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1. Herman Hollerith papers, 1850-1982

   11,700 items. 34 containers plus 1 oversize. 13.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Inventor and businessman. Correspondence, diary, financial and business papers, patents by Hollerith and others, blueprints, drawings, a Hollerith machine punch plate, writings about Hollerith by Geoffrey Austrian and others, biographical material, and other papers relating to Hollerith tabulating machines and their use in census taking (1890-1910), operation of Tabulating Machine Company and its merger with two other companies forming Computer-Tabulating-Recording Company (1911), and Hollerith's association with this company and its successor, International Business Machines Corporation.

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2. Palmer-Loper family papers, 1667-1994

   10,000 items. 34 containers plus 3 oversize. 13.6 linear feet. 11 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Seafaring and merchant families. Correspondence, logbooks and journals, ships' papers, financial and business records, and printed matter documenting the voyages and business activities of Nathaniel Brown Palmer, Alexander Smith Palmer, Richard Fanning Loper, and other members of these maritime families of Stonington, Connecticut.

3. East Florida papers, 1737-1858

   65,000 items. 450 containers plus 2 oversize. 131.6 linear feet. 175 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Diplomatic, military, economic, judicial, legal, and administrative records of the Spanish colonial government of East Florida for the period of its second occupation, 1783-1821. Includes royal orders and decrees, census and other vital records, and papers relating to such matters as trade and shipping, surveys, hospitals, Indians, slaves, and Louisiana.

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4. Walter Francis Willcox papers, 1851-1965

   12,000 items. 50 containers. 20 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Statistician and professor of economics. Correspondence, a diary, memoranda, notes, reports, books, articles, scrapbooks, and other material relating primarily to Willcox's career as professor of economics and statistics at Cornell University and as chief statistician in the United States Bureau of the Census.

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5. United States. President's Research Committee on Social Trends records, 1924-1936

   17,000 items. 31 containers plus 6 oversize. 13.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Statistics compiled from census returns of 1910, 1920, and 1930 for eighteen cities used in preparing three chapters of the final report of the committee; also drafts of some of the chapters with commentary prepared for the Library of Congress by authors of the chapters, scrapbooks relating to the committee and reaction to its final report, a serialized condensation of the report; and data from a survey of rural communities used in preparing the report.

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6. Harry T. Friedman collection of Spanish American documents, circa 1500-1912

   750 items. 3 containers. 1.2 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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   Collector. Correspondence, reports, certificates, printed material, and other documents relating to such topics as the Joliet-Marquette expedition (1673), navigation and trade from the Philippines to Mexico (1749), land transactions in Tulancingo and Huejotzingo, Mexico, and persons associated with the cause of Mexican independence; inventories (1778-1785) of Mexican missions at Mátape, Alamos, and Macori; and information on Indian groups and the branding of military livestock. Includes correspondence addressed to Manuel Madrid concerning nineteenth-century economic affairs, correspondence of José Yves Limantour, and microfilm of census counts in Mexico City, 1610-1784.

7. Elections Research Center records, 1918-1992

   110,000 items. 312 containers plus 1 oversize. 126 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Nonprofit elections research and analysis organization. Newspaper clippings, ballots, election returns, reports, notes, statistical data, correspondence, and printed material documents elections in all fifty states and the District of Columbia collected by the organization between 1955 and 1992 for the purpose of compilation, analysis, and publication.

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8. Ai Ogawa papers, 1820-2010

   18,000 items. 51 containers plus 3 oversize. 21.8 linear feet. 18 digital files (1.78 GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Poet, author, and educator. Correspondence, writings, subject files, research files, photographs, posters, negatives, slides, notebooks, notes, financial and legal papers, student papers, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other material in both physical and digital formats pertaining chiefly to Ogawa's career as a poet and professor.

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