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1. Arthur Woods papers, 1884-1938

   150 items. 1 container plus 6 oversize. 1.4 linear feet. 3 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Police commissioner and military officer. Diary, correspondence, reports, notes, scrapbooks, clippings, and photographs chiefly documenting the service of Arthur Woods as New York City police commissioner, colonel in the Division of Military Aeronautics, United States War Department, and assistant to the secretary of war.

2. Nathan Appleton papers, 1850-1904

   400 items. 4 containers. 1.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Army officer and merchant. Correspondence, notes, autobiography, speeches and writings, clippings, printed matter, and miscellany relating primarily to Appleton's connection with Ferdinand de Lesseps and to his work as American agent for Compagnie universelle du canal interocéanique de Panama, a French company attempting to build a canal across Panama.

3. Anne Locke Bixby Chamberlin family papers, 1793-1924

   500 items. 3 containers. 1 linear foot. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Correspondence, ephemera, and photographs documenting Anne Locke Bixby Chamberlin, her family, and her social history stretching from Boston, Massachusetts, to Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California. Family members represented include father, California land magnate Llewellyn Bixby; sister, writer and feminist Sarah Bixby Smith; and husband, Theodore Chamberlin.