Contributor: Satina, Sophia - Rachmaninoff, Sergei - Rachmaninoff, Natalie - Bertensson, Sergei
    • Date: 1872
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    Autograph letter from Nadia Boulanger, Paris, to Robert Lyon, Paris, Catalog Record Only Holograph, in ink, signed. Title devised by cataloger. The material described in this catalog record is located in the Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase; Schubertiade Music & Arts; July 31, 2015.
    • Contributor: Lyon, Robert - Boulanger, Nadia
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    European Mission and Cooperative Acquisitions Project series, Library of Congress archives,
    Library of Congress archives, European Mission and Cooperative Acquisitions Project series | Library of Congress. European Mission records | Library of Congress. Cooperative Acquisitions Project records Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence, memoranda, lists of publications, index cards, printed matter, and other records documenting the efforts of the Library of Congress European Mission (Mission to Germany) and the Cooperative Acquisitions Project to collect, review, and acquire publications in Europe during and immediately following World War II as well as to organize the distribution and shipment of these materials to participating libraries in the United States....
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress Mission to Germany - Library of Congress. Cooperative Acquisitions Project
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    Paul Wilstach collection of Richard Mansfield papers,
    Richard Mansfield papers | Paul Wilstach papers Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence, writings, scrapbooks, and other papers of or relating to the actor Richard Mansfield who was noted for introducing the works of Henrik Ibsen and Bernard Shaw to American audiences. The collection was compiled by his friend and secretary, author Paul Wilstach, and includes source material for and manuscript of Wilstach's biography, Richard Mansfield, The Actor and the Man (1908). Also includes correspondence between...
    • Contributor: Mansfield, Richard - Wilstach, Paul
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    E.G. Squier papers,
    Ephraim George Squier papers Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence, business records, diplomatic records, articles, lectures, and other writings, reference and bibliographic notes, drawings, maps, scrapbooks of clippings, and other papers relating to Squier's diplomatic career as U.S. chargé d'affairs in Central America (1849-1858), U.S. commissioner to Peru (1863-1865), and Honduran consul general in New York, N.Y. (1863-1873). Includes material pertaining to the Honduran legation in Washington, D.C. (chiefly 1860-1863) and particularly to...
    • Contributor: Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George)
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    Records concerning the Danish West Indies, Catalog Record Only Chiefly records concerning British depredations on commerce of the Danish West Indies during the American Revolution. Also includes an appointment to office (1823 August 12) and memorabilia.
    • Contributor: Danish West Indies
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    George Middleton papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, speeches, lectures, literary manuscripts including books and plays, articles, subject file, research material, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Middleton's career as a playwright, author, and copyright specialist at the U.S. Dept. of Justice. Subjects include the protection of foreign and domestic playwrights' monetary and literary rights in the publication and production of their works, Robert...
    • Contributor: Middleton, George
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    Treaty of Ghent collection, Catalog Record Only Photograph of the former home of the Carthusians in Ghent where the Treaty of Ghent (1814 December 24) was signed; photograph of the house where the Americans commissioned to sign the treaty stayed; photocopies of certificates of election of the American commissioners to honorary memberships in Belgian societies; photocopies of portraits and sketches of the commissioners by P. van Huffel; and memorandum (1936 March...
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    Waldemar Gurian papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, notes, writings by Gurian and others, newspaper clippings, reviews of his books, and other papers documenting Gurian's career after his arrival in the United States to become a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. Topics include bolshevism, totalitarianism, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, contemporary Catholicism in France, and Catholic writers and intellectuals. Also includes material relating to a newsletter,...
    • Contributor: Gurian, Waldemar - Hürten, Heinz
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    Belle Brown collection, Catalog Record Only The collection contains correspondence with performers and pedagogues, including Artôt, Lucca, Frieda Hempel, Arnold Rosé, and Anton Rubinstein; and with Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf who hired Brown to sing at the Weimar Court Theatre. In addition, there are photographs and prints of Brown, and composers, performers, musicians, and other influential figures in European musical society around the turn of the century. The collection also...
    • Contributor: Brown, Belle
    • Date: 1865
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    Emilie Lacoste to Andrew Jackson
    • Contributor: Lacoste, Emilie - Jackson, Andrew
    • Date: 1815-01-01

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    B.F. Stevens & Brown, Ltd., catalogue-index and facsimiles of manuscripts relating to America, Catalog Record Only Catalogue-index of manuscripts in foreign archives and facsimiles of manuscripts relating to America.
    • Contributor: B.F. Stevens & Brown, Ltd
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    James Grant of Ballindalloch papers Catalog Record Only Correspondence; diaries; military commissions; regimental returns; financial, land, and plantation records; parliamentary acts and speech; lists; maps and plans; and other papers documenting Grant's activities related to North America and the West Indies, including military service in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, participation in military expeditions against Cherokee Indians in 1760-1761, his governorship of East Florida from 1763 to 1773,...
    • Contributor: Grant, James
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    Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty records, Catalog Record Only Records of the High Court of Admiralty and colonial Vice-Admiralty courts including libels, allegations, indictments, exhibits, interrogatories, depositions, proceedings, commissions, claims, attestations, affidavits, ships papers, intercepted letters, and other records from the Criminal Courts as well as Instance and Prize Courts. Documents colonial administration in Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia, and other territories. Topics include piracy...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty
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    Henry William Ellsworth papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly correspondence and duplicates of diplomatic dispatches received and sent while Ellsworth was U.S. chargé d'affaires in Sweden and Norway. Correspondents include George Bancroft, Friherre Jöns Jacob Berzelius, James Buchanan, Theodore S. Fay, Chauncey A. Goodrich, Gansevoort Melville, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Benjamin Silliman, and members of the Ellsworth family.
    • Contributor: Ellsworth, Henry William
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    Charles Henry Fromuth papers, Catalog Record Only Diaries, autobiographical manuscripts, exhibition catalogs, newspaper clippings, paint palettes, and other papers relating principally to Fromuth's life and work as an American expatriate artist living in France.
    • Contributor: Fromuth, Charles Henry
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    Jan Papánek papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, diary, speeches, reports, transcripts of radio broadcasts, biographical material, newspaper clippings, photographs, map, and other papers relating to Papánek's years in the U.S. as representative of the Czechoslovak government in exile during World War II and to his service in the United Nations (1945-1948). Includes material pertaining to the democratic movement and government of Czechoslovakia and to communist activities and takeover of...
    • Contributor: Masaryk, T. G. (Tomáš Garrigue) - Beneš, Edvard - Zatkovich, Gregory Ignatius - Papánek, Jan - Masaryk, Jan
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    John Bigelow papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, writings, research notes, photostatic copies of manuscripts in foreign archives, bibliographical material, pamphlets, clippings, maps, drawings, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to canals, especially the Panama Canal and Suez Canal. Includes material pertaining to the Nicaragua Canal, Tehuantepec Canal, Saint Lawrence Seaway, and canal tolls. Subjects include Robert E. Lee; the U.S. Constitution; American Revolution, especially the Saratoga Campain, N.Y., 1777; U.S....
    • Contributor: Isthmian Canal Commission (U.S.) - Bigelow, John
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    Eugène Méjan papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly correspondence and reports of Eugène Méjan, French consul in New Orleans, La.; Thomas Overton Moore, governor of Louisiana; John T. Monroe, mayor of New Orleans; and officers of the the Légion Française and the Brigade Française during the occupation of New Orleans by Union forces under General Benjamin F. Butler. Subjects include the service of foreign volunteer organizations in New Orleans before and...
    • Contributor: Méjan, Eugène
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    Henri Gratien Bertrand to Andrew Jackson, October 7, 1843
    • Contributor: Bertrand, Henri Gratien - Jackson, Andrew
    • Date: 1843-10-07

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    John Davis Batchelder collection of manuscripts, Catalog Record Only Autographs, letters, official documents, writings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers of prominent historical figures in the arts, sciences, and politics of the Western world. Persons represented in the collection include Honoré de Balzac, Catherine II (Empress of Russia), Albert Einstein, Henry VIII (King of England), Louis XIV (King of France), Peter I (Emperor of Russia), Auguste Rodin, and various presidents including Thomas Jefferson,...
    • Contributor: Batchelder, John Davis - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
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    Filippo Mazzei papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly correspondence with John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Marquis de Lafayette, James Monroe, and Edmund Randolph. The largest group of letters is from Thomas Jefferson and includes the "Mazzei letter" (1796 April 24), in which Jefferson criticizes Federalist leaders.
    • Contributor: Mazzei, Filippo
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    Shirley Horn papers, Catalog Record Only The collection contains printed music, business records, programs, clippings, and photographs. The Music and Lyric Sheets series is divided into two subseries. The Music subseries consists primarily of printed and photocopied piano-vocal scores that either contain Horn's annotations or represent songs that she recorded. Lyric sheets and letters that accompanied music are laid in with their respective titles. The Lyric Sheets subseries contains lyric...
    • Contributor: Coates, Carroll - Bergman, Marilyn - Marsalis, Wynton - McRae, Carmen - Bergman, Alan - Williams, Steve - Bennett, Richard Rodney - Ables, Charles - Marsalis, Branford - Davis, Miles - Carter, Ron - Thielemans, Toots - Mercer, Johnny - Horn, Shirley
    • Date: 1935
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    Billy Strayhorn music manuscripts and estate papers, Catalog Record Only The activities of the Strayhorn estate, Billy Strayhorn Songs, Inc. (B.S.S.I.), are documented in an expansive series of business papers that account for nearly half of all collection materials. These span from the mid-1960s (Strayhorn's will and the establishment of his estate) through 2015 and largely consist of royalty statements and licensing agreements from organizations such as ASCAP, Tempo Music, Music Sales, and Campbell...
    • Contributor: Morris, Gregory A. - Ellington, Duke - Strayhorn, Billy - Henderson, Luther - Billy Strayhorn Songs, Inc - Leur, Walter Van De
    • Date: 1918