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Rhoda Métraux papers, 1837-1997
90,000 items. 224 containers plus 1 classified and 21 oversize. 101 linear feet. 802 digital files (2.2 MB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Anthropologist and author. Correspondence, lectures, and writings in both physical and digital format. Physical materials also include field diaries, field notes and notebooks, reports, proposals, minutes, programs, interview transcripts, questionnaires, statistical analyses, artwork and drawings, photographs, maps, census data, projective testing materials, financial records, and printed matter pertaining to Métraux's career as an anthropologist and her professional and personal relationship with anthropologist Margaret Mead.
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Association of Research Libraries records, 1932-1981
77,700 items. 222 containers. 88.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Organization of research libraries in the United States and Canada. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, reports, financial records, printed matter, and miscellaneous items relating to the association's membership and its assessment and evaluation projects and services on behalf of client institutions.
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Eliakim Littell correspondence, 1819-1869
65 items. 1 container. .2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Editor and publisher. Correspondence largely devoted to Littell's work as publisher of Museum of Foreign Literature and Science and Littell's Living Age. Notable correspondents include James Buchanan, John C. Calhoun, DeWitt Clinton, Andrew Jackson, William Hickling Prescott, and Thomas Jefferson.
William Torrey Harris papers, 1865-1908
13,000 items. 49 containers. 19.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Educator, author, editor, and philosopher. Letters, drafts and printed copies of Harris's articles, addresses, lectures, and reports, with notes and printed material used in their preparation, and the manuscript of his books.
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John Paul Frank papers, 1936-2000
330 items. 1 container. .4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author, lawyer, and professor. Correspondence, memoranda, a legislative bill, notes, photographs, speeches, and writings documenting Frank's relationship as a law clerk and friend of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black. Additional material relates to attempts to desegregate law schools in 1951 while Frank was a professor at Yale Law School and the creation of an intermediate court of appeals to assist in reducing the work of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1983-1987.
Frederick D. Patterson papers, 1861-1988
15,000 items. 41 containers. 18.5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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African American educational administrator and advocate. Correspondence, journal, writings and speeches, notes, reports, organizational records, clippings, printed materials, memorabilia, and miscellaneous items relating chiefly to Patterson's efforts, following his retirement as president of Tuskegee Institute in 1953, to preserve and develop African American institutions of higher learning.
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Ralph Cooper Hutchison papers, 1920-1966
24,000 items. 127 containers plus 3 oversize. 55 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Educator and college president. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, sermons, writings, college catalogs, yearbooks, and study guides relating to Hutchison's tenure as president of Washington and Jefferson College and Lafayette College, chancellor of Abadan Institute of Technology in Iran, and director of Studies in Higher Education.
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Agnes Elizabeth Ernst Meyer papers, 1853-2010
70,000 items. 181 containers plus 8 oversize. 90 linear feet. 2 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author and social activist. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, including an unpublished memoir, subject files, research material, family papers, and other papers relating to Meyer's career as an author, authority on Asian art, literary critic and linguist, and social activist as well as to her personal and family life.
William Henry Richards papers, 1856-1946
1,000 items. 4 containers plus 2 oversize. 1.7 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer, educator, and librarian. Correspondence, legal files, financial files, printed matter, and clippings relating to Richards's career as a lawyer and professor and law librarian at Howard University, Washington, D.C.
John Payton papers, 1913-2012
5,000 items. 35 containers plus 1 oversize. 14 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Civil rights attorney and president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Speeches, legal material, documents from the 1994 election in South Africa, correspondence, biographical material, writings, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Payton’s career beginning in 1992.
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