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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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    Benjamin Franklin papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, journals, records, articles, and other material relating to Franklin's life and career. Includes manuscript (1728) of his Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion; negotations in London (1775); letterbooks (1779-1782) of the U.S. legation in Paris, France; records (1780-1783) of the U.S. peace commissioners, including journals kept by Franklin and Richard Oswald; facsimile copy of his ledger as U.S. postmaster general (1775-1778); and...
    • Contributor: United States. Legation (France) - Franklin, Benjamin - Oswald, Richard - Franklin, William Temple
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    Martin Van Buren papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, speeches, messages to Congress, writings, notes, legal record book, estate record book, autobiographical material, and other papers pertaining to slavery and the antislavery movement; banking and the Second Bank of the United States; party politics in New York State and at the national level relating to the Democratic, Federalist, National Republican, and Whig parties, particularly during the Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren...
    • Contributor: Van Buren, Martin - Van Buren, John
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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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    Irving R. Levine papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, memoranda, notebooks and notes, transcripts of interviews, radio and television scripts, news commentaries, articles, speeches, book drafts, background and research material, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Levine's career as a broadcast journalist and news commentator. Documents his assignments as chief correspondent for NBC News in Moscow (1955-1959), Rome (1960-1967, 1968-1970), and London (1967-1968); as chief economics correspondent, Washington, D.C. (1971-1995); and as...
    • Contributor: Levine, Irving R.
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    Marquis de Lafayette papers,
    Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, papers Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Correspondence, letterbooks, writings, speeches, reports, minutes, notes, military records, financial and legal documents, family papers, broadsides, and other papers relating chiefly to the marquis's military, political, and private life, as well as to French and American history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Subjects include Lafayette's involvement in the American Revolution and in the French revolutions of 1789 and 1830, his imprisonment...
    • Contributor: Lasteyrie Du Saillant, Adrien-Jules - La Fayette, Michel Louis Christophe Roch Gilbert Motier - Jarnac, Philippe-Ferdinand-Auguste De Rohan-Chabot - La Tour-Maubourg, Anastasie Du Motier De La Fayette - Lasteyrie Du Saillant, Virginie Du Motier De La Fayette - Lafayette, Marie Adrienne De Noailles - Jarnac, Charles Rosalie De Rohan-Chabot - Lasteyrie Du Saillant, Louis - Périer, Natalie Du Motier De La Fayette - Jarnac, Louis Charles Guillaume De Rohan-Chabot - Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier - Lafayette, Georges Washington Louis Gilbert Du Motier - Lasteyrie Du Saillant, Olivia De Rohan-Chabot