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    Jay I. Kislak Collection,
    Jay I. Kislak collection of the archaeology and history of the early Americas Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    The Jay I. Kislak Collection is composed chiefly of archaeological artifacts, rare books, manuscripts, maps, and graphic works of art documenting the earliest history of the lands that would become known as the Americas including the pre-Columbian cultures of the Caribbean and Mesoamerica. Also includes manuscripts and rare books relating to the arrival of Europeans in the Americas and to the history of the...
    • Contributor: Boazio, Baptista - León Y Gama, Antonio De - Lorenzana, Francisco Antonio - Schöner, Johann - Kislak, Jay I. - Waldseemüller, Martin - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Molina, Alonso De - Cortés, Hernán
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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
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    Great Britain. Audit Office records, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available AO 1 consists of rolls of declared accounts from the Auditors of the Imprest and the Commissioners of Audit. AO 12 and 13 consist of records of the British Board of Commissioners appointed after the American Revolution to inquire into the losses and services of American Loyalists. Consists of minute books and reports of the Board of Commissioners; tables and lists of claims, claimants,...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Audit Office
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    Ezra Stiles papers,
    Ezra Stiles papers (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Diary, correspondence, and other papers of Stiles. Diary (1770-1790) titled "Occurences and Literary Diary," kept by Stiles while serving as a Congregational clergyman in Newport, Rhode Island, pertaining to local national events, and prominent individuals; and includes excerpts from intercepted letters and sketches of military movements. Memoranda collected by Stiles during his travels and titled "Itineraries." Miscellaneous papers composed of historical materials pertains to...
    • Contributor: Stiles, Ezra
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    Orderly book of the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot, AMs orderly book of the British 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot while stationed in Haiti during the expedition against the French in the West Indies. Written at headquarters, Port-au-Prince, and elsewhere. There apparently is some evidence to suggest that the volume is written in the hand of the British commander-in-chief, General Sir Ralph Abercromby.
    • Contributor: Abercromby, Ralph - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 66th (Berkshire)
    • Date: 1796

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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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    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