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    George Montfort Gilchrist family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, school records, literary and commencement programs, poetry, and Gilpin family genealogical material. Much of the correspondence is between Gilchrist, who served with the 3rd Indiana Cavalry Regiment in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., during the Civil War, and his wife, Mollie Gilpin Gilchrist; other letters are between Mollie and her brothers, Samuel J.V.B. Gilpin, of the 1st Indiana Cavalry Regiment, and E.N....
    • Contributor: Gilchrist, George Montfort
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    1983 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection,
    American Folklife Center concert, 1983 Catalog Record Only
    Manuscript materials, sound recordings, and photographs documenting the performance of blues music from Virginia; Cambodian classical dance from Maryland, with Rich Kennedy of the National Council for the Traditional Arts narrating the performance; bluegrass music from Virginia; western string band music from Utah; Armenian music from Washington, D.C.; cowboy songs from Arkansas; North Carolina Piedmont country blues music and buck dance, including hand-clapping, and...
    • Contributor: Holloway, Quentin - Holeman, John Dee - Sarkisian, Leo - Khmer Classical Dance Troupe - Grass Reflections (Musical Group) - Ohrlin, Glenn - Deseret String Band - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Jackson, John - Michael, Edd - National Council for the Traditional Arts - American Folklife Center - Jackson, James
    • Date: 1983
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    William Wirt papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, writings, reminiscences, clippings, and other papers pertaining primarily to the Wirt (Werth) family, a Southern slaveholding family. Topics include social life in Baltimore, Md., Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C., Christian piety, and sickness and death in the Wirt family. Also includes material concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, legal work conducted by Wirt as U.S. district attorney, Richmond, Va., 1816, and as U.S....
    • Contributor: Wirt, William
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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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    Jeremiah T. Lockwood papers, Catalog Record Only Diary, map, and other papers of Lockwood relating chiefly to his Civil War service with 4th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment, U.S. Army. In the diary (1865 January 1-November 3) kept during his recovery at Carver General Hospital, Washington, D.C., Lockwood describes hospital care and daily routine, morale, entertainment, deaths, and reaction among convalescents to General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Virginia, and...
    • Contributor: Lockwood, Jeremiah T.
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    Charles M. Goodman papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, writings, project files, office files, financial records, publications, and other papers related to Goodman's career as a commercial and residential architect and the work of his firm Charles M. Goodman Associates primarily in the Washington, D.C., area in the mid-twentieth century. Includes a small number of blueprints and illustrated designs. Projects represented in the collection include the Hollin Hills neighborhood, Alexandria, Va.; the...
    • Contributor: Goodman, Charles M.
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    John Cumiskey papers, Catalog Record Only AlsS written by Cumiskey to his wife, Rose Cumiskey, during his Civil War service with Company I, 17th Connecticut Infantry Regiment. Cumiskey describes conditions and activities of his company in Baltimore, Md., Washington, D.C., and Virginia prior to his death in 1862. Includes correspondence relating to Cumiskey's death, burial in 1863, and eligibility for pension; typewritten transcripts of several letters; an 1854 letter informing...
    • Contributor: Cumiskey, John
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    Florence Deakins Becker papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, subject files, family papers, scrapbooks, and other papers relating principally to Becker's volunteer activities on behalf of various health and medical causes, especially the crusade against cancer and tuberculosis. Documents her work with the George Ferdinand Becker Memorial Library, Independence, Va.; Ligue du Nord Contre la Tuberculose; Tuberculosis Association of Bengal; and Urgent Relief for France. Subjects include American efforts...
    • Contributor: Becker, Florence Deakins
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    Nathaniel Prentiss Banks papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence (1860-1880), and diaries and notebooks, letterbooks, military papers, speeches and writings, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, and miscellany relating chiefly to Banks's political career in the House of Representatives and to his service as an army officer during the Civil War. Includes papers on the Kansas territorial question, the assault on Charles Sumner, and the establishment of the Republican Party. Civil War topics include...
    • Contributor: Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss
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    John Martin papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly correspondence of Martin during his Civil War service as a soldier and musician in the 116th New York Infantry Regiment. Discusses regimental operations in Louisiana especially during the siege of Port Hudson in 1863; Baltimore and Frederick, Md.; New York state; Camp Sheridan in Winchester, Va.; and Washington D.C. Includes a pro-Union speech from 1861, a newspaper clipping concerning death of Martin, and...
    • Contributor: Martin, John
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    Alonzo Ameli papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly correspondence between Ameli and his brother, Peter Ameli, relating to Alonzo Ameli's Civil War service with the 5th New York Infantry Regiment, also known as Duryée's Zouaves (Duryea's Zouaves), chiefly in Maryland, Virginia, and the area surrounding Washington, D.C. Ameli describes camp life, movements of the regiment, and details of skirmishes and battles including the Battle of Big Bethel, Va., 1861. He provides...
    • Contributor: Ameli, Alonzo
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    Gilbert Thompson journal,
    Gilbert Thompson papers
    Journal (1861-1864) of Thompson's Civil War experiences in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., while serving as a topographical engineer in the Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army of the Potomac. Includes later reminiscences; description of bridges, armaments, and firearms; and sketches and photographs of army officers and battle sites. Includes correspondence, laid in, of Nathaniel Prentiss Banks.
    • Contributor: Thompson, Gilbert

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    Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Washington City records, Catalog Record Only Proceedings of the Presbytery of Washington City and its predecessors, the Presbytery of the District of Columbia and the Presbytery of the Potomac, concerning the administration and establishment of churches in the Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Subjects include the response of the presbyteries to the Civil War, World War I, the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919, the Great Depression, and World War II. Includes...
    • Contributor: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Washington City
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    John C. Babcock papers, Catalog Record Only Letters with drawings (1861-1864) from Babcock to relatives in Illinois concerning his work as an architect in Chicago, Ill.; service as a confidential agent in the Provost Marshal General's Bureau in Washington, D.C.; the incarceration of female prisoners at "Prison Greenhough," Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow's house in Washington; reaction to the Trent Affair, 1861; secessionist sentiment in Alexandria, Va.; the gathering of intelligence...
    • Contributor: Babcock, John C.
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    Ward family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, broadsides, songs, financial papers, printed matter, and other papers of William Norvell Ward and members of his family. Includes material relating to the Civil War, particularly the Peninsular, Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg campaigns; Reconstruction; and social life and customs in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Md., and northern Virginia.
    • Contributor: Ward, William Norvell
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    Blair family papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, lectures, writings, legal files, financial records, military records, biographical and genealogical material, printed matter, photographs, and other papers of Blair family members. Family correspondents include many members of the immediate Blair family as well as extended relations such as Mary Elizabeth Woodbury Blair, Gustavus Vasa Fox, Virginia L. Woodbury Fox, Elizabeth Blair Lee, Samuel Phillips Lee, Minna Blair Richey, and...
    • Contributor: Blair, Montgomery - Blair, Gist - Blair, Francis Preston - Blair, Frank P., (Francis Preston) - Blair, Woodbury - Clapp, Charles Q. - Stevens, Samuel - Woodbury, Levi
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    John Thompson Ford papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, play scripts and other writings, subject files, playbooks, playbills, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Ford's life and work as a theater manager in the last half of the nineteenth century. Documents his interaction with major theatrical figures of the period; the productions featured at his theaters in Baltimore, Md., Philadelphia, Pa.; Charleston, S.C., Alexandria, Va., Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C.; the assassination...
    • Contributor: Ford, Lizzie - Ford, Annie - Ford, John Thompson
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    Shortelle family papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly correspondence of Robert E. Shortelle written to family members during his service in the 6th Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps (35th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army) in various army encampments near Washington, D.C., and in Maryland and Virginia between 1861 and 1863. Topics include camp life, regimental activities, generals who led the Army of the Potomac, expected military activity, family news, and later, reactions...
    • Contributor: Shortelle, James Edward - Shortelle, Robert E.