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Domingo Del Monte collection of Spanish colonial history, 1500-1871
1,000 items. 7 containers. 2.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Cuban historian. Correspondence, diaries, writings, reports, official documents, and printed material collected or written by Del Monte relating to the Spanish colonial history of Cuba, Mexico, Peru, South America, Philippines, and the West Indies. Includes material on copper mines, insurrections, labor, immigration, and slavery and the slave trade.
John J. Crittenden papers, 1782-1913
2,600 items. 30 containers. 5.2 linear feet. 14 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
United States attorney general, United States senator, and governor of Kentucky. Chiefly correspondence and some legal papers, speeches, and state papers relating to Crittenden's career in politics and government.
Mercy-Argenteau family papers, 1410-1921
10,000 items. 88 containers plus 22 oversize. 44.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Correspondence, commissions, diplomas, certificates, and other documents. Includes military papers relating to the Silesian War and Seven Years' War, letters from King Leopold II of Austria, and material relating to California and Mexico.
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Some or all content stored offsite.
Henry Albert Monday collection relating to Mexico, 1522-1935
2,300 items. 45 containers. 17 linear feet. 42 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Physician and collector. Correspondence, legal and financial papers, tax records, contracts, land records, cédulas, reports, official documents, broadsides, circulars, and other papers relating chiefly to various aspects of Mexican political, legal, and ecclesiastical history collected by Monday.
Jay I. Kislak Collection, 2000 BCE-2007 CE
1,350 items. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
The Jay I. Kislak Collection encompasses almost fourteen hundred rare books, maps, manuscripts, historical documents, graphic works, and archaeological objects related to the history of the early Americas, including the pre-Columbian cultures of the Caribbean and Mesoamerica.
Frederick Dixon papers, 1897-1923
500 items. 2 containers. 0.8 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Newspaper editor. Correspondence, memoranda, and printed material relating primarily to Dixon's work as editor of the Christian Science Monitor. Chiefly correspondence between Dixon and Charles D. Warner, head of the Monitor's Washington bureau, relating to such topics as the use of submarines and the English blockade during World War I, establishment of a home for Jews in Palestine, Mary Baker Eddy, and various controversies between Dixon and the Christian Science Church.
James K. Polk papers, 1775-1891
20,500 items. 155 containers plus 20 oversize. 39 linear feet. 67 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
United States president, Speaker of the House and representative from Tennessee, and governor of Tennessee. General correspondence, presidential letterbooks, diaries, account and memorandum books, drafts and copies of speeches and messages, family papers, financial and legal papers, and printed matter relating primarily to Polk's political career in Tennessee and on the national level.
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Some or all content stored offsite.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock papers, 1793-1888
3,000 items. 13 containers plus 1 oversize. 5.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Army officer and author. Collection includes correspondence, notes, speeches and writings, and printed matter relating to Hitchcock's military career and his interest in metaphysics and philosophy.
David Glasgow Farragut papers, 1816-1869
400 items. 1 container. 0.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Naval officer. Correspondence, letterbooks, biographical file, invitations, and other material relating primarily to Farragut's naval activities, especially his role in the protection of American interests in Mexico during the pre-Civil War period.
Carnegie Institution of Washington reproductions collection, 1686-1941
5,000 items. 38 containers. 11 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Chiefly transcriptions and copies of documents in foreign archives and personal collections relating to the history of the United States, especially the early Spanish period and British ministers to the United States from 1791 to 1812, collected for publication projects of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.