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    Gilbert Miller papers, 1916-1981 Gilbert Miller (1884-1969) was an American producer and theater owner. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, scenic renderings, contracts, and other materials that document Miller’s theatrical influences, personal connections, and professional accomplishments.
    • Contributor: Miller, Gilbert
    • Date: 1916
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    Cyril Clemens collection, 1686-1982 Biographer and editor. Letters received from prominent people relating to the International Mark Twain Society or to some aspect of Samuel Langhorne Clemens's life or literary works written by him under the name Mark Twain. Also includes production materials for several works on him by Cyril Clemens, and copies of historical documents collected by Cyril Clemens.
    • Contributor: Clemens, Cyril
    • Date: 1686
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    Francis Baylies papers, 1814-1843 Scholar, diplomat, politician, and historian. Primarily writings by Baylies relating to the American Revolution, the Confederation and the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton, and the administrations of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.
    • Contributor: Baylies, Francis
    • Date: 1814
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    Benjamin T. Montgomery family papers, 1872-1987 Papers relating to Benjamin T. Montgomery, his son Isaiah T. Montgomery, other children and grandchildren, and material concerning the African American towns of Davis Bend and Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Benjamin T. Montgomery was born into slavery, enslaved by Joseph Davis (older brother of Jefferson Davis), manager and later owner of Davis Bend, Mississippi, and an inventor. Isaiah Montgomery founded Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Diary, speeches,...
    • Contributor: Montgomery, Benjamin T. (Benjamin Thornton)
    • Date: 1872
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    Henry Putney Beers papers, 1910-1992 Historian, bibliographer, and archivist with the National Archives and Records Service. Correspondence, memoranda, writings, book reviews, reports, and other papers relating primarily to Beers's work as a bibliographer in American history.
    • Contributor: Beers, Henry Putney
    • Date: 1910
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    Hans J. Morgenthau papers, 1858-1981 Political scientist, writer, and expert on international relations. Correspondence, academic and subject files, writings, printed matter and miscellaneous material primarily related to Morgenthau's work in the field of international relations.
    • Contributor: Morgenthau, Hans J. (Hans Joachim)
    • Date: 1858
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    Gridiron Club (Washington, D.C.) records, 1871-2021 Journalistic organization founded in 1885. Correspondence, writings, club records, membership books, autograph albums, dinner programs and menus, financial records, newspaper clippings, printed matter, scrapbooks, slides, photographs, digital video files, and other records relating primarily to the club's annual dinner hosting members of the press, the United States president, and other elected officials and political figures.
    • Contributor: Gridiron Club (Washington, D.C.)
    • Date: 1871
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    Morton Gould performance library, 1920s-1996 Morton Gould was a composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist. The collection contains materials created by Gould or under his supervision for studio use as well as compositions and arrangements for concert performances, film and television scores, stage works, juvenilia, and sketches. These materials were stored for many years at his principle publisher, G. Schirmer.
    • Contributor: Gould, Morton
    • Date: 1920
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    Mildred Spiegel Zucker collection of Leonard Bernstein corres... Music teacher Mildred Spiegel Zucker was a childhood friend of Leonard Bernstein's, with whom she maintained a lifelong friendship. The collection mostly consists of correspondence that Bernstein sent to Zucker dating from his time as a counselor at Camp Onata, as a student at the Curtis Institute of Music, and during the beginning of his career in New York.
    • Contributor: Zucker, Mildred Spiegel
    • Date: 1936
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    Lewis H. Machen family papers, 1802-1938 Clerk of the United States Senate and farmer of Fairfax County, Virginia. Chiefly family correspondence of Lewis H. Machen relating to personal matters and national politics prior to the Civil War, especially slavery and the Compromise of 1850, and mentioning John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, and Daniel Webster. Also includes other correspondence, speeches, writings, subject files, and miscellaneous papers.
    • Contributor: Machen, Lewis H. (Lewis Henry)
    • Date: 1802
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    William Allen White papers, 1859-1944 Newspaper editor. Letterpress books and personal and special correspondence relating mainly to White's personal life and career as editor of the Emporia Gazette.
    • Contributor: White, William Allen
    • Date: 1859
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    Tunnicliff, Rigby, and Staton families papers, 1854-1990 American families living chiefly in West Virginia, Illinois, and Iowa. Correspondence, genealogical material, newspaper clippings, and printed material documenting the families' domestic concerns and activities.
    • Date: 1854
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    William H.P. Blandy papers, 1913-1977 Naval officer. Correspondence, reports, speeches, biographical material, scrapbooks, and clippings relating chiefly to Blandy's World War II service as head of the United States Navy Department Bureau of Ordnance and afterward as director of Operation Crossroads, the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946.
    • Contributor: Blandy, William H. P. (William Henry Purnell)
    • Date: 1913
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    David Foote Sellers papers, 1860-1949 Naval officer. Correspondence, journals, photos, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to Sellers’s naval career.
    • Contributor: Sellers, David Foote
    • Date: 1927
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    John W. Backus papers, 1951-2001 Computer scientist. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, writings, speeches, notes, slides, photographs, and other papers relating to his work on programming languages, particularly FORTRAN.
    • Contributor: Backus, John W.
    • Date: 1951
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    John Updike papers, 1962-1969 Novelist, short story writer, and poet. Correspondence, galley proofs, plate proof, photographs, typescripts, notes, book covers, and poems. Included are drafts and other material for his novels The Centaur, Of the Farm, and The Poorhouse Fair, as well as poems, many of which were published in the New Yorker.
    • Contributor: Updike, John
    • Date: 1962
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    Lewis Graham Hines papers, 1916-1959 Labor leader and public official. Correspondence, speeches and writings, subject files, scrapbooks, printed matter, and miscellaneous material relating to Hines's activities in organized labor, especially with the American Federation of Labor, and as an official in state offices in Pennsylvania and with the federal government.
    • Contributor: Hines, Lewis Graham
    • Date: 1916
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    Manuscripts: Bach to Baseball Cards - Conservation Highlights... Bach to Baseball Cards: Preserving the Nation's Heritage at the Library of Congress
    • Date: 1814
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    Am-Rus Literary Agency records, 1927-1990 Literary agency for Soviet writers seeking publication or theatrical production in the United States and in affiliation with the Copyright Agency of the USSR. Includes correspondence with publishers, translators, and theatrical companies, contracts, writings, royalty statements, and reviews.
    • Contributor: Am-Rus Literary Agency
    • Date: 1927
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    Cornelius Chase family papers, 1745-1974 Clergyman, educator, and farmer. Correspondence, business and financial papers, subject files, reports, speeches, newspaper clippings, and miscellany relating to various members of the Chase family, especially Cornelius Chase, his son, Cornelius Thurston Chase, and the latter's career as superintendent of public instruction in Florida. Other material concerns the slave trade in Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate Army, and the Reverend Jonas King.
    • Contributor: Chase, Cornelius
    • Date: 1745
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    Curtis Cook Zuni Pueblo storytelling collection Collection of field recordings, photographs, and notes by linguist Curtis Cook, who learned the Zuni language and documented the stories of elderly Zuni speakers while undertaking a translation of the Bible into the Zuni language during the 1960s and 1970s. Sound recordings (1964-1967) include narratives told by Zuni storytellers Longkeena Nash and Tom Ideque and others; recordings of children reading high school reports in...
    • Contributor: Cook, Curtis D.
    • Date: 1964
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    Laura Wood Roper papers, 1822-1982 Biographer of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903). Correspondence, research notes, reports, clippings, and printed matter related to Olmsted and the landscape architectural firm, Olmsted Associates (1961- ) and its predecessors, collected by Roper for her biography of Olmsted. Also includes card indexes containing abstracts mostly from Olmsted’s correspondence in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
    • Contributor: Roper, Laura Wood
    • Date: 1825
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    Newton Diehl Baker papers, 1896-1962 U.S. secretary of war, author, lawyer, and municipal official of Cleveland, Ohio. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, speeches and articles, newspaper articles, and printed material relating primarily to Baker's post-World War I activities as the head of several business firms and of organizations devoted to education, law and jurisprudence, and philanthropy, relief, and other types of human services.
    • Contributor: Baker, Newton Diehl
    • Date: 1896
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    Maurice Rosenblatt papers, 1910-2003 Lobbyist and consultant. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, newsletters, and other papers related primarily to Rosenblatt's work with the National Committee for an Effective Congress and files on Joseph McCarthy and the issue of McCarthyism.
    • Contributor: Rosenblatt, Maurice
    • Date: 1910
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    Donald McDonald Dickinson papers, 1863-1917 Lawyer and U.S. postmaster general. Correspondence and miscellaneous material relating mainly to Dickinson's tenure as postmaster general and as senior counsel for the U.S. Bering Sea Commission.
    • Contributor: Dickinson, Donald McDonald
    • Date: 1863
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    Robert E. Sherwood play scripts, 1921-1962 Dramatist. Typescripts of plays by Sherwood submitted for copyright to the Library of Congress Copyright Office.
    • Contributor: Sherwood, Robert E. (Robert Emmet)
    • Date: 1921
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    Confederate States of America records, 1854-1889 Correspondence, proclamations, messages of the president, court cases, minute books, docket books, customs records, financial records, letterbooks, orders, reports, and other records of the Confederate Department of Justice, Department of State, Department of the Treasury, Post Office Department, Navy Department, and War Department. Includes Confederate constitutional documents and the James Wolcott Wadsworth collection of diplomatic correspondence and letters of Raphael Semmes.
    • Contributor: Confederate States of America
    • Date: 1854
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    Louis F. Post papers, 1864-1940 Journalist, lawyer, and public official. Correspondence, manuscripts of articles and books, biographical data, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating to Post’s career as a writer, public official, and advocate of the single tax.
    • Contributor: Post, Louis F. (Louis Freeland)
    • Date: 1864
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    Tobias Lear papers, 1790-1816 Secretary to George Washington, businessman, and diplomat. Correspondence, account books, and other papers relating primarily to George Washington, Lear's diplomatic missions, and business affairs, and family matters.
    • Contributor: Lear, Tobias
    • Date: 1790
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    National Association of Social Workers oral history interview... National association of social workers. Transcripts of oral history interviews documenting the development of social work from the 1920s through the 1970s.
    • Contributor: National Association of Social Workers
    • Date: 1978
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    Alvah H. Granniss papers, 1861-1907 Soldier. Correspondence, including originals and typescripts of letters, poems and a song, envelopes, printed matter, artifacts, and other material relating chiefly to Granniss's Civil War service with the First Connecticut Cavalry Regiment.
    • Contributor: Granniss, Alvah H.
    • Date: 1861
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    G.W. Barber papers, 1926-1948 Entomologist. Correspondence, notes, reports, and other writings concerning Barber’s study of the European corn borer and the corn earworm.
    • Contributor: Barber, G. W. (George W.)
    • Date: 1926
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    Samuel C. Phillips papers, 1929-1990 United States Air Force officer, space agency official, intelligence agency director, and defense industry executive. Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, reports, family and personal papers, and photographs documenting Phillips's career in the United States Air Force where he specialized in ballistics and weapons research; as director of Project Apollo (U.S.), the lunar landing program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and as an executive with...
    • Contributor: Phillips, Samuel C. (Samuel Cochran)
    • Date: 1929
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    Frank Stanton papers, 1908-2006 Broadcast executive. Correspondence, memoranda, subject files, speeches and writings, minutes of meetings, drafts, testimony, typescripts, reports and studies, interviews, transcripts, awards and citations, press clippings and releases, printed matter, and miscellaneous items relating primarily to Stanton's career as president and vice chairman of the board of directors of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
    • Contributor: Stanton, Frank
    • Date: 1908
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    Nolan D.C. Lewis papers, 1897-1978 Psychoanalyst, educator, and author. Correspondence, drafts of writings, research files, patient files, reports, conference material, oral history interview, and printed material documenting Lewis's contributions to the development of psychoanalysis in the United States.
    • Contributor: Lewis, Nolan D. C. (Nolan Don Carpentier)
    • Date: 1897
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    Amasa J. Parker papers, 1836-1875 United States representative, lawyer, and jurist. Chiefly letters written by Parker while serving in the United States Congress in Washington, D.C. from 1837 to 1839.
    • Contributor: Parker, Amasa J. (Amasa Junius)
    • Date: 1836
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    Robert Green Ingersoll papers, 1826-1940 Lawyer and lecturer. Diaries, correspondence, letterbooks, writings, lectures, scrapbooks, family papers, and miscellaneous financial, legal, and personal material relating to Ingersoll's involvement in politics and law and as a lecturer and writer on agnosticism and religion.
    • Contributor: Ingersoll, Robert Green
    • Date: 1826
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    United States. Continental Navy records, 1775-1776 Receipts, appraisals, and other records relating to the procuring of ships for service during the American Revolution.
    • Contributor: United States. Continental Navy
    • Date: 1775
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    Harry W. Frantz papers, 1919-1965 Journalist. Scrapbooks and printed matter related to aviation, a field Franz covered for United Press International.
    • Contributor: Frantz, Harry W. (Harry Warner)
    • Date: 1919
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    House Democratic Caucus records, 1913-1999 Organization of Democratic members of the United States House of Representatives; established in 1796. The records include minutes of meetings, transcripts of meetings and hearings, office files, correspondence, legislation, caucus and House rules, reports, handbooks, printed matter, and other records documenting the proceedings of the caucus and its efforts to shape national public policy.
    • Contributor: House Democratic Caucus (U.S.)
    • Date: 1913
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    Manuscripts: Bach to Baseball Cards - Conservation Highlights... Bach to Baseball Cards: Preserving the Nation's Heritage at the Library of Congress
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    James Alexander Robertson papers, 1816-1939 Editor, biographer, and archivist. Correspondence, diaries, notes, writings, subject files, and miscellany relating primarily to Robertson's activities and scholarship in Hispanic studies, especially Florida and the Philippines.
    • Contributor: Robertson, James Alexander
    • Date: 1816
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    William Farquhar correspondence and other Malay letters, 1812... Letters, mainly from Malay kings and notables to William Farquhar, primarily during his years as British Resident of Singapore and from 1819 to 1823. Reflects Farquhar's role in the founding of modern Singapore and his relationships with Malay rulers instrumental to the success of the East India Company's enterprise in Singapore.
    • Contributor: Farquhar, William
    • Date: 1812
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    William H. Conkling papers, 1864-1976 Municipal government official, civic leader, and postmaster from Springfield, Illinois. Correspondence with Charles A. Lindbergh, speeches and writings, publications, photographs, and memorabilia relating to Lindbergh’s cross-country airmail route which included service to Springfield, Illinois, and his flight of 1927 from New York to Paris. Includes a philatelic cover which Lindbergh carried aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his trans-Atlantic flight and mailed to...
    • Contributor: Conkling, William H.
    • Date: 1864
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    Elsie Taylor-Goins collection of Dibble family papers, 1696-2021 African American genealogy records. Correspondence, biographical material, family trees, photographs, property records, reunion programs, and other genealogical records related to the descendants of Andrew Henry Dibble Sr. (1825-1873) and Ellie Naudin Dibble (1828-1920) as well as ancestors in England, Scotland, and Sierra Leone.
    • Contributor: Taylor-Goins, Elsie
    • Date: 1696
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    Katherine Garrison Chapin papers, 1930-1972 Poet and author. Correspondence, writings, and other material relating mainly to Garrison's published and unpublished poetry and plays.
    • Contributor: Chapin, Katherine Garrison
    • Date: 1930
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    Arsis Press records, 1947-2007 Arsis Press was a music publishing company in Washington, D.C., founded by composer Clara Lyle Boone in 1974 to publish music by women composers. The Arsis Press Records include printed music by nearly forty composers, financial records, business papers, and correspondence.
    • Contributor: De Bohun, Lyle - Van De Vate, Nancy - Van Appledorn, Mary Jeanne - Fine, Vivian - Shaffer, Jeanne E. (Jeanne Ellison) - Arsis Press - Schonthal, Ruth
    • Date: 1947
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    Alanna Nash archive, 1924-2008 Alanna Nash is an American journalist and biographer. Articles, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and photographs in this collection document Nash’s research of John Dillinger, D.W. Griffith, and Jean Muir.
    • Contributor: Nash, Alanna
    • Date: 1924
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    Carnegie Institution of Washington reproductions collection, ... Chiefly transcriptions and copies of documents in foreign archives and personal collections relating to the history of the United States, especially the early Spanish period and British ministers to the United States from 1791 to 1812, collected for publication projects of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
    • Contributor: Carnegie Institution of Washington
    • Date: 1686
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    Philip C. Jessup papers, 1574-1983 Jurist, diplomat, and educator. Family and general correspondence, reports and memoranda, speeches and writings, subject files, legal papers, newspaper clippings and other papers pertaining chiefly to Jessup's work with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Institute of Pacific Relations, United States Department of State, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and International Court of Justice. Includes material relating to his World War I service...
    • Contributor: Jessup, Philip C. (Philip Caryl)
    • Date: 1574
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    Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Laf... Soldier and statesman. Correspondence, legal documents, clippings, broadsides, orderly book, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Lafayette's military service in Canada and Virginia, his tour of the United States from 1824 to 1825, his land in Florida, and his views of such topics as the slave trade and the French government, including also material pertaining to the centennial observance of his death and...
    • Contributor: Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis De
    • Date: 1776
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    Charles Fisher Cambridge Records collection, 1963-1999 The papers consist of clippings of reviews for the long-playing record releases from the Cambridge Records label.
    • Contributor: Fisher, Charles
    • Date: 1963
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    Kenneth M. Bilby Jamaican Maroon collection, 1977-1991 An ethnographic field collection of sound recordings, moving images, and accompanying materials that document the music and dance of Jamaican Maroons, particularly the Kromanti Dance ritual complex recorded by Kenneth M. Bilby in 1977-1979, and in 1991.
    • Contributor: Bilby, Kenneth M.
    • Date: 1977
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    Charl Ormond Williams papers, 1924-1959 Educator. Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, reports, newspaper clippings, and printed material relating to Williams’s association with the National Education Association of the United States and her work in the field of education and educational reform, including her participation in the 1944 White House Conference on Rural Education.
    • Contributor: Williams, Charl Ormond
    • Date: 1924
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    Stacy Conrad Farrior family papers, 1907-1949 Presbyterian missionary. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to Farrior's missionary work in China and daily life of his family.
    • Contributor: Farrior, Stacy Conrad
    • Date: 1907
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    Elliot Snow papers, 1790-1942 Naval officer. Correspondence, logbooks, speech, article, and book file, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and scrapbooks relating to the history and restoration of the Constitution. Includes papers of Horatio D. Smith (1845-1918), officer in the Revenue-Cutter Service, and a small group of papers of Josiah Fox (1763-1847), naval constructor.
    • Contributor: Snow, Elliot
    • Date: 1790
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    Harold H. Burton papers, 1792-1965 Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court and United States senator. Diaries, correspondence, legal case files, speeches and writings, reports, photographs, maps, printed matter, and newspaper clippings pertaining primarily to Burton's activities as an associate justice of the Supreme Court and Senator.
    • Contributor: Burton, Harold H. (Harold Hitz)
    • Date: 1792
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    Mary Amanda Dixon Jones papers, 1839-1925 Physician. Family papers, correspondence, legal papers, financial papers, lectures, notes, writings, medical illustrations, newspaper clippings, photographs, and printed matter relating primarily to Dixon Jones’s medical career.
    • Contributor: Dixon Jones, Mary Amanda
    • Date: 1839
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    Robert C. Gallo papers, 1959-2016 Virologist and co-discoverer of HIV. Correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, speeches, digital files, and writings relating to Gallo's research and career.
    • Contributor: Gallo, Robert C.
    • Date: 1959
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    Sandra Day O'Connor papers, 1944-2008 Lawyer, judge, and state legislator of Arizona and first woman associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Correspondence, memoranda, case files, legal papers, subject files, speeches, and writings relating primarily to O'Connor's judicial career.
    • Contributor: O'Connor, Sandra Day
    • Date: 1944
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    Citizens Party (U.S.) records, 1976-1993 Political party composed of environmentalist and liberal groups. Correspondence, meeting notes, local chapter records, financial records, membership directories, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and printed matter pertaining to the organization of the Citizens Party, the formation of its platform, and its early campaign efforts.
    • Contributor: Citizens Party (U.S.)
    • Date: 1976
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    Heinz Hartmann and Dora Hartmann papers, 1928-1974 Psychoanalysts. Correspondence, memoranda, writings, subject file, and other papers relating primarily to the Hartmanns’ work with the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and to Heinz Hartmann’s writing and editorial projects.
    • Contributor: Hartmann, Heinz
    • Date: 1928
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    Gustav Davidson papers, 1909-1992 Poet, writer, publisher, and secretary of the Poetry Society of America. Primarily writings and correspondence concerning Davidson's work in poetry, publishing, and research on angels.
    • Contributor: Davidson, Gustav
    • Date: 1909
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    David Ginsburg papers, 1919-2007 Lawyer, author, and teacher. Correspondence and memoranda, newspaper clippings and press releases, legal material, speeches and writings, reports, research material, minutes, political campaign material, legislation, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Ginsburg's involvement with civil rights, the recovery of German assets after World War II, and his legal career.
    • Contributor: Ginsburg, David
    • Date: 1919
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    John Aldrich Stephenson collection of the Hand, Fiske, and Al... Correspondence, diaries, journals, travel diaries, manuscripts of sermons, poems, essays, and other writings, business and financial records, printed works, biographical and genealogical materials, drawings and reproductions of paintings and photographs, and other papers collected by Stephenson relating to the Hand, Fiske, and Aldrich families.
    • Date: 1745
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    Henry Thomas Rainey papers, 1904-1934 U.S. representative from Illinois and speaker of the U.S. Congress House of Representatives. Primarily constituent correspondence from 1934 and correspondence relating to the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill of 1924.
    • Contributor: Rainey, Henry Thomas
    • Date: 1904
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    National Policy Committee (U.S.) records, 1933-1947 Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, and other papers documenting the work of the committee to inform private citizens about national policy issues and encourage their active participation in the democratic process.
    • Contributor: National Policy Committee (U.S.)
    • Date: 1933
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    John Steinbeck papers, 1939-1990 Author. Typescripts and galleys of The Grapes of Wrath and Sea of Cortez, printed matter and reference material, correspondence by John Steinbeck and Elaine A. Steinbeck, and photographs.
    • Contributor: Steinbeck, John
    • Date: 1939
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    Ira Gershwin files from the law office of Leonard Saxe, 1935-... This collection consists primarily of correspondence and contracts related to the personal legal affairs of Ira Gershwin and the activities of the Rose Gershwin Testamentary Trust from 1935-1967. It includes royalty and copyright materials for well-known Gershwin shows and films, most notably Porgy and Bess. In addition, this collection contains financial documents related to the Rose Gershwin Estate, litigation materials, programs, and press clippings.
    • Contributor: Saxe, Leonard Spier
    • Date: 1935
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    Thomas Oliver Selfridge papers, 1809-1927 Naval officer. Correspondence, journals, logbooks, and notebooks relating to Selfridge’s naval career. Includes material relating to the side-wheel steamer Mississippi and the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, which were commanded by Selfridge, and to the Naval Examining Board over which he presided.
    • Contributor: Selfridge, Thomas Oliver
    • Date: 1809
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    Nathan Sargent papers, 1866-1957 Naval officer. Correspondence, diaries, journals, writings photographs, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and printed matter relating to Sargent's naval duties.
    • Contributor: Sargent, Nathan
    • Date: 1866
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    Amos Pinchot papers, 1856-1945 Lawyer and publicist. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, notebooks, printed articles, speeches, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and other printed material reflecting Pinchot's interests in civil liberties, labor problems, government, and politics.
    • Contributor: Pinchot, Amos
    • Date: 1856
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    Oronzio Maldarelli papers, 1931-1962 Sculptor and educator. Correspondence, clippings, press releases, articles, exhibition catalogs, photographs, sketches, designs, curriculum, and business records relating to Maldarelli's career and commissions.
    • Contributor: Maldarelli, Oronzio
    • Date: 1931
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    Sándor Lorand papers, 1914-1978 Psychoanalyst, author and educator. Correspondence, writings, lectures, interviews, biographical material, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Lorand's career as a psychoanalyst. Includes material relating to the American Psychoanalytic Association, the New York Psychoanalytic Society, and the Psychoanalytic Association of New York. Correspondents include Sigmund Freud.
    • Contributor: Lorand, Sándor
    • Date: 1914
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    My life in court, 1961 Louis Nizer, lawyer and author. Pencil and typewritten draft copies of his My Life in Court.
    • Contributor: Nizer, Louis
    • Date: 1961
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    Fitz-John Porter papers, 1830-1949 Army officer and public official in New York, N.Y., and New Jersey. Correspondence, telegrams, reports, memoranda, writings, autobiographical and biographical material, maps, scrapbooks, printed matter, and miscellany largely concerning Porter's court-martial and cashiering out of military service during the Civil War and his later reinstatement and presidential pardon.
    • Contributor: Porter, Fitz-John
    • Date: 1830
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    Henry Harley Arnold papers, 1903-1989 Pioneer aviator and United States Army officer. Correspondence, memoranda, journals, notebooks, drafts and proofs of Henry Harley (Hap) Arnold's memoirs, Global Mission (1949), articles, speeches, reports, orders, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the development of military aeronautics in the United States and to aeronautical policies and events of World War II.
    • Contributor: Arnold, Henry Harley
    • Date: 1903
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    Carol Olive Haley collection : Veterans History Project (U.S.... Carol Haley served in the United States Navy WAVES (Navy Women's Reserve), and served as a procurement officer and as a recruiter. Collection includes correspondence, military papers,creative works, and photographs relating to her service.
    • Contributor: Haley, Carol Olive - Haley, Kathryn
    • Date: 1943
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    Bainbridge Colby papers, 1863-1950 United States secretary of state, statesman, and lawyer. Correspondence, letterbooks, speeches, notebooks, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, and other papers primarily relating to Colby's career as a politician and statesman after 1912, including his service as Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state.
    • Contributor: Colby, Bainbridge
    • Date: 1863
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    Nancy Pelosi papers, 1930-2012 Speaker of the House of Representatives, House Minority Leader, and Democratic congresswoman from San Francisco, California, and the Bay area. Correspondence, legislative material, speeches, calendars, photographs, press and communications material, staff files, fundraising files, and administrative material relating primarily to Pelosi's work in the United States House of Representatives and her work on behalf of the Democratic Party and Democratic candidates for office.
    • Contributor: Pelosi, Nancy
    • Date: 1930
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    Noel Deisch papers, 1910-1937 Patent drafter. Typescript with holograph notes and corrections of Deisch's monograph, The Navigation of Interplanetary Space: A Study of the Question (Problem) of Flights to Other Worlds, the first serious scientific treatise in English on space travel; together with correspondence, articles, biographical material, and other papers relating to Deisch's patents and awards.
    • Contributor: Deisch, Noel
    • Date: 1910
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office oral history i... Interviews pertaining to California state politics and government, the suffragists, and to the life and career of John S. Service, an American diplomat in China, and his wife, Caroline Service.
    • Contributor: Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office
    • Date: 1959
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    W.W. Corcoran papers, 1791-1896 Financier and philanthropist. Correspondence, letterpress books, financial papers, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Corcoran's business and banking interests and philanthropic efforts.
    • Contributor: Corcoran, W. W. (William Wilson)
    • Date: 1791
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Samuel Franklin Emmons papers, 1725-1914 Geologist. Diaries and field notes, letterbooks, correspondence, family papers, subject files, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous material relating chiefly to Emmons's family and his career as a geologist.
    • Contributor: Emmons, Samuel Franklin
    • Date: 1725
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    John Spencer Bassett papers, 1770-1978 Historian, editor, and educator. Correspondence, diaries and journals, lectures, speeches, writings, research material, subject files, family correspondence, and collected historical manuscripts documenting Bassett's career as historian, editor and university professor.
    • Contributor: Bassett, John Spencer
    • Date: 1770
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Raymond Leslie Buell papers, 1915-1981 Educator, lecturer, and publicist; active in international affairs. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, statements, writings, subject files, and other papers relating to Buell's career as a writer and speaker on international affairs, to his travels, and to his activities with the Foreign Policy Association and the Republican Party.
    • Contributor: Buell, Raymond Leslie
    • Date: 1915
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    William Smith Culbertson papers, 1897-1965 Diplomat, lawyer and professor of law. Correspondence, diaries, lecture notes, government documents, writings, memoranda, and scrapbooks relating to Culbertson's career as vice chairman of the U.S. Tariff Commission, minister to Romania, ambassador to Chile, chief of the military intelligence service in the War Department, member of the Planning Group of the Office of Strategic Services, and other duties during World War II. Includes papers...
    • Contributor: Culbertson, William Smith
    • Date: 1897
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Samuel Hooper papers, 1829-1874 Merchant and U.S. representative. Correspondence, financial statements, lists, ledger sheets, and receipts relating to Hooper's investments and his import business in Boston, Mass., and his service in the Massachusetts legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives.
    • Contributor: Hooper, Samuel
    • Date: 1829
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    American Studies Association records, 1946-2005 Academic organization dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history. Correspondence, minutes, and printed matter relating to the organization and its publication, the American Quarterly.
    • Contributor: American Studies Association
    • Date: 1946
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Edgar Kobak papers, 1916-1966 Publicist, broadcasting executive, and consultant. Correspondence, autobiographical memoir, speeches and writings, business papers, clippings, and scrapbooks relating primarily to Kobak's work with McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, the National Broadcasting Company, and the Mutual Broadcasting System and to the early years of radio and television broadcasting and to his expertise in the field of public relations and communications.
    • Contributor: Kobak, Edgar
    • Date: 1916
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Charles Eames and Ray Eames papers, 1850-1989 Correspondence, writings, lectures, reports, proposals, scripts, notes, research files, minutes, financial records, travel records, staff files, clippings, printed material including catalogs and brochures, publicity files, biographical material, layout designs, plans, drawings, photographs, and other papers documenting the design activities and professional associations of Charles Eames and Ray Eames.
    • Contributor: Eames, Charles
    • Date: 1850
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Sayles Jenks Bowen papers, 1836-1882 Public official and mayor of Washington, D.C. Family and general correspondence and business and legal papers, chiefly 1876-1882. Topics include the elections of 1876 and 1880, the presidential administration of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, and political support for James Gillespie Blaine, James A. Garfield, and Chester A. Arthur.
    • Contributor: Bowen, Sayles Jenks
    • Date: 1836
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Arno A. Penzias papers, 1931-2006 Scientist, corporate executive, and author. Correspondence, drafts of books, articles, and speeches, interviews, scientific articles, photographs, topical files, printed matter, digital files, and miscellaneous material.
    • Contributor: Penzias, Arno A.
    • Date: 1931
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Vincent Youmans music manuscripts, 1920-1957 Vincent Youmans was a producer, publisher, and composer of shows and popular songs. The collection contains mostly holograph and manuscript full scores, piano-vocal scores, sketches, and parts representing a majority of his shows.
    • Contributor: Bordman, Gerald Martin - Youmans, Vincent
    • Date: 1920
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    William A. Oldridge collection of George Washington's headqua... Transcripts of letters collected and edited by Oldridge. Includes correspondence, writings, and other papers of Oldridge concerning the location of papers and illustrations of Washington's headquarters staff and historical accounts from the original material.
    • Contributor: Oldridge, William A.
    • Date: 1775
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Alfred Drake papers, 1892-2004 Alfred Drake was an American actor, singer, director, and author. The collection primarily documents Drake's theatrical career, and includes scripts, music scores, photographs, programs, writings, production materials, correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, and other miscellaneous materials.
    • Contributor: Eager, Edward - Drake, Alfred
    • Date: 1892
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    James Louis Robertson papers, 1869-1981 Chief clerk of the U.S. Senate Post Office, special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, reserve naval officer, deputy comptroller, and member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, subject files, genealogical material, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating primarily to Robertson's service as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
    • Contributor: Robertson, James Louis
    • Date: 1869
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Erich Wolfgang Korngold collection, 1889-2008 Erich Wolfgang Korngold was a composer and pianist noted for his orchestral works, operas, concertos, film scores, piano music, and chamber music. A musical prodigy, he famously displayed immense talent for both performance and composition. Korngold and his family were part of the exodus of European artists who moved to the United States during the rise of Nazism in Europe. He lived and worked...
    • Contributor: Walter, Bruno - Reese, Gustave - Bodanzky, Artur - Schott, Paul - Korngold, Erich Wolfgang - Reinhardt, Max - Mahler, Alma - Reiner, Fritz - Ormandy, Eugene - Disney, Walt - Zemlinsky, Alexander - Sachse, Leopold - Strauss, Richard - Mitropoulos, Dimitri
    • Date: 1888
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Alfred Easton Poor papers, 1866-1985 Architect and naval officer. Correspondence, writings, publications, reports, and appointment calendars pertaining primarily to Poor's architectural career, particularly his designs for public buildings, and his naval service during World War I and World War II.
    • Contributor: Poor, Alfred Easton
    • Date: 1866
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Children's Crusade for Children records, 1939-1940 Organization formed in 1939 for the relief of war-exiled children of Europe. The crusade culminated with a nationwide collection of money from public, private, and parochial school children in April 1940.
    • Contributor: Children's Crusade for Children
    • Date: 1939