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    Quilt Alliance, Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories interviews collection,
    Alliance for American Quilts interview collection | Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories Catalog Record Only
    This collection consists of sound recordings, transcripts and photographic images documenting interviews conducted as a part of Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories (QSOS) project. QSOS is one of several projects and partnerships created by the Quilt Alliance in an effort to preserve, document, and share the lives and stories of quilters and quiltmaking. The project began in 1999 and continued through 2016. QSOS...
    • Contributor: Quilt Alliance - Pritchard, Gayle A. - Musgrave, Karen S. - International Quilt Festival/Houston - University of Delaware. Center for Material Culture Studies - Herman, Bernard L.
    • Date: 1999
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    Washington Irving Chambers papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, logbooks, subject files, printed matter, blueprints, photographs, and other papers relating to Chambers's service in the U.S. Navy and with the Greely Relief Expedition to the Arctic in 1884 and the Nicaragua Canal survey expedition of 1884-1885. Documents his service aboard the USS Pensacola (screw steamer) and USS Portsmouth (sloop of war) as well as at the Naval War College (U.S.), New...
    • Contributor: Chambers, Washington Irving
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    Julius Deming papers, Catalog Record Only Account book (68 pages) containing commissary accounts (1778 June 18-1780 October 28) of Deming, commissary of issues employed with Henry Champion, deputy commissary general for the Eastern Dept. of the Continental Army. Entries relate to Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York drovers and their delivery of stock to various encampments.
    • Contributor: Deming, Julius
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    Christopher French papers, Catalog Record Only Three journals (1756-1764 and 1776-1778) kept by French while serving with the British Army in America. The first segment covers his service during the French and Indian War, especially during the siege of Louisbourg. Includes descriptions of New York City, Philadelphia, Princeton, Trenton, and Albany, as well as accounts of journeys through Canada and a trip to South Carolina during which conferences with various...
    • Contributor: French, Christopher
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    James M. Varnum and John Stark papers,
    James M. Varnum papers | James Mitchell Varnum papers Catalog Record Only
    Volume (ca. 130 pages) consisting of weekly returns for the Continental Army brigades of Gen. James Varnum and Gen. John Stark (1728-1822) at Peekskill, N.Y., Valley Forge, Pa., and Providence, R.I., and vicinity.
    • Contributor: Varnum, James M. (James Mitchell) - Stark, John
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    William L. Marcy papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, commonplace book, diary (1831-1857), draft of an autobiography, drafts of diplomatic dispatches, drafts in Marcy's handwriting of presidential messages to Congress (1854-1856), and other papers relating to Marcy which were collected and compiled by Henry Barrett Learned. Materials cover such topics as Marcy's career as a member of the cabinets of presidents James K. Polk and Franklin Pierce; New York state and national...
    • Contributor: Marcy, William L. (William Learned)
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    Charles Follen McKim papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, diary transcript, notes, legal and financial records, sketches, drawings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the firm of McKim, Mead, & White, New York, New York. Documents McKim's designs for the Boston Public Library and Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass.; Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus and the University Club, New York, New York; Rhode Island State House, Providence, Rhode Island; restoration...
    • Contributor: McKim, Charles Follen
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    Hezekiah Smith papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, sermons, addresses, diaries, and other documents relating to Smith's pastoral work in New England, his experiences as a chaplain during the Revolution, especially in New York and Massachusetts, and to his work as a board member and co-founder of Rhode Island College (later Brown University).
    • Contributor: Smith, Hezekiah
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    Samuel Brugger diaries and genealogy,
    Samuel Brugger papers Catalog Record Only
    Diaries kept by Brugger relating chiefly to his work as a farmer, railroad engineer, and schoolteacher living in Unionville, Pa. Subjects include local schools; the Methodist Church; the migration of birds; Brugger's collection of minerals, plants, and preserved animals; natural history; and railroads. Brugger discusses his work as railroad surveyor as well as his work as engineer on the construction of the Boston, Hartford,...
    • Contributor: Brugger, Samuel
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    Journal of a passage from New York to Boston, Catalog Record Only Journal (1786 December 3-13; 20 pages) by an unknown person recording a trip by packet from New York to Providence, R.I., with a stop at Newport, and then by sleigh through Attleboro and Dedham, Mass., to Boston.
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    Ephraim Squier journal,
    Ephraim Squier papers Catalog Record Only
    Journal (1775 September 7-November 25) kept by Squier on a march with his battalion (under the command of Roger Enos) from Cambridge, Mass., to Quebec via the Kennebec River as part of Benedict Arnold's Canadian invasion forces. Also, account (1777 September 4-November 2) of another march from Providence, R.I., to Albany, N.Y., including references to the battles at Saratoga and Burgoyne's surrender.
    • Contributor: Squier, Ephraim
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    Joseph Spencer papers, Catalog Record Only Orderly book containing correspondence and general orders of Gen. Spencer and brigade orders of Gen. Joseph Palmer (1716-1788) issued from camp at Tiverton, R.I. (1777 October 2-27). Includes references to Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga, letters of John Nixon and Jeremiah Powell, and a return (1775 August 17) of Col. Theophilus Cotton's regiment.
    • Contributor: Spencer, Joseph