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    Joseph R. Hawley papers, 1638-1906 Army officer, editor and United States representative and senator from Connecticut. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, drafts of speeches, business papers, and memorabilia relating to Hawley's personal and family life and to his business and political work.
    • Contributor: Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell)
    • Date: 1638
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    Rodolfo R. Schuller papers, 1492-1915 Americanist and linguist. Chiefly files comprised of copies of documents from various repositories, original manuscripts, and notes based on Schuller's linguistic research in Mexico and Central and South America, including archaeological and ethnographic material, clippings, maps, and photographs.
    • Contributor: Schuller, Rodolfo R.
    • Date: 1492
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    J.L.M. Curry papers, 1637-1939 Statesman, author, clergyman, diplomat, and educator. Diaries, correspondence, printed matter, clippings, memorabilia, notes and memoranda, legal papers, accounts, lectures and sermons, essays, scrapbook, manuscript of autobiography, speeches, and articles, and catalog of Curry's library. Includes autographs of presidents, Confederate leaders, Spanish noblemen, royalty, and writers, jurists, diplomats, educators, historians, scientists, reformers, artists, statesmen, literary figures, clergymen, and military men of the United States and...
    • Contributor: Curry, J. L. M. (Jabez Lamar Monroe)
    • Date: 1637
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    Sir Thomas Phillipps collection, circa 1400-1857 Manuscript materials relating chiefly to various aspects of the colonial history of British North America and the West Indies. Formerly a part of Bibliotheca Phillippica, a library of manuscripts and printed books compiled by Sir Thomas Phillipps. Of particular note are papers relating to the Board of Trade and Sir William Blathwayt; letterbooks of George Macartney while governor of the Caribbean Islands; English and...
    • Contributor: Phillipps, Thomas, Sir
    • Date: 1400
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    Daniel Carroll papers, 1662-1920 Landowner and businessman. Correspondence, financial and legal records, plat surveys, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Carroll's business interests and real estate holdings in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md.
    • Contributor: Carroll, Daniel
    • Date: 1662
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    J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps collection, 1576-circa 1852 Scholar and librarian. Bills, accounts, and inventories illustrating the history of prices in England between the years 1650 and 1750 compiled by Halliwell-Phillipps for an unfinished work on the history of prices.
    • Contributor: Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard)
    • Date: 1576
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    Lawrence Van Buren family papers, 1721-1938 Family of Lawrence Van Buren, farmer and civic leader of Kinderhook, New York, and brother of Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States. Correspondence, deeds, indentures, photographs, newspapers, news clippings, notes, agreements, and genealogical material documenting the Van Buren, Dodge, and Woolfolk families from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. Of special interest are papers concerning land and financial transactions...
    • Contributor: Van Buren, Lawrence
    • Date: 1721
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    Danforth-Bush family collection, 1721-2007 Correspondence, journal, essays, sermons, articles, autograph collection, photographs, and other papers of the Danforth and Bush families, chiefly of Joshua N. Danforth. A volume of autographs collected by J. Danforth Bush and other family members contains the signatures of members of the Thirty-third Congress (House and Senate) and U.S. governors, circa 1853-1854.
    • Date: 1721
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    William Bebb papers, 1705-1849 Educator, lawyer, and governor of Ohio. Autograph letters and clipped signatures from an album started for Bebb by his father, Edward Bebb, and Samuel Roberts, Welsh political reformer and founder of a settlement in Tennessee. Includes autographs of British politicians, military leaders, authors, and missionaries. Letters collected by William Bebb himself include those from prominent Americans including John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun, William...
    • Contributor: Bebb, William
    • Date: 1705
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    Field-Osgood family papers, 1702-1938 Correspondence, speeches and writings, household financial accounts, legal papers, genealogical material, printed matter, photographs, lithographs, and engravings pertaining to the families of Samuel Osgood (1748-1813) and his daughter, Susan Osgood Field, of Massachusetts and New York.
    • Date: 1702
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    Barony of Saint Desiré records, 1380-1793 Census records, land books and evaluations, listings of laws and decrees, title books, and other material relating to the Barony of Saint Desiré.
    • Date: 1380
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    Anita Newcomb McGee papers, 1688-1932 Anthropologist and physician. Correspondence, diaries, family papers, writings, scientific and medical data, and miscellaneous material pertaining to McGee's studies of communistic societies in the United States such as the Shakers and the Bethel and Oneida communities, to her duties as acting assistant surgeon, U.S. Army in the Spanish-American War; and to the formation of the Women's Anthropological Society of America. Contains family correspondence of...
    • Contributor: McGee, Anita Newcomb
    • Date: 1688
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    Hale family papers, 1698-1916 Correspondence, biographical material, business records, writings, legal documents, memorabilia, and genealogies of the Hale, Everett, Hill, and Sears families. The collection consists primarily of the papers of Nathan Hale (1784-1863), pioneer railroad builder and journalist; Alexander Hill Everett (1790-1847), diplomat and editor; and Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909), author and Unitarian minister.
    • Date: 1698
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    Domingo Del Monte collection of Spanish colonial history, 150... Cuban historian. Correspondence, diaries, writings, reports, official documents, and printed material collected or written by Del Monte relating to the Spanish colonial history of Cuba, Mexico, Peru, South America, Philippines, and the West Indies. Includes material on copper mines, insurrections, labor, immigration, and slavery and the slave trade.
    • Contributor: Del Monte, Domingo
    • Date: 1500
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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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    Puerto Rican memorial collection, 1519-1923 Researcher. Chiefly papers collected by Alice Bache Gould relating to the history of Puerto Rico together with her own correspondence, writings, and bibliographic material.
    • Date: 1519
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    John Richardson Latimer papers, 1679-1906 Merchant and business agent, trading in opium and other commodities while residing in Canton, China; native of Wilmington, Del. Correspondence, account books, orders, bills of lading, ledgers, daybooks, cashbooks, invoices, bills, receipts, and similar business papers on the China trade and related dealings in India, England, Turkey, and elsewhere, chiefly 1824-1833, when Latimer resided in Canton and traded in opium and other products.
    • Contributor: Latimer, John Richardson
    • Date: 1679
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    Marquis de Lafayette papers, 1757-1990 Soldier and statesman. Correspondence, letterbooks, writings, speeches, reports, minutes, notes, military records, financial and legal documents, family papers, broadsides, and other papers relating chiefly to the Marquis de Lafayette'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...
    • Contributor: Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis De
    • Date: 1457
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    Louisiana miscellany, 1724-1837 Correspondence, reports, legal papers, maps, sketches, financial matter, a surveyor’s notebook, and other material relating to the early history of Louisiana under French, Spanish, and American control, including personal and official documents.
    • Date: 1724
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    Mercy-Argenteau family papers, 1410-1921 Correspondence, commissions, diplomas, certificates, and other documents. Includes military papers relating to the Silesian War and Seven Years' War, letters from King Leopold II of Austria, and material relating to California and Mexico.
    • Date: 1410
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    James Dudley Morgan collection of Digges-L'Enfant-Morgan pape... Chiefly correspondence, accounts, commissions, notes, and other papers (1778-1828) relating to soldier and engineer Pierre C. L'Enfant, including material concerning the Society of the Cincinnati, the design of the city of Washington, D.C., Robert Morris's home in Philadelphia, and Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania, and Fort Washington, Maryland. Also includes papers relating to the Digges family of Prince Georges County, Maryland, especially Thomas Atwood Digges and...
    • Contributor: Morgan, James Dudley
    • Date: 1674
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    Society of the Cincinnati records, 1714-1938 Organization founded in 1783 to preserve the ideals and fellowship of Revolutionary War officers and to pressure the government to honor pledges made to officers who fought for American Independence. Microfilm and photocopies of correspondence, circular letters, journals, minutes, proceedings of the General Society and of the Standing Executive Committee, resolutions, membership lists, certifications of delegates, accounts and account book, drawings, and other records....
    • Contributor: Society of the Cincinnati
    • Date: 1714
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    Henry Northrup Castle family papers, 1394-1920 Genealogical records relating to the Castle family. Also includes a draft of a children's book by Marie L. Castle.
    • Date: 1394
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    Rose Marie Grentzer and Harold Spivacke Fund collection, 1615... The Rose Marie and Harold Spivacke Fund Collection consists of materials purchased through an endowment that Rose Marie Spivacke established in 1982 at the behest of her husband, Harold Spivacke, who was chief of the Music Division at the Library of Congress from 1937 to 1972. The collection includes music manuscripts, printed scores, correspondence, clippings, and iconography.
    • Contributor: Heinsheimer, Hans W. - Barber, Samuel - Herbert, Victor - Rodgers, Richard - Mingus, Charles - Liszt, Franz - Spivacke, Harold - Berlin, Irving - Waller, Fats - Grentzer, Rose Marie - Felix, Hugo
    • Date: 1615
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    James Madison papers, 1723-1859 United States president and secretary of state, delegate to the United States Continental Congress, and United States representative from Virginia. Correspondence, memoranda, autobiography, notes of debates in the Continental Congress (1776) and the Federal Convention (1787), and related material.
    • Contributor: Madison, James
    • Date: 1723
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    Robert Carter papers, 1685-1828 Tobacco planter and iron manufacturer. Correspondence, memorandum books, account books, and religious writings relating primarily to the operation of Nomini Hall in Westmoreland County, Va., other Virginia estates, shipment of tobacco, the Baltimore Iron Works, and his affiliation with the Baptists and the Swedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem.
    • Contributor: Carter, Robert
    • Date: 1685
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    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
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    John Tyler papers, 1691-1918 President of the United States, vice president under William Henry Harrison, and United States representative and senator from Virginia. Correspondence and other papers, including correspondence of Tyler's widow, Julia Gardiner Tyler, an autograph collection assembled by their son, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, and family papers reflecting social life and customs in Virginia.
    • Contributor: Tyler, John
    • Date: 1691
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    Rumsey family papers, 1661-1907 Family of Bohemia Manor, Cecil County, Md. Correspondence among family members; wills; surveys, deeds, plats, and other documents relating to land ownership; personal and business financial accounts; contracts and other legal documents; sermons; and notes on family history.
    • Date: 1661
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    Lorenzo J. Greene papers, 1680-1988 African-American historian, educator, editor, and civil rights and social activist. Chiefly academic files documenting Greene's career as a professor of history and pioneer in the field of African-American studies at Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri.
    • Contributor: Greene, Lorenzo J. (Lorenzo Johnston)
    • Date: 1680
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    John Bigelow papers, 1492-1936 Army officer, professor, and author. Correspondence, research notes, manuscripts of articles and books, photostatic copies of manuscripts in foreign archives, bibliographical material, photographs, drawings, maps, clippings, card files, and printed matter relating largely to canals especially, the Panama and Suez canals, along with the early history of Latin America, and also including material on the American Revolution, Civil War, Robert E. Lee, Monroe Doctrine,...
    • Contributor: Bigelow, John
    • Date: 1492
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    Piccard family papers, circa 1470-1983 Family members represented include Jean Felix Piccard (1884-1963), his wife, Jeannette Ridlon Piccard (1895-1981), and their son, Don Piccard (1926- ). Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, journals, logbooks, drafts of writings and speeches, reports, notes, financial papers, biographical and genealogical material, scrapbooks, blueprints, patent specifications and other papers documenting the careers of Piccard family members in the fields of aeronautics, ballooning, bathyscaphe exploration, chemistry, education, the...
    • Date: 1470
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    Sarah Stone autograph collection, 1720-1962 Resident of Salem, Massachusetts. Letters, clipped signatures, and other autograph items of prominent American and a few British figures, chiefly of the nineteenth century.
    • Contributor: Stone, Sarah, Active 1840
    • Date: 1720
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    Black history collection, 1623-2008 Letters, court records, legal documents, slave deeds, financial records, speeches and writings, family and genealogical papers, military records, birth records, inventories, wills, ships' papers, a commonplace book, poll tax receipts, broadsides, postcards, marriage certificates, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other material pertaining to African Americans.
    • Date: 1700
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    Joseph Alsop and Stewart Alsop papers, 1699-1989 Authors and journalists. Correspondence, writings, interviews, notes, subject files, office files, financial papers, family papers, clippings, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to Joseph Alsop's family and personal life; acquaintance with prominent politicians, public figures, writers, and scholars; work as a journalist; World War II experiences in China; and research and writing as an art historian. Includes material relating to Joseph and Stewart...
    • Contributor: Alsop, Joseph
    • Date: 1699
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    Shaker collection of records concerning the United Society of... Members of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, a millenial religious sect originating in England among the Society of Friends in the 18th century, were popularly known as Shakers. Correspondence, covenants, diaries and journals, financial and legal papers, hymns and hymnals, church orders and instructions, poetry, spiritual communications, inspirational writings and drawings, essays, biographical and historical sketches, memoirs, and other papers...
    • Date: 1676
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    Edward Preble papers, 1680-1912 United States naval officer. Correspondence, diary, journals, account books, ships' papers and logbooks, muster rolls, signal books, family papers, and other material relating primarily to Preble's naval service.
    • Contributor: Preble, Edward
    • Date: 1680
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    Pennell-Whistler collection, 1597-1937 Correspondence, clippings, book drafts and galleys, articles, lecture files, and other papers of Pennell and his wife, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, relating to family affairs, his art work, their joint book publications, and to James McNeill Whistler.
    • Contributor: Pennell, Joseph
    • Date: 1597
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    Santa Clara de Tulillo Hacienda records, 1580-circa 1800 Bound volumes of correspondence, royal decrees, deeds of gift, estate inventories, fiscal accounts, bills of sale, land grants, legal suits and countersuits, mortgage loans, rental agreements, wills and testaments, and other records kept by the Jesuit owners of the hacienda. Subjects include the acquisition and sale of land, ownership disputes, property boundaries, water rights, rental of property, agricultural production, livestock and livestock brands, the...
    • Date: 1580
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    John Leeds Bozman family papers, 1688-1883 Historian and lawyer of Maryland. Correspondence and other material pertaining to John Leeds Bozman, John Leeds Kerr, John Bozman Kerr, J. S. Bozman, William Vans Murray, Daniel Carroll (1730-1796), and others.
    • Contributor: Bozman, John Leeds
    • Date: 1669
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    Shaw family papers, 1636-1892 Correspondence, writings, copybooks, genealogical materials, reports, and other papers relating to the Shaw, Smith, Adams, and Felt (Felts) families. Central to the collection is the correspondence of Abigail Adams with her sister, Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, and with Elizabeth Peabody's children, Abigail Adams Shaw Felt and William Smith Shaw. Includes sermons and other papers of Joseph Barlow Felt relating to New England; state laws;...
    • Date: 1636
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    Edward F. Edinger papers, 1550-2016 Jungian analyst. Writings, lectures, correspondence, notes, photographs, military records, slides, digital files, printed matter, and other papers pertaining to Edinger's career as a Jungian analyst.
    • Contributor: Edinger, Edward F.
    • Date: 1550
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    William Maxwell Evarts papers, 1667-1918 Lawyer, United States senator from New York, and United States secretary of state and attorney general. Correspondence, diary, journal, account books, minute book, printed material, drafts of memoranda, and a journal of college reading relating mainly to New York state, national, and international politics from the Civil War to the 1890s.
    • Contributor: Evarts, William Maxwell
    • Date: 1667
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    Lovering-Taylor family papers, 1727-1926 The Lovering-Taylor families of Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.; and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, business records, legal papers, biographical and genealogical material, clippings, printed material, and other papers chiefly of Joseph Taylor (1745(?)-1816), merchant and Loyalist, relating to business and trade during the Revolution, the Loyalist cause, mercantile insurance, and French spoliation claims. Other family members represented include William Taylor...
    • Date: 1727
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    Armand Hammer papers, circa 1508-1989 Business executive, philanthropist, and art collector. Chiefly correspondence documenting Hammer's career as a citizen diplomat (particularly to the Soviet Union), humanitarian, and art collector gathered for an exhibition honoring him at the Library of Congress in 1989, including also a facsimile edition of the Codex Hammer (a notebook of Leonardo da Vinci) and a photograph album.
    • Contributor: Hammer, Armand
    • Date: 1508
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    Charles McLean Andrews collection concerning colonial history... Historian, educator, and author. Chiefly transcripts of manuscripts in various repositories in England. The material relates to admiralty courts and cases as well as trade and political matters.
    • Contributor: Andrews, Charles McLean
    • Date: 1623
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    Thomas Jefferson papers, 1606-1943 United States president, vice president, and secretary of state; diplomat, architect, inventor, planter, and philosopher. Correspondence, official statements and addresses, including a rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, plantation and personal accounts, notebook, fee book, case book, garden book, farm book, calculations of interest, records of early Virginia laws and history and other writings on political, legal, educational, and scientific matters, newspaper clippings,...
    • Contributor: Jefferson, Thomas
    • Date: 1606
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    Rebekah Crawford and Linda Clarke-Smith papers, 1715-1929 Educator and social worker. Correspondence, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous papers concerning relief work with the Red Cross and Duryea War Relief during and after World War I with Italian and French war wounded and children. Also includes family papers, account books, scrapbooks, manuscript plays and miscellany, some relating to Richard Crawford.
    • Contributor: Crawford, Rebekah
    • Date: 1715
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    Vespucci family papers, 1409-1989 Chiefly research material assembled by historian Germán Arciniegas for his writings on the Vespucci family.
    • Date: 1409
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    Great Britain. Board of Trade records, 1682-1786 Government agency. Reports, correspondence, orders, instructions, commissions, and other material relating to British overseas trade.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Board of Trade
    • Date: 1682
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    George Washington papers, 1592-1943 United States president, United States Army officer, and patriot. Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, accounts, military papers, and other papers documenting Washington's relations with the Continental Congress, his command of the Continental Army, his presidency, and other aspects of his career.
    • Contributor: Washington, George
    • Date: 1592
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    Moldenhauer archives at the Library of Congress, circa 1000-c... The Moldenhauer Archives consist of manuscript and printed music, correspondence, photographs, books, clippings, programs, and artwork dating from the twelfth to the twentieth century. The music includes holograph scores and sketches, as well as a number of copyist and printed scores, transcriptions, and arrangements. Represented musical and literary figures include, among many others, George Auric, Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector...
    • Contributor: Moldenhauer, Hans
    • Date: 1000
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    William C. Rives papers, 1674-1939 U.S. senator and representative from Virginia. Correspondence, journals, diaries, draft of Rives's incomplete "Life and Time of James Madison," and drafts of speeches, novels, and an unpublished autobiography by Rives. Includes papers of Thomas Walker (1715-1794), U.S. Army officer, guardian of Thomas Jefferson, physician, and explorer; and of Walker's son, Francis (1764-1806), U.S. representative and lawyer from Virginia.
    • Contributor: Rives, William C. (William Cabell)
    • Date: 1674
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    Irene Aloha Wright papers, 1620-1977 Author, historian, public official, archivist, and editor. Transcripts, copies, and translations of documents in the Archivo de Protocolos de Sevilla, Archivo General de Indias, and Instituto Hispano-Cubano de Historia de América, Seville, Spain. Includes correspondence, printed matter, and other papers of Wright pertaining to the documents, as well as biographical material concerning Wright.
    • Contributor: Wright, Irene Aloha
    • Date: 1620
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    Custis-Lee family papers, 1700-circa 1928 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.
    • Date: 1700
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    Autographs of European notables, 1422-1879 Records of the autograph letters, manuscripts, and documents written or subscribed by the Kings and Queens or other rulers of England, Germany, Spain, and Italy, including the Popes of Rome, and Rulers of France, including the Napoleonic collection. The documents are written in the language of the country under which they appear unless otherwise indicated. There are often portraits of the writers included with...
    • Contributor: Thacher, Emma Treadwell - Bourne, Henry Eldridge - Thacher, John Boyd
    • Date: 1274
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    Galloway-Maxcy-Markoe families papers, 1654-1888 Correspondence, business records, financial records, legal documents, speeches, reports, essays, memoranda, and other papers of members of the Galloway, Maxcy (Maxey), and Markoe families relating to economic conditions in Maryland and foreign affairs and political events in the 1840s and 1850s.
    • Date: 1654
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    United States. Work Projects Administration records, 1524-1975 Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, essays, scripts, plays, life histories, folklore material, field reports, notes, transcripts of documents, inventories, lists, statements, instructions, surveys and appraisals, graphs, drawings, maps, indexes, and administrative records of the Federal Writer's Project and the Historical Records Survey of the U.S. Work Projects Administration. Also includes a research library of reports and publications documenting social welfare programs of the Depression era.
    • Contributor: United States. Work Projects Administration
    • Date: 1524
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    Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts, 1656-1995 Collector. A collection of Americana including historical letters and documents, family and personal papers, broadsides, financial and legal papers, illustrated and printed ephemera, government and legislative documents, military records, journals, and printed matter relating primarily to the expansion and development of the United States from the colonial period through the 1876 centennial.
    • Contributor: Carson, Marian S.
    • Date: 1656
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    Hugh Lenox Scott papers, 1582-1981 Army officer and public official. Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, memoirs, drafts of writings, speeches, reports, notes, biographical and genealogical material, account books, financial papers, lists, printed material, maps, photographs, drawings, prints, and others papers relating to Scott's career in the United States Army from 1876 to his retirement following World War I, his service as a member of the State Highway Commission for New Jersey...
    • Contributor: Scott, Hugh Lenox
    • Date: 1582
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    Joshua Logan papers, 1723-1992 Theatrical producer and director and playwright. Correspondence, family papers, business and financial papers, production files, writings, publicity material, clippings, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting Logan's career as producer, director, and author of theatrical, musical, and motion picture productions, chiefly from 1940 to 1980.
    • Contributor: Logan, Joshua
    • Date: 1723
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    San José de Queréndaro Hacienda records, 1543-1922 Bound volumes of files kept by the Jesuits, original owners of the hacienda. Subjects include the acquisition and sale of land, ownership disputes, water rights, rental of property, agricultural production, livestock and livestock brands, and relations with the Indigenous people of Mexico. Also includes correspondence and fiscal accounts with the local railroad company.
    • Date: 1543
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    Philipp Franz von Siebold papers, 1609-1927 German physician, explorer, and scientist. Microfilm of correspondence, notes, memoranda, writings, reports, printed matter, and other papers consisting primarily of Siebold's notes and writings on the flora, fauna, geology, and meteorology of Japan, including observations and comments on its history, culture, customs, and languages. Also includes material relating to Korea and Taiwan.
    • Contributor: Siebold, Philipp Franz Von
    • Date: 1609
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    Henry Woodhouse collection relating to George Washington, 165... Editor and author. Correspondence, deeds, wills, testaments, indentures, bonds, surveys, maps, plats, financial and legal records, clippings, and other papers relating principally to George Washington, the Washington family, and its descendants.
    • Contributor: Woodhouse, Henry
    • Date: 1656
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    William B. Randolph papers, 1696-1884 Virginia plantation owner. Correspondence, legal and financial records, and miscellaneous material reflecting the life of a plantation owner and enslaver in Virginia prior to the Civil War, with particular emphasis on the economics of managing an extensive plantation worked by a large force of enslaved people.
    • Contributor: Randolph, William B.
    • Date: 1696
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    Benjamin Franklin papers, 1726-1907 Statesman, publisher, scientist, and diplomat. Correspondence, journals, records, articles, and other material relating to Franklin's life and career. Includes manuscripts (1728) of his Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion; negotiations in London (1775); letterbooks (1779-1782) of the United States legation in Paris; records (1780-1783) of the United States peace commissioners, including journals kept by Franklin and Richard Oswald; and papers (1781-1818) of Franklin's...
    • Contributor: Franklin, Benjamin
    • Date: 1726
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    David B. Quinn papers, 1109-1994 Historian. Correspondence, minutes, reports, appointment calendars, applications, autobiographical sketches, clippings, photographs, lectures, writings, and research material consisting of notes, transcriptions, and facsimiles of charters, chronicles, colonization tracts, court records, drawings, financial accounts, land records, maps, state papers, statutes, travel literature, and other papers and documents.
    • Contributor: Quinn, David B.
    • Date: 1109
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    Breckinridge Long papers, 1486-1948 Lawyer, diplomat, and author. Correspondence, diaries, writings, reports, memoranda, notes, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, photographs, and other material relating primarily to Long's diplomatic career.
    • Contributor: Long, Breckinridge
    • Date: 1486
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    Washington family collection, 1582-1965 Correspondence, journals, financial records, reports, surveys, wills, deeds, genealogical notes, and other papers by or concerning family members related by blood or marriage to George Washington.
    • Date: 1582
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    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 Loper, and other members of these maritime families of Stonington, Connecticut.
    • Date: 1667
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    Woodbury Lowery collection relating to Spanish settlements in... Lawyer, editor and historian. Chiefly handwritten transcripts of documents compiled by Lowery relating to Spanish settlements in California, Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas.
    • Contributor: Lowery, Woodbury
    • Date: 1517
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    Tissandier collection on the history of aeronautics, 1539-1929 Collection of items gathered by Gaston Tissandier, an aeronaut and scientist, with additions by his brother, Albert Tissandier, an artist and aeronaut, and his son, Paul Tissandier, also an aeronaut. Includes the collection of J. F. Dupuis-Delcourt, an airship builder, brought together prior to 1860 and later purchased by Gaston Tissandier. Mostly in French, the collection pertains primarily to balloon flights of the eighteenth...
    • Contributor: Tissandier, Gaston
    • Date: 1539
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    Jeannette Thurber Connor collection of Floridiana, 1570-1927 Historian. Correspondence, research material, reports, writings, speeches, photographs, and transcripts of documents in French, Spanish, and English repositories relating to the early history of Florida.
    • Contributor: Connor, Jeannette Thurber
    • Date: 1570
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Roger Jones family papers, 1649-1896 Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, financial and legal papers, miscellany, and printed matter, chiefly the papers of the descendants of Captain Roger Jones (1625[?]-1701), who accompanied Thomas Culpeper, Baron Culpeper (1635-1689), to Virginia in 1680, chronicling the lives of several generations of Jones family members in Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky.
    • Date: 1649
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Pforzheimer collection of Bruce Rogers materials, 1200-1957 Bruce Rogers was one of the foremost typographers and book designers of his time. His papers include correspondence, book preparatory materials, printing samples, artwork, writings and speeches, and other items that document his professional and personal life. Carl Pforzheimer was a book collector, as well as an associate of Rogers. Included here are Rogers related materials collected by Pforzheimer.
    • Contributor: Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard)
    • Date: 1508
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Levi Woodbury family papers, 1638-1914 Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, financial and legal papers, genealogical notes, autograph collections, scrapbooks, clippings, and other papers chiefly of Levi Woodbury and also of his son, Charles Levi Woodbury, and other family members.
    • Contributor: Woodbury, Levi
    • Date: 1638
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Read family papers, 1568-1906 Read (Reed) family of New Castle, Delaware, later of Pennsylvania. Correspondence, deeds and indentures, genealogical records, commissions, printed matter, and other material. Papers of George Read relate chiefly to his activities during the American Revolution and his law practice in New Castle. Papers of John Read include a notebook of correspondence and memoranda which he kept as secretary of the Asylum Company, a land...
    • Date: 1568
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Charles Pinfold papers, 1641-1767 Governor of Barbados. Bound materials relating to Pinfold's governorship of Barbados, 1756-1766, including minutes of the proceedings of the president and council of Barbados, transcripts of the island's general assembly, letterbooks, royal orders and instructions, and printed acts of the assembly.
    • Contributor: Pinfold, Charles
    • Date: 1641
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Alexander Hamilton papers, 1708-1917 Delegate from New York to the United States Continental Congress, United States secretary of the treasury, United States army officer, statesman, and lawyer. Correspondence, speeches and writings, legal and financial papers, printed matter, and other papers relating to Hamilton's personal life and public career, especially his service as an aide to George Washington during the Revolutionary War, his participation in the United States Continental...
    • Contributor: Hamilton, Alexander
    • Date: 1708
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    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
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Gunther Schuller papers, 1615-2014 Gunther Schuller (1925-2015) was a composer, arranger, conductor, educator, author, arts administrator, and publisher, among other roles. The collection contains music composed by Schuller and music he arranged, edited, or transcribed, as well as music by other composers, much of it annotated, that Schuller studied and conducted.
    • Contributor: Schuller, Gunther - Dolphy, Eric - Evans, Gil - Ellington, Duke - Ives, Charles - Babbitt, Milton - Graettinger, Robert - Mingus, Charles - Gillespie, Dizzy - Paine, John Knowles ... Schuller, Gunther - Dolphy, Eric - Evans, Gil - Ellington, Duke - Ives, Charles - Babbitt, Milton - Graettinger, Robert - Mingus, Charles - Gillespie, Dizzy - Paine, John Knowles - Morton, Jelly Roll - Carmichael, Hoagy - Joplin, Scott - Beiderbecke, Bix - Wilder, Alec - Gruenberg, Louis - Antoniou, Theodore - Broekman, David - Blake, Eubie
    • Date: 1615
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Rhode Island General Assembly records, 1653-1747 Minutes, acts, and proceedings of Rhode Island's colonial legislature sitting in various towns.
    • Contributor: Rhode Island. General Assembly
    • Date: 1653
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Charles Wilkes papers, 1607-1959 Naval officer and explorer. Official and family correspondence, journals and diaries, legal and financial papers, autobiography and other writings, and scientific notebooks relating to Wilkes's command of an expedition (1838-1842) to the Antarctic, Hawaii and various other Pacific islands, and the northwest coast of the United States; his capture of J. M. Mason and John Slidell in the Trent affair (1861); and his command...
    • Contributor: Wilkes, Charles
    • Date: 1607
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Spanish colonial government, Mariana Islands records, 1678-1899 Royal decrees, court records, orders to and from the governor, circulars, miscellaneous reports, and other documents. Subjects covered include missionary and church matters, public health measures, agriculture, prisons and criminal investigations, the building and repair of roads, bridges, and military installations, education, and local government for all of the islands, but particularly Guam. Includes a report of 1845 on the water supply system of...
    • Date: 1678
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Samuel Adams papers, 1635-1826 Continental congressman and governor of Massachusetts. Reproductions of correspondence, speeches, petitions, committee records, and other material relating primarily to Adams’s political life in Massachusetts.
    • Contributor: Adams, Samuel
    • Date: 1635
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Carroll family papers, 1684-1838 Carroll family members including Charles Carroll (1702-1782), landowner, of Annapolis, Maryland, and his son, Charles Carroll, member of the Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and United States senator, of Carrollton, Maryland. Letters, deeds, bills, accounts, and account books of Charles Carroll of Annapolis, Maryland, and other family papers.
    • Date: 1684
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    J. Franklin Jameson papers, 1604-1994 Historian and librarian. Correspondence, diaries, writings, lecture notes, biographical material, family papers, reports, photographs, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Jameson's work as an historian, his role in the founding and early history of the American Historical Association and the American Historical Review, the movement for the establishment of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, the Dictionary of American Biography, and...
    • Contributor: Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin)
    • Date: 1604
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Nicholas Biddle papers, 1681-1933 Banker, editor, diplomat, lawyer, and legislator. Correspondence, letterbooks, account books, and writings together with family papers concerning Charles, Clement, Edward, James, Nicholas, Thomas, and William S. Biddle.
    • Contributor: Biddle, Nicholas
    • Date: 1681
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Duff Green papers, 1716-1883 Journalist, politician, entrepreneur, and industrial promoter. Correspondence, writings, maps, and printed matter reflecting Green’s political service and views on Southern culture.
    • Contributor: Green, Duff
    • Date: 1716
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Henry Albert Monday collection relating to Mexico, 1522-1935 Physician and collector. Correspondence, legal and financial papers, tax records, contracts, land records, cédulas, reports, official documents, broadsides, circulars, and other papers relating chiefly to various aspects of Mexican political, legal, and ecclesiastical history collected by Monday.
    • Contributor: Monday, Henry Albert
    • Date: 1522
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Eugene Schuyler papers, 1624-2015 Diplomat, author, scholar, and translator. Correspondence, writings, reports, photographs, genealogical material, royalty statements, a passport, a certificate, a map, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, and other printed matter documenting Schuyler's diplomatic activities in Russia, Turkey, Greece, and Italy and his literary and writing career.
    • Contributor: Schuyler, Eugene
    • Date: 1624
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Morris and Popham families papers, 1669-1892 Correspondence, notebooks, account books, and legal papers including the papers of Lewis Morris (1671-1746), Lewis Morris (1698-1762), Richard Morris (1730-1801), Robert Hunter Morris (1700-1764), and Major William Popham (1752-1847). Included is a record of the court martial of Colonel Moses Hazen in 1780.
    • Date: 1669
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Otto H.F. Vollbehr collection of printers' and publishers' marks The Otto H. F. Vollbehr Collection of Printers' and Publishers' includes samples of such in nearly all of the major European countries. They chronicle the early example of printing through the seventeenth century.
    • Contributor: Vollbehr, Otto H. F. (Otto Heinrich Friederich) - Völcker, Georg
    • Date: 1490
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Hans Peter Kraus collection of Spanish American documents, 14... Bookman, collector, and bibliophile. Letters, decrees, order books, reports, instructions, dispatches, printed material, and miscellaneous legal documents concerning the history of colonial Spanish America, including the activities of the Mexican Inquisition.
    • Contributor: Kraus, Hans Peter
    • Date: 1433
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    World Calendar Association records, 1450-2001 Founded in 1930 to promote calendar reform; in 1955 the association moved its headquarters from New York to Ottawa, Ontario, and became the International World Calendar Association. Correspondence, speeches, reports, articles, manuscripts and galley proofs of material appearing in the Journal of Calendar Reform, publicity material, scrapbooks, clippings, and photographs relating to the organization.
    • Contributor: World Calendar Association
    • Date: 1450
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Shippen family papers, 1671-1936 Correspondence, diaries, account books, memorandum books, legal and business records, indentures, and miscellaneous papers of Thomas Lee Shippen, William Shippen Jr., Anne Home Shippen Livingston, Edward Shippen, and other family members. Also included are papers of the Nicholson family.
    • Date: 1671
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Miles-Cameron families correspondence, 1661-1956 Army officer. Correspondence addressed to Elizabeth Cameron, J. D. Cameron, Nelson Appleton Miles, and Sherman Miles.
    • Contributor: Miles, Nelson Appleton
    • Date: 1661
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Manuscript holdings from the Library of Oliver Wendell Holmes... Manuscripts from the Library of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935) were a part of the larger Holmes Family Library gift to the Library of Congress in 1935. The collection contains correspondence, sermon notes, recipe books, household account books, notebooks, travel journals, tributes, diaries, an address book, a medical account book, photograph album, book of quotations, Latin vocabulary, medieval medical recipe book,...
    • Contributor: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr
    • Date: 1450
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    Peter Force papers and collection, 1492-1977 Antiquarian, historian, and mayor of Washington, D.C. Chiefly Force's personal papers and papers he collected for his nine-volume American Archives. Force's personal papers document his career as a Washington printer, newspaper editor, compiler, and collector. The collection records political, military, scientific, and social aspects of eighteenth and nineteenth century America.
    • Contributor: Force, Peter
    • Date: 1492
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Evelyn Briggs Baldwin papers, 1649-1933 Meteorologist and explorer. Correspondence, reports, journals, scrapbooks, financial records, printed material, newspaper clippings, and genealogical material relating primarily to Baldwin’s polar explorations, especially the Wellman Polar Expedition (1898-1899) and the Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition (1901-1902).
    • Contributor: Baldwin, Evelyn Briggs
    • Date: 1649