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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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    John 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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    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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    Reid family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, subject files, office files, financial records, household and estate records, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers of the Reid family relating chiefly to newspaper publishing and public affairs. Papers of Whitelaw Reid (1837-1912) consist of correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, speeches, articles, reports, biographer's notes, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Reid's ambassadorship to Great Britain and to extradition and...
    • Contributor: Reid, Helen Rogers - Reid Foundation - Reid, Elisabeth Mills - Reid, Whitelaw - Reid, Ogden Mills
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    Albert Gallatin Marchand papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly letters of Marchand to his wife, Susan S. Marchand, relating to his tenure as a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania during the Martin Van Buren and John Tyler presidential administrations as well as to his life in Washington, D.C., and his homesickness. Includes Marchand's observations on the legislative process, distinctions between Democrats and Whigs, and his fellow representatives. Subjects also include his walks around...
    • Contributor: Marchand, Albert Gallatin
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    The Henley Smith Collection, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, documents, memorabilia, printed matter, and prints of the Bayard family; genealogical papers of the Bayard, Dandridge, Denison, Henley, and Smith families; and financial records (1874-1890) of the Washington National Monument Society. Includes papers concerning John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Samuel Adams, Joel Barlow, Peter Bayard, Henry Clay, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, Marquis de Lafayette, James Madison, James Monroe, John Morris, Thomas...
    • Contributor: Smith, Jonathan Bayard
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    Custis-Lee family papers,
    Custis family papers | Lee family papers Catalog Record Only     Correspondence, letterbooks, genealogical papers, notebooks, financial records, indentures, clippings, photographs, and other papers documenting the activities of several generations of the Custis and Lee families of Virginia, who served as diplomats, statesmen, politicians, planters, and military officers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Subjects include agriculture in Virginia, mercantile and financial affairs, slavery, social life in Washington and Philadelphia, and to activities during the...
    • Contributor: Lee, William - Lee, Anne Robinson McCarty - Lee, Hannah Philippa Ludwell - Lee, Mary Randolph Custis - Lee, Richard Bland - Lee, Ludwell - Lee, Henry - Lee, Ann Hill Carter - Lee, Mary Custis - Lee, Mary Bland ... Lee, William - Lee, Anne Robinson McCarty - Lee, Hannah Philippa Ludwell - Lee, Mary Randolph Custis - Lee, Richard Bland - Lee, Ludwell - Lee, Henry - Lee, Ann Hill Carter - Lee, Mary Custis - Lee, Mary Bland - Lee, Charles - Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh - Lee, Thomas - Warden, David Bailie - Lee, Richard Henry - Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward) - Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis - Lee, Arthur - Custis, George Washington Parke - Lee, Henrietta Bedinger
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    Shortelle family papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly correspondence of Robert E. Shortelle written to family members during his service in the 6th Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps (35th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army) in various army encampments near Washington, D.C., and in Maryland and Virginia between 1861 and 1863. Topics include camp life, regimental activities, generals who led the Army of the Potomac, expected military activity, family news, and later, reactions...
    • Contributor: Shortelle, James Edward - Shortelle, Robert E.
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    Frederick Douglass Papers: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1846-1894; Speeches and Articles by Others.; Forney, John W.; 1 of 2
    • Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
    • Date: 1846-01-01

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    Janet Elizabeth Hosmer Richards papers, Catalog Record Only Diaries, invitations to White House social functions, and printed matter. Diaries record Richards' activities as a lecturer in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Md., Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y., and Boston, Mass., her trips abroad, interviews with various public officials, and personal affairs.
    • Contributor: Richards, Janet Elizabeth Hosmer
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    James Wadsworth family papers,
    Wadsworth family papers Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers of the family of James Wadsworth (1768-1844) and his brother, William Wadsworth (1761-1833), who settled in Geneseo, N.Y., in 1790 and endowed schools and libraries there. Includes papers of James S. Wadsworth (1807-1864), son of James Wadsworth, Union Army officer who fought in the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., and was mortally wounded in the...
    • Contributor: Wadsworth, William - Lincoln, Abraham - Hay, John - Wadsworth, James S. (James Samuel) - Wadsworth, James - Wadsworth, James Wolcott
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    Roscoe Robinson, Jr., papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, cables, speeches, interviews, reports, briefings, notes and notebooks, subject files, chronological files, office files, scrapbooks, newspapers and newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers pertaining to Robinson's career in the U.S. Army. Documents his service in various positions with the 82nd Airborne Division (1959-1979), in the Vietnamese conflict (1967-1968), as commander of U.S. troops stationed in Japan (1973-1976 and 1980-1982) and in Europe (1978-1980),...
    • Contributor: Robinson, Roscoe
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    James Milnor correspondence,
    James Milnor papers Catalog Record Only     ALsS (1811 November 28-December 14), written in Washington, D.C., by Milnor while serving as a Federalist member of Congress from Pennsylvania, to Thomas Bradford, Jr., of Philadelphia, Pa. Topics include matters before the House Foreign Relations Committee (Committee on Foreign Affairs), particularly the looming war with Great Britain and Masonic affairs.
    • Contributor: Milnor, James
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    James Redpath papers, Catalog Record Only Volume (1861 March 31-December 27; 358 pages) consisting of Redpath's letters and reports along with some newspaper clippings relating to his duties as the General Agent of Emigration to Haiti based in Boston, Mass. Chiefly correspondence with Haitian Director-General of Emigration Auguste Elie and Secretary of State for Foreign Relations Victorien Plésance documenting efforts to recruit free blacks primarily from New York, N.Y.; Boston,...
    • Contributor: Redpath, James
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    John Nicholson family papers,
    Nicholson family papers Catalog Record Only     Correspondence, diary fragments, printed matter, and business and financial records kept by Nicholson and his heirs. Business records contain letters and miscellaneous financial matter concerning the Pennsylvania Land Company, the Asylum Land Company, and other of the senior Nicholson's real estate enterprises in Pennsylvania, the western territories, and Washington, D.C. Correspondents include Thomas Bedwell, James M. Broom, Thomas Joubert, Robert Morris, Louis McLane, and...
    • Contributor: Nicholson, John
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    Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; U
    • Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
    • Date: 1841-01-01

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    George W. Cullum correspondence,
    George W. Cullum papers | George Washington Cullum papers Catalog Record Only     Chiefly letters written by Cullum while serving as an officer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Newport, R.I., to his sister, Catharine Cullum Huidekoper, and her husband, Alfred Huidekoper, of Meadville, Pa. Includes several letters (1834 February 23-June 20) from Cullum to Thomas S. Thorp of New York City and an 1878 letter pertaining to a publication by Cullum. Relates chiefly to...
    • Contributor: Cullum, George W. (George Washington)
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    Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1891, Sept.
    • Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
    • Date: 1891-09-01

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    Julius W. Becton papers Catalog Record Only Correspondence, speeches, writings, reports, notebooks, military records, subject files, printed matter, and other papers documenting Becton's service as a U.S. Army officer, especially as the first African American general to serve as a corps commander; director of the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, and of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during the Ronald Reagan and George Bush...
    • Contributor: Becton, Julius W. (Julius Wesley)
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    W.W. Corcoran papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, letterpress books, financial records, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Corcoran's business and banking interests and philanthropic efforts. Documents his involvement with the brokerage and banking firms, Corcoran & Riggs, Washington, D.C.; Riggs and Co, New York, N.Y.; Bank of America; and Wilson, Colston & Co., Baltimore, Md. Also documents his investment ventures in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad...
    • Contributor: Corcoran, W. W. (William Wilson) - Corcoran, Thomas
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    1993 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection,
    Neptune Plaza Concert Series, 1993 | American Folklife Center concert, 1993 Catalog Record Only     Manuscript materials, sound recordings, photographs, and moving images documenting the performance of North Indian Bengali music; Jamaican music; African American gospel quartets and choral music; Irish folk dance and music; bluegrass music; African American hand dancing; and Andean music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, at concerts from April through September 1993, sponsored by...
    • Contributor: Reverb (Vocal Group) - Briscoe, Erald - Doherty, Tom - Northern Lights (Bluegrass Group) - Blackwell, Lucien - Wick, Regan - D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Samuel O. - Simpson-Curenton, Evelyn ... Reverb (Vocal Group) - Briscoe, Erald - Doherty, Tom - Northern Lights (Bluegrass Group) - Blackwell, Lucien - Wick, Regan - D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Samuel O. - Simpson-Curenton, Evelyn - Wamu-Fm (Radio Station : Washington, D.C.) - Philadelphia Ambassadors Chorale and Ensemble - Ollantay (Musical Group) - Friedland, Lee Ellen - Moloney, Mick - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 1993
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    Lee Lawrie papers, Catalog Record Only General and family correspondence, sculpture commission files, biographical file, and other papers documenting Lawrie's career as a sculptor whose works were an integral part of public buildings, monuments, and churches throughout the United States. Includes correspondence between Lawrie and architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue with whom he collaborated on sculptures for St. Thomas' Church and Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York, N.Y., and material...
    • Contributor: Lawrie, Lee
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    Lessing J. Rosenwald papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, subject files, speeches and writings, printed material, and other papers relating to Rosenwald's career with Sears, Roebuck & Co.; his activities on behalf of various Jewish causes and opposition to Zionism; his public service work with the National Recovery Administration and the War Production Board; his various charitable, educational, and cultural philanthropies; and his work as a bibliographer and collector of books and...
    • Contributor: Rosenwald, Lessing J. (Lessing Julius)
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    James Pollock correspondence,
    James Pollock papers Catalog Record Only     ALsS (1844 May 10 and 1845 December 8; House of Representatives) from Pollock to his wife Sarah "Sally" Pollock pertaining primarily to family matters and to the social life of Washington, D.C. Makes reference to the congressional debate on the tariff, Henry Clay, and Martin Van Buren.
    • Contributor: Pollock, James
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    Nicholas King family papers,
    N. King papers Catalog Record Only     Papers of Nicholas King consist largely of journals (1793-1799) and transcribed excerpts from journals (1792-1811) describing travels in England; his voyage to America and first impressions there, particularly in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania; and his work as a surveyor and overseer of the construction of federal buildings in Washington, D.C. Also includes transcripts of letters from King and his father, Robert King, also an engineer...
    • Contributor: Wade, Nicholas King - King, N. (Nicholas) - Wade, William