Search Manuscripts/Mixed Material

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    Moses Dawson papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly correspondence of Dawson, editor of the Cincinnati Advertiser, relating to national political affairs. Subjects include presidential campaigns, Democratic Party politics, the Bank of the United States (1816-1836), Andrew Jackson, and Rachel Jackson. Correspondents include Thomas Hart Benson, Mahlon Dickerson, Andrew Jackson Donelson, Duff Green, William Henry Harrison, Rachel Jackson, Amos Kendall, N. Longworth, Robert Todd Lytle, William L. Marcy, James K. Polk, Roger...
    • Contributor: Dawson, Moses
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    Alexander Ferguson Anderson papers, Catalog Record Only Three volumes of material relating to socially prominent families of Cincinnati, Ohio, including a genealogical narrative of the Anderson family, an autobiographical manuscript by Anderson, and photocopies of clippings relating to various members of the Anderson, Ferguson, Longworth, and Worthington families. Includes material relating to Nicholas Longworth and Larz Anderson.
    • Contributor: Anderson, Alexander Ferguson
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    John McLean papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, opinions and briefs arranged by case name, docket book, file of reports, financial data, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to McLean's service as U.S. postmaster general and U.S. Supreme Court justice. Also contains material from his service as commissioner of the U.S. General Land Office. Includes McLean's notes on arguments made before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1830 including cases argued...
    • Contributor: McLean, John
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    Robert A. Taft papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, speeches, writings, political and legislative files, subject files, business and financial records, family papers, and other papers relating primarily to Taft's career as a U.S. senator and to his role as a national leader in the Republican Party. Subjects include public policy and legislative issues especially in the areas of defense, economic policy, education, finance, foreign policy, labor, public housing, taxation, and veterans'...
    • Contributor: Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso)
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    Matthew Simpson papers, Catalog Record Only Family and general correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, sermons, writings, notebooks, notes, printed matter, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Simpson's presidency of Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind.; service as a Methodist Episcopal bishop; years as a circuit preacher; editorship of the Western Christian Advocate in Cincinnati, Ohio; travels in Europe; early life in Ohio and Pennsylvania; and family matters. Subjects include division in the...
    • Contributor: Simpson, Matthew
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    Ralph Lyford collection, Catalog Record Only Contains one scrapbook with correspondence, telegrams, programs of concerts conducted by R. Lyford or featuring his compositions, clippings and programs related to the Cincinnati Zoo Opera in the 1920's.
    • Contributor: Lyford, Ralph
    • Date: 1919
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    Nathaniel McLean correspondence,
    Nathaniel McLean papers Catalog Record Only
    ALsS, some with cover, from McLean chiefly to his wife, Mary Louise Thompson McLean, concerning a bid made by his father, John McLean, for the presidential nomination in 1860; the 1860 Republican National Convention; Nathaniel McLean's law practice in Cincinnati, Ohio; and moving his household and livestock to a farm in Minnesota via the Ohio River following the Civil War. Includes typewritten transcripts of...
    • Contributor: McLean, Nathaniel
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    Separate Answer in Thompson et ux. v. Broadwell et al, [Law papers].
    • Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham - Logan, Stephen T. - Broadwell, Charles
    • Date: 1846-06-01

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    Levi Coffin correspondence,
    Levi Coffin papers Catalog Record Only
    Photocopy and typewritten transcript of letter (1849 March 11; Cincinnati, Ohio) from Coffin to his cousin, E.D. Coffin, discussing abolition, emancipation, the free-labor cause, slavery, the occurence of cholera in the Cincinnati area, and family matters.
    • Contributor: Coffin, Levi
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    Nathaniel Wright family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, journals, legal documents, and other items concerning Nathaniel Wright and his family. Relates chiefly to his career as a teacher and lawyer and to his son, D. Thew Wright, and son-in-law, Maskell Curwen, law partners in Cincinnati, Ohio. Subjects include the settlement of estates and litigation in connection with railroad, canal, and insurance. Other subjects include the family's education, social life, and...
    • Contributor: Wright, Nathaniel
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    Nicholas Longworth papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and memorabilia consisting chiefly of speeches by Longworth while serving in the House of Representatives. Includes scrapbooks concerning his student days at Harvard; a series of letters from various individuals written in 1907 to President Theodore Roosevelt concerning the nomination of an African American to be surveyor of customs for the Port of Cincinnati; letters written by Longworth's grandfather,...
    • Contributor: Longworth, Nicholas
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    United States Sanitary Commission scrapbook,
    United States Sanitary Commission records Catalog Record Only
    Scrapbook containing lithographs, photographs, broadsides, cards, clippings, and other items relating to the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.) and various fairs sponsored by the United States Sanitary Commission held in locations including Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y., and Cincinnati, Ohio
    • Contributor: United States Sanitary Commission
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    Robert Taft Jr. papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, press releases, agenda, schedules, bills, rosters, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers concerning Taft's career as a lawyer in Cincinnati, Ohio; Ohio state legislator; U.S. representative and senator from Ohio; and advisor to President Richard M. Nixon. Documents Taft's service on the U.S. Congress House Committee on Foreign Affairs; U.S. Congress Senate Committee on Armed Services; U.S. Congress Senate Committee on...
    • Contributor: Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso) - Taft, Robert
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    Memoir of the Semicolon Literary Circle,
    Edward P. Cranch papers | Edward Pope Cranch papers Catalog Record Only
    Memoir of the Semicolon Literary Circle of Cincinnati, Ohio, written by Cranch. He describes the activities of the club and discusses the use of "Semicolon" in the name of the club. Individuals attending meetings of the club included W.H. Channing, James Freeman Clarke, Ephraim Peabody, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
    • Contributor: Cranch, Edward P. (Edward Pope)
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    Charles P. Taft papers, Catalog Record Only Part I consists of correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, writings, reports, subject files, family papers, financial records, newspaper clippings, printed matter, scrapbooks, and other papers relating chiefly to Taft's role in Cincinnati politics, municipal reform, law practice, business interests, church activities, and state and national Republican Party politics. Main topics include his service with the War Relief Control Board and the Dept. of State, the...
    • Contributor: Taft, Charles P. (Charles Phelps)
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    Letter to Honorable E. Lane from Salmon Portland Chase, May 10, 1849.
    • Contributor: Chase, Salmon Portland
    • Date: 1849-05-10

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    Martha Elizabeth Wright Morris papers, Catalog Record Only Draft of an address given by Morris in 1916, with additions to 1919, describing her Civil War years in Washington, D.C.; her social life and acquaintance with numerous prominent individuals including the Confederate spy, Rose O'Neal Greenhow; casual meetings with President Abraham Lincoln; life in New Orleans, La., under the military governorship of General Nathaniel P. Banks; and her work with the United States...
    • Contributor: Morris, Martha Elizabeth Wright
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    Evalyn Walsh McLean papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, business and legal records, notes, printed matter, scrapbooks, broadsides, photographs, and other papers pertaining primarily to McLean's leading role in the social life of Washington, D.C. Business records relate chiefly to the Colorado mining interests of her father, Thomas F. Walsh, and the Walsh family as well as to the publishing interests of her husband, Edward Beale McLean, and the McLean family,...
    • Contributor: Chancellor, William Estabrook - McLean, Evalyn Walsh - Meigs, Merrill C. (Merrill Church)
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    Salmon P. Chase papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, writings, financial and legal papers, biographical material, and other material pertaining to Chase's service as a U.S. senator from Ohio, as a member of Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, as U.S. secretary of the treasury, and as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Also includes material relating to his law practice in Cincinnati, Ohio, and to his activities as an abolitionist....
    • Contributor: Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland)
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    Ralstin/Murphy collection relating to Vera-Ellen and the Hessler Dance Studio,
    Scrapbooks on Vera-Ellen and the Hessler Dance Studio, | Vera-Ellen and the Hessler Dance Studio, Catalog Record Only
    Two scrapbooks document the activities of the Hessler Dance Studio of Cincinnati, Ohio, during the 1930s and also the performance career of one of the studio's pupils, Vera-Ellen Rohe. Vera-Ellen (1921-1981), who performed under her first name, acted and danced in Hollywood films in the 1940s and 1950s. Scrapbooks were compiled by Violet and Catherine Ralstin and Catherine's husband, Paul Murphy, friends from growing...
    • Contributor: Murphy, Catherine Ralstin - Porter, Violet Ralstin - Murphy, Paul
    • Date: 1929
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    David Tod correspondence,
    David Tod papers Catalog Record Only
    Two letters (1862 July 15 and September 9), signed by Tod as governor of Ohio, written to Adjutant General George Bohan Wright relating to aid to Unionists in Kentucky, the security of Cincinnati and Ohio's southern border, and troop movements during the Civil War.
    • Contributor: Tod, David