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Personal Narratives of the Forced Removal and Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II: Veterans History Project (U.S.)
61 video recordings.. 55 photographs.. 16 sound recordings.. 50 manuscripts.. -- Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Selected personal narratives relating to the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Collected by the Veterans History Project, 2002-2018. Collection includes personal narratives in the form of audio and video oral histories, biographical information, clippings, civilian papers, creative works, maps, memoirs, military papers, printed matter and photographs.
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Quilt Alliance, Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories interviews collection, 1999-2016
17,495 items. 33 containers (13 3/4 linear feet). approximately 855 sound cassettes : analog.. approximately 310 sound files : digital, WAV.. 1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.. approximately 425 photographic prints : color ; various sizes.. more than 1840 images : digital, color, jpeg, tiff.. approximately 1200 folders (12,390 items). approximately 665 digital documents (doc, .docx, .pdf, .rtf). approximately 950 optical discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.. 10 floppy disks ; 3 1/2 in.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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This collection consists of sound recordings, transcripts and photographic images documenting interviews conducted as a part of Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories (QSOS) project. QSOS is one of several projects and partnerships created by the Quilt Alliance in an effort to preserve, document, and share the lives and stories of quilters and quiltmaking. The project began in 1999 and continued though 2016.
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Caleb Henry Carlton papers, 1831-1954
2,500 items. 5 containers plus 1 oversize. 2.5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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United States army officer. Correspondence, diaries, articles, military transcripts and papers, biographical and genealogical material, financial records, maps, and charts pertaining to Carlton's service in the Union army and following the Civil War in wars with various Native American groups in the western United States.
Alice Rohe papers, 1914-1919
175 items. 1 container. .2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author and journalist. Correspondence, memoirs, and clippings relating primarily to Rohe's work as head of the Rome Bureau for United Press Associations and later as a correspondent-at-large in Italy, 1914-1919, as well as her early career in Kansas, New York, and Colorado.
Arthur J. Goldberg papers, 1793-1995
78,000 items. 296 containers plus 14 oversize and 2 classified. 120.7 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, lawyer, secretary of labor, and diplomat. Correspondence, case files, certiorari memoranda, legal files, speeches and writings, subject files, reports, printed matter, and scrapbooks relating to Goldberg's career as a lawyer, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, secretary of labor, and United States representative to the United Nations.
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Marcella Miller du Pont papers, 1861-1976
12,000 items. 34 containers plus 1 oversize. 14 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Poet and socialite. Correspondence, diary transcripts and notes, drafts of writings, notes, publication records, legal documents, scrapbook, Miller family genealogical records, photographs, and other papers relating to Marcella Miller du Pont's poetry and other writings, literary matters, and affairs of the du Pont and Miller families.
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Juan B. Rael collection, 1939-1999
3 boxes: 21 folders of manuscripts, 36 sound recordings, graphic images, published materials, and computer disks.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Sound recordings and manuscripts that document the musical heritage and cultural traditions of the Hispano residents of the portion of the Northern Rio Grande region of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, collected by Juan B. Rael in 1940.
W. Dean Edwards collection, 1946-2002
2619 items.. 11 boxes.. 71 folders.. 25 sound cassettes : analog.. 4 sound tape reels : analog, 3 3/4 ips ; 7 in.. 19 videocassettes (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.. 1 videocassette (U-Matic).. 1128 photographs (44 folders, photographic prints, negatives) : black-and-white, color +9 folders oversize, 1 painting.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The collection includes manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings, and videotapes documenting the activities of a traditional American square and contra dance group, the Fun Finders, from Colorado Springs, Colorado from 1946 to 2002. Fun Finders was organized as an exhibition square-dance group by W. Dean Edwards, who directed the group from the 1940s through the 1980s with his wife Peggy Edwards. Sound and videorecordings of square-dance calling and instructional videos for square and contra dancing are included.
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William Holmes Walker papers, 1855-1982
10 items. 2 containers. .6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Early Mormon leader, pioneer settler of Utah, missionary to South Africa, and patriarch of the Mormon Church. Memoir, diary, and scrapbook reflecting the life of Walker and Mormon Church history.
Charles Henry Harvey papers, 1835-1965
265 items. 4 containers. 1.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Gold miner, carpenter, and mill worker. Correspondence, diaries, daybooks, receipts, and printed matter relating to Harvey's life and work as a millworker and carpenter in Methuen, Massachusetts, and as a gold miner in California and Colorado.