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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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    Job Pierson family papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly letters, 1831-1835, written by Job Pierson (1791-1860) to his wife, Clarissa Bulkeley Pierson, while serving in Congress describing life in Washington, D.C., during the administration of Andrew Jackson; journal (1843) and typewritten transcripts of diary entries (1849-1896) of Job Pierson (1824-1896) relating to his studies at Williams College, his religious conversion, family life, and his career as a Presbyterian clergyman in New York...
    • Contributor: Pierson, Job
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    Abel Wolman papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, reports, studies, clippings, maps, charts, blueprints, and other papers relating to Wolman's career as an engineer and educator in the field of sanitary engineering. Documents his role in the management of water resources and the environment through the development of public and private planning projects at the city, county, state, and national level and through public works in the United States and...
    • Contributor: Wolman, Abel
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    Yousef Waffa papers, Catalog Record Only Scrapbooks compiled by Waffa consisting of notes, maps, blueprints, photographs, and other papers detailing the urban and park planning of cities and subdivisions across the United States at the outset of the New Deal. Includes material pertaining to city subdivisions, gardens, private homes and estates, and public parks in California especially the following cities and subdivisions, Baywood in San Mateo; Bel Air in Los...
    • Contributor: Waffa, Yousef
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    Herbert Benjamin papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, memoirs and additional writings, notes, annotated subject files, printed matter, and other papers primarily relating to Benjamin's life and work as a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) from 1921 to 1944, particularly his work as a leader of the organized unemployed movement during the 1930s. In Benjamin's memoirs, he described the experiences leading him to...
    • Contributor: Benjamin, Herbert
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    Frank B. Kilgore Collection Private First Class, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - New York; France.
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    Elia Wilkinson Peattie papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly autobiographical and biographical writings by Peattie, her husband Robert Burns Peattie, and their son Donald Culross Peattie. Elia Peattie's autobiography concerns her childhood on a farm in southwestern Michigan, journalism career, involvement in the women's club movement, and family. Robert Peattie's autobiography describes his childhood in Chicago, the Chicago fire, his journalism career, and Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Includes biographical material on Donald Culross...
    • Contributor: Peattie, Donald Culross - Peattie, Elia Wilkinson - Peattie, Robert Burns
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    Wilbur Huntington Proctor papers, Catalog Record Only Diary (1864 January 1-1874 April) kept by Proctor pertaining to his military service as a musician in Company G of the 70th New York Infantry Regiment, Company K of the 86th New York Infantry Regiment, and the 14th Infantry Regiment during the U.S. Civil War and later in Idaho territory. Documents his voyage to Panama and north along the West Coast to Fort Boise,...
    • Contributor: Proctor, Wilbur Huntington
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    Burbank-Van Voorhis families papers,
    Burbank family papers | Van Voorhis family papers Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence, diaries, and military papers of Burbank and Van Voorhis family members spanning the War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, and the American occupation of the Philippines in the early 20th century. Diary of Captain Sullivan Burbank pertaining primarily to his service during the War of 1812 at forts in New York State and Detroit, Mich., areas; troop movements; passing American and British...
    • Contributor: Van Voorhis, Edith Burbank - Burbank, Sullivan - Burbank, Sidney - Van Voorhis, Daniel