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    Louis T. Michener papers, 1880-1927 Lawyer, politician, and public official from Indiana. Correspondence, reports, memoranda, newspaper clippings, autograph album, and printed matter relating chiefly to Indiana and Republican Party politics and to Michener's role in Benjamin Harrison's senate and presidential campaigns.
    • Contributor: Michener, Louis T. (Louis Theodore)
    • Date: 1880
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    Anna E. Dickinson papers, 1859-1951 Lecturer, reformer, actor, and author. Correspondence, speeches, writings, plays, legal files, financial papers, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and printed material relating to Dickinson's activities on behalf of abolition and women's rights and suffrage and to her career in the theater.
    • Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
    • Date: 1859
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    Carter Godwin Woodson papers, Papers of prominent African Americans, correspondence, writings, research files, business records, and other papers relating to Woodson's leadership of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) and to scholarship and publishing in the field of African and African-American history. Part I, 1803-1936 (bulk 1830-1927), was assembled by Woodson who collected and preserved primary sources on African American history as executive...
    • Contributor: Clark, John T. - McKinlay, Whitefield - Tanner, Benj. T. (Benjamin Tucker) - Woodson, Carter Godwin
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    Booker T. Washington papers, Correspondence, memoranda, book drafts and notes, articles, speeches, reports, minutes, financial papers, scrapbooks, printed material, clippings, blueprints, maps, drawings, prints, photographs, negatives, and other papers relating chiefly to the early history and administration of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., founded by Washington in 1881; the National Negro Business League which he organized in 1900; the General Education Board, New York, N.Y.; Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.;...
    • Contributor: Washington, Booker T.
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    Booker T. Washington papers, 1853-1946 African-American leader, educator, and author. Correspondence, memoranda, book drafts and notes, articles, speeches, reports, minutes, financial papers, scrapbooks, and other papers relating chiefly to the early history and administration of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881, as well as to the National Negro Business League which he organized in 1900, the General Education Board, New York, N.Y., Hampton Institute,...
    • Contributor: Washington, Booker T.
    • Date: 1853
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    Elijah Walker Halford papers, 1848-1938 Soldier and newspaper editor. Correspondence, writings, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed matter relating primarily to Halford’s career as private secretary to President Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893.
    • Contributor: Halford, Elijah Walker
    • Date: 1867
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    Lewis Tappan papers, 1809-1903 Abolitionist, merchant, and publisher. Correspondence, journals, and other papers reflecting Tappan's interests in abolition, African American education, religion, and his business ventures.
    • Contributor: Tappan, Lewis
    • Date: 1809
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    Ulysses S. Grant papers, 1819-1974 United States president and army officer. General and family correspondence, speeches, reports, messages, manuscript of Grant’s memoirs (1885), military records, financial and legal records, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and miscellaneous papers relating to Grant’s career in the military, politics, and government.
    • Contributor: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
    • Date: 1819
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    Elizabeth Cady Stanton papers, 1814-1946 Reformer, feminist, and suffragist. Correspondence, speeches, articles, drafts of books, scrapbooks, and printed matter documenting Elizabeth Cady Stanton's career as an advocate for women's rights. Includes material on her efforts on behalf of women's legal status and women's suffrage, the abolition of slavery, rights for African Americans following the Civil War, temperance, and other nineteenth-century social reform movements.
    • Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
    • Date: 1814
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    Lewis Tappan papers, Correspondence, letterbooks, journals, notebooks, autobiographical and genealogical material, scrapbook, and other papers chiefly reflecting Tappan's activities in the antislavery movement. Documents his interest in African American education, the colonization of freedmen in Africa, the role of the Christian in the abolition movement, and religion especially Calvinist and Unitarian theology. Subjects include the annexation of Texas; efforts for the release from custody of the African...
    • Contributor: Tappan, Lewis
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    Carter Godwin Woodson papers, 1736-1974 Historian, author, and collector. Papers of prominent African Americans, research files, business records, writings, correspondence, and other material relating to Woodson's leadership of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and to scholarship and publishing in the field of African and African-American history.
    • Contributor: Woodson, Carter Godwin
    • Date: 1736
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    Maud Wood Park papers, 1844-1979 Suffragist, social worker, reformer, and author. Family papers, correspondence, subject files, speeches and writings, an autograph collection, and miscellaneous papers relating primarily to Park's activities on behalf of women's suffrage and her associations with the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the National League of Women Voters.
    • Contributor: Park, Maud Wood
    • Date: 1844
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    Elizabeth Cady Stanton papers, Correspondence, speeches, writings including a draft of Stanton's memoir titled Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897 (1898) and of The Woman's Bible (1895, 1898), articles, scrapbooks, and printed matter documenting Stanton's career as an advocate for women's rights. Includes material on her efforts on behalf of women's legal status and women's suffrage, the aboliton of slavery, rights for African Americans following the Civil War,...
    • Contributor: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
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    Frances Carpenter collection relating to Frank G. Carpenter, ... Author, geographer, and journalist. Primarily scrapbooks relating to Frank G. Carpenter's book, Carp's Washington, arranged and edited by his daughter, Frances Carpenter, including reviews of the book, proposed illustrations, newspaper articles and columns by Frank G. Carpenter, clippings, and correspondence.
    • Contributor: Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George)
    • Date: 1875
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    Sayles Jenks Bowen papers, 1836-1882 Public official and mayor of Washington, D.C. Family and general correspondence and business and legal papers, chiefly 1876-1882. Topics include the elections of 1876 and 1880, the presidential administration of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, and political support for James Gillespie Blaine, James A. Garfield, and Chester A. Arthur.
    • Contributor: Bowen, Sayles Jenks
    • Date: 1836