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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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    Montgomery family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, speeches, writings, financial records, newspaper clippings, and other papers of members of the Montgomery family and allied Peck and Perkins families. Includes papers of Giles Foster Montgomery and Emily Redington Montgomery relating to their years as missionaries in Turkey (1863-1888); papers of their son, George Redington Montgomery; and correspondence of their daughter, Mary Borglum, and her husband, Gutzon Borglum. Papers of George Redington...
    • Contributor: Montgomery, George Redington - Montgomery, Giles Foster - Montgomery, Marshall Hugh - Montgomery, Emily Redington
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    Nathaniel Prentiss Banks papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence (1860-1880), and diaries and notebooks, letterbooks, military papers, speeches and writings, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, and miscellany relating chiefly to Banks's political career in the House of Representatives and to his service as an army officer during the Civil War. Includes papers on the Kansas territorial question, the assault on Charles Sumner, and the establishment of the Republican Party. Civil War topics include...
    • Contributor: Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss
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    John Martin papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly correspondence of Martin during his Civil War service as a soldier and musician in the 116th New York Infantry Regiment. Discusses regimental operations in Louisiana especially during the siege of Port Hudson in 1863; Baltimore and Frederick, Md.; New York state; Camp Sheridan in Winchester, Va.; and Washington D.C. Includes a pro-Union speech from 1861, a newspaper clipping concerning death of Martin, and...
    • Contributor: Martin, John
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    1978 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection,
    American Folklife Center concert, 1978 Catalog Record Only
    Documentation of the monthly 1978 Neptune Plaza Concert Series, which consists of manuscript materials, sound recordings, and photographs of performances of Irish music, French-Canadian folk music and contradance, Arab music and dance, bluegrass music, zydeco music, country music, and gospel music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, at concerts from April through September 1978,...
    • Contributor: McKenna, Antoinette - McKenna, Joe - White, Buck - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Lawtell Playboys - Ashby, John - Townsend, Graham - Mentrotone Baptist Church Singers - American Folklife Center - National Council for the Traditional Arts
    • Date: 1978
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    Sarah Rosetta Wakeman correspondence,
    Sarah Rosetta Wakeman papers Catalog Record Only
    Photocopies of Wakeman's letters to her family while serving with the 153rd New York Infamtry Regiment as Private Lyons Wakeman. Letters written primarily from Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Va., with several later letters from Louisiana.
    • Contributor: Wakeman, Sarah Rosetta
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    Edward Everett Hayden family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, journals, notebooks, financial materials, photographs, and other papers pertaining to Hayden's naval and scientific careers and to the Hayden family. Topics include Hayden's position as secretary of the National Geographic Society (1895-1897), his work in charge of time service and chronometers at the United States Naval Observatory (1902-1910), his command of the U.S. Naval Station at Key West, Fla. (1910-1915), his various...
    • Contributor: Reynolds, Joseph Jones - Hayden, Mary Bainbridge - Hayden, Reynolds - Hayden, Alfred - Hayden, Herbert B. (Herbert Bainbridge) - Hayden, William - Hayden, Edward Everett