Letter from Robert Todd Lincoln to James H. Hackett, March 17, 1871.

Illinois vs. August Spies et al. trial evidence book. People's Exhibit 91.

Introduced into evidence in the trial transcript during testimony of Eugene Seeger (Vol. K p. 701-720), 1886 July 31.

Charles Butler papers, 1819-1929

Entrepreneur, lawyer, and philanthropist. Correspondence, travel diaries, legal, financial, and business papers, and maps, newspaper clippings, and other papers documenting Butler's involvement in New York politics and his interest in such matters ...

John Hay papers, 1783-1999

Statesman, diplomat, historian, journalist, and poet. Correspondence and letterbooks, speeches, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and memoranda, mainly for the years 1897-1905 when Hay served as United States ambassador to Great Britain and United ...

Daniel O. Drennan papers, 1775-1904

Military aide. Copies of correspondence, military dispatches, reports and other documents, as well as original letters, newspaper clippings, notes, architectural drawings, memorabilia, and printed matter collected by Drennan during his service as ...

Octave Chanute papers, 1807-1955

Civil engineer and aviation pioneer. The bulk of the collection relates to Chanute's experiments with gliders and his scientific and financial support of aeronautical pioneers. Other papers concern his career as a ...

Joseph Pulitzer telegram to Cook County Sheriff Canute Matson

Manuscript message on telegraph form from the publisher of The World (New York) requests the sheriff to admit C. E. Russell, correspondent, to the jail and states that Henry Guy Carleton has ...

Victor Gruen papers, 1886-1991

Designer, architect, and urban planner. Personal and business correspondence, project files, speeches, writings, biographical material, and scrapbooks documenting Gruen's career in architectural design, city planning, and environmental counseling, with special emphasis on ...

Palmer-Loper family papers, 1667-1994

Seafaring and merchant families. Correspondence, logbooks and journals, ships' papers, financial and business records, and printed matter documenting the voyages and business activities of Nathaniel Brown Palmer, Alexander Smith Palmer, Richard Fanning ...

Anne and Frank Warner collection, 1938-1969

Documentation of American traditional musicians and storytellers collected by Anne Warner and Frank Warner on numerous field recording trips to Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia ...

Letter to R. U. Johnson from William Tecumseh Sherman, December 22, 1886.

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 ...

Chester S. Lord telegram to Cook County Sheriff Canute Matson

Manuscript message on telegraph form from the managing editor of the Sun (New York) requests the sheriff to place Joseph Howard, Jr., on the list of favored correspondents because he will represent ...

Olmsted Associates records, 1863-1971

Landscape architectural firm. The records include correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, reports, plans, specifications, newspaper clippings, photographs, drawings, journals, account books, ledgers, lists, diagrams, blueprints, deeds, and printed matter constituting the business files of ...

Frederick Douglass papers, 1841-1967

Abolitionist, diplomat, journalist, and orator. Correspondence, diary, speeches and writings, financial and legal records, and a subject file pertaining to the career of Frederick Douglass.

Raymond G. Carroll papers, 1905-1944

Journalist. Scrapbooks of clippings, mostly of Carroll's articles, and correspondence, photographs, drawings, and other printed matter relating to Carroll's career as a journalist.

Joseph Pulitzer telegram to Cook County Sheriff Canute Matson

Manuscript message on telegraph form from the publisher of The World (New York) repeats earlier request to the sheriff to admit C. E. Russell, correspondent, to the jail to report on the ...

Arthur J. Goldberg papers, 1793-1990

Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, lawyer, secretary of labor, and diplomat. Correspondence, case files, certiorari memoranda, legal files, speeches and writings, subject files, reports, printed matter, and scrapbooks relating ...

Charles Follen McKim papers, 1838-1929

Architect. Correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, diary, notes, legal and financial records, sketches, drawings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, & White, New York, N.Y.

Meg Greenfield papers, 1890-1999

Editor and journalist. Correspondence, speeches and writings, research files, interview transcripts, memoranda, minutes, reports, calendars and schedules, cartoons, financial and legal records, travel files, academic records, biographical material, honors and awards, childhood ...