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Found in 19 Collections and/or records:

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Susan B. Anthony Papers

Identifier: MSS11049
Abstract

Reformer and suffragist. Correspondence, diaries, daybook, speeches, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous papers relating primarily to Anthony's writings, lectures, and other efforts on behalf of women's suffrage and women's rights. Includes material pertaining to the National Woman Suffrage Association, after 1890 the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and to the New York State Woman Suffrage Association.

Dates 1846-1934; Majority of material found within 1846-1906
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Jeremiah S. Black Papers

Identifier: MSS12849
Abstract

Lawyer, public official of Pennsylvania, United States attorney general, and United States secretary of state. Correspondence, legal files, speeches, writings, scrapbooks, family papers, and other papers relating primarily to various legal matters in which Black was involved.

Dates 1813-1904; Majority of material found within 1856-1880
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Benjamin F. Butler Papers

Identifier: MSS14514
Abstract

Army officer, state legislator and U.S. representative from Massachusetts, governor of Massachusetts, and military governor of New Orleans. Correspondence, letterbooks, order books, reports, notebooks, newspaper clippings, and other papers concerning Butler's Civil War commands, his service in the United States Congress as a representative from Massachusetts, his election as governor of Massachusetts, and his candidacy for president.

Dates 1778-1929; Majority of material found within 1861-1893
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Charlotte Cushman Papers

Identifier: MSS17525
Abstract

Actress. Correspondence; biographical and genealogical material; annotated scripts and texts of plays, poetry, and readings; newspaper clippings; reviews; and souvenir programs relating chiefly to Cushman's career in the theater.

Dates 1823-1941; Majority of material found within ( 1861-1875)
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Charles Ewing Family Papers

Identifier: MSS20073
Abstract

Lawyer and army officer. Correspondence, diaries, biographical material, genealogical notebooks, legal and business papers, scrapbooks, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers relating to the family of Charles Ewing during and after the Civil War.

Dates 1769-1951; Majority of material found within ( 1850-1890)
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Thomas Ewing Family Papers

Identifier: MSS20099
Abstract Correspondence, diaries, journals, legal files, military records, speeches and writings, reports, notes, autographs, scrapbooks, biographical material, commonplace books, financial records, genealogies, photographs, printed matter, and maps pertaining to members of the Ewing family including Thomas Ewing (1789-1871), senator from Ohio and cabinet member; Thomas Ewing (1829-1896), Union general during the Civil War and congressman from Ohio; Ellen Ewing Sherman and her husband, William T....
Dates 1757-1941; Majority of material found within 1815-1896
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George P. Fisher Papers

Identifier: MSS20636
Abstract

Public official and judge of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. Correspondence, legal papers, commissions, biographical sketches, essays, speeches, and other material relating to Fisher's legal career and other topics.

Dates 1772-1905
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John Thompson Ford Papers

Identifier: MSS61995
Abstract

Theater executive and dramatist. Correspondence, playbooks, playbills, subject files, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Ford's life and work as a theater manager in Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., in the last half of the nineteenth century, including the assassination by John Wilkes Booth of President Abraham Lincoln at his theater in Washington.

Dates 1809-1960; Majority of material found within 1850-1894
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Benjamin B. French Family Papers

Identifier: MSS21550
Abstract

New Hampshire politician, clerk of the United States House of Representatives, and Commissioner of Public Buildings in Washington, D.C. Journals, personal correspondence, writings, and miscellaneous papers chiefly relating to family matters and including commentary on political events and social life in Washington in the nineteenth century. Other prominent family members represented in the papers include Francis O. French, banker, and Amos Tuck, congressman.

Dates 1778-1940; Majority of material found within 1813-1893
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Nathaniel D. Hackett Correspondence

Identifier: MSS85769
Abstract

Union Army soldier. Chiefly Civil War correspondence of Hackett while serving with the 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery Regiment. Includes the correspondence of Edith Hackett Cramer, Carrie Fern Hackett, and Millicent Hackett Maloney, the daughters of Nathaniel D. Hackett.

Dates 1853-1947; Majority of material found within ( 1861-1899)
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Joseph Holt Papers

Identifier: MSS26385
Abstract United States Postmaster general, secretary of war, judge advocate general of the United States Army, and lawyer. Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, legal papers, newspaper clippings, speeches, photographs, and printed matter relating to Holt's duties as judge advocate general, especially his work on the military commission that tried the Lincoln assassination conspirators, the trial of Mary Surratt, and various controversies surrounding the work of the commission. Other topics...
Dates 1797-1917; Majority of material found within ( 1859-1889)
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Andrew Johnson Papers

Identifier: MSS27839
Abstract

U. S. president, vice president, senator, representative, and army officer. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, messages and speeches, courts-martial and amnesty records, financial records, lists, newspaper clippings, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Johnson's presidency.

Dates 1783-1947; Majority of material found within 1865-1869
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August V. Kautz Papers

Identifier: MSS28250
Abstract

United States army officer. Diaries, memoirs, scrapbooks, military orders, correspondence, newspaper clippings, topical files, and miscellaneous material relating chiefly to Kautz's military service in the Civil War and during conflicts with Native Americans in the West before and after the war.

Dates 1846-1939; Majority of material found within 1860-1890
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Joseph Warren Keifer Papers

Identifier: MSS28332
Abstract

Army officer, lawyer, banker, and congressman. Correspondence, military orders, casualty lists, ordnance and paymaster records, and other military records documenting military life and operations of the Third and 110th Ohio infantry regiments, the Army of the Ohio, and the Army of the Potomac during campaigns in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.

Dates 1850-1865
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Robert Todd Lincoln Family Papers

Identifier: MSS85376
Abstract

Correspondence, legal and financial papers, commissions, an autobiographical sketch, printed volumes, newspaper clippings, receipts, house plans, photographs, and a manuscript relating to Robert Todd Lincoln and his family.

Dates 1864-1938; Majority of material found within ( 1918-1927)
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Hugh McCulloch Papers

Identifier: MSS32011
Abstract

U.S. secretary of the treasury, banker, and financier. Primarily correspondence with some speeches, reports, and other material relating to McCulloch's career as a banker and financier, as U.S. comptroller of the currency, and as U.S. secretary of the treasury.

Dates 1855-1905; Majority of material found within ( 1863-1869)
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Rodgers Family Papers

Identifier: MSS38125
Abstract

United States Navy and Army officers and family members. Correspondence, diaries, letterbooks, logbooks, photographs, recollections (memoirs), financial papers, and printed matter centering primarily on the naval career of Commodore John Rodgers (1773-1838).

Dates 1740-1987; Majority of material found within 1804-1932
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Edwin McMasters Stanton Papers

Identifier: MSS41202
Abstract

Lawyer, United States attorney general, and United States secretary of war. Correspondence, letterbooks, reports, maps, printed material, and memorabilia relating chiefly to Stanton's role as secretary of war under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson and to his role in the politics of Reconstruction. Other topics include the Civil War, the radical wing of the Republican Party, and Lincoln's assassination.

Dates 1818-1921; Majority of material found within 1862-1870
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Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection

Identifier: MSS18630
Abstract

Collector. Correspondence, literary manuscripts, diaries, commonplace books, notes and notebooks, and other papers of Walt Whitman collected by Feinberg. Also contains material relating to Whitman's life and writings including the papers of Richard Maurice Bucke, Charles E. Feinberg, John Johnston, William Douglas O'Connor, and Horace and Anne Montgomerie Traubel.

Dates 1763-1985; Majority of material found within 1841-1981