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1. Hubbard family papers, 1639-1925

   7,500 items ; 19 containers plus 1 oversize ; 7.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Chiefly correspondence supplemented by diaries, notes, drawings, poems, speeches and writings, and printed material of various members of the Hubbard family and their relatives, primarily Gardiner G. Hubbard, his wife, Gertrude Mercer McCurdy Hubbard , father, Samuel Hubbard, and father-in-law, Robert Henry McCurdy. Includes material relating to Gardiner Hubbard's interest in the education of...

2. T.H. Gallaudet and Edward Miner Gallaudet papers, 1806-1958

   2,700 items ; 9 containers plus 1 oversize ; 4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Educators. Correspondence, diaries, journals, student papers, genealogical information, writings, printed matter, and miscellaneous material relating to the Gallaudets, father and son, and their founding roles in the education of the deaf.

3. Grosvenor family papers, 1827-1981

   67,300 items ; 192 containers ; 76.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, subject material, financial papers, printed matter, and personal miscellany, chiefly 1872-1964, of various members of the Grosvenor family, principally of Amherst and Millbury, Mass., and Washington, D.C.

4. Alexander Graham Bell family papers, 1834-1974

   147,700 items ; 446 containers plus 8 oversize ; 183.2 linear feet ; 23 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Inventor and educator. Correspondence, diaries, journals, laboratory notebooks, patent records, speeches, writings, subject files, genealogical records, printed material, and other papers pertaining primarily to Bell's invention of the telephone in 1876, his contributions to the education of the deaf, and his interests in a wide range of scientific and technological fields, including aviation,...

5. Henry L. Dawes papers, 1833-1933

   22,000 items ; 64 containers plus 2 oversize ; 30 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   United States representative and senator from Massachusetts. Correspondence, memoranda, letterbooks, diaries, speeches, reports, notebooks, biographical material, family papers, photographs, citations, congressional commissions, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, and an incomplete biography of Dawes by his daughter, Anna Laurens Dawes. The collection documents mainly Dawes's career as a...