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    Cosby family papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Journals kept by Frank C. Cosby as captain's clerk on a voyage (1 volume, 1857-1858) patrolling African waters to intercept slave ships and on a Mediterranean voyage (2 volumes, 1860-1861) during which he recorded the resignation of several officers upon receiving word of South Carolina's secession and the start of the Civil War in the United States. Two notebooks (1917 April 14-May 14) kept...
    • Contributor: Cosby, Spencer - Cosby, Frank C. (Frank Cervill) - Cosby Family - Spencer, William Clayton
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    Lewis Tappan papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, letterbooks, journals, notebooks, autobiographical and genealogical material, scrapbook, and other papers chiefly reflecting Tappan's activities in the antislavery movement. Documents his interest in African American education, the colonization of freedmen in Africa, the role of the Christian in the abolition movement, and religion especially Calvinist and Unitarian theology. Subjects include the annexation of Texas; efforts for the release from custody of the African...
    • Contributor: Tappan, Lewis
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    Carter Godwin Woodson papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Papers of prominent African Americans, correspondence, writings, research files, business records, and other papers relating to Woodson's leadership of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) and to scholarship and publishing in the field of African and African-American history. Part I, 1803-1936 (bulk 1830-1927), was assembled by Woodson who collected and preserved primary sources on African American history as executive...
    • Contributor: Clark, John T. - McKinlay, Whitefield - Tanner, Benj. T. (Benjamin Tucker) - Woodson, Carter Godwin
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    American Colonization Society records, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, financial and business papers, reports, and miscellaneous material relating to administrative and financial matters, membership, slavery and status of slaves in the pre-Civil War period, and emigration, colonization, and education in Liberia. Includes William McLain's papers and letterbooks of the Massachusetts Colonization Society. Correspondents include J. Ashmun, one of the society's early colonial agents; Stephen Allen Benson; Thomas Buchanan; Elliott Cresson; Thomas R....
    • Contributor: American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States - American Colonization Society - Massachusetts Colonization Society - McLain, William
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    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People records,
    NAACP records Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, constitutions, bylaws, charters, speeches, testimony, writings, reports, scripts, policy statements, notes, legal case files, resolutions, legislation, questionnaires, surveys, lists, annual convention files, itineraries, contracts, proposals, publicity files, financial records, biographical material, subject files, publications, manuals, handbooks, printed matter, songs, awards, certificates, directories, daily mail sheets, certificates, awards, flags, photographs, maps, and other records. Material in digital format includes databases, software, radio...
    • Contributor: Gilbert Jonas Company - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Washington Bureau - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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    James R. Doolittle papers,
    James Rood Doolittle papers Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, and other papers chiefly concerning Doolittle's career as a U.S. senator and as a lawyer. Subjects include slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, resettlement of African Americans in Africa, and political reaction in the Midwest to Andrew Johnson's veto of congressional measures in 1866. Other subjects include Radicalism and the Republican Party, tariff issues, and bimetallism. Correspondence with U.S. Secretary of...
    • Contributor: Doolittle, James R. (James Rood)
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    W. Averell Harriman papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, statements and writings, business records, political files, diplomatic accounts, family papers, architectural and mechanical drawings, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers documenting Harriman's career in business, finance, politics, and public service, particularly during the Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter presidential administrations. Major topics include the defeat of Germany in World War II, Soviet-American relations, Marshall Plan, North Atlantic...
    • Contributor: Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell)
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    Interview with Smith Simpson Correspondence, oral history interview, writings, subject files, family papers, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Simpson's career as a labor and industrial relations expert, educator, and diplomat, as well as his efforts, late in his diplomatic career and following his retirement, to improve the quality of American diplomacy. Documents his work as a labor and industrial relations expert prior to World...
    • Contributor: Simpson, Smith - Crowley, John J., Jr - Simpson, R. Smith - Kennedy, Charles Stuart
    • Date: 1991-05-13