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Lyman Potter Spencer papers, 1856-1914
250 items. 11 containers. 4.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Artist, soldier, and calligrapher. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, account books, genealogical file, penmanship file, and other papers documenting Spencer's Civil War service and his efforts to continue the publication of the copybooks by his father, Platt R. Spencer, who developed the Spencerian style of handwriting.
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George Biddle papers, 1863-1973
3,500 items. 31 containers plus 1 oversize. 12 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Artist and public official. Correspondence; diaries; drafts and printed copies of speeches, articles, and a memoir; sketchbooks; scrapbooks; announcements; book reviews; and other papers relating chiefly to Biddle's role in American art, his work for the federal support of art, and the Federal Art Project, including also material relating to his involvement with the United States War Department Art Advisory Committee, World War II, and the Nuremberg War Crime Trials.
Erwin Swann papers, 1949-1976
10,000 items. 26 containers. 10.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Art collector, film producer, and advertising executive Correspondence, play scripts, financial and legal papers, calendars, clippings, printed material, and photographs pertaining primarily to Swann's business activities as a producer of art and cultural films and as a collector of caricature and cartoon art, modern European and American art, French impressionist art, and Indic and Far Eastern art.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse papers, 1793-1944
10,070 items. 74 containers plus 3 oversize. 18.6 linear feet. 36 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Artist and inventor. Family and general correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and other papers. Includes letters from Samuel Finley Breese Morse to his family describing his studies in England during the War of 1812 and his subsequent struggle to support himself as a portrait painter in the United States; correspondence and other papers relating to Morse's invention of the telegraph, lawsuits over patents, and his dispute with Joseph Henry who also claimed to have invented the telegraph.
Jay I. Kislak Collection, 2000 BCE-2007 CE
1,350 items. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The Jay I. Kislak Collection encompasses almost fourteen hundred rare books, maps, manuscripts, historical documents, graphic works, and archaeological objects related to the history of the early Americas, including the pre-Columbian cultures of the Caribbean and Mesoamerica.
Bernece Berkman-Hunter papers, 1910-1991
400 items. 2 containers. 1 linear foot. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Painter and graphic artist. Correspondence, notebooks, financial papers, legal papers, exhibit files, printed ephemera, card files, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Berkman-Hunter’s career as an artist.
Freddy Homburger papers, 1926-1990
3,150 items. 8 containers plus 1 oversize. 4.5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Physician, scientist, and artist. Correspondence, reports, speeches, writings, academic records, printed matter, and photographs documenting Homburger's career as a physician involved in cancer research, his interest in art as a collector and a painter, and his service as honorary Swiss consul in Boston, Mass.
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Melvin Beaunorus Tolson papers, 1932-1975
4,000 items. 13 containers. 5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author; educator, and poet; mayor of Langston, Oklahoma, and poet laureate of Liberia. Correspondence, drafts of writings, speeches, research notes, and printed matter relating primarily to Tolson's literary career and reflecting the Harlem Renaissance and other aspects of African-American art, literature, and culture.
Charles Henry Fromuth papers, 1884-1937
100 items. 2 containers plus 1 oversize. 1.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Artist. Diaries, autobiographical manuscripts, miscellaneous personal documents, newspaper clippings, exhibition catalogs, receipts, paint palettes and other papers relating principally to Fromuth's life and work as an American expatriate artist living in France.
Waldo Peirce papers, 1889-1985
9,350 items. 32 containers plus 1 oversize. 15.6 linear feet. 2 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Artist. Correspondence, diary, poetry, writings, legal papers, financial papers, photographs, personal items, and other papers, pertaining to the development of Peirce's artistic career and the social life of his mother, Anna Hayford Peirce.