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CollectionJohn Thompson Ford papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, play scripts and other writings, subject files, playbooks, playbills, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Ford's life and work as a theater manager in the last half of the nineteenth century. Documents his interaction with major theatrical figures of the period; the productions featured at his theaters in Baltimore, Md., Philadelphia, Pa.; Charleston, S.C., Alexandria, Va., Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C.; the assassination...
- Contributor: Ford, Lizzie - Ford, Annie - Ford, John Thompson
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CollectionWilliam Wirt papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, writings, reminiscences, clippings, and other papers pertaining primarily to the Wirt (Werth) family, a Southern slaveholding family. Topics include social life in Baltimore, Md., Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C., Christian piety, and sickness and death in the Wirt family. Also includes material concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, legal work conducted by Wirt as U.S. district attorney, Richmond, Va., 1816, and as U.S....
- Contributor: Wirt, William
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CollectionWilliam Pirie papers, Catalog Record Only General correspondence (1869-1897), family correspondence, congressional reports (1889-1897), accounts and records (1883-1899), account books (8 volumes; 1876-1900), architectural notebooks (4 volumes), memorandum books (3 volumes), architectural plans and sketches, blueprints, time records, printed material, photographs, and other records, concerning granite used in construction of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building. Individuals and companies represented include Bernard R. Green, of the Office of the...
- Contributor: Pirie, William
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CollectionRobert Mills papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, reports, notebooks, plans, drawings, sketches, financial records, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Mills' designs for public buildings in Washington, D.C., and to his duties as Architect of the Capitol. Also includes material relating to commissions in Richmond, Va., and Baltimore, Md., for public buildings and monuments.
- Contributor: Mills, Robert
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CollectionJames Kennedy papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly letters received by Kennedy from merchants in Baltimore, Maryland; Charleston, South Carolina; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Richmond, Virginia. Correspondents include Robert Lenox, Charles McKenna, John Read Jr., Francis Wainwright, and John Wickham. Includes billbook.
- Contributor: Kennedy, James