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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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    McKim Fund collection, 1929-2021 The Leonora Jackson and William Duncan McKim Fund at the Library of Congress was established in 1970 to commission works for violin and piano, sponsor a series of concerts at the Library of Congress, and to purchase letters by prominent composers. The collection includes scores for the commissioned musical works, programs from the sponsored concerts, and all purchased letters. Newly commissioned materials will be...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. McKim Fund - McKim, W. Duncan - McKim, Leonora Jackson - Stravinsky, Igor - Elgar, Edward
    • Date: 1929
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    E. Alexander Powell papers, 1893-1957 Author. Family papers, general correspondence, literary material, and miscellany relating to Powell's personal life, writings, and travel.
    • Contributor: Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)
    • Date: 1893
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    Frederick Law Olmsted papers, 1777-1952 Landscape architect. Correspondence, letterbooks, journals, drafts of articles and books, speeches and lectures, biographical and genealogical data, business papers, scrapbooks, maps, drawings, and other papers encompassing Olmsted's career and private life. The papers focus on Olmsted's career as a landscape architect, specifically as a designer of parks and the grounds of private estates and public buildings and as a city and regional planner.
    • Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
    • Date: 1777
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    A.P. Schmidt Company archives, 1869-1958 Arthur Paul Schmidt (1846-1921) was a German-born music publisher who pioneered the development and dissemination of American music. The A.P. Schmidt Company Archives documents his firm's publishing activites in Boston, Leipzig and New York, beginning with his tenure, through his successors, and until the firm was absorbed by Summy-Birchard in 1960. The Archives consists of the original manuscripts from which the music was printed,...
    • Contributor: Hopekirk, Helen - Wooler, Alfred - Apthorp, William Foster - Berwald, W. (William) - Godowsky, Leopold - Adams, Charles R. - Macdowell, Edward - Barbour, Florence Newell - Bird, Arthur - Bauer, Marion ... Hopekirk, Helen - Wooler, Alfred - Apthorp, William Foster - Berwald, W. (William) - Godowsky, Leopold - Adams, Charles R. - Macdowell, Edward - Barbour, Florence Newell - Bird, Arthur - Bauer, Marion - Bartlett, Floy Little - Blumenschein, W. L. (William Leonard) - A.P. Schmidt Company - Archer, Frederic - Foote, Arthur - Beach, Amy - Chadwick, G. W. (George Whitefield) - Porter, F. Addison (Frank Addison) - Wilson, G. D. (Grenville Dean) - Barnes, Edward Shippen - Friml, Rudolf - Stewart, H. J. (Humphrey John) - Bohm, Carl - Bischoff, J. W. (John W.)
    • Date: 1869
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    May Robson papers, 1849-1950 Actress and author. Correspondence, books, play scripts, and other material autographed or created by prominent actors and producers of stage and screen from the late nineteenth-century until Robson’s death; also scrapbooks, playbills, and other material documenting her life and stage and film career.
    • Contributor: Robson, May
    • Date: 1849
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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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    Henry T. Mayo papers, 1866-1972 Naval officer. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, memoirs, genealogical material, reports, orders, certificates, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers pertaining mainly to Mayo's naval career.
    • Contributor: Mayo, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
    • Date: 1866
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    Edward and Clara Steuermann collection, 1922-1981 Edward Steuermann (1892-1964) was a pianist, composer, and teacher; his wife Clara Steuermann (1922-1982) was a pianist and music librarian. The collection includes music manuscripts (holograph scores and sketches) and printed music, writings of Edward Steuermann, and correspondence of Edward and Clara Steuermann. The music includes most of Steuermann's compositions, his arrangements of works by Busoni, Poulenc, Schoenberg, Webern, and various 18th- and 19th-century...
    • Contributor: Eisler, Hanns - Schoenberg, Arnold - Kahn, Erich Itor - Leibowitz, René - Steuermann, Clara - Busoni, Ferruccio - Webern, Anton - Adorno, Theodor W. - Poulenc, Francis - Steuermann, Edward - Kim, Earl - Kolisch, Rudolf - Kolisch, Lorna
    • Date: 1922
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    Christiancy and Pickett families papers, 1835-1998 Families related by the marriage of George E. Pickett (1864-1911) to Ida Elizabeth Christiancy in 1891. Correspondence, diary, military certificates, notebooks, genealogical material and other papers relating to the Christiancy and Pickett families, including letters of Henry Clay Christiancy and his brother James Isaac Christiancy, Union Army officers during the Civil War; Confederate General George E. Pickett (1825-1875) and his wife, La Salle Corbell...
    • Date: 1835
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    Ruth Bader Ginsburg papers, 1897-2021 U.S. Supreme Court justice, judge, lawyer, and educator. Correspondence, memoranda, case files, speeches, lectures, writings, reports, interviews, briefs, orders, opinions, motions, depositions, and other papers relating chiefly to Ginsburg's efforts as an advocate for women's rights, particularly through her speeches and writings and her endeavors as general counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union and director of its Women's Rights Project. Documents her work...
    • Contributor: Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
    • Date: 1897
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    Sergei Rachmaninoff archive, 1872-1992 Sergei Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. The Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive contains material related to his life and career after he and his family left Russia in 1917 to establish themselves in the United States. The archive contains Rachmaninoff's holograph music manuscripts, correspondence, writings, biographical articles and clippings, awards and honors, concert programs, scrapbooks, financial papers, iconography, realia, and published books and...
    • Contributor: Satina, Sophia - Rachmaninoff, Sergei - Rachmaninoff, Natalie
    • Date: 1872
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    Woman's National Democratic Club records, 1912-2014 Organization founded in 1922 in Washington, D.C., focusing on public policy and serving as a forum for Democratic leaders. Correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, bylaws, notes, newsletters, membership files, oral history transcripts in both physical and digital formats, photographs in both physical and digital formats, presidential campaign ephemera, newspaper clippings, and other printed matter documenting the founding of the Woman’s National Democratic Club and...
    • Contributor: Woman's National Democratic Club (U.S.)
    • Date: 1912
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    Walker family papers, 1899-2022 Correspondence and biographical material for the Walker family, primarily letters from brothers Webster Lemuel Walker and William Anson Walker to their family while serving with the 47th Volunteer Infantry Regiment, United States Army during the Philippine American War.
    • Date: 1899
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    Harold McMillan Bixby papers, 1925-1962 Airline executive. Correspondence, speeches, printed matter, and miscellaneous material relating to Charles A. Lindbergh. Includes letters between Lindbergh and Bixby and other material concerning Lindbergh's transatlantic flight of 1927.
    • Contributor: Bixby, Harold McMillan
    • Date: 1925
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    Victoria Henrietta Kugler Nesbitt papers, 1933-1949 White House housekeeper during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. Correspondence, diaries, writings, an incomplete set of Franklin D. Roosevelt's daily appointment calendar, memoranda of White House entertainments and other household files kept while Nesbitt was housekeeper for Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
    • Contributor: Nesbitt, Victoria Henrietta Kugler
    • Date: 1933
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    Norman H. Davis papers, 1898-1979 Economist, diplomat and humanitarian. Correspondence, journals, minutes, speeches, statements, scrapbooks, memoranda, news clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other material relating mainly to Davis's participation between the world wars in international conferences on peace, disarmament, and international monetary matters.
    • Contributor: Davis, Norman H. (Norman Hezekiah)
    • Date: 1898
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    Herman Hollerith papers, 1850-1982 Inventor and businessman. Correspondence, diary, financial and business papers, patents by Hollerith and others, blueprints, drawings, a Hollerith machine punch plate, writings about Hollerith by Geoffrey Austrian and others, biographical material, and other papers relating to Hollerith tabulating machines and their use in census taking (1890-1910), operation of Tabulating Machine Company and its merger with two other companies forming Computer-Tabulating-Recording Company (1911), and Hollerith's...
    • Contributor: Hollerith, Herman
    • Date: 1850
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    Woody Guthrie manuscript collection, 1935-1950 The Woody Guthrie manuscript collection includes unpublished correspondence, most are letters from Guthrie to Alan Lomax, assistant in charge of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, dated 1940-1942; plus drawings; essays; song lyrics; and a songbook, "Songs of Woody Guthrie."
    • Contributor: Guthrie, Woody - Spivacke, Harold - Lomax, Alan
    • Date: 1935
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    Rilma Oxley Buckman papers, 1885-2015 Social worker and American Red Cross administrative assistant. Correspondence, writings, memoranda, reports, printed matter, newspaper clippings, photographs, memoir, and biographical material relating primarily to Buckman’s career as American Red Cross club director and assistant social welfare officer.
    • Contributor: Buckman, Rilma Oxley
    • Date: 1885
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    Harry Von Tilzer and H. Harold Gumm papers, 1878-1959 The Harry Von Tilzer and H. Harold Gumm Papers consist of both personal and professional papers of composer and music publisher Harry Von Tilzer (1872-1946) and his brother, H. Harold Gumm (1881 or 82-1973), who was a lawyer, agent, and producer in the entertainment business. After having served as attorney for the Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co. (HVTMPC) for several decades, Harold Gumm...
    • Contributor: Singer, Dolph - Nordstrom, Frances - Gumm, H. Harold - Von Tilzer, Harry - McCree, Junie
    • Date: 1878
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    David S. Tatel papers, 1871-2014 Judge, lawyer, and public official. Correspondence, memoranda, case files, speeches, writings, reports, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other papers in both physical and digital formats relating chiefly to Tatel’s legal career as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, his service as Director for the Office for Civil Rights for the Department of Health, Education, and...
    • Contributor: Tatel, David S.
    • Date: 1871
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    Walter Hamady and The Perishable Press collection, 1895-2019 Walter Hamady was an artist, professor, poet and printer, who ran the Perishable Press, Limited for over forty years. The collection includes correspondence, planning documents, original art, photographs, printing plates, Hamady’s personal library, reference materials, ephemera and realia.
    • Contributor: Williams, Jonathan - Wilde, John - Hamady, Walter Samuel Haatoum - Flynn, Patrick Jb - Moty, Eleanor - Belanger, Terry - Olson, Toby - Behrens, Roy R. - Runser, Robert E. - Oppenheimer, Joel - Krohn, Anna Emilie
    • Date: 1895
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    Carl Eckart papers, 1921-1973 Physicist, oceanographer, and educator. Correspondence, writings, lectures, subject files, biographical information, printed material, photographs, and other material relating to Eckart's career as oceanographer and physicist.
    • Contributor: Eckart, Carl
    • Date: 1921
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    Clay Thomas Whitehead papers, 1927-2012 United States government official and businessman. Memoranda, correspondence, notes, briefing books, position papers, conference proceedings, university coursework, Ph.D. dissertation, subject files, research material, reports, speeches, writings, trip itineraries and records, printed matter, corporate annual reports, and miscellaneous items documenting Whitehead's service as special assistant to the president and director of the Office of Telecommunications Policy in the White House during the Richard M. Nixon...
    • Contributor: Whitehead, Clay Thomas
    • Date: 1927