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    The Seth MacFarlane collection of the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan archive,
    Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan archive | Ann Druyan papers | Carl Sagan papers Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Correspondence, memoranda, scripts, book drafts and resource material, articles, reports, notes, subject files, course files, organization files, biographical material, clippings, printed matter, slides and transparencies, photographs and negatives, digital files, and other papers documenting Sagan's career as an astronomer, astrobiologist, science educator, television personality, and author. Chronicles his work as a professor at Harvard University; professor of astronomy and space sciences at Cornell University;...
    • Contributor: Druyan, Ann - Sagan, Carl - Macfarlane, Seth
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    Mary Church Terrell Papers The papers of educator, lecturer, suffragist, and civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) consist of approximately 13,000 documents, comprising 25,323 images, all of which were digitized from 34 reels of previously produced microfilm. Spanning the years 1851 to 1962, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1886-1954, the collection contains diaries, correspondence, printed matter, clippings, and speeches and writings, primarily...
    • Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church

    Collection Items: View 767 Items

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    Thomas A. Edison papers,
    Thomas Alva Edison papers Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Correspondence, letters of introduction, and telegrams concerning Edison's inventions such as the electric light, electric pen, graphophone, and phonograph; and sale of letters of patent to the Edison Electric Light Company. Topics include injury caused by cigarettes and a visit from Mark Twain. Correspondents include George H. Bliss, John Dean, and Werner von Siemens.
    • Contributor: Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva)
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    Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright papers,
    Wilbur and Orville Wright papers | Wilbur Wright papers | Orville Wright papers Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Correspondence, diaries, minutes, notebooks, writings, reports, business and legal papers, genealogical material, printed matter, patents, blueprints, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to the invention of the airplane and the development of aviation. Documents the lives and work of the Wright brothers who designed, built, and piloted the first machine to achieve powered, sustained flight in 1903 and the first practical airplane in 1905....
    • Contributor: Wright, Milton - Wright, Wilbur - Wright, Orville - McFarland, Marvin Wilks - Wright Cycle Company - United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics - Wright and Wright
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    Princess Marie Bonaparte Papers Correspondence (300 items; 1,238 images) from psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) to Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962), his analysand, pupil, confidante, and benefactor, forms the entirety of this digital collection. Part of a larger collection of Princess Marie Bonaparte Papers at the Library of Congress, Freud’s letters, telegrams, and cards span the years 1925-1939 and provide an intimate perspective on the last fifteen years of his...
    • Contributor: Bonaparte, Marie

    Collection Items: View 37 Items

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    Jay I. Kislak Collection,
    Jay I. Kislak collection of the archaeology and history of the early Americas Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    The Jay I. Kislak Collection is composed chiefly of archaeological artifacts, rare books, manuscripts, maps, and graphic works of art documenting the earliest history of the lands that would become known as the Americas including the pre-Columbian cultures of the Caribbean and Mesoamerica. Also includes manuscripts and rare books relating to the arrival of Europeans in the Americas and to the history of the...
    • Contributor: Boazio, Baptista - León Y Gama, Antonio De - Lorenzana, Francisco Antonio - Schöner, Johann - Kislak, Jay I. - Waldseemüller, Martin - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Molina, Alonso De - Cortés, Hernán
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    Stuart Eizenstat papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, reports, briefing books, transcripts of interviews, notebooks and notes, research material, subject files, calendars, press releases, clippings, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Eizenstat's writings, especially to his books titled Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II (2003) describing his role in the Holocaust restitution negotiations from 1995 to...
    • Contributor: Eizenstat, Stuart
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    Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond A thematic collection exploring changing models of the universe through time, ideas of life on other words and Carl Sagan’s place in the tradition of science. It features manuscripts, rare books, celestial atlases, newspaper articles, sheet music and movie posters.
    • Contributor: Druyan, Ann - Sagan, Carl - Macfarlane, Seth
    • Date: 1495

    Collection Items: View 351 Items

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    Hannah Arendt Papers The papers of author, educator, political philosopher, and public intellectual Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) constitute a large and diverse collection (25,000 items; 82,597 images) reflecting a complex career. The collection spans the years 1898 to 1977, with the bulk of the material beginning in 1948, three years before Arendt’s naturalization as an American citizen. The papers contain correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, book manuscripts, transcripts of...
    • Contributor: Arendt, Hannah - Blücher, Heinrich
    • Date: 1898

    Collection Items: View 1,552 Items