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7 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) Curtis, George William, 1824-1892--Correspondence.
Charles Butler papers, 1819-1929
2,172 items. 5 containers. 3 linear feet. 4 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Entrepreneur, lawyer, and philanthropist. Correspondence, travel diaries, legal, financial, and business papers, and maps, newspaper clippings, and other papers documenting Butler's involvement in New York politics and his interest in such matters as anti-Masonry, public debts in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan, loans to farmers by the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, legal cases (particularly the William Morgan kidnapping), and improvements in transportation, especially in roads, canals, and railroads.
Frederick Law Olmsted papers, 1777-1952
24,000 items. 73 containers plus 1 oversize. 23 linear feet. 60 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Landscape architect. Correspondence, letterbooks, journals, drafts of articles and books, speeches and lectures, biographical and genealogical data, business papers, scrapbooks, maps, drawings, and other papers encompassing Olmsted's career and private life. The papers focus on Olmsted's career as a landscape architect, specifically as a designer of parks and the grounds of private estates and public buildings and as a city and regional planner.
Oliver Wendell Holmes papers, 1837-1931
700 items. 11 containers plus 1 oversize. 2.5 linear feet. 3 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Poet, essayist, physician, and educator. Correspondence and literary manuscripts in bound volumes.
Grover Cleveland papers, 1743-1945
108,200 items. 626 containers plus 1 oversize. 236.2 linear feet. 164 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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President of the United States, governor of New York, and lawyer. Correspondence, diaries, messages to Congress, speeches, writings, printed matter, and other papers primarily relating to the Cleveland presidency and presidential campaigns.
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Carl Schurz papers, 1837-1983
24,500 items. 229 containers plus 1 oversize. 57.8 linear feet. 126 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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United States cabinet officer, diplomat, senator from Missouri, Union army officer, journalist, and reformer. Correspondence, speeches, articles, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and scrapbooks pertaining to Liberal Republicanism, tariff reduction, civil service reform, anti-imperialism, election campaigns, and the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes in which Schurz served as secretary of the interior.
Sylvanus Cadwallader papers, 1818-1904
250 items. 1 container. .4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Journalist and public official. Correspondence, writings, and newspaper articles, and other papers relating primarily to Cadwallader’s activities as a journalist reporting on the operations of the Union Army and Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War.
Bancroft-Bliss families papers, 1788-1928
5,800 items. 20 containers plus 3 oversize. 8.1 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Correspondence, diary, legal and financial papers, article and book galleys, invitations, and printed material of members of the Bliss and Bancroft families, including George Bancroft (1800-1891); his wife, Elizabeth Davis Bancroft (1803-1886), her first husband, Alexander Bliss (1792-1827); and their son, Alexander Bliss (1827-1896).
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