Search Manuscripts/Mixed Material

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    1993 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection,
    Neptune Plaza Concert Series, 1993 | American Folklife Center concert, 1993 Catalog Record Only
    Manuscript materials, sound recordings, photographs, and moving images documenting the performance of North Indian Bengali music; Jamaican music; African American gospel quartets and choral music; Irish folk dance and music; bluegrass music; African American hand dancing; and Andean music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, at concerts from April through September 1993, sponsored by...
    • Contributor: Reverb (Vocal Group) - Briscoe, Erald - Doherty, Tom - Northern Lights (Bluegrass Group) - Blackwell, Lucien - Wick, Regan - D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Samuel O. - Simpson-Curenton, Evelyn ... Reverb (Vocal Group) - Briscoe, Erald - Doherty, Tom - Northern Lights (Bluegrass Group) - Blackwell, Lucien - Wick, Regan - D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Hubbard, Samuel O. - Simpson-Curenton, Evelyn - Wamu-Fm (Radio Station : Washington, D.C.) - Philadelphia Ambassadors Chorale and Ensemble - Ollantay (Musical Group) - Friedland, Lee Ellen - Moloney, Mick - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 1993
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    1994 Neptune Plaza Concert Series collection,
    Neptune Plaza Concert Series, 1994 | American Folklife Center concert, 1994 Catalog Record Only
    Manuscript materials, sound recordings, photographs, and moving images documenting the performance of Tibetan sacred music and dance; Tamburitza music from the Balkan Peninsula; Iroquois music; African American rhythm and blues quartet singing; gospel brass band music; bluegrass music; and Cuban mambo music recorded live outdoors on Neptune Plaza in front of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, at concerts from April through September...
    • Contributor: Orioles (Musical Group) - Kings of Harmony (Brass Ensemble) - ʼbras-Spuá¹…s (Monastery) - McLaughlin, David - Sviraj (Musical Group) - Cachao - Wamu-Fm (Radio Station : Washington, D.C.) - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Six Nations Women Singers - Crowe, Josh - American Folklife Center - Spottswood, Richard K. (Richard Keith)
    • Date: 1994
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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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    Sattriya Dance Company with the Dancing Monks of Assam,
    American Folklife Center concert, 2018-04-19 | Sattriya Dance Company with the Dancing Monks of Assam, 2018 April 19 | Homegrown 2018, the music of America Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Video recording, sound recording, and photographs of a concert in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on April 19, 2018 as part of the Homegrown concert series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The Philadelphia-based Sattriya Dance Company was launched in 2009 with a mission to tell the story of Sattriya and raise awareness about Majuli and its sattras (monasteries) through...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - American Folklife Center - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2018
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    Philadelphia Folklore Project : Sustaining Community Cultural and Artistic Practices,
    Title from program flyer: Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture | American Folklife Center lecture, 2018-08-09 Catalog Record Only
    Documentation of a presentation in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. The Philadelphia Folklore Project has worked to sustain vital and diverse living cultural heritage in communities in the Philadelphia region. This presentation preceded a separate screening of PFP's documentary "Because of the War."
    • Contributor: Gayflor, Fatu - Phim, Toni Samantha - Philadelphia Folklore Project - Morales, Selina - Kamara, Nadia S. - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2018
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    Roscoe Robinson, Jr., papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, cables, speeches, interviews, reports, briefings, notes and notebooks, subject files, chronological files, office files, scrapbooks, newspapers and newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers pertaining to Robinson's career in the U.S. Army. Documents his service in various positions with the 82nd Airborne Division (1959-1979), in the Vietnamese conflict (1967-1968), as commander of U.S. troops stationed in Japan (1973-1976 and 1980-1982) and in Europe (1978-1980),...
    • Contributor: Robinson, Roscoe
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    Bernard Weitershausen papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly correspondence of Weitershausen during his Civil War service as a soldier and musician in the 6th Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery Regiment. Subjects include the defense of Washington, D.C., and the cultural life of German immigrants in Pittsburgh, Pa. Also includes a contract, letters written by other individuals, and other papers. Includes translations of some of the letters.
    • Contributor: Weitershausen, Bernard
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    Julius W. Becton papers Catalog Record Only Correspondence, speeches, writings, reports, notebooks, military records, subject files, printed matter, and other papers documenting Becton's service as a U.S. Army officer, especially as the first African American general to serve as a corps commander; director of the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, and of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during the Ronald Reagan and George Bush...
    • Contributor: Becton, Julius W. (Julius Wesley)
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    Hayes, Hollister, and Kelman families papers,
    Hayes family papers | Hollister family papers | Kelman family papers Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence, diaries, lectures, sermons, memoirs, genealogical material, and printed matter pertaining chiefly to members of the Hayes family and their careers as Presbyterian missionaries and educators in China. Includes papers of Margaret Hayes Hollister; her parents, Barbara Monteath Kelman Hayes and John David Hayes; her paternal grandparents, Margaret Young Hayes and W.M. Hayes; her maternal grandfather, John Kelman; and her paternal great-grandfather, David Hayes....
    • Contributor: Hayes, David - Kelman, John - Hayes, W. M. (Watson M.) - Hayes, Margaret Young - Hayes, John David - Ambler, Barbara Hayes - Hollister, Margaret Hayes - Hayes, Barbara Monteath Kelman
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    David S. Broder papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, interviews, speeches and statements, articles and columns, book drafts, notebooks and notes, reports, voter surveys and interviews, newsletters, press releases, newspaper clippings, printed matter, political memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Broder's career as a journalist at the Washington Post. Also documents his early career, 1953-1966, as a reporter for the Pantagraph (Bloomington, Ill.), Congressional Quarterly, the Washington Star, and the...
    • Contributor: Broder, David S.
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    Albert Gallatin Marchand papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly letters of Marchand to his wife, Susan S. Marchand, relating to his tenure as a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania during the Martin Van Buren and John Tyler presidential administrations as well as to his life in Washington, D.C., and his homesickness. Includes Marchand's observations on the legislative process, distinctions between Democrats and Whigs, and his fellow representatives. Subjects also include his walks around...
    • Contributor: Marchand, Albert Gallatin
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    Janet Elizabeth Hosmer Richards papers, Catalog Record Only Diaries, invitations to White House social functions, and printed matter. Diaries record Richards' activities as a lecturer in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Md., Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y., and Boston, Mass., her trips abroad, interviews with various public officials, and personal affairs.
    • Contributor: Richards, Janet Elizabeth Hosmer
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    Andrew Ellicott papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, maps, charts, and reports of astronomical observations chiefly concerning Ellicott's work in surveying the boundary between the U.S. and Florida under the San Lorenzo Treaty of 1795 as well as his surveys of the city of Washington, boundary between Georgia and South Carolina, town of Presque Isle (later Erie), Pa., and boundary between the U.S. and Canada under the Treaty of Ghent, Dec....
    • Contributor: Ellicott, Andrew - Gillespie, David
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    Pinkerton's National Detective Agency records, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, diaries, essays and other writings, reports, notes, police and prison records, code books, criminal rosters, exhibition texts, legal documents, biographical and genealogical records, procedural guidelines and training manuals, financial records, card indexes, reward notices, wanted posters, maps, printing plates, illustrations, photographs, and other records chiefly documenting the work of the private detective agency for clients in business and industry. Includes papers of Pinkerton...
    • Contributor: Pinkerton, Robert A. (Robert Allan) - Pinkerton, Allan - Pinkerton, William A. (William Allan) - Pinkerton, Robert A. - Bangs, George H. - Pinkerton's National Detective Agency
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    W.W. Corcoran papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, letterpress books, financial records, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Corcoran's business and banking interests and philanthropic efforts. Documents his involvement with the brokerage and banking firms, Corcoran & Riggs, Washington, D.C.; Riggs and Co, New York, N.Y.; Bank of America; and Wilson, Colston & Co., Baltimore, Md. Also documents his investment ventures in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad...
    • Contributor: Corcoran, W. W. (William Wilson) - Corcoran, Thomas
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    Lee Lawrie papers, Catalog Record Only General and family correspondence, sculpture commission files, biographical file, and other papers documenting Lawrie's career as a sculptor whose works were an integral part of public buildings, monuments, and churches throughout the United States. Includes correspondence between Lawrie and architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue with whom he collaborated on sculptures for St. Thomas' Church and Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York, N.Y., and material...
    • Contributor: Lawrie, Lee
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    Joseph Meredith Toner collection of manuscripts,
    Joseph M. Toner papers | Joseph Meredith Toner papers Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence, diaries, addresses, lectures, writings, notes, lists, bibliographical material, genealogical material, printed matter, surveys, maps, and other papers primarily reflecting the personal and professional life of Toner, the history and practice of medicine in the United States, and the life and times of George Washington. Documents Toner's professional activities and leadership in literary, research, and historical societies in the District of Columbia; work in...
    • Contributor: Toner, Joseph M. (Joseph Meredith) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Washington, George
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    James Wadsworth family papers,
    Wadsworth family papers Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers of the family of James Wadsworth (1768-1844) and his brother, William Wadsworth (1761-1833), who settled in Geneseo, N.Y., in 1790 and endowed schools and libraries there. Includes papers of James S. Wadsworth (1807-1864), son of James Wadsworth, Union Army officer who fought in the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., and was mortally wounded in the...
    • Contributor: Wadsworth, William - Lincoln, Abraham - Hay, John - Wadsworth, James S. (James Samuel) - Wadsworth, James - Wadsworth, James Wolcott
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    George W. Cullum correspondence,
    George W. Cullum papers | George Washington Cullum papers Catalog Record Only
    Chiefly letters written by Cullum while serving as an officer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Newport, R.I., to his sister, Catharine Cullum Huidekoper, and her husband, Alfred Huidekoper, of Meadville, Pa. Includes several letters (1834 February 23-June 20) from Cullum to Thomas S. Thorp of New York City and an 1878 letter pertaining to a publication by Cullum. Relates chiefly to...
    • Contributor: Cullum, George W. (George Washington)
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    George Mifflin Dallas correspondence,
    George Mifflin Dallas papers Catalog Record Only
    ALS (1833 February 25; Senate Chambers, [Washington, D.C.]) from Dallas to Hezekiah Niles concerning newspaper reporting on Dallas's remarks in the Senate; ALS (1855 October 12) from Dallas to James Maher, public gardener for the District of Columbia, regarding Maher's work and patron Andrew Jackson; and ALS (1856 October 3; London) from Dallas, U.S. minister to Great Britain, to J.F.H. Claiborne discussing British views...
    • Contributor: Dallas, George Mifflin
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    David S. Turner correspondence,
    David S. Turner papers Catalog Record Only
    ALS (1827 January 30-February 1) written by Turner to his sister, Elizabeth Turner, describing his travels from Philadelphia, Pa., via Wilmington, Del., and Baltimore, Md., to Washington, D.C., and mentioning a social event hosted by John Quincy Adams at the White House.
    • Contributor: Turner, David S.
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    Andrew Beaumont correspondence,
    Andrew Beaumont papers Catalog Record Only
    Positive photocopies. [Place of reproduction unidentified]. Gift, Frank Gatell, 1962. U.S. representative of Pennsylvania and commissioner of public buildings in Washington, D.C. Collection material in English. Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.
    • Contributor: Beaumont, Andrew
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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.
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    James Pollock correspondence,
    James Pollock papers Catalog Record Only
    ALsS (1844 May 10 and 1845 December 8; House of Representatives) from Pollock to his wife Sarah "Sally" Pollock pertaining primarily to family matters and to the social life of Washington, D.C. Makes reference to the congressional debate on the tariff, Henry Clay, and Martin Van Buren.
    • Contributor: Pollock, James
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    James P. McGranery and Regina Clark McGranery papers,
    James P. McGranery papers | Regina Clark McGranery papers Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, financial and legal papers, family papers, appointment books, press releases, clippings, printed material, and other papers relating principally to McGranery's duties as assistant to U.S. attorneys general Francis Biddle and Tom C. Clark, as U.S. judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, as U.S. attorney general, as a member of the U.S. Commission on Government Security, and as a...
    • Contributor: McGranery, Regina Clark - McGranery, James P. (James Patrick)