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Laura Wood Roper papers, 1822-1982
2,280 items. 19 containers. 9 linear feet. 10 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Biographer of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903). Correspondence, research notes, reports, clippings, and printed matter related to Olmsted and the landscape architectural firm, Olmsted Associates (1961- ) and its predecessors, collected by Roper for her biography of Olmsted. Also includes card indexes containing abstracts mostly from Olmsted’s correspondence in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
John Alexander Logan family papers, 1836-1925
46,000 items. 145 containers plus 31 oversize and 1 vault. 61.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Chiefly papers of John Alexander Logan (1826-1886), Union Army officer and United States senator and representative from Illinois; and of his wife, Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan (1838-1923), author. Correspondence, legal and military papers, drafts of speeches, articles, and books, scrapbooks, maps, memorabilia, and printed matter relating chiefly to the Logans and the military, political, and social history of the Civil War and postwar periods.
Olmsted Associates records, 1863-1971
170,000 items. 637 containers plus 24 oversize. 255 linear feet. 531 microfilm reels. 1,295 digital files (1.26 GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Landscape architectural firm. The records include correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, reports, plans, specifications, newspaper clippings, photographs, drawings, journals, account books, ledgers, lists, diagrams, blueprints, deeds, and printed matter constituting the business files of the firm and reflecting the breadth of the projects undertaken by its staff. A small group of Olmsted family papers is also contained in the collection.
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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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John Ciardi papers, 1910-1997
31,500 items. 91 containers plus 2 oversize. 36.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Poet, editor, literary critic, lecturer, and journalist. Advertisements, biographical material, contracts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, photographs, press releases, research material, royalty statements with holograph and typescript drafts, galley proofs, page proofs, and printed versions of aphorisms, articles, book reviews, books, columns, essays, etymological dictionaries, limericks, plays, poems, poetry reviews, radio and television scripts, and speeches and lectures.
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Gertrude Quastler and Henry Quastler papers, 1895-1965
1,025 items. 4 containers plus 1 oversize. 2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Gertrude Quastler, painter and printmaker; and her husband, Henry Quastler, radiologist known for applying information theory to the field of biology. Correspondence, photographs, biographical material, notes, price lists, receipts, clippings, and printed matter pertaining to Gertrude’s art and exhibitions, Henry’s medical career and research activities, and their personal lives.
Elmo N. Pickerill papers, 1910-1975
4,500 items. 15 containers. 6.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Aviator. Correspondence, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Pickerill's career as an aviator and to early aviation in the United States, particularly Long Island, N.Y.
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W J McGee papers, 1880-1916
7,000 items. 31 containers plus 1 oversize. 12.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Geologist, anthropologist, and hydrologist. Correspondence, letterbooks, speeches, articles, scientific papers, lectures, notes, geological notebooks, scrapbooks, bibliographical notes, and memorabilia relating chiefly to McGee's career as a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and as an ethnologist in charge of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution. Includes correspondence when he was director of the anthropological and historical exhibit of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.
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F. Lamson-Scribner papers, 1885-1938
4,500 items. 20 containers. 8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Botanist, exhibits specialist, and educator. Correspondence, letterpress books, memoranda and notes, reports, scrapbooks, printed material and photographs primarily concerning Lamson-Scribner's exhibit work in the United States Department of Agriculture.
Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz correspondence and related material, 1929-1947
157 items. 2 containers. 0.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Artist, Georgia O'Keeffe, and photographer, Alfred Stieglitz. Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz to filmmaker Henwar Rodakiewicz, along with related printed and typed miscellany.