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1. Robert A. Nisbet papers, 1949-1994

   1,500 items. 3 containers. 1 linear foot. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Educator and author. Correspondence, contracts with publishers, reviews, promotional material, research material, and other papers relating mainly to Nisbet's books.

2. Abel Doysié papers, 1910-1967

   4,850 items. 15 containers. 7.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Primarily letters received from scholars and others at universities, libraries, and institutions for whom Doysié did historical and genealogical research in various French archives after 1936.

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3. Clarence Edwin Carter papers, 1761-1961

   10,550 items. 41 containers plus 2 oversize. 16.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Editor, author, and professor of history. Correspondence, transcriptions, reports, financial papers, documents, book reviews, and clippings largely related to Carter’s editorial career.

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4. Peter Force papers and collection, 1492-1977

   150,000 items. 770 containers plus 14 oversize. 300 linear feet. 168 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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   Antiquarian, historian, and mayor of Washington, D.C. Chiefly Force's personal papers and papers he collected for his nine-volume American Archives. Force's personal papers document his career as a Washington printer, newspaper editor, compiler, and collector. The collection records political, military, scientific, and social aspects of eighteenth and nineteenth century America.

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5. David B. Quinn papers, 1109-1994

   58,450 items. 167 containers plus 5 oversize. 70.6 linear feet. 60 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Historian. Correspondence, minutes, reports, appointment calendars, applications, autobiographical sketches, clippings, photographs, lectures, writings, and research material consisting of notes, transcriptions, and facsimiles of charters, chronicles, colonization tracts, court records, drawings, financial accounts, land records, maps, state papers, statutes, travel literature, and other papers and documents.

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6. Daniel J. Boorstin papers, 1882-2004

   190,350 items. 553 containers plus 38 oversize. 233 linear feet. 59 digital files (1.13 MB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Author, historian, and Librarian of Congress. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, reports, calendars and schedules, speeches and writings, background and research material, family and estate papers, financial and legal records, interviews, notes, course outlines and examinations, travel documents, photographs, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers in both physical and digital formats documenting Boorstin's career as an educator, author, and administrator of the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress.

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