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    Quilt Alliance, Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories interviews collection,
    Alliance for American Quilts interview collection | Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories Catalog Record Only     This collection consists of sound recordings, transcripts and photographic images documenting interviews conducted as a part of Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories (QSOS) project. QSOS is one of several projects and partnerships created by the Quilt Alliance in an effort to preserve, document, and share the lives and stories of quilters and quiltmaking. The project began in 1999 and continued through 2016. QSOS...
    • Contributor: Quilt Alliance - Pritchard, Gayle A. - Musgrave, Karen S. - International Quilt Festival/Houston - University of Delaware. Center for Material Culture Studies - Herman, Bernard L.
    • Date: 1999
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    Frederick Clarence Stilson collection. Veterans History Project (U.S.) Catalog Record Only The Stilson collection consists of photographs and a memoir documenting Clarence F. Stilson's service in the United States Army Corps of Engineers during World War I. Stilson writes about the draft, serving in the National Guard, and training at Fort Sheridan, Fort Leavenworth, and Camp Meade. He also recounts arriving in France on 3 February 1918, unloading and checking materials at the port of...
    • Contributor: Veterans History Project (U.S.) - American Folklife Center - Stilson, Frederick Clarence
    • Date: 1917
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    Palmer-Loper family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, logs and journals, financial and business papers, ships' papers, printed material, and other papers of various members of the seafaring and merchant Palmer and Loper families of Stonington, Conn. Includes papers of Nathanial Brown Palmer relating to his discovery in 1820 of the Antarctic subcontinent, to various whaling and sealing enterprises, to the China trade, and to mercantile and shipping interests; papers of...
    • Contributor: Palmer, Nathaniel Brown - Loper, R. F. (Richard F.) - Palmer, Alexander Smith - Hart, Ira
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    Robert R. Hitt papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, notes and notebooks, business records, family papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers relating to Hitt's service as U.S. assistant secretary of state, U.S. congressman from Illinois, and secretary to the U.S. Legation in Paris, France. Also documents his service as court reporter, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and reporter for a board of treaty commissioners to the...
    • Contributor: Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
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    Leon A. Siegal collection Veterans History Project (U.S.)
    Leon A. Siegal war home videos Catalog Record Only     This holding contains video recordings of home movies created by Siegal while serving in France as a paramedic in the United States Army during World War II. The home movies contain footage of soldiers at camp reading letters, eating, drinking, walking, greeting other soldiers, shaving, and other various activities. This collection also includes Siegal's military discharge letter and certificate.
    • Contributor: Veterans History Project (U.S.) - Siegal, Leon A. - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 1942
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    John McAllister Schofield papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, diary, journals, speeches, writings including Schofield's memoirs, reports, military records, court-martial papers, financial records, printed matter, maps, memorabilia, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Schofield's military career. Relates primarily to Schofield's post-Civil War service as commander of the U.S. Army's Department of the Missouri, Division of the Atlantic, Division of the Pacific, Military Division of the Gulf, and Military Division of the...
    • Contributor: Schofield, John McAllister
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    Kendrick-Brooks family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, book drafts, transcripts of audiotapes, family papers, genealogical charts and research, business records, scrapbooks, printed material, photographs, and other papers pertaining to members of the Brooks and Kendrick families. Ruby Moyse Kendrick's papers document her participation in the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, her work as an educator and her social life in Greenville, Miss., and her husband Swan M. Kendrick's position...
    • Contributor: Kendrick, Hattie - Mitchell, Antoinette Brooks - Kendrick, Ruby Moyse - Mitchell, Louis A. - Brooks, Charlotte