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Jeremiah S. Black papers, 1813-1904
10,070 items. 80 containers. 34 linear feet. 36 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer, public official of Pennsylvania, United States attorney general, and United States secretary of state. Correspondence, legal files, speeches, writings, scrapbooks, family papers, and other papers relating primarily to various legal matters in which Black was involved.
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.
Edward William Bok papers, 1880-1926
20 items. 3 containers. 1.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author, editor, reformer, and philanthropist. Correspondence, autograph albums featuring prominent American literary, military, and political figures, and writings by Bok. Also included is a manuscript by Jessie Benton Frémont relating to the death of her husband, John C. Frémont.
Anson Burlingame and Edward L. Burlingame family papers, 1810-1922
550 items. 4 containers. 1.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Anson Burlingame, state legislator and United States representative from Massachusetts and minister to China. Edward L. Burlingame, editor. Correspondence and other papers of Anson Burlingame and Edward L. Burlingame, father and son, and of Anson’s wife, Jane Cornelia Livermore Burlingame.
Gifford Pinchot papers, 1770-1972
2,000,000 items. 3,023 containers plus 33 oversize. 1,220 linear feet. 37 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Conservationist, chief forester for the United States Department of Agriculture, professor of forestry at Yale University, and governor of Pennsylvania. Primarily correspondence and subject files, together with diaries, memoranda, speeches, articles, reports, financial papers, bulletins, pamphlets, clippings, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Pinchot's activities in conservation and forestry and to his terms as governor of Pennsylvania.
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John Charles Frémont and Jessie Benton Frémont papers, 1828-1980
1,000 items. 9 containers plus 1 oversize and 1 artifact. 9 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Explorer of the western United States, army officer, and politician (John Charles Frémont). Author (Jessie Benton Frémont). Correspondence, presidential campaign material from 1856, Civil War items, writings, prints, photographs, and printed matter relating to the careers of both John Charles Frémont and Jessie Benton Frémont.
Robert R. Hitt papers, 1830-1906
2,200 items. 40 containers. 16 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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U.S. Representative from Illinois. Personal, political, diplomatic, and business correspondence and other papers, including shorthand notes and material relating to Abraham Lincoln, the Lincoln Douglas Debates, and Civil War courts-martial. Other topics include his congressional service and the annexation of Hawaii.
G. Malcolm Lewis collection of cartographic activities of the North American Indian and Inuit peoples at the Library of Congress, 1972-2000
72 boxes. 716 folders. Approximately 6000 items. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The G. Malcolm Lewis collection of cartographic activities of the North American Indian and Inuit peoples at the Library of Congress is an archive of historical geography research compiled over nearly three decades. This collection consists of over 6000 items of research materials used to investigate the cartographic encounter between Indigenous nations of North America and explorers and colonists from Europe. In this archive are correspondences between G. Malcolm Lewis -- a professor in University of Sheffield's Department of Geography until 1990 -- and historians, librarians, and fellow academics; cartobibliographic summaries of extant North American indigenous maps from 1600-1980; cartobibliographic summaries of incorporations of indigenous information on European and American maps since 1500; primary and secondary sources used to locate and investigate Indigenous maps and mapping efforts; reproductions of maps in a variety of media, including photocopies mounted on card-stock, transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints. The archive’s contents were generated between the approximate years of 1972- 2000 in the course of Lewis' work as an academic and historian. There are no original maps in the collection, only reproductions.
James Fowler Simmons map collection
1 item . 1 folder. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The collection consists of one map in seven sections of the American Northwest; another map is cataloged separately. Consult the finding aid for more information.
Ulysses S. Grant papers, 1819-1974
50,000 items. 193 containers plus 6 oversize. 100 linear feet. 52 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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United States president and army officer. General and family correspondence, speeches, reports, messages, manuscript of Grant’s memoirs (1885), military records, financial and legal records, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and miscellaneous papers relating to Grant’s career in the military, politics, and government.
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